326 AN OUTLINE OF OUR NEXT JOURNEY. 



of the Incas, looking down on the Pacific shores ; and then, 

 again descending from the mountain heights, take a brief 

 glance at the debased human beings who people the valley, 

 and pass in review the more interesting of the countless wild 

 creatures which inhaljit its forests and waters. Afterwards 

 we will traverse A^enezuela, Guiana, the rest of the Brazils, 

 and the wide-spreading level regions to the south of that vast 

 country, the river-bound province of Paraguay, the territories 

 of the Argentine Republic, the wild district of the Gi^an Chaco, 

 the far-famed Pampas, and the plains of Patagonia. 



