ILLUSTRATIONS
| “The Soldier’s Leap” | [Frontispiece] |
| OPPOSITE PAGE | |
| Map of South America | [1] |
| Francisco Pizarro | [38] |
| Inca Burial Tower near Lake Titicaca | [56] |
| Cloisters of Dominican Monastery, Cuzco | [56] |
| Cathedral at Lima, built by Pizarro | [76] |
| Pizarro’s Palace, Lima—Now the Government Building | [90] |
| San Martín’s Passage of the Andes | [126] |
| Statue of Bolívar, in Lima | [132] |
| The City of Bahia | [156] |
| Botafogo Bay, Rio Harbor | between [162] and 163 |
| Bay and City of Rio de Janeiro | [166] |
| Avenue of Royal Palms, Rio Botanical Gardens | [170] |
| Avenida Central, Rio de Janeiro | [170] |
| Coffee Plantation, Brazil | [184] |
| Colón Theater, Buenos Aires | [204] |
| Federal Capitol, Buenos Aires | [204] |
| Jockey Club’s Grand Stand at Race Track | [210] |
| Prize Winners from “the Camp” | [216] |
| The Uspallata Pass | [222] |
| Iguazú Falls | [226] |
| Solis Theater, Montevideo | [232] |
| Cagancha Plaza, Montevideo | [232] |
| Government Palace, Asunción | [242] |
| View of Asunción and River Paraguay | [242] |
| Shrine of Our Lady of Capacabana | [266] |
| Town and Mountain of Potosí, Bolivia | [266] |
| Church of the Conservidas, La Paz | [272] |
| Old Spanish Residence, La Paz | [272] |
| Punta Arenas | [312] |
| Plaza Mayor, Lima | [326] |
| Scene on the Oroya Railway | [330] |
| Church of La Merced, Lima | [350] |
| Street Scene in Guayaquil | [362] |
| Condor of the Andes | [362] |
| Room in Old Palace at Quito | [374] |
| Overlooking Bogotá | [386] |
| A Posada or Country Inn | [392] |
| Battlemented Wall, Cartagena | [392] |
| View of Maracaibo | [404] |
| A Coffee Plantation, Venezuela | [414] |
SOUTH AMERICA
Through South America
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HISTORICAL SKETCH
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A little more than four hundred years ago, when Europe was emerging from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the era of printed books, when the Field of the Cloth of Gold had impressed the official stamp of culture on her civilization, when gunpowder was changing the aspect of war—in an age that produced such intellects as those of Machiavelli, Copernicus, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Cardinal Wolsey, and John Werner—wise men were still groping blindly for knowledge about the world in which they lived that is regarded as elementary by the school children of our day. What was its shape? What lay beyond the western horizon of the Atlantic, the vast and stormy Mare Tenebrosum of fabled terror to mariners? What was south of the African countries bordering the Mediterranean? How far east did Asia extend? No one knew.