Sinópse: Excerpt from Maria: A South American Romance In a business way we do, of course, know some thing of these otherwise unknown lands and peo ples; but the information that comes to us through commercial channels is not of the most edifying nature, and it is highly objective in the matter of its point of view. By a happy coincidence, I find in this morning’s press despatches an interview with an enterprising citizen of the United States who is described as being engaged in the transportation business in Colombia, and who just now is having built at Pittsburg a brace of steamboats for use upon the Magdalena and Cauca rivers. This per son, in his way, probably, is typical; and, from his own stand-point, the views which he expresses con cerning the people of Colombia are far from flatter ing. The natives are not of an industrious or mechanical turn of mind, he says; and he adds’ At Bogota the people think a great deal more of literary pursuits than of manufacturing. 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.