LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Frontispiece.
We were just then passing through a plantationPage [28]
At last, lagging a little, our party reached the foot of the mountains[44]
The basket and its bearer chased one another down the hill[50]
Almost immediately the foliage was pushed aside[56]
On hearing the uproar two Indian women came running towards us[65]
Behind us opened a dark, narrow ravine, with perpendicular sides[74]
We now entered one of those glades[82]
It was really a capital dinner[101]
The dog began to howl desperately[114]
A flock of vultures attracted our attention[121]
Lucien loudly called out to me[126]
Sumichrast halted near three gigantic stones[146]
A labyrinth of rocks brought us out in front of a stony rampart more than a hundred feet in height[152]
Sunset surprised us ere we had finished our labor[156]
A shrub kept him from falling into the gulf[169]
The cataract[174]
Fall of Ingénio (from a drawing by the Marquis of Radepoint)[177]
A tiger-cat bounded forward and seized the pheasant[191]
The kite avoided the shock, and continued to rise in the air.[202]
It looked like an immense pedestal, surmounted by two bronze statues[210]
Above us, the trees crossed their branches[218]
Then Sumichrast slid down the cord to the tree[223]
I then ordered the Indian to light the fire[227]
The wildest dreams could not picture a stranger style of architecture[241]
Five or six skulls seemed to glare at me through their empty orbits[245]
Crater of Popocatepetl[249]
Our two scouts climbed some enormous heaps of rocks[262]
The animal continued to retreat before him, and led him to the mouth of a cave[266]
They were at once saluted by a platoon fire[273]
I at once recognized the black sugar-cane snake[279]
Following in Indian file, we ascended the course of the stream[287]
The rocks came rolling down; dashing together under the impulse of a liquid avalanche[291]
L'Encuerado set to work to plait us hats[295]
I used to go iguana hunting with my brothers[301]
The moon rose, and rendered the illusion more striking[307]
The sand rose rapidly, whirling round and round[314]
Everywhere the cactus might be seen assuming twenty different shapes[318]
The water disappeared under a low arch[341]
Four children appeared[346]
An animal came tumbling down about ten paces from us[358]
The sun was just setting[362]
L'Encuerado was pressing his arm and uttering cries of pain[365]
The Terre-Chaude was stretched out at my feet[373]
And the Indian went away, saluting[379]
I threw a stone at the beast[383]
There was a whole tribe of monkeys frolicking about[397]
I looked in vain for the cougar[403]
L'Encuerado turned three somersets[407]
It stood up on its hind legs[417]
The bank to the right was covered with cranes, and that to the left with spoonbills[422]
The head and bright eyes of a superb jaguar appeared about fifty paces from us[426]
We now came upon some creeping plants[430]
The monkey slid down, and fell dead at our feet[435]
In front of us opened a glade, bordered by tall palm-trees[442]
A band of peccaries were pursuing us[447]
The banks of the river were covered with alligators[454]
The Indian and his branch descended with a splash into the river[458]
The entire drove dashed at full gallop into the stream[461]
The reeds were pushed aside[468]
The deer sank down under the weight of a puma[472]
While the moon dimly lighted up the landscape.[475]
Lucien began to repeat to the parrots the names of Hortense and Emile[479]
We had to cross some muddy marshes[486]

Also numerous Woodcuts embodied in, and illustrative of, the text.