Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena
Lord Macaulay, in his essay on Lord Clive, writes, We have al ways thought it strange that, while the history of the Spanish em pire in America is familiarly known to all the nations of Europe, the great actions of our countrymen in the East should, even among ourselves, excite little interest.
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