| PART I |
| COLOMBIA |
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | Buenaventura to Cali and the Cauca Valley | 3 |
| II. | PopayÁn and the Cerro Munchique | 18 |
| III. | The Andes Southwest of PopayÁn; Cruise of the “Caldas” | 34 |
| IV. | Cartago to the Paramos of Ruiz and Santa Isabel | 47 |
| V. | The ChocÓ Country on the Western Coast of Colombia | 64 |
| VI. | In Quest of the Cock-of-the-Rock | 76 |
| VII. | Crossing the Eastern Andes into the CaquetÁ | 92 |
| VIII. | Across the Antioquian Gold-Fields to Puerto Valdivia on the Lower Cauca | 106 |
| IX. | Ascent of the Paramillo—Collecting on the Rio Sucio | 120 |
| PART II |
| VENEZUELA |
| X. | Fifteen Hundred Miles on the Orinoco | 141 |
| XI. | The Maquiritares’ Land and the Upper Orinoco | 162 |
| XII. | Life in the Guiana Wilds | 180 |
| XIII. | First Weeks with the Roosevelt South American Expedition | 194 |
| XIV. | Hunting Excursions Along the Upper Paraguay | 208 |
| XV. | A Forty Days’ Ride through Wildest Matto Grosso | 223 |
| XVI. | The Descent of the Rio Gy-ParanÁ | 240 |
| XVII. | Down the Coast of Peru—Lake Titicaca and La Paz—Through the Ancient Incan Empire to Cochabamba | 265 |
| XVIII. | Crossing the Bolivian Highlands from Cochabamba to the ChaparÉ | 279 |
| XIX. | Among the YuracarÉ Indians of the Rio ChimorÉ | 303 |
| XX. | The Cactus Forests of Central Bolivia—Cochabamba to Samaipata | 321 |
| XXI. | A Mule-Back Journey on the Santa Cruz Trail to Sucre | 336 |
| XXII. | Sucre, the Rio Pilcomayo, and the Upland Desert to the Argentine Frontier | 349 |
| XXIII. | Bird-Nesting in Northwestern Argentina | 365 |
| XXIV. | The Chaco—Sugar Plantations and Rice Marshes—A Search for a Rare Bird | 378 |
| XXV. | Vizcacha-Hunting in an Argentine Desert—Giant Snakes | 396 |
| XXVI. | The Lake Region of Western Argentina—the Heart of the Wine Country | 412 |
| Index | 425 |
