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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ade the lands immediately south of Panama, although even this region wasknown to abound in the precious metals. But after the conquest of Peru a back-ward movement set in, resulting in the invasion of the Colombian plateaux ofTuquen-es, Antioquia, and Cundinamarca by b mds of adventurers starting, somefrom Venezuela, some from Ecuador. The coastlunds, however, were also visitedat an early date, and after a first disastrous expedition, made in 1508, from theshores of the Gulf of Uraba, the Spaniards had already gained a permanent footingon the Colombian seaboard in 1525, when thej^ founded the city of Santa Marta,not far from the Magdalena delta, but the settlers were not numerous enough toextend their expeditions beyond the Sierra Nevada and surrounding valleys. Thus it happened that the first serious expedition, or rather plundering andmurderous campaign, in the interior, started not from the coast, but fromVenezuela in the year 1530. Armed with the mandate of Charles V., authorising
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OLD SPANISH FORTIFICATIONS AT PUERTO BELLO. CONQUEST OF COLOMBIA. 1S5 the adventurers to enslave all refractory natives, Ambrosius Alfiiiger aimed atnothing beyond the discovery of gold-mines, and the capture of rebelliousIndians to be sold at the slave-market of Coro, After crossing the Perijaamountains, west of the Maracaibo basin, he burst into the Upar Valley, plunderingand burning the habitations, slaying the old and infirm, kidnapping all themarketable men and women, the mere report of his atrocities dispersing most ofthe tribes to the surrounding highlands. After these exploits he traversed theSierra de Tairona, reaching the banks of the Magdalena bj^ devious tracks. Herehe pushed southwards down the Lebrija valley, crossing the Yelez mountainswith the intention of returning to Venezuela by the paramos and interveningvalleys. But he never reached his destination ; overtaken by the Indians, heperished near Chinacota, between Pamplona and Cucuta, on the spot which haspreserved hi

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