Excerpt from The Constitution of the Argentine Republic, And, the Constitution of the United States of Brazil: With Historical Introduction and Notes The territory which to-day comprises the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia, originally belonged to the power ful vice-royalty of Peru, although, with the exception of Bolivia, it bore very little resemblance to Peru proper. The lands watered by the Parana and La Plata were thinly populated by Indians belonging to the Aucan tribes, a race savage and hard to civilize, while the Quichua Indians of Upper and Lower Peru were docile and had already submitted to a completely organized govern ment. 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.