South America; a popular illustrated history of the struggle for liberty in the Andean republics and Cuba (1898) (14778542762)

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Title: South America; a popular illustrated history of the struggle for liberty in the Andean republics and Cuba
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
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Publisher: New York, Doubleday & McClure co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e the trueheroes and the real army of liberation in South America.Since the period of her independence of Spain the farmer,the artisan and the schoolmaster have been her benefactors.Out of the war of this army with ignorance, barbarism andthe soil, her glory is rising and will continue to rise. In Argentina is the South American Normal School.It is training a company of teachers to lead the newarmies of peace. Just outside of Buenos Ayres riseswhat is claimed to be the largest roof in the world. Be-side the building are many ships, over which fly the flagsof the commercial nations. There are many large estancias,or ranches, there, on which are flocks and herds, sometimesnumbering fifty thousand animals. One of these estanciasis owned by Nicholas Lowe. It is situated some fifty ormore miles from Buenos Ayres. Mr. Lowe is a Scotch-man who has given away a small fortune for educationalpurposes. He has a flock of more than ten thousandsheep, and took one of the prizes at the Worlds Colum-
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WILLIAM WHEELWRIGHT 159 bian Exposition. He is reputed to be wealthy. One ofthe squares in the town is named for him, and he isregarded in his part of the country as a benefactor. When I first came to the country, he said, I wasalmost empty-handed. My coat was my house. I beganwork with my own spade. His home is as beautiful ashis flocks are numerous and his fields wide. He came tothe country to stay in it and to live in it. It is such im-migrants as he whose lives are beyond price to SouthAmerica, and who are playing such an important part inits development. CHAPTER XVI THE MONROE DOCTRINE—THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY IN 1814 England acquired from the Dutch about twenty-thousand square miles of land in Guiana. This ter-ritory, according to the Venezuelan view, had formerlybelonged to Spain. It now became a part of the colonialpossessions of Great Britain. Later England claimed thatthe territory extending from the mouth of the river Esse-quibo to the Orinoco was a part of Dutch Guiana wh

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