A Tour Through South America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Early Adventurers and Discoveries	17
II.	The Sighting of the Pacific	26
III.	The Buccaneers	34
IV.	On the Way to the Southern Continent	48
V.	Of the Labourers on the Isthmus	60
VI.	Canal Projects: Old and New	72
VII.	Panama	97
VIII.	The Panamanians	104
IX.	Colombia and Cartagena	117
X.	Ecuador	127
XI.	“The City of the Kings”	131
XII.	Peru—“The Country of Marvels”	138
XIII.	“The Gateway to an Imprisoned Land”	149
XIV.	“The Land of Nitrates”	157
XV.	Argentina	167
XVI.	The Camp	180
XVII.	A Live Industry	197
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