A Squadron of the United States Navy, on a Friendly Cruise Around Latin America (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Squadron of the United States Navy, on a Friendly Cruise Around Latin America At the outset of the following story the writer begs leave to mention that, as a result of the journey therein about to be described, his own ideas concerning Latin America have shifted. Heretofore this particular domain has been a sort of minus quantity that did not come within the radius of his scope. Yes, North America hasn´t a monopoly on all of the good things that are to be found upon the Western Hemisphere, and your humble servant is glad of it. Latin Americans are different, but by no means inferior, to other enlightened people. Their country is ahead of North America in apparently so many important ways as the latter excels the former in others. Surely all Americans have reason to take pride in their own country, every foot of it, from Hudson Bay to Cape Horn. Each man of the United States squadron was so sincerely welcomed throughout Latin America that none of them, so far as I know, had a chance to see anything that did not appeal to his better nature. Therefore the writer is enabled to make mention of only the things that ennoble rather than of those that degrade. The southern portion of America undoubtedly has. just like the region up north, many disturbing elements to contend with; but, you may depend upon it, that it is strictly alert thereto. It is amazing how so many discordant elements can be held so severely in restraint as they are in most of the Latin American commonwealths. The efficient manner in which United States sailors were everywhere shielded from petty annoyances pleased the lads. When it comes right down to sincere hospitality. oh. say! enough said!.´ Just go south once and there, under the southern cross, learn the meaning of Simpatico. Satisfy yourself as to whether the people are not of an unusually friendly type, and, if this friendship is not genuine. A few of us, who had not journeyed abroad before, expected to find a sort of semi-wilderness in the southern clime. All of this notion was dispelled in the very first Latin American town that we struck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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