A Naturalist in Mid-Africa: Being an Account of a Journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika. E-book. Formato PDF G. F. Scott Elliot   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is a pleasure as well as a duty to begin this work by an attempt to show the indebtedness of which I am fully conscious to the many who have assisted me directly and indirectly in the preparation of this work.If it had not been for the care and hospitality of Captain Gibb, the French Fathers in Buddu and on Tanganyika, Mr. Law, Mr. Heard, and the late Dr. Scott in British Central Africa, I should certainly not have survived the expedition.In the preparation of it, I must express my thanks first to Mr. A. D. Innes for the numerous suggestions and revisions that have shaped my rough-hewn manuscripts. Dr. Gregory should have the credit of much of the geological portion, and Mr. Butler and Mr. Murray have given me two lists which are now printed in the Appendix.

Chile: Its History and Development Natural Features, Products, Commerce and Present Conditions. E-book. Formato PDF G. F. Scott Elliot   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

So, early in 1535, the fiery spirits came ?ocking from Panama and the north to join Almagro's standard, and to undertake another Of those heroic, daredevil marches into the unknown world, which faith and greed allied could alone inspire. Almagro's expedition of nearly 600 Europeans and Indians started from Cuzco in 1535, to find and occupy the promised land of Chile. To have descended to the coast and thence march by the lowlands would have been the easiest way, but it was the longer, and the adventurers were as impatient to reach their goal as the Pizarros were to see them gone: so Almagro marched straight along the Inca road, past Lake Titicaca, across part of Bolivia and what is now Argentina, and then over the Andes. Daring and difficult as some of the Spanish marches had been, none thitherto had had to encounter the hardships that faced Almagro on his Andean progress. Cold, famine, and toilsome ways killed his followers by thousands, and to the frost and snow of the mountain sides succeeded hundreds of miles Of arid deserts, where no living thing grew, and no drop Of water fell.