. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. "i \Â¥' i m^\ Pi. I â !â 'itiii. 330 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMRKICA. door-steads. You must be very cautious how you inter- fere witli our politics ; lor, if we find you nieddlinj,' witli them, and by that means cause us to come to loggerheads, we sh.'dl ]je obliged to send you back to your own homes, three or four thousand miles acros
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. "i \Â¥' i m^\ Pi. I â !â 'itiii. 330 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMRKICA. door-steads. You must be very cautious how you inter- fere witli our politics ; lor, if we find you nieddlinj,' witli them, and by that means cause us to come to loggerheads, we sh.'dl ]je obliged to send you back to your own homes, three or four thousand miles across the Atlantic; and then, with that great ditch betwixt us, we may hope we shall be good friends, lie who casts his eye on the East Indies, will there see quite a different stjite of things. The con- quered districts have merely changed one European master for another; and I believe there is no instance of any ])()r- tion of the East Indies throwing off the yoke of the Euro- peans and establishing a government of their own. Ye who are versed in politics, and study the rise and fall of empires, and know what is good for civilized man, and what is bad for him, or in other words, what will make him hapj)y and what will make him miserableâtell us how comes it that Europe has lost almost her last acre in the boundless expanse of territory which she so lately possessed in the west, and still contrives to hold her vast property in the extensive regions of the east ? But whither am I going ? 1 find myself on a new and dangerous path. I'ardon, gentle reader, this :"udden devia- tion. Methinks I hear thee saying to me,â "Traniite quo tendis, majoraqiie viribus ; I grant that I have erred, but I will do so no more. In general I avoid j^olitics; they are too heavy for me, and I am aware that they have caused the fall of many a strong and able man; they require the shoulders of Atlas to support their weight. When I was in the rocky mountains of Macoushia, in the m
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