And again, in giving evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the Putumayo rubber scandals, which I was called upon as a witness to do, concerning the Indians of Peru, it was necessary to inform the gentlemen of the Commission that the easiest way of reaching Eastern from Western Peru was to take steamer up the Pacific coast, cross the Isthmus of Panama, go home across the Atlantic to Liverpool, and come back again to the Amazon and go up that river!
[2] Vide Humboldt, Encyc. Brit., Eleventh Edition, 1910.
[3] Coup d'état.
[4] Each volume of the South American Series contains such.
[5] Molina, Hakluyt Series, Markham translation.
[6] A full account of all these States will be found in Central America, Koebel, South American Series.
[7] Some of these tribes were unutterably savage and brutal, but it is doubtful if their methods were worse than those of the Anglo-Saxon who invaded Britain, with the repulsive horrors they visited upon the early Britains, in wholesale massacre and torture of the Celts.
[8] Mexico, by the Author, South American Series.
[9] Mexico, loc. cit.
[10] Mexico, loc. cit.