Excerpt from South America: A Supplementary Geography<br><br>In the city of Washington, District of Columbia, there stands a beautiful building of white marble. This is the home of the Pan American Union, an organization that represents twenty-one American re publics and has for its purpose the furthering of their mutual knowledge, interest and helpfulness. Under the leadership of Director General John Barrett, the great work of bringing these countries into more sympathetic relations is going-steadily forward.<br><br>As one means of realizing its purpose, the Pan American Union publishes an illustrated monthly magazine descriptive of all the Central and South American countries, and it issues numerous reports Showing their progress and development. It is, in short, a great international bureau of information, where everybody can have questions answered in regard to the countries lying south of the United States as well as about the United States itself, and it will always welcome inquiries from the school children of the United States.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.