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Excerpt from Adventures of Exploration, Vol. 2: Central and South America E purpose of these Supplementary Readers 0 qincken interest in Geography by stories adventurous travel. They are not intended serve as a history of eirploration, but it is ed that they will afford an idea of some of main steps by which knowledge has been ned, first of the World as a Whole, and then he separate continents outside Europe. We are grateful to the Royal Geographical ciety for permission to reproduce portraits In the Society's collection; to Mr. Edward awood, m.a., the Somety's Librarian, for Idingthe proofs and placing at our'disposal unrivalled knowledge of geographical lite ure; and to Mr. A. 'a. Sain'sbury', b.a., admaster of the Council School at North Od, for much practical help in other ways. 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.