. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. sportation and weresold to the Peruvians at enormous prices. Naturally a smuggling trade sprangtip by way of x\rgentine, and its inhabitants reap
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. sportation and weresold to the Peruvians at enormous prices. Naturally a smuggling trade sprangtip by way of x\rgentine, and its inhabitants reaped rich profits at the expenseof the Spanish government. Soon the settlements from Peru and Chile overflow^ed the Andes and beganto spread dowai the mountains eastern slopes toward the Plata river smuggling thus grew easier and more profitable, and the government moreresolute to suppress it. Finally all communication was forbidden betweenArgentine and the mountain settlements; and no ships whatever were allowedto land on the Argentine coast. Thus Buenos Aires became almost wholly acity of smugglers, where English and Dutch ships came constantly with contra-band cargoes, where the risks of trade were great, but so were profits, and whereeven royal governors made fortunes out of the traffic they were supposed tocheck. Spains entire dealing with her South American colonies, but especiallywith Argentine, involved an economic Indians Slain by the Paulistas Chapter XXVITWO CENTURIES OF STAGNATION 0\\ARD the dose of the sixteenth century the waningof Spains power in Europe left her unable to protectthe colonies she had established. Gradually the Span-ish-American cities woke to the fact that a new era hadbegun, that they must defend themselves against for-eign war-ships. Fierce sailors from every nation, Eng-lish, French and Dutch, began to ravage the first the plundering expeditions were conducted by cruel andmurderous pirates, the notorious buccaneer
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