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                             In Far Bolivia

                     A Story of a Strange Wild Land


                                   BY

                        DR. GORDON STABLES, R.N.

 Author of "'Twixt School and College" "The Hermit Hunter of the Wilds"

             "The Naval Cadet" "Kidnapped by Cannibals" &c.




               _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. FINNEMORE, R.I._




                        BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED

                      LONDON GLASGOW DUBLIN BOMBAY

                                  1901




                                   TO

                         MARIE CONNOR LEIGHTON

                         (NOVELIST AND CRITIC)

                         THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED

                           EVERY KINDLY WISH

                                   BY

                               THE AUTHOR




                                PREFACE


Every book should tell its own story without the aid of "preface" or
"introduction".  But as in this tale I have broken fresh ground, it is
but right and just to my reader, as well as to myself, to mention
prefatorially that, as far as descriptions go, both of the natives and
the scenery of Bolivia and the mighty Amazon, my story is strictly
accurate.

I trust that Chapter XXIII, giving facts about social life in La Paz and
Bolivia, with an account of that most marvellous of all sheets of fresh
water in the known world, Lake Titicaca, will be found of general
interest.

But vast stretches of this strange wild land of Bolivia are a closed
book to the world, for they have never yet been explored; nor do we know
aught of the tribes of savages who dwell therein, as far removed from
civilization and from the benign influence of Christianity as if they
were