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NATIONAL ANIMOSITIES.
were
hurt
b y the m o t i v e s
to give them vigour,
confidence.
which A
impassioned,
feeling,
in t h e
founded
on
in
the consciousness and
affections,
antiquated
t h e most
not
t h e view
preserved in
remote
in
effaced
ceases.
where
Whatever
of
energetic that
are
constitutes
the mother-country
and national
the influence
W e k n o w , from
of an hatreds
rival
prejudices.
colonies;
hatred,
T h e m i n d d e l i g h t s in e v e r y
t h e individuality o f n a t i o n s f l o w s from to
with
w h o have
t h r o u g h t h e r e v o l u t i o n s o f a g e s , a national
like o c c a s i o n s o f g i v i n g it v e n t . thing
w e alleged
people
a n t i p a t h i e s are
the same
the interesting
languages
narrative
of K r u -
s e n s t e r n ' s v o y a g e , that t h e hat red o f t w o fugitive sailors, o n e a Frenchman of
a long
Islands. the
and t h e o t h e r an Kiiglishinan, was t h e c a u s e
war b e t w e e n O n the banks
Indians
of the neighbouring
villages d e t e s t the
the inhabitants
each
ether.
bank
Marquesas
Portuguese
These
poor
and Spanish
people speak
only
are i g n o r a n t o f w h a t p a s s e s
native t o n g u e s ; they
the o t h e r
o f the
o f t h e A m a z o n a n d t h e Rio N e g r o ,
of the ocean, beyond
the great
‘on
salt-pool;’
b u t the' g o w n s o f t h e i r m i s s i o n a r i e s are o f a different, c o l o u r , and this displeases t h e m e x t r e m e l y . I have s t o p p e d ties, which have
been
t o paint
t h e effects
wise s t a t e s m e n unable
o f national
have e n d e a v o u r e d
entirely to set at rest.
animosi
T h i s rivalry has know
c o n t r i b u t e d t o t h e imperfection o f t h e g e o g r a p h i c a l ledge the
hitherto obtained Amazon.
When
respecting
but
to calm,
t h e tributary
the communications
of
rivers o f
the
natives
art• i m p e d e d , a n d o n e nation is e s t a b l i s h e d
near
the mouth,
and
sаmе
river,
another
difficult
for
acquire
precise
in
the upper
рrsons
part
o f the
who attempt
information.
and still m o r e t h e рortages,
to construct
T h e periodical
b y which
boats
it is
maps
to
inundations,
are passed
from
o n e stream to a n o t h e r , the source's o f which are in t h e s a m e neighbourhood,
have
led to e r r o n e o u s
c a t i o n s a n d b r a n c h i n g s o f rivers. tuguese
missions,
for i n s t a n c e , e n t e r
upon the s p o t ) the Spanish Rio on
Guainia the
the
of t h e
(as
Negro
I
bifur
of the
was
Por
informed
on o n e side
by t h e
a n d t h e Rio T o m o ; a n d t h e U p p e r O r i n o c o
o t h e r , by the
Pacimoni,
Rio
ideas
T h e Indians
Idapa,
portages
between
and the Macava,
the Cababuri, the to g a t h e r
matic s e e d s o f the p u c h e r o laurel b e y o n d the
the aro
Esmeralda.