قراءة كتاب Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 1

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Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 1

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Enock C Reginald (Charles Reginald)

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">VII.

THE CORDILLERA OF THE ANDES: IN ECUADOR, PERU AND BOLIVIA 209 VIII. THE CORDILLERA OF THE ANDES: IN BOLIVIA, CHILE AND ARGENTINA 266 INDEX 291

ILLUSTRATIONS

COLON: STATUE REPRESENTING COLUMBUS PROTECTING THE INDIANS	Frontispiece
	TO FACE PAGE
AVENIDA CENTRAL, RIO DE JANEIRO	20
THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATION: STONE STELÆ AT QUIRIGUA, CENTRAL AMERICA	32
THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATION: RUINS OF MITLA, MEXICO	60
THE CATHEDRAL, GUATEMALA	70
THE CITY OF GUATEMALA	80
A COFFEE ESTABLISHMENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA	86
CUTTING SUGAR-CANE IN CENTRAL AMERICA	96
SCENE ON THE GREAT PLATEAU, MEXICO	104
THE CATHEDRAL, CITY OF MEXICO	114
CORDOVA AND THE PEAK OF ORIZABA, STATE OF VERA CRUZ	132
VILLAGE ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE, MEXICO	140
VIEW ON THE GRIJALVA AND USUMACINTA RIVERS, MEXICO	150
THE WHARF AT GUAYAQUIL	158
CULTIVATED LANDS ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF PERU	176
THE LANDING STAGE AT VALPARAISO	198
THE MALLECO RIVER AND BRIDGE, CHILE	206
THE APPROACH TO QUITO	222
PIZARRO, THE CONQUISTADOR	240
IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES	250
PERU, LLAMAS AND ALPACAS	260
PERU: NATIVE BLANKET WEAVER IN THE ANDES	260
THE RUINED INCA FORTRESS OF OLLANTAYTAMBO, PERU	264
INDIAN RAFTS ON LAKE TITICACA	274
ACONCAGUA, THE HIGHEST ANDINE PEAK, CHILE	288

Who has not felt at some time the lure of Spanish America, the attraction of those half-mysterious lands—Peru or Panama, Mexico or Brazil, and all that galaxy of far-off States, with the remains of their ancient civilization and their picturesque modern setting—beneath the equatorial sun, beyond the Western sea? They drew us in our youth, were it but in the pages of Prescott, when with Cortes and Pizarro the Aztec and Inca Empires lay before us; they draw us even in maturer years.

Yonder lies the Spanish Main, glittering in the sun as when we sailed it

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