First Published 1902.
Reissued under the title of "South American Sketches" 1909
Published in the Readers Library 1920

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Printed in Great Britain by R. Folkard & Son, London


To my Friend

R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM

("Singularisimo escritor ingles")

Who has lived with and knows (even to the marrow as they would themselves say) the horsemen of the Pampas, and who alone of European writers has rendered something of the vanishing colour of that remote life.


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