Spanish America (Vol. 1&2)

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C. Reginald Enock. Spanish America (Vol. 1&2)

Spanish America (Vol. 1&2)

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Volume 1

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. A RECONNAISSANCE

AND SOME INFORMAL GEOGRAPHY

CHAPTER II. A HISTORICAL OUTLINE

CHAPTER III. CENTRAL AMERICA

GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, BRITISH HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, SALVADOR, COSTA RICA, PANAMA

CHAPTER IV. ANCIENT AND MODERN MEXICO

CHAPTER V. ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST

IN COLOMBIA, ECUADOR AND PERU

CHAPTER VI. ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST

IN PERU, BOLIVIA AND CHILE

CHAPTER VII. THE CORDILLERA OF THE ANDES

IN ECUADOR, PERU AND BOLIVIA

CHAPTER VIII. THE CORDILLERA OF THE ANDES

IN BOLIVIA, CHILE AND ARGENTINA

FOOTNOTES:

Volume 2

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CHAPTER IX. THE LANDS OF THE SPANISH MAIN. COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA

CHAPTER X. THE LANDS OF THE SPANISH MAIN. VENEZUELA AND GUIANA

CHAPTER XI. THE AMAZON VALLEY. IN COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, VENEZUELA, BOLIVIA, PERU, BRAZIL

CHAPTER XII. BRAZIL

CHAPTER XIII. THE RIVER PLATE AND THE PAMPAS. ARGENTINA, URUGUAY AND PARAGUAY

CHAPTER XIV. THE RIVER PLATE AND THE PAMPAS. ARGENTINA, URUGUAY AND PARAGUAY

CHAPTER XV. TRADE AND FINANCE

CHAPTER XVI. TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

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But let it not be forgotten that there are famous Latin American poets, to which space here forbids even the barest justice to be done.

The Spanish Americans are great panegyrists, moreover. The most extraordinary adulations of public personages are made and published, such as it might be supposed would cause the object thereof to blush. The late President Diaz of Mexico was always to his admirers—or those who hoped to gain something by his adulation, and this it is not necessarily unkind to say is often the motive of the panegyric—a "great star in a Pleiades or constellation of the first magnitude," and similar matters are found in all the republics. A stroke of ordinary policy becomes thus "un acto de importancia transcendental," which sufficiently translates itself; and so forth.

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