"The output of the books upon Latin America has in recent years been very large, a proof doubtless of the increasing interest that is felt in the subject. Of these the South American Series edited by Mr. Martin Hume is the most noteworthy."--TIMES. "Mr. Unwin is doing good service to commercial men and investors by the production of his 'South American Series.'"--SATURDAY REVIEW. "Those who wish to gain some idea of the march of progress in these countries cannot do better than study the admirable 'South American Series.'"--CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL. * * * * * 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. Illustration captions 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. Superscript is represented by a carat symbol (^) preceding the superscripted characters. 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 XX^{e} 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"