TAILIEUCHUNG - ARGENTINA FROM A BRITISH POINT OF VIEW AND NOTES ON ARGENTINE LIFE

ARGENTINA FROM A BRITISH POINT OF VIEW AND NOTES ON ARGENTINE LIFE. With Photographs and Diagrams. EDITED BY CAMPBELL P. OGILVIE. LONDON: WERTHEIMER, LEA & CO., CLIFTON HOUSE, WORSHIP STREET, 1910. DEDICATED To all THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE SANTA FÉ LAND COMPANY, LIMITED, who take a real interest in the Company. .PREFACE. In May last I was asked to read, towards the end of the year, a paper on Argentina, before the Royal Society of Arts. The task of compiling that paper was one of absorbing interest to me; and though I fully realise how inadequately I have dealt with so interesting a subject, I. | ARGENTINA FROM A BRITISH POINT OF VIEW AND NOTES ON ARGENTINE LIFE. With Photographs and Diagrams. EDITED BY CAMPBELL P. OGILVIE. LONDON WERTHEIMER LEA CO. CLIFTON HOUSE WORSHIP STREET 1910. DEDICATED To all THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE SANTA FÉ LAND COMPANY LIMITED who take a real interest in the Company. PREFACE. In May last I was asked to read towards the end of the year a paper on Argentina before the Royal Society of Arts. The task of compiling that paper was one of absorbing interest to me and though I fully realise how inadequately I have dealt with so interesting a subject I venture to think that the facts and figures which the paper contains may be of interest to some at any rate of the Shareholders of the Santa Fé Land Company. It is upon this supposition that it is published. Whilst I was obtaining the latest information for the paper which was read before the Royal Society of Arts on November 30th 1910 several members of the staff of the Santa Fé Land Company aided me by writing some useful and interesting notes on subjects connected with Argentina and also giving various experiences which they had undergone whilst resident there. I am indebted to the writers for many hints on life in Argentina and as I think that others will find the reading of the notes as engaging as I did they are now reproduced just as I received them and incorporated with my own paper in a book of which they form by no means the least interesting part. The final portion of the book Leaves from a journal entitled The Tacuru is written in a lighter vein. It describes a trip through some of the Northern lands of the Santa Fé Land Company and it is included because although frankly humorous it contains much really useful information and many capital illustrations I should however mention that this journal was written by members of the expedition and was originally intended solely for their own private edification and amusement therefore all the happier phases of the trip are noted but

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