Excerpt from Rambles After Sport: Or, Travels and Adventures in the Americas and at Home Of that portion Which touches on travel in South America I Wish to say a few words. I had at first Wished to extend the articles I wrote to the Field (from Which the chapters in this book are condensed) to such a length as should give my readers a pretty fair idea of the capabilities and resources of Chile and Peru. But in commencing my task I found that my three or four years' residence in those countries had been quite insufficient for the purpose. I have, therefore, preferred. 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.