Throwing the Lasso.
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THE PAMPAS AND ANDES.
A
THOUSAND MILES’ WALK
ACROSS
SOUTH AMERICA.
BY
NATHANIEL H. BISHOP.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
EDWARD A. SAMUELS, Esq.,
AUTHOR OF “ORNITHOLOGY AND OÖLOGY OF NEW ENGLAND,”ETC., ETC.
THIRD EDITION, ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
LEE AND SHEPARD,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
No. 19 Spring Lane.
TO
PROFESSOR SPENCER F. BAIRD,
ASSISTANT SEC’Y OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
This Work is Dedicated,
AS A TOKEN OF SINCERE REGARD,
BY HIS FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE
TO THE SECOND EDITION
When, a few weeks since, I saw my little book of South American travelsissued from the press, I supposed that my connection with it had ended.My publishers now ask for a preface to a second edition. I take thisoccasion to express my thanks for the very kind manner in which myboyish descriptions of a boy’s travels have been received by the publicand the press. I can only wish that my book had been more worthy of theliberal patronage and the generous praise which have been bestowed uponit.
If I had followed my own inclinations, I should have given mynarrative a thorough revision, and thus have corrected some of thecrudeness of my first literary effort. To this revision, however, mypublishers objected, on the ground that it would raise the suspicionof genuineness as to these being the travelling observations[Pg 2] of a ladseventeen years of age, and impair also the freshness of the narrative.My book has therefore been given to the public with but slightalterations from the original draft.
I should have been glad to have made the story of my travels morefruitful in scientific results. But I had no instruments for makingaccurate observations, and had not the opportunity to preserveand transport many objects of natural history for comparison andverification. Such observations as I have made on topics relating tonatural history, during my wandering on the inhospitable Pampas ofSouth America, if they are superficial, I have sought to make them atleast truthful.
Nathaniel H. Bishop.
Oxycoccus Plantation,