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Excerpt from Travels in the Equatorial Regions of South America: In 1832 The greater part of the following work had originally the form of letters, written from the country which it attempts to describe, to my friends in North America. The remainder is but an enlargement of the journal which I constantly kept during my absence. When I returned home, I had no intention of publishing my observations on South America; but subsequent consideration determined me to hazard the experiment. The press of the present day so overflows with works by men of talent in every department of science and literature, that an unknown author runs a great risk of being overlooked among the multitude of established competitors for the notice of the public; and so true is it, that we ourselves cannot judge with impartiality of the merit of our own productions, that although I am convinced the subject of the following pages might be made interesting to a large proportion of my readers, I am by no means equally sure that I have treated it in a manner to render it so. The title of the work (Travels in the Equatorial regions of South America) does not embrace its whole scope; but as it clearly designates its most important part, . I have adopted it. The region through which I have travelled, is part of a vast territory, which, for about three centuries, was held in a bond-age most oppressive and humiliating, by a people occupying a spot on the globe, comparatively insignificant in extent. 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.