PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I. THE DEPARTURE.
CHAPTER II. THE MORROS.
CHAPTER III. THE LLANOS.
CHAPTER IV. THE LLANEROS.
CHAPTER V. SCENES AT THE FISHERY.
CHAPTER VI. WILD HORSES.
CHAPTER VII. ACROSS THE PAMPAS.
CHAPTER VIII. LA PORTUGUESA.
CHAPTER IX. THE APURE RIVER.
CHAPTER X. SAVANNAS OF APURE.
CHAPTER XI. EL FRIO.
CHAPTER XII. BIRDS OF ILL OMEN AND CARRION HAWKS.
CHAPTER XIII. THE RODEO.
CHAPTER XIV. BRANDING SCENES.
CHAPTER XV. PLANTS AND SNAKES.
CHAPTER XVI. TIGER STORIES.
CHAPTER XVII. SHOOTING ADVENTURES.
CHAPTER XVIII. MATA TOTUMO.
CHAPTER XIX. MONKEY NOTIONS.
CHAPTER XX. AMONG THE CROCODILES.
CHAPTER XXI. THE CIMARRONERA.
CHAPTER XXII. LOS BORALES.
CHAPTER XXIII. OUR LEADER. THE ROMANCE OF A PATRIOT'S LIFE.
CHAPTER XXIV. SCENES AT THE PASS OF APURITO.
CHAPTER XXV. THE WONDERS OF THE RIVER.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE LAND OF EL DORADO.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE OIL-WELLS OF THE ORINOCO.
CHAPTER XXVIII. HOMEWARD BOUND.
CHAPTER XXIX. CALABOZO.
CONCLUSION.
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TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES
IN
SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA.
FIRST SERIES:
Image unavailable: Life in the Llanos of Venezuela.
BY
DON RAMON PAEZ.
“NIHIL ARDUUM MORTALIBUS.”
NEW YORK:
CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO., 654 BROADWAY.
1868.
“Oh! it is the land where brightest hues
Gild sunset skies and glow in morning dews
Where flowers the fairest ever seem to bloom,
Of the world’s empire, to adorn the tomb.
Where blandest breezes on elastic wing,
Gladness and vigor to the bosom bring;
Where hang at once, within thy sunny bowers,
On citron trees, the fruitage and the flowers;
Where hearts are ardent as the sun’s they feel,
And buoyant as the gales that o’er them steal;
Where maiden’s love as close, as sweet will twine,
As cling the tendrils of their native vine;
Where the deep lustre of soft beauty’s eye
Transcends the brightness of its own clear sky.”
Godfrey’s “Cordelia.”
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
RAMON PAEZ.
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
TO
MORRIS KETCHUM, ESQ.,
THE
KIND AND CONSTANT FRIEND
TO THE
EXILED AUTHOR.
