TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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List of Illustrations xv 



Chapter I. Puerto Lim6n 1-7 



Arrival at Limon — Plaza — Streets and buildings — Vultures — Banana 

 trade, handling of fruit — Railways out of Limon — Jamaican negroes — 

 Hospital — Coral reefs — Crabs — Swampy shores — Rainfall. 



Chapter IL Costa Rican Topography and Railroads 8-23 



Mountain groups, chief Cordilleras — River systems — Rainfall of At- 

 lantic and Pacific Slopes — Costa Rica and Northern Railways, sta- 

 tions and elevations — Railroad equipment — Routes into the interior — 

 Banana country — Pineapple station — Outlook on Reventazon valley 

 — Over the Continental Divide — San Jose and Alajuela — The Pacific 

 Railroad, stations and elevations — Guanacaste trees — Rio Grande de 

 Tarcoles — An odd meal station — Slides at Las Lapas — Collecting from 

 the train. 



Chapter IIL San Jose 24-3 1 



San Jose in 1840 — In 1910 — Plan of city, transportation — Public build- 

 ings in different quarters — Method of selling postage stamps — Schools 

 — National Museum — Instituto Fisico-Geografico — Girls' College — 

 Liceo — Brade's garden. 



Chapter IV. The Town of Cartago and Its Life 32-53 



Cartago our Headquarters — Situation and Plan of town — Houses, 

 streets, water-supply — Transportation, ox-carts — Hotel de Cartago — 

 Food, vegetables, fruits, milk, butter, cheese — Market — Tortillas and 

 piedras — Plaza — Central American Court of Justice, "Peace Palace" 

 — Districts of Cartago — Churches, San Francisco, a Turno General — 

 Nuestra Seiiora de los Angeles and its shrine — Cemetery — Religious 

 festivals of Holy Week, Corpus Christi, Christmas — Secular celebra- 

 tions — Presidential elections of 1909. 



Chapter V. Natural History Work in Cartago S4-89 



Rearing of Odonata (Dragonflies) — Food of the larvae in captivity — 

 Blood-worms — Cartago dragonflies of special interest — Moths and 

 beetles attracted to the electric lights — Squirrels, armadillos — The 

 common town sparrow, familiar birds — Vultures, the black vulture 

 bathing — The lanes in the southern border of Cartago — Color changes 

 in a tree-frog — "Shady Lane" and its changes throughout the year — 



