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The National Geographic Magazine 



The later Waldseemiiller map of 1516,, 

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 appear, as the author had learned by 

 that time that he had unjustly given 

 Amerigo Vespucius credit for discover- 

 ing the new world, was exhibited for 

 the first time in America by Professor 

 Stevenson at the same time. 



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GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE 



Around the Caribbean and Across Pan- 

 ama. By Francis C. Nicholas, Ph. D. 

 Illustrated. Pp. 373. 6 by 8 inches. 

 Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co. 1903. 

 $2.00. 



This timely book describes in interest- 

 ing manner the incidents and adventures 

 of the author in the various countries 

 bordering the Caribbean sea. As the 

 commercial explorer of large moneyed 

 interests, Mr Nicholas has transversed 

 Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Central 

 America, and the many islands of the 

 West Indies. He dwells repeatedly on 

 the great untouched wealth and possi- 

 bilities of these countries, which, he as- 

 serts, far surpass even common report. 

 At present, however, American capital 

 investing in these regions takes great 

 risks of losing everything, owing to po- 

 litical uncertainties. 



Mr Nicholas' experiences on his jour- 

 neys to Bogota were extremely disagree- 

 able. 



' ' On the road across the mountains 

 there were no exciting incidents, only 

 annoyances ; the way was tedious, the 

 people inhospitable, the road-houses un- 

 clean, and their charges little short of 

 robbery. 



' ' Bogota is on the eastern side of a 

 great interior savannah, an open grass 

 plain at almost ten thousand feet eleva- 

 tion above the sea, a place of enchant- 

 ing beauty, a broad expanse of open 

 country surrounded by the bleak sum- 

 mits of inner ranges of the Andes 

 Mountains. 



' ' But the city is a place of vermin and 

 corrupting filth ; a place where the com- 

 mon incidents of the streets are not fit 

 to be described ; where beggars, display- 

 ing revolting sores and rotting limbs, 

 swarm about, even thrusting their filthy 

 bodies where they may touch those who 

 pass by, while they demand, not solicit, 

 alms ; where ill-mannered, arrogant, 

 overdressed people make vulgar display 

 of their clothes as they strut about and 

 crowd for precedence, making much of 

 the antiquated custom of demanding a 



