Transcriber's Notes
A page of advertisements for other books in the series has been moved from the beginning to the end of the book. Illustrations have been moved next to the text which they illustrate, and so may not match the order in the List of Illustrations. A duplicate heading "ARGENTINA" on the half title page has been removed.
The following were not clearly printed, and have been corrected by reference to a 1910 printing:
- p. 96 "Ertigarribia"
- p. 96 "Lopez"
- p. 97 "war. The allied"; "and Brazilian"; "beyond Curupaiti."
- p. 123 note "Siècle"
- p. 269 "the workshop"
- p. 292 "received is that"
- p. 303 "Curupaiti, 97"
The following were inconsistently hyphenated, capitalised or spelled:
- cheekbones and cheek-bones
- seafaring and sea-faring
- snowdrifts and snow-drifts
- Viceroyalty and Vice-royalty
- yerba maté and Yerba Maté
- gaucho and Gaucho
- Cordoba and Cordova
- alfalfa and alfafa
- Mitré and Mitre
- Asunçion and Asuncion
- Paraná and Parana
- Républica and Republica
- São Paulo and Sao Paulo
Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected as follows:
- p. XX "smalls barks" changed to "small barks"
- p. 19 quotation mark added (sepulchre for these extinct animals.")
- p. 57 full stop added (long period of disorder and bloodshed.)
- p. 63 "hidalguiá" changed to "hidalguía"
- p. 64 it changed to its (was successful as far as its)
- p. 69 hyphen added (Leveson-Gower was in favour)
- p. 78 "favourable" changed to "unfavourable"
- p. 78 "influenc ewas" changed to "influence was"
- p. 78 (note) quotation mark added (Peru or Spain")
- p. 78 (note) quotation mark changed to comma (Arcos, "La Plata)
- p. 91 "prescription" changed to "proscription"
- p. 108 (note) "I.e," changed to "I.e.,"
- p. 123 "megolomania" changed to "megalomania"
- p. 132 quotation mark removed (M. Gustave Le Bon,[2])
- p. 133 (note) quotation mark added (au XXe Siècle,")
- p. 137 "heathly" changed to "healthy"
- p. 143 "Montevides" changed to "Montevideo"
- p. 173 "Isles of March" changed to "Ides of March"
- p. 182 (note) full stops added (Argentine Great Western.; Blanca and North-Western.)
- p. 193 (note) "Emile" changed to "Émile"
- Illustration after p. 196 "SANTIA" changed to "SANTA"
- p. 207 "north of Argentina" changed to "north of Buenos Aires"
- p. 209 quotation mark added ("One way a band)
- p. 212 "sent to Argentine" changed to "sent to Argentina"
- p. 216 "Steamship" changed to "Steamships"
- p. 247 (note) full stop added (six feet by a few inches.)
- p. 249 opening bracket added ((Hudson, "Idle Days)
- Illustration after p. 250 full stop added (six feet by a few inches.)
- p. 256 "If" changed to "It" (It seemed an interminable)
- p. 272 Quotation mark added (and its longitude 47°.")
- p. 277 (note) "El Gran Chaco Argentins" changed to "El Gran Chaco Argentino"
- p. 282 "1852" changed to "1582"
- p. 289 "Panana" changed to "Parana" (Parana and Sao Paulo states.")
- p. 296 "Considerations" changed to "Considérations"
- p. 298 full stop changed to comma (2 vols. Paris, 1880.)
- p. 299 "El Gran Chaco, Argentine." changed to "El Gran Chaco Argentino."
- p. 301 full stop changed to comma (Matacos. Buenos Aires, 1897.)
- p. 301 full stop added to text (Heart of Patagonia. London, 1902.)
- p. 304 comma added to text after 34 (Calchaquies, 34, 35)
- p. 304 "Cedulas" changed to "Cédulas"
- p. 304 comma added to text after 208 (Clubs, 146, 149, 208, 258, 269)
- p. 304 comma added to text after 150 (Edward VII., 110, 150, 208, 264)
- p. 305 "Hernandez, Jose" changed to "Hernandez, José"
- p. 306 "Merou, M. G.," changed to "Mérou, M. G.,"
- p. 307 "Pena" changed to "Peña"
A possible spelling error on p. 156 ("carne cum cuero") has been left unchanged.