Excerpt from Picturesque Paraguay, Sport, Pioneering, Travel: A Land of Promise, Stock-Raising, Plantation Industries, Forest Products, Commercial PossibilitiesA small portion of the subject-matter of this book has already been published in the columns of the Buenos Avres Standard, the leading English newspaper in the River Plate.As the country is quite unknown, I am giving a list of the most important commercial houses for the convenience of British manufacturers and trades people, who might easily push business in that part of the world, as they have already done in the Argentine Republic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.