E-text prepared by Adrian Mastronardi, Jana Srna, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 37950-h.htm or 37950-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/37950/pg37950-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37950/37950-h.zip) Project Gutenberg has Part I of this work. See https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37920 Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/p2southamericanr00dawsuoft THE SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS * * * * * Story of the Nations A Series of Historical Studies intended to present in graphic narratives the stories of the different nations that have attained prominence in history. In the story form the current of each national life is distinctly indicated, and its picturesque and noteworthy periods and episodes are presented for the reader in their philosophical relations to each other as well as to universal history. 12vo, Illustrated, cloth, each $1.50 Half Leather, each $1.75 No. 62 and following Nos. net $1.35 Each (By mail) $1.50 Half leather, gilt top, each, net $1.60 (By mail) $1.75 FOR FULL LIST SEE END OF THIS VOLUME. * * * * * [Illustration: CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO IN LIMA.] The Story of the Nations THE SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS by THOMAS C. DAWSON American Minister to Santo Domingo In Two Parts PART II PERU, CHILE, BOLIVIA, ECUADOR, VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA, PANAMA G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1904 Copyright, 1904 by Thomas C. Dawson Published, September, 1904 The Knickerbocker Press, New York PREFACE This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, and enslavement of the prosperous and civilised millions who inhabited the Pacific coast of South America. It ends with the United States opening a way through that same Isthmus for the ships, the trade, the capital of all the world; with American engineers laying railroad iron on the imperial highway of the Incas; with British bondholders forgiving stricken Peru's national debt; with their debtor bravely facing the fact of bankruptcy, and turning over to them all its railways.