The Experiences of a Forty-Niner During Thirty-Four Years Residence in California and Australia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Experiences of a Forty-Niner During Thirty-Four Years Residence in California and AustraliaThe passion for gold of the government of Spain and the higher ranks of. Its subjects was so intense as to event uate in crimes and cruelties more terrible than ever before were perpetrated tby civilized man upon a gentle and inoffensive people. Emigration from Spain to Mexico and Peru from 1492 for more than a hundred years, far sur passed that of England for the colonization of North America from 1607 for an equal length of time - the one inspired by gold, the other by liberty of conscience and the spirit of freedom.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.