Front matter
Reading edition
UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA
A Cavalcade in the Andes.
FOLLOWING THE CONQUISTADORES
UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA
BY H. J. MOZANS, A.M., Ph.D.
ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1910
Copyright, 1910, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Published May, 1910
TO MY GENIAL COMPAGNON DE VOYAGE BRAVE LOYAL C.
Res ardua vetustis novitatem dare; novis auctoritatem; absoletis, nitorem; obscuris, lucem; fastiditis, gratiam; dubiis, fidem; omnibus vero naturam, et naturae sua omnia. Itaque etiam non assecutis, voluisse abunde pulchrum atque magnificum est. That is to say: It is a dyfficulte thynge to gyue newenes to owlde thynges, autoritie to newe thynges, bewtie to thynges owt of vse, fame to the obscure, fauoure to the hatefull, credite to the doubtefull, nature to all and all to nature. To such neuerthelesse as can not atayne to all these, it is greately commendable and magnificall to haue attempted the fame.
From the preface, addressed to the Emperor Vespasian, of Pliny’s Natural History.