But North America was only inhabited by wandering tribes, who took no thought of the natural riches of the soil, and that vast country was still, properly speaking, an empty continent, a desert land awaiting its inhabitants.
Baina Ipar Amerikan tribu ibiltariak bakarrik bizi ziren, lurreko natur aberastasunak erabiltzeko asmorik ez zutenak. Zehatz esanda, artean hutsik zegoen kontinente bat zen Ipar Amerika, basa eremu bat, biztanle zain zegoena.