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Excerpt from Trade and Travel in South America As I still believe that prefaces are more frequently passed over than read, this book has no preface, but it has a distinct object which will soon be manifest; and as facts, shipping, commercial and geographical, may be regarded by the majority of Britons as dry and uninteresting, I desire to so intermix those contained in this volume with the story of my travels round South America, and some of the stories one hears e72 voyage, that the facts, being food for the mind, may come as an agreeable and delightful solid after a light and pleasant entree. To ask you to credit all the yarns re-told would be to make too great a demand upon your credulity. Some are true, others you willjudge of, and all I trust will be found entertaining, tho' the keen wits of my readers may discover some fossils amongst them. The one great fact I have had seared into my mind as with a branding iron, in ajourney covering miles by sea and land, in intimate touch with the trade and commerce of a large and important continent, is. 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.