Excerpt from Timehri, 1895, Vol. 9: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana The New World had been discoyered a century before, and Spain in virtue of her prior claim had been searching for countries abounding in precious stones and gold. Already, she had discovered Mexico and Peru, and her pioneers had heard rumours of another great country somewhere in the centre of South America. Such rumours had led to the discovery of Peru, and there was no reason why not one but several such countries should not lie hidden in that great wilderness drained by the mighty rivers Amazon and Orinoco. 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.