THE GLAMOUR OF PROSPECTING IN THE WILDS OF SOUTH AMERICA Six Years of Exploration in Colombia, Venezuela, British Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. By LEO E. MILLER, of the American Museum of Natural History. First Lieutenant in the United States Aviation Corps. With 48 Full-page Illustrations and with maps. Demy 8vo, cloth. This volume represents a series of almost continuous explorations hardly ever paralleled in the huge areas traversed. The author is a distinguished field naturalist--one of those who accompanied Colonel Roosevelt on his famous South American expedition--and his first object in his wanderings over 150,000 miles of territory was the observation of wild life; but hardly second was that of exploration. The result is a wonderfully informative, impressive, and often thrilling narrative in which savage peoples and all but unknown animals largely figure, which forms an infinitely readable book and one of rare value for geographers, naturalists, and other scientific men. T. FISHER UNWIN LTD. LONDON [Illustration: THE AUTHOR AT NAKOB, READY FOR A LONG TRIP. _Frontispiece._ ] THE GLAMOUR OF PROSPECTING WANDERINGS OF A SOUTH AFRICAN PROSPECTOR IN SEARCH OF COPPER, GOLD, EMERALDS, AND DIAMONDS BY LIEUT. FRED C. CORNELL, O.B.E. AUTHOR OF “A RIP VAN WINKLE OF THE KALAHARI,” ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP T. FISHER UNWIN LTD LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE _First published in 1920_ (_All rights reserved_) PREFACE Most of this record of wanderings in wild parts of South Africa had been written and was ready for publication before the outbreak of war: and since then there has been a radical alteration in much of the country described; for, with the conquest of German South-West by General Botha, the Union Jack now floats over the huge tract of country between the lower Orange River, the twentieth degree of east longitude, Portuguese Angola, and the South Atlantic. As a result also of that campaign, new railway lines have come into being, and with the linking-up of the railway between Prieska, Upington, and the captured German system at Kalkfontein, the traveller to-day can ride in comfort in a saloon carriage from Cape Town to the farthest extremities of the conquered territory. And, incidentally, many of the wild spots I have described have been brought within easy reach. For instance, the lonely little police post at Nakob (described in the closing chapters, and the scene of the violation of Union territory by German troops) was, at the outbreak of war, separated by 250 miles of difficult, semi-desert country from the nearest British railway at Prieska. To-day the line runs close by where the post stood, and passes within sight of the hill in British territory the Germans then occupied.