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iv In the last portion of this book, I have referred to the operations of Sheep-farming as it is at present carried on in South America, and the business of settlers, so as to enable persons to judge of the advantage of entering on those pursuits and settling there.

In the former part, I note down my voyage out, with its scenes and usual routine of occurrences, and then the incidents that I personally met with in the solitary “gallops” that I constantly made through the open “camp,” and crossing rivers, in a tract of country about eighty miles from north to south, by about seventy in width, during nearly a twelvemonth, besides a stay of some weeks in the cities of that country; and, I can truly say, I have a most happy recollection of the time I passed there.