Excerpt from The Discovery of Gold in the Graves of Chiriqui, Panama Although the presence of gold in pre historic graves had been discovered soon after the conquest in South America, and laws regulating their exploitation had been passed in the early part of the seventeenth century, yet in Chiriqui the presence of gold in the graves was not detected until the middle of the nine teenth century. The cemeteries of Buga ba, Bugabita, and Boquete were opened in the year 1859, and accounts of the discoveries appeared in print during the following year. However, the earliest account of the discovery of gold in the graves of this region appears in a manu script report of the travels of the Costa Rican explorer, Jose Maria Figueroa, of which the following is an extract. 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.