The Route To Bolivia Via The River Amazon A Report To The Governments Of Bolivia And Brazil 1877

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... PAET III. THE STRUGGLE AT LAW AND THE SEVERAL DECISIONS OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY IN FAVOUR OF THE ENTERPRISE. SECRET CONTRACT MADE BY BOLIVIA FOE DISPOSAL OF THE TRUST-FUND. CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BOLIVIAN MINISTER AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES. In faithful compliance with our contract with the Construction Company, we offered to submit our difficulties to arbitration. Instead of accepting this offer, that Company filed a Bill in Chancery against us, dated July 9th, 1873, amended May 4th, 1874, re-amended June 30th, 1874. Its prayer was to have the Court declare its contract with us not binding and to be cancelled, and claimed for moneys expended, and that the trust fund be embargoed until settlement of their claim. On the 7th August, 1873, we sued the Construction Company at common law for damages for breach of contract, and on the 20th August, 1873, filed a friendly Bill in Chancery against the Trustees, which we amended March, 1874, making the Construction Company and Bondholders parties to the suit, with a view to free the trust fund at the earliest moment possible, and to continue the work upon the railway in accordance with our duty to all parties concerned. Following this came the "Bondholders' Bill," filed by Mr. James Cooper against our Companies, the Trustees, the Republic and myself, and dated January 15th, 1874, amended April 9th, 1875, and re-amended November 12th, 1875. The prayer was to restrain the Trustees from parting with the funds until the suits were heard, . and to have the Court declare the said trust fund and accumulated interest to be the property of the Bondholders in case the road were pronounced impracticable. On the 4th of May, 1874, the Republic of Bolivia filed a Bill against the...

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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.

A “compelling and elegantly written” history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual (Times Literary Supplement, UK). The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, the Brazilian author and geographer Euclides da Cunha led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism entitled Lost Paradise. Hoping to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, Da Cunha was killed by his wife’s lover before he could complete his epic work. once the biography of Da Cunha, a translation of his unfinished work, and a chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.

The 55th report, submitted Sept. 27, 1886, includes a historical sketch of the institution from 1836-86.