------------------------------------------------------------------------ CROWELL’S TRAVEL BOOKS =RAMBLES IN SPAIN.= By JOHN D. FITZGERALD. Map and 135 illustrations. 8vo, $3.00 net. (Postage, 30 cents.) =SWITZERLAND.= Its Scenery, History, and Literary Associations. By OSCAR KUHNS. Map and 32 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.) =A MEXICAN JOURNEY.= By E. H. BLICHFELDT. Map and 32 illustrations, 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.) =THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA.= By H. W. VAN DYKE. Introduction by Hon. John Barrett. Map and 32 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.) =CHOSEN DAYS IN SCOTLAND.= By JOSEPHINE HELENA SHORT. Map and 32 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.) =FROM GRETNA GREEN TO LAND’S END.= By KATHARINE LEE BATES. 32 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.) =GEORGE ELIOT.= Scenes and People in her Novels. By CHARLES S. OLCOTT. 24 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.) =OBERAMMERGAU.= By JOSEPHINE HELENA SHORT. 32 illustrations. 12mo, $1.00 net. (Postage, 10 cents.) THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY [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.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA BY HARRY WESTON VAN DYKE WITH INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BARRETT DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY. _Published October, 1912._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY FRIEND JOHN BARRETT IN TOKEN OF MY ESTEEM AND MY APPRECIATION OF HIS MANY KINDNESSES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION BY HON. JOHN BARRETT, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION AND FORMERLY UNITED STATES MINISTER TO ARGENTINA, PANAMA, AND COLOMBIA