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In addition to the salt pit, he soon had a store and began to deal in riding animals, which he bought and sold with a good profit margin.
Además de la salina, pronto tuvo un almacén y comenzó a comerciar en caballerías, que compraba y vendía con buen margen de ganancia.
When the rains came again, after two years of drought and disasters, the Vilanovas had settled in Caatinga do Moura, a hamlet near which there was a salt pit that Antônio began to work.
Cuando volvió el agua, después de dos años de sequía y calamidades, los Vilanova estaban instalados en Caatinga do Moura, un caserío cerca del cual había una salina que Antonio comenzó a explotar.
When the torrential rains of that December—a decisive moment in his life—turned the little stream that ran through the settlement into a river in flood that carried off the huts of the village and drowned poultry and goats and inundated the salt pit and buried it beneath a sea of mud in a single night, Antônio was at the Nordestina fair, to which he had gone with a load of salt and the intention of buying some mules.
Cuando las lluvias diluviales de ese diciembre —decisivo en su vida — convirtieron el arroyo que cruzaba el pueblo en un torrente que se llevó las cabañas y ahogó aves y chivos e inundó la salina y en una noche la enterró bajo un mar de lodo, Antonio se encontraba en la Feria de Nordestina, adonde había ido con un cargamento de sal y la intención de comprar mulas.
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