x CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



XIV. Hunting Excursions Along the Upper Paraguay 208 



XV. A Forty Days' Ride through Wildest Matto 



Grosso 223 



XVI. The Descent of the Rio Gy-Parana .... 240 



XVII. Down the Coast of Peru — Lake Titicaca and La 

 Paz — Through the Ancient Incan Empire to 

 cochabamba 265 



XVIII. Crossing the Bolivian Highlands from Cocha- 



BAMBA TO THE CHAPARE 279 



XIX. Among the Yuracare Indians of the Rio Chimore 303 

 XX. The Cactus Forests of Central Bolivia — Cocha- 



BAMBA TO SAMAIPATA 321 



XXI. A Mule-Back Journey on the Santa Cruz Trail 



to Sucre 336 



XXII. Sucre, the Rio Pilcomayo, and the Upland Desert 



to the Argentine Frontier 349 



XXIII. Bird-Nesting in Northwestern Argentina . . 365 



XXIV. The Chaco — Sugar Plantations and Rice Marshes 



— A Search for a Rare Bird 378 



xxv. vlzcacha-hunting in an argentine desert — 



Giant Snakes 396 



XXVI. The Lake Region of Western Argentina — the 



Heart of the Wine Country 412 



Index 425 



