LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Frontispiece. 



We were just then passing through a plantation Page 2S 



At last, lagging a little, our party reached the foot of the mountains 44 



The basket and its bearer chased one another down the hill 50 



Almost immediately the foliage was pushed aside 56 



On hearing the uproar two Indian women came running towards us 65 

 Behind us opened a dark, narrow ravine, with perpendicular sides. . . 74 



We now entered one of those glades 82 



It was really a capital dinner 101 



The dog began to howl desperately 114 



A flock of vultures attracted our attention 121 



Lucien loudly called out to me „ 126 



Sumichrast halted near three gigantic stones 146 



A labyrinth of rocks brought us out in front of a stony rampart more 



than a hundred feet in height 152 



Sunset surprised us ere we had finished our labor 156 



A shrub kept him from falling into the gulf 169 



The cataract 174 



Fall of Ingenio (from a drawing by the Marquis of Radepoint) rl77 



A tiger-cat bounded forward and seized the pheasant. ....-> 191 



The kite avoided the shock, and continued to rise in the air 202 



It looked like an immense pedestal, surmounted by two bronze statues 210 



Above us, the trees crossed their branches 218 



Then Sumichrast slid down the cord to the tree 223 



I then ordered the Indian to light the fire 227 



The wildest dreams could not picture a stranger style of archi- 

 tecture 241 



Five or six skulls seemed to glare at me through their empty orbits 245 



Crater of Popocatepetl 249 



Our two scouts climbed some enormous heaps of rocks 262 



The animal continued to retreat before him, and led him to the mouth 



of a cave 266 



They were at once saluted by a platoon fire 273 



I at once recognized the black sugar-cane snake 279 



Following in Indian file, we ascended the course of the stream 287 



The rocks came rolling down ; dashing together under the impulse 



of a liquid avalanche 291 



L'Encuerado set to work to plait us hats 295 



I used to go iguana hunting with my brothers 301 



The moon rose, and rendered the illusion more striking 307 



