Excerpt from Journal of an Expedition 1400 Miles Up the Orinoco and 300 Up the Arauca: With an Account of the Country, the Manners of the People, Military Operations, &C, Mentioned facts which may displease many South Americans: but what country exists without its faults? And where can we find a people without many. Bad as well as good among them?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.