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

ISBN: 9781330507636 出版年：2018 页码：548 Charles D Ferguson Forgotten Books

The 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.