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 [Illustration:                                          _See page 125._

        “THE SOLDIER’S LEAP”—GORGE IN THE ANDES, ACROSS WHICH ONE
            OF O’HIGGINS’S CAVALRY LEAPED HIS HORSE TO ESCAPE
                             THE ROYALISTS.]

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                                THROUGH
                             SOUTH AMERICA

                                   BY

                         HARRY WESTON VAN <DW18>




                          WITH INTRODUCTION BY

                              JOHN BARRETT

               DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION




                                NEW YORK

                       THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY

                               PUBLISHERS




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                            COPYRIGHT, 1912,

                     BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY.


                       _Published October, 1912._




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                                   TO

                               MY FRIEND

                              JOHN BARRETT

              IN TOKEN OF MY ESTEEM AND MY APPRECIATION OF
                          HIS MANY KINDNESSES




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                              INTRODUCTION

BY HON. JOHN BARRETT, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION AND
    FORMERLY UNITED STATES MINISTER TO ARGENTINA, PANAMA, AND
    COLOMBIA


I have real pleasure in complying with the suggestion that I should
write an introduction to this interesting and instructive work by Mr.
Harry Weston Van <DW18>. As it was through me that he was led to make his
studies and investigations which resulted in the preparing of this book,
I naturally find much gratification in the success with which he has
handled the responsibility. No one can read his travel story of South
America without being impressed with the importance of these countries,
the enjoyment and value of visiting them, and the advantage of the
development of closer relations between all of them and the United
States.

As the executive officer of the Pan American Union, an international
organization maintained in Washington by all the American republics,
twenty-one in number, including the United States, for the advancement
of commerce, friendship, and peace among them all, it is my lot to
realize, possibly better than any one else, the remarkable growth of
interest which is being manifested now, not only throughout the United
States but in all parts of the world, in the countries of the southern
portions of the American continent commonly classed as Latin America.

When the Pan American Union was reorganized about five years ago, and it
began an active propaganda for making the twenty Latin American
republics better known in the United States, and correspondingly, the
United States better known among them, there was little cause for
encouragement. The average newspaper editor, the man in public life, the
manufacturer, the exporter, the importer, the traveler, and the student
seemed to be largely absorbed in studying and watching the development
of our commercial relations with Europe and the Orient, and not with
Latin America. The persistent and continued effort, however, of the Pan
American Union in educating the world to the importance of the Latin
American countries and to an appreciation of the commercial
opportunities and moral responsibilities of the United States