THIS BOOK IS BY KIND PERMISSION DEDICATED TO SIR OWEN PHILIPPS, K.C.M.G. TO WHOSE NAME NO TRAVELLER TO SOUTH AMERICA NEEDS INTRODUCTION THE AUTHOR FEELS THAT THIS SLIGHT TRIBUTE IS DUE TO ONE WHO HAS DONE AND IS STILL DOING MUCH TO LINK UP THE OLD WORLD WITH THE VAST TERRITORIES DEALT WITH IN THE ENSUING PAGES The artist or the writer who visits South America to-day finds it as a diamond of a hundred facets, and his main difficulty is to select those points upon which to concentrate his gaze. So vast is the subject, so full of romance, glamour, pulsating life, and world possibilities that not one book but many must be written upon it before the reader can form the barest idea of the well-ni…
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