CONTENTS.

SUBJECT.	AUTHOR.	PAGE
New York, Washington, Chicago	Oliver H. G. Leigh	[5]
Winnipeg Lake and River	W. F. Butler	[21]
A Fine Scenic Route	Henry T. Finck	[31]
South Pass and Fremont’s Park	John C. Fremont	[42]
In the Yellowstone Park	Ferdinand V. Hayden	[49]
The Country of the Cliff-Dwellers	Alfred Terry Bacon	[58]
Lake Tahoe and the Big Trees	A. H. Tevis	[68]
The Chinese Quarter in San Francisco	Helen Hunt Jackson	[78]
Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley	Charles Loring Brace	[88]
A Sportsman’s Experience in Mexico	Sir Rose Lambert Price	[99]
The Scenery of the Mexican Lowlands	Felix L. Oswald	[108]
Among the Ruins of Yucatan	John L. Stephens	[119]
The Route of the Nicaragua Canal	Julius Froebel	[130]
The Destruction of San Salvador	Carl Scherzer	[137]
Scenes in Trinidad and Jamaica	James Anthony Froude	[145]
The High Woods of Trinidad	Charles Kingsley	[157]
Animals of British Guiana	C. Barrington Brown	[169]
Life and Scenery in Venezuela	Alexander von Humboldt	[179]
The Llaneros of Venezuela	Ramon Paez	[190]
The Forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers	Franz Keller	[200]
Canoe- and Camp-Life on the Madeira	Franz Keller	[212]
Besieged by Peccaries	James W. Wells	[219]
The Perils of Travel	Ida Pfeiffer	[232]
Brazilian Ants and Monkeys	Henry W. Bates	[240]
The Monarchs of the Andes	James Orton	[251]
Inca High-Roads and Bridges	E. George Squier	[261]