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See page [125].
“THE SOLDIER’S LEAP”—GORGE IN THE ANDES, ACROSS WHICH ONE
OF O’HIGGINS’S CAVALRY LEAPED HIS HORSE TO ESCAPE
THE ROYALISTS.
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
Copyright, 1912,
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY.
Published October, 1912.
TO
MY FRIEND
JOHN BARRETT
IN TOKEN OF MY ESTEEM AND MY APPRECIATION OF
HIS MANY KINDNESSES