Читать книгу Children of South America онлайн
2 страница из 21
November 1915
FOREWORD
ssss1
My dear Young Friends,
This little book has been written expressly for you, to whom South America is an entirely new field. On this account I feel it is necessary to devote Chapter I. to the continent itself before proceeding to acquaint you with its youthful inhabitants.
I tender my grateful thanks to the South American Missionary Society, the Evangelical Union of South America, the Inland-South America Missionary Union, and the Bolivian Indian Mission for the help their publications have afforded me in trying to place before you something of the sorrows and intense need of South American childhood.
Yours, for South America,
(Mrs) KATHARINE A. HODGE
November 1915
CHILDREN OF
SOUTH AMERICA
CHAPTER I
A PEEP AT THE CONTINENT
ssss1
South America is a tremendous continent in the Western Hemisphere, and occupies one-eighth of the land surface of the world.
By looking at this chart you will get some little idea as to the size of it, by comparing it with other countries. South America, you will therefore see, is twice the size of Europe, three times the size of China, four times the size of India, and sixty times the size of our British Isles.