CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. The Start i 



II. Up the Paraguay 38 



III. A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary 62 



IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 95 



V. Up the River of Tapirs 132 



VI. Through The Highland Wilderness of Western 



Brazil 167 



VII. With a Mule-Train Across Nhambiquara Land . . 203 



VIII. The River of Doubt 243 



IX. Dow^N AN Unknov^n River into the Equatorial 



Forest 282 



X. To THE Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geograph- 

 ical Results of the Expedition 321 



Appendices — 



A. The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field 

 Geographer in South America 343 



B. The Outfit for Travelling in the South 

 American Wilderness 353 



C. My Letter of May i to General Lauro 

 MuLLER 370 



Index 373 



