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urged me to set down my impressions of a journey which 

 at all events was pleasurable to me. 



I brought back with me from South America a large 

 series of photographs, some of them made by my 

 assistant, Air. Arthur S. Coggeshall, others obtained in 

 places visited by us. During my journey, at such 

 few moments of leisure as I could command, I made a 

 number of sketches both in oil and water-colors. Some 

 of these photographs and sketches I have used in 

 illustrating the book. 



This book is not a manual of statistics; it does not 

 touch, except incidentally, upon the history of the 

 great republics of the south; it is not intended to be 

 in any sense didactic; it is simply the record of a 

 pleasant journey, during which I saw much and learned 

 much which was of interest to me, and may also be of 

 interest to my readers. If they derive half as much 

 satisfaction from my pages as I had in my pilgrimage 

 to the " Silver River " I shall feel repaid. 



W. J. H. 



PITTSBURGH, 

 September, 1913. 



