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National Geographic : 1904 Jan
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE The later Waldseemiiller map of 1516, on which the name America does not appear, as the author had learned by that time that he had unjustly given Amerigo Vespucius credit for discover ing the new world, was exhibited for the first time in America by Professor Stevenson at the same time. d& o H g o 00 -1 a 0 d I b Fo Q S ' 0-' 0 0 00 00 - - - - 0 +> C( m o "^~ (5 - - - - - - ^ ^. 3 ^d B r- i^ ^ ^ b0 S aoo t - 1 GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE Around the Caribbean and Across Pan ama. By Francis C. Nicholas, Ph. D. Illustrated. Pp. 373. 6 by 8 inches. Boston: H. M . Caldwell Co. 1903. $2.00. This timely book describes in interest ing manner the incidents and adventures of the author in the various countries bordering the Caribbean sea. As the commercial explorer of large moneyed interests, Mr Nicholas has transversed Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Central America, and the many islands of the West Indies. He dwells repeatedly on the great untouched wealth and possi bilities of these countries, which, he as serts, far surpass even common report. At present, however, American capital investing in these regions takes great risks of losing everything, owing to po litiral uncertainties. Mr Nicholas' experiences on his jour neys to Bogota were extremely disagree able. ''On the road across the mountains there were no exciting incidents, only annoyances; the way was tedious, the people inhospitable, the road-houses un clean, and their charges little short of robbery. " Bogota is on the eastern side of a great interior savannah, an open grass plain at almost ten thousand feet eleva tion above the sea, a place of enchant ing beauty, a broad expanse of open country surrounded by the bleak sum mits of inner ranges of the Andes Mountains. " But the city is a place of vermin and corrupting filth ; a place where the com mon incidents of the streets are not fit to be described; where beggars, display ing revolting sores and rotting limbs, swarm about, even thrusting their filthy bodies where they may touch those who pass by, while they demand, not solicit, alms; where ill-mannered, arrogant, overdressed people.make vulgar display of their clothes as they strut about and crowd for precedence, making much of the antiquated custom of demanding a 52
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