ILLUSTRATIONS 



The cock-of-the-rock at home Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



Buenaventura -v 



Cattle grazing in the Cauca Valley 14 



Port of Guanchito 14 



Cerro Munchique ........... 30 



A deserted Indian hut on the Cerro Munchique 30 



The CcMas fast on a sand-bar hi the Cauca River ....... 44 



Bamboo rafts on the Cauca River . , , , , . . ,*.* * 44 



The town of Salento . -. . . . . . +, .;& .- . ', ' * ... ,-,%. 50 



The lake on the paramo of Santa Isabel 58 



Snow on the paramo of Ruiz . : . . ' . . . .. .. . ., . ^ . . . 58 



Native of Juntas de Tamana with trail-haunting blacksnake .... 68 



The author with natives of Juntas de Tamana 68 



Novita, the largest town in the Choco . ,, . . . . .... 72 



Threshing wheat . * -*- <'i *.':*; t. , , . ^8 



Indian hut in the Valle de las Papas 78 



The village of Santa Barbara 86 



A corner of San Augustin 86 



A mountain stream, such as the Rio Naranjos, where the cock-of-the- 

 rock spends its existence 88 



Tree-fern, typical of the Andean forests 98 



The high, flat-topped panorama of the Andes 102 



The town of Valdivia 108 



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