Peru in the Guano Age: Being a Short Account of a Recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, With some Reflections on the Money They Have Produced

From the author's DEDICATORY LETTER. Señor, Don Juan Espinosa Y De Maldonado, Estimado y distinguido Amigo mio: It would be most pleasant to continue this letter in the language in which it begins and which you taught me some five and twenty years ago, but I wish others to read it as well as yourself. I dedicate this little book to you for several reasons: not because of our common friendship, extending now over more than a quarter of a century, nor yet for the confidence which you have rep...