PEDRO SANCHEZ

With Introduction, Notes, and VocabularyThat this ignorance is general among us can scarcely be questioned. It is the source of a dangerous attitude of super ciliousness, quite unwarranted, toward the descendants of the Conquistadores who with Titanic energy dominated the Old World and colonized the N ew, laying here the foundation of linguistic empire unparalleled in its territorial vastness and eco nomic promise. For even a short-term student of Spanish to pass out with such ignorance uncorrected or merely replaced by shadowy grotesque conceptions hardly better - demonstrates a singularly unfortunate ratio of parts in the composition of his training in the subject. International jealousy and race antag onism spring, like personal ones, primarily from the distrust born of common ignorance. Some acquaintance with a foreign nation s history is indispensable for clearing the mind of the miasmatic fog generated in a vacuum of ideas, and the book which, like Pedro Sa mlzez, contributes its share toward this bracing result deserves well of our consideration as a civilizing agency. It makes the subject matter appeal all the more strongly to our sympathies by setting before us another ex ample of how nations, like individuals, reap as they sow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.