Chapter I: Front Matter

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=A MEXICAN JOURNEY.= By E. H. BLICHFELDT. Map and 32
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=CHOSEN DAYS IN SCOTLAND.= By JOSEPHINE HELENA SHORT. Map
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“THE SOLDIER’S LEAP”—GORGE IN THE ANDES, ACROSS WHICH ONE
OF O’HIGGINS’S CAVALRY LEAPED HIS HORSE TO ESCAPE
THE ROYALISTS.]

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THROUGH
SOUTH AMERICA

BY

HARRY WESTON VAN DYKE

WITH INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN BARRETT

DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION

NEW YORK

THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

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COPYRIGHT, 1912,

BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY.

_Published October, 1912._

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TO

MY FRIEND

JOHN BARRETT

IN TOKEN OF MY ESTEEM AND MY APPRECIATION OF
HIS MANY KINDNESSES

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