British Guiana Boundary Arbitration With The United States Of Brazil PDF Download

Excerpt from British Guiana Boundary, Arbitration With the United States of Brazil: Notes to the Counter-Case on Behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty The Brazilian Case for the period preceding 1775 is based largely upon historical evidence taken direct from the writings of Francisco Xavier Ribeiro de Sampaio. The statements from his pen are constantly quoted and used, as testimony, accepted and incontrovertible, on which an argument can be built up. To such an extent is this the case that it is not too much to say that the historical authority of the Case, in a very large measure, stands or falls with the historical authority of Ribeiro de Sampaio. The trustworthiness of that authority is thus made of vital importance to the Brazilian Case. It is here challenged in toto. The examination of a number of important and representative passages from his writings will be sufficient to afford convincing proof that Ribeiro de Sampaio, as an historian, was so inaccurate, alike in his facts and his inferences, that his unsupported statements cannot be accepted as evidence. For this purpose six leading passages have been selected. "In the year 1740 a Company ascended the river [Branco], in command of Francisco Xavier de Andrade, one of the leader of the expedition commanded by Lourenco Belforte, who established his camp at a short distance from the cataract of the said Uraricoera, from which place be sent out picked bodies, who succeeded in making a journey of two months' duration up along the bank of that river in such a manner that they traversed all the extensive plains which surround this river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."