| The cock-of-the-rock at home Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE |
| Buenaventura | 4 |
| Cattle grazing in the Cauca Valley | 14 |
| Port of Guanchito | 14 |
| Cerro Munchique | 30 |
| A deserted Indian hut on the Cerro Munchique | 30 |
| The Caldas fast on a sand-bar in the Cauca River | 44 |
| Bamboo rafts on the Cauca River | 44 |
| The town of Salento | 50 |
| The lake on the paramo of Santa Isabel | 58 |
| Snow on the paramo of Ruiz | 58 |
| Native of Juntas de TamanÁ with trail-haunting blacksnake | 68 |
| The author with natives of Juntas de TamanÁ | 68 |
| NÓvita, the largest town in the ChocÓ | 72 |
| Threshing wheat | 78 |
| Indian hut in the Valle de las Papas | 78 |
| The village of Santa Barbara | 86 |
| A corner of San Augustin | 86 |
| A mountain stream, such as the Rio Naranjos, where the cock-of-the-rock spends its existence | 88 |
| Tree-fern, typical of the Andean forests | 98 |
| The high, flat-topped panorama of the Andes | 102 |
| The town of Valdivia | 108 |
| The Cauca River at Puerto Valdivia | 108 |
| A naturalists’ camp in the forest | 116 |
| A native hunter with a red howling monkey | 116 |
| The porters en route to the Paramillo | 124 |
| CuÑa Indians at Dabeiba | 124 |
| Our camp on the Paramillo | 126 |
| Dabeiba on the Rio Sucio | 130 |
| The village of Maipures | 156 |
| The Hilo de Oro at the end of the voyage | 156 |
| A rubber-camp on the Upper Orinoco | 170 |
| Unloading for the portage, Raudal del Muerto | 172 |
| The Cerro Duida | 172 |
| Wismar on the Demerara River | 182 |
| Tumatumari on the Potaro River | 182 |
| Camp on the Rio Negro in the Gran Chaco of the Paraguay | 200 |
| Selling oranges in the market at Asuncion | 200 |
| A street in Buenos Aires | 204 |
| Porto Gallileo on the Rio Pilcomayo | 204 |
| Fort of Coimbra on the Rio Paraguay | 206 |
| S.S. Nyoac on the Paraguay River | 214 |
| CorumbÁ | 214 |
| Colonel Roosevelt in the Brazilian chapadÃo | |
