| [PART I] |
| COLOMBIA |
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | Buenaventura to Cali and the Cauca Valley | [3] |
| II. | Popayán and the Cerro Munchique | [18] |
| III. | The Andes Southwest of Popayán; Cruise of the “Caldas” | [34] |
| IV. | Cartago to the Paramos of Ruiz and Santa Isabel | [47] |
| V. | The Chocó Country on the Western Coast of Colombia | [64] |
| VI. | In Quest of the Cock-of-the-Rock | [76] |
| VII. | Crossing the Eastern Andes into the Caquetá | [92] |
| VIII. | Across the Antioquian Gold-Fields to Puerto Valdivia on the Lower Cauca | [106] |
| IX. | Ascent of the Paramillo—Collecting on the Rio Sucio | [120] |
| [PART II] |
| VENEZUELA |
| X. | Fifteen Hundred Miles on the Orinoco | [141] |
| XI. | The Maquiritares’ Land and the Upper Orinoco | [162] |
| XII. | Life in the Guiana Wilds | [180] |
| XIII. | First Weeks with the Roosevelt South American Expedition | [194] |
| XIV. | Hunting Excursions Along the Upper Paraguay | [208] |
| XV. | A Forty Days’ Ride through Wildest Matto Grosso | [223] |
| XVI. | The Descent of the Rio Gy-Paraná | [240] |
| XVII. | Down the Coast of Peru—Lake Titicaca and La Paz—Through the Ancient Incan Empire to Cochabamba | [265] |
| XVIII. | Crossing the Bolivian Highlands from Cochabamba to the Chaparé | [279] |
| XIX. | Among the Yuracaré Indians of the Rio Chimoré | [303] |
| XX. | The Cactus Forests of Central Bolivia—Cochabamba to Samaipata | [321] |
| XXI. | A Mule-Back Journey on the Santa Cruz Trail to Sucre | [336] |
| XXII. | Sucre, the Rio Pilcomayo, and the Upland Desert to the Argentine Frontier | [349] |
| XXIII. | Bird-Nesting in Northwestern Argentina | [365] |
| XXIV. | The Chaco—Sugar Plantations and Rice Marshes—A Search for a Rare Bird | [378] |
| XXV. | Vizcacha-Hunting in an Argentine Desert—Giant Snakes | [396] |
| XXVI. | The Lake Region of Western Argentina—the Heart of the Wine Country | [412] |
| | Index | [425] |