Gaspar the Gaucho, by Mayne Reid

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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

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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 roman

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