British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . produced a work, which doesnot seem to have affected later historians to any appreci-able extent: The Natural and Political History of Por-tugal ... to which is added the History of Brazil andall other Dominions subject to the Crown of Portugal,etc. In 1774 appeared a volume—I imagine not of the firstedition—by Captain R. Boyle, entitled, The voyagesand adventures of Captain Robert Boyle. Now the ad-ventures of this Captain Robert Boyle were
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . produced a work, which doesnot seem to have affected later historians to any appreci-able extent: The Natural and Political History of Por-tugal ... to which is added the History of Brazil andall other Dominions subject to the Crown of Portugal,etc. In 1774 appeared a volume—I imagine not of the firstedition—by Captain R. Boyle, entitled, The voyagesand adventures of Captain Robert Boyle. Now the ad-ventures of this Captain Robert Boyle were acute andvaried, and he appears to have come into contact withDampier, and with other famous personalities of the often used to wonder how it was that neither Dampiernor any one else referred to this very notable personalityin return, since Boyle was clearly not the sort of man tobe overlooked—until it was put to me—by Mr. FrancisEdwards—that these cleverly constructed adventureswere apocrj^Dhal. The work, as a matter of fact, isascribed to W. R. Chetwood, although there are some whohold that it is from the pen of Benjamin H SOUTH AMERICAN CATTLE
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