This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...city in Ecuador. Founded, 1606. Center of northern commerce. Lies in a rich agricultural region. Distant from nearest port, Pailon or San Lorenzo, 90 miles. Has a cathedral and public library. Northern junction of Ecuadorean link in Pan-American Railroad. ESMERALDAS. Population, 2000. 550 miles from Panama. In Province ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...city in Ecuador. Founded, 1606. Center of northern commerce. Lies in a rich agricultural region. Distant from nearest port, Pailon or San Lorenzo, 90 miles. Has a cathedral and public library. Northern junction of Ecuadorean link in Pan-American Railroad. ESMERALDAS. Population, 2000. 550 miles from Panama. In Province of Esmeraldas where Spaniards found emeralds and gold. Inhabitants mostly negroes, descended from cargoes of slaves from Africa, who in 1623 escaped their ships and established themselves at this point after killing the native Indians. The Indian village here was the first which Pizarro saw having settled streets and a large population, but the sea has encroached upon it. The inhabitants now-a-days raise fine tobacco, and are skilful in making straw hats and hammocks. Harbor. PARAGUAY Area, 171,815 square miles. About the size of California. Population, 800,000; 4.6 per square mile. Railway mileage, 232. Paraguay has had, perhaps, a more dramatic and even tragic history than any other of the South American republics, and the unimportant place she now occupies among them is out of proportion to her sufferings and her struggles in maintaining her national entity and spirit. After the first discovery of this region by Sebastian Cabot in 1527 and the founding of a fort at Asunci&n by the Spaniards ten years later, her virgin plains and forests were traversed only as a thoroughfare between Buenos Aires and Peru until the advent of the Jesuit missionaries in 1609. This clever and devoted Order met with remarkable success, not only in the education of the natives whose language (Guarani) they reduced to writing, but also in making them proficient in agriculture and many of the arts of civilized life. In 1767 the Jesuits were expelled from all Sp...
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