ILLUSTRATIONS 



The cock-of-the-rock at home Frontispiece 



FACING PAGB 



Buenaventura 4 



Cattle grazing in the Cauca Valley 14 



Port of Guanchito 14 



Cerro Munehique 30 



A deserted Indian hut on the Cerro Munehique 30 



The Caldas fast on a sand-bar in 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 Tamanfi with trail-haunting blacksnake . .... 68 



The author with natives of Juntas de Tamand 68 



N6vita, the largest town in the Choc6 . 72 



Threshing wheat 78 



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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