Excerpt from Travels Through South American With the Children
In this book the children are taken by the author upon a personally conducted tour through the most characteristic parts of the South American continent. Leaving New York, they sail through the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea to the Isthmus of Panama. Here they cross over to the Pacific, and travel along the west coast, visiting all the different countries and learning about their civilization and industries.
They climb the Andes; they explore the highlands of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and steam over Lake Titicaca. They travel extensively upon the great coast desert, visit the wheat and fruit lands of Chile, and then make their way about through the Strait of Magellan into the Atlantic.
They go along the Atlantic coast, through Patagonia, into the pastures and pampas of Argentina, and sail on the Parana and Paraguay rivers for thousands of miles into the heart of the continent.
Returning through the Rio de la Plata, they make their way along the coast of Brazil to the mouth of the Amazon. They explore the wilds of the great Amazon valley, and then go on into Venezuela to the Orinoco river, down which they sail into the Atlantic, and close their tour with travels in Dutch, French, and English Guiana.
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