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SOUTH AMERICA.
“Fall’n nations gaze on Spain; if freed, she frees
More than her fell Pizarros once enchain’d;
Strange retribution! now Columbia’s ease
Repairs the wrongs that Quito’s sons sustain’d.”
Childe Harold.
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
S O U T H A M E R I C A
DURING
THE COLONIAL PERIOD.
BY
ROBERT GRANT WATSON,
EDITOR OF “MURRAY’S HANDBOOK OF GREECE,” FOURTH EDITION, 1872.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.
1884.
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