British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . New Granada, Equador, Peru, and Chile. This book isprimarily concerned with the etymology, lore, rock-sculp-ture, arts, and customs of the Incas and Chibchas. Butbeyond this its unusually wide scope of subjects includesa survey of the modern Indian tribes of the north of thecontinent; travels from the northernmost coast to CapeHorn and the Magellan Straits, a useful gazetteer ofmany districts, a study of the conditions of mining andother indu
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . New Granada, Equador, Peru, and Chile. This book isprimarily concerned with the etymology, lore, rock-sculp-ture, arts, and customs of the Incas and Chibchas. Butbeyond this its unusually wide scope of subjects includesa survey of the modern Indian tribes of the north of thecontinent; travels from the northernmost coast to CapeHorn and the Magellan Straits, a useful gazetteer ofmany districts, a study of the conditions of mining andother industries, and the records of some pioneer survey-ing carried out in Tarapaca. In the 1860s, when the commercial possibilities of thecountries of the river Plate were becoming evident, a con-siderable number of volumes were issued on this subject. A most prolific writer of this period was Thomas , who, in his Journey through the SaladoValley, covers most subjects from farms to fortifica-tions, and whose portrait is presented in another of hisworks—Two Years in Peru—as an Inca monarchcrowned with the imperial llauta—and this notwith-. SOUTH AMERICA IN ENGLISH PRINT 473 standing his spreading beard, of which hirsute appendagethe Incas were entirely innocent! A most instructive volume of this authors, publishedin 1865, is Buenos Aires and Argentine Gleanings,which describes in great, and frequently picturesque, de-tail the life, landscape, and industries of Argentina asthey were at that date. Important though this contribution was to the contem-porary knowledge of the southeastern portion of the con-tinent, it was outweighed in many respects in the follow-ing year by Wilfred Lathams The States of the RiverPlate. Mr. Latham does not write as a traveler; hisgraphic descriptions are those of a land which he hadmade his home. When he describes the Campo, it is asa practical camp man, part of whose every-day life itwas to ride side by side with the Gauchos. As an experti
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