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ADVENTURES IN BOLIVIA

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ADVENTURES
IN  BOLIVIA

BY   C.  H.    PRODGERS  ::  ::  ::
WITH      AN       INTRODUCTION     BY
R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM
ILLUSTRATED  FROM  THE  AUTHOR’S
ORIGINAL SKETCHES AND PHOTOGRAPHS

JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.
LONDON        ::       ::       ::    MCMXXII
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Printed in Great Britain by Ebenezer Baylis & Son, Trinity Works,Worcester.

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PREFACE

TO RIDERS IN HIGH (AND LOWER) ALTITUDES

This book, that exudes sincerity, just as a pine tree drops its rosin,serves a double purpose. It reveals a curious personality that mighthave stepped straight from the pages of Purchas or of Hakluyt, and atthe same time, all unknown to the writer, helps to dispel some of themist of ignorance and prejudice that for so long has hung over the livesand actions of the Spanish Conquerors.

Judged by an alien Tribunal, brought before the bar of an opinionadverse to them by religion, race and interest, they have been vilifiedbefore the world with scarce a word raised in their defence. To-daytheir exploits are judged upon their merits. The ancient jealousy, thatgave Gondomar the right to brand even the great Sir Walter Raleigh{vi} withthe stigma of “Pirata,” has long died down. We know that our own withersare not quite unerring. Thus, by degrees and in the hard school ofexperience, we are learning not to condemn men who acted by thestandards of their age by our own code. Take both codes away, and dropme an impartial judge down from the moon, he might not find much realdifference between the Spaniards of the age of Charles V and ourselves,the sons of progress and of light. Still, there are fellows of the basersort, your piffling traveller with his bad jokes, contempt of anythingnot forged upon his Peckham anvil, or registered so many degrees north,east or west from the meridian of Balham, with clichés from old books asif the course of time changed nothing, and no fresh matt

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