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Surubres River — Animals in Heliconia leaf bases — Otter — Rare drag- 

 onflies, larvae in sand — Trapiche — Charral, thorny plants — Wine 

 palm, pejibaye palm — Return ride — Orotina. 



Chapter XX. Guanacaste — Puntarenas to Liberia 402-442 



Commission to examine teachers — Termites indoors at Orotina — Ride to 

 Esparta — Railroad to Puntarenas — Town of Puntarenas — Gulf of 

 Nicoya — Collecting near Puntarenas — Steamboat "Cariari" — As- 

 cending the Rio Tempisque, Crabs' burrows, Mangroves, Egrets and 

 Crocodiles, Puerto Humo, Mud banks — Estero de Bolson — Puerto 

 Ballena — Ride to Filadelfia, open forest, howling monkeys, white- 

 faced monkeys — Filadelfia, marimba, dances — Journey to Liberia, 

 villages, country houses, crossing the Rio Tempisque, Llano Grande — 

 Town of Liberia, Schoolhouse, Cocoanuts, Quelite trees, White streets 

 — Rio Liberia — Spiders preying on dragonflies — Weeds and flowers — 

 A large grasshopper — ^Termites' nests — Papaya and tiste — Potter 

 wasps — Dragonflies in flocks — Quebrada de Panteon — Enormous pods 

 — Quebrada Clara — Jays — "Vegetable brain" — Examination of teach- 

 ers — Ride to Hacienda Guachipelin, Carretera Nacional, Rio Colorado 

 — Hacienda Guachipelin — Rincon de la Vieja — Collecting along the 

 roadside, grasshoppers — Northeast wind and rain — Solfataras of Cerro 

 Guachipelin — Von Seebach's ascent of Rincon de la Vieja — Venison — 

 Isolation of farm — Return to Liberia. 



Chapter XXL Guanacaste — Santa Cruz 443-474 



Journey to Filadelfia, Llano Grande — Filadelfia, Rio Tempisque — Ride 

 to Santa Cruz, collecting en route — Santa Cruz, Schoolhouse, water 

 supply, large roach, assassin bug — Rio Diria — Dragonfly flocks — 

 Cerro las Pilas — Large thorns — Phalangid swarm — Climbing the 

 Pllas — Abundance of lizards- — Bulls' horn thorn — Costa Rican dance 

 — Padre Velasco — Spearing catfish (barbudos) — Fiestas In Santa 

 Cruz, procession, bull fights, drinking— Panteon — Low temperature — 

 House of Rollo Jaen — Rare dragonflies in dry forests — Congo mon- 

 keys — Laguna Garzal, warm water — Collecting around the Laguna 

 Garzal — Santa Barbara de Santa Cruz — Excavating Indian graves, 

 artefacts — Drawing water from stream margins — Rio de las Canas — 

 Spoonbills and herons — Snail shells — Maps of Guanacaste — Ride to 

 Bolson — Pisote — Bolson, flood mark in house, schoolhouse, library 

 — Steamboat "Castro," voyage to Puntarenas — Porpoises and croco- 

 diles — Peculiarities of the Province of Guanacaste. 



Chapter XXII. Carthago Deleta Est 475-491 



Early record of earthquakes — Records of Instituto Fisico-Geografico — 

 Shocks of April 13, 1910 — Rumors and fantasies — Damage by shocks 



