Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena

by J. A. Zahm

CONTENTS

CHAPTER						PAGE
I.	[Introductory]					1
II.	[Trinidad and the Orinoco]					54
III.	[The Great River]					82
IV.	[In Mid-Orinoquia]					112
V.	[El Rio Meta]					139
VI.	[Approaching the Andes]					165
VII.	[The Llanos of Colombia]					195
VIII.	[The Cordillera of the Andes]					228
IX.	[In Cloudland]					255
X.	[The Athens of SouthAmerica]					285
XI.	[The Muisca Trail]					313
XII.	[The Valley of theMagdalena]					346
XIII.	[In the Track of Plate-Fleets andBuccaneers]					377
XIV.	[The Rich Coast]					399
	[BIBLIOGRAPHY]					429
	[INDEX]					435

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• FACING PAGE
• [A cavalcade in the Andes] Frontispiece
• [On the Coast Range, Venezuela] 42
• [Scene on the Orinoco] 76
• [An Indian home on the Orinoco] 94
• [In the llanos of Venezuela] 122
• [Indians of Mid-Orinoquia] 122
• [Our crew ashore for fuel] 160
• [La Niñita, our launch, on the Upper Meta] 176
• [A traveler’s lodge in the llanos of Colombia] 204
• [A shelter on the banks of the Ocoa] 220
• [Our camp in the llanos] 220
• [Stopping for luncheon in the Lower Cordilleras] 240
• [Peons fording a river in the Andes] 262
• [A valley in the Cordilleras] 286
• [Road between Bogotá and Honda] 332
• [Champan going up the Magdalena] 354
• [A palm forest in the tropics] 372
• [Method of transporting freight between Honda and Bogotá] 414

Route Followed by Author.