Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Practicability of a Ship-Canal Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the Way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Out of a population of, say fifty thousand, the number of people in the vicinity of whose towns a canal or railroad would pass, some four or five hundred are white men, gente de razon as they conceitedly style themselves. These are the rancheros in the country and the shop-keepers in the villages; they form the ready instruments of designing leaders, to collect the Indians and steal the horses, and make pronunciamientos. Ignorant, immoral, hating innovations, revengeful, these form the real impediments to progress - the willing tools in the initiation of civil war and anarchy.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
