LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Frontispiece] Lake Llanquihue, South Chile
[Maps] (at end of volume) Political Map of Chile
Railway Map of Chile
Facing page
Lake Todos los Santos[4]
Balmaceda Glacier[6]
Volcano San Pablo. Desert in Atacama Province. In Northern Antofagasta Province. The River Loa in the Dry Season[8]
In the Strait of Magellan[10]
Santa Lucia Hill, Santiago. Parque Forestal, Santiago. Municipal Offices, Santiago[12]
Viña del Mar, Valparaiso’s Residential Suburb. Valparaiso Street, Viña del Mar. Race Course, Viña del Mar. Mira-Mar Beach, Viña del Mar[18]
Reproductions from Gay’s “History of Chile”: Más a Tierra (Juan Fernández Group) Island in the 18th Century. Capturing Condors in the Chilean Andes. O’Higgins’ Parliament with the Araucanian Indians, March, 1793. Guanacos on the Edge of Laja Lake[42]
In the Chilean Andes. A Chilean Glacier, Central Region. Rio Blanco Valley, above Los Andes[52]
San Juan Bautista, Village of Cumberland Bay, Más a Tierra Island (Juan Fernández Group), 400 Miles West of Valparaiso. The Plain of Calavera, Chilean Andes[66]
Last Hope Inlet (Ultima Esperanza). Channel in the Territory of Magellanes[94]
Balmaceda Glacier, South Chile. In Smyth Channel, heading North from Magellan Strait[124]
The Nitrate Pampa: Opening up Trench after Blasting. General View of Nitrate and Iodine Plant[152]
Antofagasta. The Nitrate Wharves[174]
Sewell Camp at Night. Sewell (El Teniente Copper Mines) near Rancagua[178]
Sewell in the Snows of June. Railway between Rancagua and El Teniente[182]
Curanilahue Coal Mine, Arauco Province. Dulcinea Copper Mine, Copiapó Province. Chuquicamata Copper Mines, Antofagasta Province[196]
At Constitución, South of Santiago. San Cristobal Hill and Parque Forestal, Santiago. Malleco Bridge, near Collipulli[228]
The Post Office, Santiago. Santiago, with the Snow-capped Andes in the Eastern Distance. Subercaseaux Palace, Santiago[242]
On the Chilean Transandine Railway. Laguna del Portillo: near the Transandine line. Santa Rosa de los Andes, Chilean Terminus of the Transandine Railway[256]
Coquimbo, the “Capital of North Chile.” Ancud, the Port of Chiloé Island. Zapallar, a beautiful Chilean Watering Place[260]
Taltal, a Nitrate Port of North Chile. Puerto Corral, the Port of Valdivia, South Chile[264]
Valdivia, a Flourishing New Southern City. Punta Arenas, the Southernmost City in the World. Puerto Varas, facing Calbuco Volcano, Lake Llanquihue[292]
Araucanian Indian, spinning. Note the solid wooden wheel of the country cart. Araucanian Mother and Child. The hide-and-wood cradle is slung upon the woman’s back when she goes outside the hut[318]

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