CONTENTS. 



CHAP. PAGE 



INTEODUOTION, . ..... 1 



I. Who we are — Gringalet— Sunrise — The sugar-cane — A halt, . 7 



II. Sugar — Gringalet in the molasses tank— L'Encuerado's obstinate 



idea— An Indian supper, . . . . 18 



III. AVakingup in the morning — The pigmy world of Lilliput — L'En- 



cuerado and the bottles — Massacre of thistles — The charcoal- 

 burning Indians, .... . . 27 



IV. A difficult ascent— The goat— The Indian girls — The tobacco plant 



— The bull-fight — Game — Lucien's gun — Our entry into the 

 wilderness, ....... 37 



v. The great forest— Crows — The first bivouac — The squirrel hunt — 



Our young guide — The chant in the desert, ... 46 



VI. Coffee — Turpentine — Couroucous — Pine-needles — Three Tolcanoes 

 in sight at once — The Carabus family— Scorpions — Salamanders 

 — A midnight disturbance, ..... 56 



VII. The cat's-eyes pomade — Armadillo — Lucien and the cruel fern — 

 The fallen mountain — The woodpecker — The basilisk — L'En- 

 cuerado's fresh idea, ...... 67 



VIII. A vulture's feast — Dragon's blood— A coral serpent — The owl — 

 Mexican moles — Toucans — The Scolopacidse — L'Encuerado 

 turned tailor — Sunset, ...... 79 



IX. The south wind — The hurricane — A fearful night — The uprooted 

 giant — The sarsaparilla plant— Gringalet discovers a spring — 

 Our bivouac, ....... 89 



X. The rabbit— Wild potatoes — A difficult path— An extinct crater- 

 Hoar frost — The torrent — The fawn — The tettigones — Dragon- 

 flies, 99 



XI. A blue lizard— The guava tree — A cataract — Nest of yellow serpents 

 — A vegetable helmet — The kingfisher— Hunting water-fleas — 

 The tadpole — A collection of water-bugs, . . . 109 



XII. A relation of Gringalet — Our four-footed guide— A review of our 

 party — The alligator-tortoise— The pheasants — The magnolia— 

 The nutmeg tree — The blue plant — The caterpillar, . . 120 



XIII. The sensitive plant — Gringalet and the porcupine— The Mexican 

 chameleon— The kite and the falcon — An amphisbsena snake — 

 A council of turkeys, ...... 131 



