Excerpt from Our South American Cousins Their respective populations are kindred cousins each to the other, in the great Race Family that is spread abroad over the globe. I have just returned from a friendly Visit among these South American Cousins of ours, and have recorded in the following pages what I have learned about them, and about their great country. The drapery of my illustrative facts, incidents, and pictures of real life Will be purely English, and not Spanish; so you may read audibly for the entertainment of your friends without fear of stumbling on foreign words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.