Men, in South America BY J. O. P. BLAND ILLUSTRATED JLONDON WILLIAM
HEINEMANW IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG PARALSO Frontispiece. CONTENTS
CHAP - PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY ...., . x II. OUTWARD BOUND, . ., . .13
III. RIO AND PETROPOLIS -...., 41 IV. POLITICS EN PASSANT ...... 60
V, IN AND ABOUT SAO PAULO ..... 68 VI. BUENOS AIRES ....... 93 vii.
UP THE PARANA A GLIMPSE OF THE CHACO AUSTRAL 117 VIII. THE
DELECTABLE CITY OF ASUN9ION . . .141 IX. ASUNCION TO MONTEVIDEO
OVERLAND . . 166 x. URUGUAY SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE ART OF
GOVERNMENT . . . . . .185 XI. CHIEFLY ABOUT WOMAN ..... 2O2 XII.
MONTEVIDEO . . . . . .217 XIII. ESTANCIA LIFE IN URUGUAY .... 234
XIV. THE SON OF THE SOIL ..... 258 XV. TRIBES ON OUR FRONTIERS 285
INDEX . . . - . . . . 3IZ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Facin IN THE SHADE
OF THE BIG PARAISO . Frontispiece SUNSET OVER RIO BAY ...... 40 IN
RIO HARBOUR ....... 48 A TURCO PEDLAR ....... 64 A HAWKER OF
BRUSHES AND BROOMS, RIO ... 64 RUFFO, THE SHEEP-SHEARER ...... 64 A
PEDLAR OF TIN AND IRON WARE . . . .64 A PICNIC IN THE WOODS . - . -
.76 THE PLAZA CONGRESS, BUENOS AIRES .... 96 A CARNE CON CUERRO
ARGENTINA . 1 1 6 CORRIENTES ARGENTINA SEEN FROM THE RIVER . . 126
THE WHARF AT ASUNCION, PARAGUAY . . . .142 THE CIO Y HALL, ASUNCION
...... I4 2 CROSSING A, RIVER IN THE DRY SEASON, URUGUAY . . 1 66
VIEW NEAR COLONIA, URUGUAY ..... l86 A MODEL EStlANCIA HORSES AT
PASTURE, c CANTA FIERO 212 A MODEL ESTANCIA A RIVERSIDE POTRERO,
CANTA FIERO 212 A MODEL ESTANCIA HEREFORD CATTLE AT CANTA FIERO 234
THE ESTANCIA UP-TO-DATE I f LOS CORALES, RAFAELO, SANTA FE,
ARGENTINA . 2 34 A LAGUNA OF THE MACIEL 2 4 viii LIST OF
ILLUSTRATIONS Facing page LOADING THE WOOL CLIP ...... 244 THE
CAPATAZ . . . . . . ..250 BENITA ......... 250 LUNCHEON TIME AT THE
BRETE . 260 PLOUGHING UP ESPARTILLO 5 CAMP . 260 A LAGUNA ON THE
SAN SALVADOR . 266 GAUCHOS AT DRABBLE STATION, CENTRAL URUGUAY .
280 PANTALEON A PEON ...... 280 -..., 288 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
HAVING regard to the present parlous price of paper and to the
patience of much-suffering readers, the perpetration of yet another
book on South America might appear at the outset to call for some
explanation, if not for apology. The list of books published under
this heading in recent years is indeed so formidable that the world
may well be weary of it. From the library catalogue point of view,
the subject might well seem to have been exhausted, every part of
the continent having been ransacked and described, all its words
and works recorded. Yet, how few there be amongst all these works
as some of us know to our cost that properly and worthily inculcate
the profitable exercise of travel, or that appeal to and justify
the wandering instinct of rational man Say what you will, the great
majority of them are so dreadfully infected with stodgy
commercialism, so monumentally useful, that their general effect
upon the mind unless it be the mind of a bagman can only be
compared to a surfeit of suet pudding. Here and there only, rari
nantes, amidst all these dreary volumes, will you find the sort of
company for which the Lord of Montaigne looked alas, how oft in
vain in all his journeyings that rare chance and seld-seene
fortune, but of exceeding solace and inestimable worth to wit, an
honest man, of singular experience, of a sound judgment and of
manners conformable to yours, which company a man must seek with
discretion and with great heed obtaine, before he wander from home
ay, even in B 2 MEN, MANNERS AND MORALS the spirit...
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