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11 In the treetops, the parrots searched for mates. The new pairs of parrots
sat on branches, bowing, calling back and forth to each other, and fluffing
their wings and tails. Each pair raised one family of chicks every year.
12 Now people from many other parts of the world came to live in Puerto
Rico. In 1513, Africans were brought to the island to toil as slaves under the
hot sun in fields of sugarcane and other crops.
13 More people came from Spain too, and they married Taínos and Africans.
They all called themselves Boricuas (boh-REE-kwahs), people of Boriquén, but
they were still ruled by Spain.
toil To toil is to work.
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