LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Frontispiece. | |
| We were just then passing through a plantation | Page [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.