CONTENTS 



PART I 

 COLOMBIA 



CHAPl'EB • . - . PAOB 



I. Buenaventura to Cali and the Cauca Valley . 3 

 II. PopayXn and the Cerro Munchique .... 18 



III. The Andes Southwest of Popatan; Cruise of 



THE "Caldas" 34 



IV. Cartago TO the-Paramos of Ruiz and Santa Isabel 47 



V. The Choco Country on the Western Coast of 



■ Colombia 64 



VI. In Quest of the Cock-of-the-Rock .... 76 



VII. Crossing the Eastern Andes into the Caqueta 92 



VIII. Across the Antioquian Gold-Fields to Puerto 



Valdivia on the Lower Cauca 106 



IX. Ascent of the Paramillo — Collecting on the Rio 



Sucio 120 



PART II 

 VENEZUELA 

 X. Fifteen Hundred Miles on the Orinoco ... 141 

 XI. The Maquiritares' Land and the Upper Orinoco 162 

 XII. I/iFE in the Guiana Wilds 180 



XIII. First Weeks with the Roosevelt South American 



Expedition 194 



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