xii Contents. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



PAGE 



The Spoonbills — Bread-fruit — Harpooning Fish — Epiden- 

 drums— Adventure with Hunter Snake — Legend of 

 the Gold Mines — Tailor-birds— Stalking Jaguars- 

 Arrival in Barranouilla 188 



CHAPTER XIV. 



On Board the Essequibo — Carthagena — Colon — Panama 



— Kingston, Jamaica— Haiti— Back to England . . 206 



