CONTENTS 



PART I 

 COLOMBIA 



CHAPTER PAOB 



I. Buenaventura to Cali and the Cauca Valley . 3 



II. PoPAYAN AND THE CERRO MuNCHIQUE .... 18 



III. The Andes Southwest of Popayan; Cruise of 



the "Caldas" 34 



IV. Cartago to the Paramos of Ruiz and Santa Isabel 47 



V. The Choco Country on the Western Coast of 



Colombia 64 



VI. In Quest of the Cock-of-the-Rock .... 76 



VII. Crossing the Eastern Andes into the Caqueta 92 



VIII. Across the Antioquian Gold-Fields to Puerto 



Valdivia on the Lower Cauca 106 



IX. Ascent of the Paramillo — Collecting on the Rio 



Sucio 120 



PART II 

 VENEZUELA 

 X. Fifteen Hundred Miles on the Orinoco . . . 141 

 XI. The Maquiritares' Land and the Upper Orinoco 162 

 XII. Life in the Guiana Wilds 180 



XIII. First Weeks with the Roosevelt South American 



Expedition 194 



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