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Excerpt from Central and South America, Vol. 1 Quichuas (peruvians) and Aymaras (bolivians), the origin of the marvellous Tiahuanaco monuments, and of other remains of native American culture. Attention has also been claimed by the recent political changes in the West Indies, by frontier questions, as between British Guiana and Venezuela, and between Chili and Argentina, by inter-oceanic Ship-canal projects, by transcontinental railway schemes, and by the altered economic conditions, especially in Mexico, Chili, Brazil, and Argentina. All these transformations called for adequate treatment, if only to Show that in the New World, material and moral progress is no longer confined to An glo-saxon America, and that henceforth the hispano-lusitanian common wealths enter into the comity of the other cultured nations on a footing of absolute equality and independ ence. 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.
