Honduras The New Eldorado

Author : William V. Wells
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333529864
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Explorations and Adventures in Honduras written by William V. Wells and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Explorations and Adventures in Honduras: Comprising Sketches of Travel in the Gold Regions of Olancho, and a Review of the History and General Resources of Central America; With Original Maps, and Numerous Illustrations Neither books nor maps relating to Honduras could at that time be found in California. The able work of Mr. E. Gr. Squier on Nicaragua, so admired for its delightful narrative style and valuable ethnological facts, had been with difficulty obtained; but that author had not then made his second visit to Central America, and consequently the valuable information he has since given to the world on Honduras had not been published. The works and maps of English and other foreign writers on Central America had never reached the Pacific coast - even their names were unknown. But, had these been accessible, they would have proved useless as guides, owing to their authors' ignorance of the country I proposed to visit, particularly of Eastern Hon duras and the extensive section drained by the Guayape. This river, in some maps, even as late as 1855, is made a tributary of the Roman or Aguan, discharging into the Caribbean Sea near Truxillo, when it is actually the Patock itself, but bearing in the interior a distinct name. The topography of the country seems to have been thrown in hap-hazard to fill up unsightly blanks in maps of which only the coast-lines, in some instances, were correct, a circumstance due to the accurate Admiralty sur veys. In fact, as I afterward ascertained, Honduras was as much a term incognita as the interior of Japan. 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.