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Camp-Spanish. And I would add the name of Mr. Frank A. 

 Juckes, who saw to the outfitting of a medicine-chest. 



I would not omit grateful mention of Senor Garcia Merou, 

 the late Minister of Agriculture of the Argentine Republic, of the 

 late Seiior Rivadavia, the then Minister of Marine, to Senor 

 Josue Moreno, to Messrs. Krabbe and Higgins ; also to Mr. 

 Ernest Cattle, Mr. Theobald, of Trelew, and to the many kind 

 friends who live in the Argentine Republic. 



I am indebted to my friend, Alfred James Jenkinson, Scholar 

 of Hertford College, Oxford, for his kindness in preparing photo- 

 graphs for reproduction. 



Most of all I owe a debt (a debt which runs yearly into com- 

 pound interest) to my modier, who is accountable for anything 

 that is worth while in this book, and who has collaborated in its 

 production. 



H. HESKETH PRICHARD. 



