CONTENTS. xvii 



PAXI BY DR. W, REISS — OTHER ASCENTS — ON ILLINIZA — PERPETUAL MISTS — WE 

 ENCAMP AT 15,207 FEET — GLACIERS ON ILLINIZA — TUFTED SNOW-CORNICES — 

 DEFEATED — WEATHER IN THE INTERIOR OF ECUADOR . . PageS 120-135 



CHAPTER VII. 

 THE ASCENT OF COTOPAXI, AND A NIGHT ON THE SUMMIT. 



START FOR COTOPAXI BY FREIHERR VON THIELMANN's ROUTE — PEDREGAL — ABUND- 

 ANCE OF BEETLES ON THE PLAIN OF LIMPIOPONGO — COLPODES — BOMBS THROWN 

 OUT BY COTOPAXI — WE CAMP AT 15,130 FEET — CULINARY TROUBLES — THE 

 YANASACHE LAVA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS — ON VOLCANIC "ASH," DUSTS, SANDS, 

 AND LAPILLI — THE INSINUATING NATURE OF VOLCANIC DUST — DESCRIPTIONS 

 BY PROF. T. G. BONNEY — THE WORSHIP OF THE CROSS — NATIVE ATTIRE — SHOES 

 OF STRING — PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASCENT — FLORA OF THE CONE — THE START 

 — CUMUIiUS CLOUD SEEN 23,000 FEET HIGH — GLACIERS ON COTOPAXI — ARRIVE AT 

 THE TERMINAL SLOPE OF ASH — THE PREVALENT WINDS — REACH THE EDGE OF 

 THE CRATER AND GO PARTLY ROUND IT — ENCAMP AT 19,500 FEET — WARMTH 

 OF THE CONE — COLDNESS OF THE AIR — A NIGHT ON THE SUMMIT — ARE WE 

 "habituated"? — INSPECTION OF THE CRATER BY NIGHT — PERIODICAL STEAM- 

 blasts — description of the crater — "there was fire below " — a great 

 safety-valve — the height of cotopaxi — descent to pedregal — some more 

 "treasures"! ....... 136-156 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE FIRST ASCENT OF SINCHOLAGUA. 



A SEVERELY SCIENTIFIC ASCENT — THE OLD STYLE — GIANTS WANTED — SINCHOLAGUA 

 — CROSS THE RIO PITA — DECEITFUL GROUND — WARM SPRINGS — MANNER OF 

 APPROACH TO THE SUMMIT — BEATEN BACK — THUNDER AND LIGHTNING — 

 STEEPNESS OF THE IMMEDIATE SUMMIT — DEPARTURE FROM MACHACHI AND 

 ARRIVAL AT QUITO ....... 157-166 



CHAPTER IX. 



ON QUITO AND THE QUITONIANS. 



THE BASIN OF QUITO — POPULATION OF THE CITY — QUEBRADAS — WATER AND 



WATER - CARRIERS THE PANECILLO — MANNERS AND CUSTOMS AT QUITO — A 



TRUCULENT INNKEEPER — ON HEAD - GEAR AND HATS — INTERVIEW WITH THE 

 PRESIDENT — HOW GENERAL VEINTEMILLA CAME INTO POWER — HISTORY — 

 GARCIA MORENO — DEMONSTRATIONS — A PROMISING PEOPLE — MANANA — ECUA- 

 DORIAN BONDS — INDIANS AT QUITO — PRICES IN ECUADOR — OPENINGS FOR 

 COMMERCIAL ENTERPRIZE — ON BANKS AND MONEY — AN EASY WAY OF EARNING 

 A DIVIDEND ........ 167-183 



