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| 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 |
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