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No. 49531
The King's Fifth, I already read it. Well, it has nothing to do with the MCOG at all... except the names were teken from the book... and the serching of the City of gold. In the book, Esteban is a 16 or 17 year old cartographer. The best one at least, Captain Mendoza thinks. So he ask Esteban to go with him searching for the Golden Cities, and meanwhile he can draw precious maps. Esteban go with him, and on the way they met an indian girl named Zia. She's a little miscievous girl, about the age of 9. She is so excited about the foreigners, she would like to ride horses (but indians don't allowed it!) and love to watch how Esteban draw maps. There's a character named Gomez too, but he really don't have too many part of the story. Well, that's all. The story is a historical fiction, there're no Tao, no olmecs, or secret passages or even puzzles. No Condor or golden medalions, no Pedro and Sancho. The characters' motive's are totally different (except mendoza, he wants gold, gold and gold :D), but Esteban, he just wants to draw maps of the New World, Zia is just curious about the white people, and do nothing just guide them.... About the title: In those days there were a law that people who get any booty in the New World, must pay a fifth part of it to the king!
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