132 A BOOK-LOVER'S HOLIDAYS 



nothing but Spanish. Here, as so often in the 

 addresses made to me, special stress was laid 

 upon the fact that my country represented the 

 cause of civil and religious liberty, of the abso- 

 lute equality of treatment of all men without 

 regard to creed, and of social and industrial 

 justice; in short, the cause of orderly liberty 

 in body, soul, and mind, in things intellectual 

 and spiritual no less than in things industrial 

 and political; the liberty that guarantees to 

 each free, bold spirit the right to search for 

 truth without any check from political or ec- 

 clesiastical tyranny, and that also guarantees 

 to the weak their bodily rights as against any 

 man who would exploit or oppress them. 



We left Puerto Varas by steamer on the lake 

 to begin our four days' trip across the Andes 

 and through northern Patagonia, which was to 

 end when we struck the Argentine Railway at 

 Neuquen. This break in the Andes makes an 

 easy road, for the pass at its summit is but 

 three thousand feet high. The route followed 

 leads between high mountains and across lake 

 after lake, and the scenery is as beautiful as 

 any in the world. 



The first lake was surrounded by a rugged, 

 forest-clad mountain wilderness, broken here 

 and there by settlers' clearings. Wonderful 



