APPENDIX. 



LIST OF WORKS ON COLOMBIA. 



A LIST of the works treating of any particular subject is always of great help to 

 the student who may care to investigate that subject, and therefore I have compiled 

 the following list of works on Colombia, exclusive of the literature of the Isthmus of 

 Panama. The nature of many of these works is indicated by their titles ; in others 

 this is not the case, and as I have not had access to many of them, nor time to read 

 others, I have been compelled to adopt a chronological arrangement. I have, how- 

 ever, collected the purely zoological writings and brought them together after the 

 general list. 



It is to be borne in mind that in early days Colombia included at various times 

 more or less of Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela, and was known by other names as 

 Tierx'a Firma, New Granada, etc. Examining the titles below, it will be seen that 

 the earlier writings were those of the Jesuits ; then came in historical and biograjjhi- 

 cal works. In the early twenties, during the struggles of Colombia in securing her 

 independence from Spain, many officers of foreign armies were attracted as adven- 

 turers, and later a number of them wrote of their experiences. Then followed a 

 period in which little appeared. Within the last fifteen years there has been a large 

 increase in the literature on Colombia, in which the Germans have had a prominent 

 part. In this compilation I have profited by Pereira's list (see No. 155). In 

 Bonnycastle's work, 1819, there is a list of 146 works on Spanish America, many of 

 Avhidi may have references to Colombia, but as I have not seen them I cannot 

 include them. 



1. De insulis nuper inventis. Occeanea decas. Petrus ab Angleria Martir. 

 Legatio Babilonica. Poemata. Seville, 1511. 



2. La cronica del Peru. Pedro Cieza de Leon. Amberes, 1554. 



3. Elegias de varones ilustres de Indias. Juan de Castellanos. Madrid, 

 1589. 



4. Historia de las Indias y Cronica de la Nueva Espana. Fi-ancisco Lopez 

 Gomara. Madrid. 1()()0. 



5. Histoire naturelle et morale des Indes ; tant orientales qu'occidentales, par 



