Ijus, Is It Because the British Were Unable to Slavery the Native Population?

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Ijus was puzzled why the british were unable to slave the native population. Did they not send enough people, did they? No, there wasn't enough native population. The same thing happened exactly to the spaniard cae. Spaniards, the concisadors, when they tried to colonize the area around buenos airis and urga, the cheruas and the quarandi,. They ran away because they were sparsely settled. In south america a lot of them had big, large elation centeres. Exactly a actly it. And i guess one wayto tell me if this is accurate, one way to describe the brit

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