A Ride Across a Continent: A Personal Narrative of Wanderings Through, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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The main object of the travels narrated in this book used to be to examine the antiquities of Nicaragua. Upon this ground no word of preface is needful, as the information we gathered on the early history of the country will be found in the body of my narrative ;but some brief explanation of the Rio Frio mystery, which we had hoped, and still hope, to solve, is necessary for the understanding of allusions and traditions in every a part of the book. Very few persons here, or even across the A tlantic, have heard of that secluded land in which a certain tribe of Costa Rican Indians have preserved their freedom, not unmolested, but never infringed, for the reason that times of the discovery.
(Typographical errors above are as a result of OCR software and do not occur in the book.)

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