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THE author of this posthumous work was a descendant of the earliest New England colonists. Born in 1835, he became a surveying engineer, and his first introduction to South America was of a kind sufficient to shape his whole career. As a member of an expedition sent out by the Government of Buenos Aires in 1859 to explore the south-western frontiers, he partook of severe fighting with the then still unsubdued Araucanians and Patagones. Then he served through the whole of the Civil War in the United States, and next he joined the General Staff of Juarez against Maximilian. After that episode we find him in Bolivia, which he reached once by Buenos Aires, another time by Peru, busy with concessions of the navigation of Bolivian and Brazilian rivers. A political mission to Ecuador, the building of an Argentine railway, business in Panama, Costa Rica, and elsewhere afforded him well-nigh unrivalled opportunities of studying land and peoples of South America before he settled down in London, where he devoted much time to his favourite geographical and ethnological studies.
Aborigines of South America.
By the late Colonel G. E. Church: Edited by an Old Friend, Clements R. Markham, K.C.B. Pp. xix + 314. (London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1912.) Price 10S. 6d. net.
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Aborigines of South America . Nature 92, 1 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092001a0
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