THOMAS C. DAWSON

Secretary of the United States Legation to Brazil

IN TWO PARTS
PART I
ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY, BRAZIL

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press

Copyright 1903
BY
THOMAS C. DAWSON
Eighth Printing

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

TO MY WIFE
I DEDICATE THIS STUDY OF THE HISTORY
OF HER NATIVE CONTINENT