Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena

by J. A. Zahm

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• FACING PAGE
• [A cavalcade in the Andes] Frontispiece
• [On the Coast Range, Venezuela] 42
• [Scene on the Orinoco] 76
• [An Indian home on the Orinoco] 94
• [In the llanos of Venezuela] 122
• [Indians of Mid-Orinoquia] 122
• [Our crew ashore for fuel] 160
• [La Niñita, our launch, on the Upper Meta] 176
• [A traveler’s lodge in the llanos of Colombia] 204
• [A shelter on the banks of the Ocoa] 220
• [Our camp in the llanos] 220
• [Stopping for luncheon in the Lower Cordilleras] 240
• [Peons fording a river in the Andes] 262
• [A valley in the Cordilleras] 286
• [Road between Bogotá and Honda] 332
• [Champan going up the Magdalena] 354
• [A palm forest in the tropics] 372
• [Method of transporting freight between Honda and Bogotá] 414

Route Followed by Author.

UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY