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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gaspar the Gaucho, by Mayne Reid This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Author: Mayne Reid Illustrator: F.C. Tilney Release Date: November 28, 2007 [EBook #23648] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GASPAR THE GAUCHO *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England Gaspar the Gaucho, by Captain Mayne Reid. ________________________________________________________________________ This is another excellent book by the inventor of the Wild West genre. Set in South America, in Paraguay, the hero and his band of friends have many an adventure, just in the course of one voyage, or undertaking. They frequently get themselves into dangerous and risky situations, but always by their superior bush-craft manage to get themselves out of them after having practically died, or at least having seen their horses die. This is a good book, a vintage one from the Victorian era. The author learnt his bushcraft during the American-Mexican War, and has given us several books whose subject and manner arose from what he learnt in that war. ________________________________________________________________________ GASPAR THE GAUCHO, BY CAPTAIN MAYNE REID. CHAPTER ONE. THE GRAN CHACO. Spread before you a map of South America. Fix your eye on the point of confluence between two of its great rivers--the Salado, which runs south-easterly from the Andes mountains, and the Parana coming from the north; carry your glance up the former to the town of Salta, in the ancient province of Tucuman; do likewise with the latter to the point where it espouses the Paraguay; then up this to the Brazilian frontier fort of Coimbra; finally draw a line from the fort to the aforementioned town--a line slightly curved with its convexity towards the Cordillera of the Andes--and you will thus have traced a boundary embracing one of the least known, yet most interesting, tracts of territory in either continent of America, or, for that matter, in the world. Within the limits detailed lies a region romantic in its past as mysterious in its present; at this hour almost as muc
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