CONTENTS PAGE I THE ROMANTIC PERIOD IN SOUTH AMERICA . . 3 II THE FIRST ENGLISH MARINERS TO SAIL THE SPANISH III THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH TRADE WITH SOUTH THE BRITISH IN COLONIAL SOUTH AMERICA V EARLY BRITISH ADVENTURES IN SPANISH AMERICA . 101 VI SOME EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH VOYAGES TO SOUTH AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . 116 e VII THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE RIVER PLATE . . 141 VIII BRITISH GUIANA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. 156 IX BRITISH FIGHTERS IN THE CAUSE OF SOUTH AMERI- CAN INDEPENDENCE (I) . . . . . . . . 163 X BRITISH FIGHTERS IN THE CAUSE OF SOUTH AMERI- CAN INDEPENDENCE (II) . . . . . . . 188 SOUTH AMERICA IN THE EARLY PART OF THE XII THE FIRST BRITISH RELATIONS WITH THE NEW REPUBLICS . . . . . . . . . . . 235 XIII EARLY TRAVELERS AND TRADERS IN THE REPUBLICS. 255 XIV THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL (I) . . . . . . . XV THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL (II) . . . . . . 281 XVIII THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL (V) . . . . . . 340 XIX THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL (VI) . . . . . . 364 SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY OBSERVERS XXI SOME BRITISH NATURALISTS IN SOUTH AMERICA . 39 XXII South AMERICA IN ENGLISH PRINT . . . . . 420 XXIII ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BRITISH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (I) . . . . . . . . . . 481 XXIV ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BRITISH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (II) . . . . . . . . . . 494 XXV ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BRITISH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (III) . . . . . . . . . . 512 XXVI TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW IN SOUTH AMERICA . . 525 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN WORKS . . . . . 555 BRITISH ARRIVALS IN THE RIVER PLATE AT THE BE- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS · A South American Home ....... Frontispiece FACING PAGE Sir John Hawkins . . . . . . . . . . . . Sir Francis Drake . . . . . . .. The Santos River in Brazil. . . . . . Old Fort at Mouth of Santos River, Brazil . . . . . 48 Island of Juan Fernandez . . . . . . . . . . 88 Valdivia, Chile (1836) . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Conference of President O'Higgins with the Indians . . 112 Ambrose O'Higgins . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Sir Home Riggs Popham . . . . . . . . . . 144 Lieutenant-General Whitelocke . . . . . . . . . 144 General San Martin . . . . . . . . . . . 168 General Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 An Early View of Valparaiso, Chile . . . . . . . 190 Plaza de la Independencia, Santiago, Chile (early XIXth century) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Araucanian Witch Doctors at Work . . . . . . . 218 An Early Raid by Araucanian Indians, Chile . . . . . 228 A British South American on His Rancho . . . . . 244 British South Americans .. 244 Crossing the Andes . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 South American Indian Encampment . . . . . . 276 Rio de Janeiro (1809) . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Landing Stage, Rio de Janeiro (early XIXth century). . 332 Public Gardens (1835) . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Sugar Loaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro . . . . . . . 372 Garibaldi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 General Rosas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 FAOIXO . 496 . South American Indians . . . . . . . . . . 412 508 Old Print of the Llama and Indians . . . . . . . 508 A Modern British South American Ship . . . . . . 516 Early Type of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Ship . . 516 Railroad Construction in South America . . . . . . 520 Forest Clearing in South America . . . . . . . . 520 Viaduct Construction in South America . . . . . 532 Bridge Construction in South America . . . . 532 Avenue Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro . . . . . . . 548 Street Scene in Rio de Janeiro . . . . . . . . . 548 The publishers acknowledge with thanks the courtesy of The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in supplying several of the above illustrations. |