CONTENTS

[PART I]
COLOMBIA
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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]