low arch 341

Four children appeared 346

An animal came tumbling down about ten paces from us 358

The sun was just setting 362

L'Encuerado was pressing his arm and uttering cries of
pain 365

The _Terre-Chaude_ was stretched out at my feet 373

And the Indian went away, saluting 379

I threw a stone at the beast 383

There was a whole tribe of monkeys frolicking about 397

I looked in vain for the cougar 403

L'Encuerado turned three somersets 407

It stood up on its hind legs 417

The bank to the right was covered with cranes, and that to
the left with spoonbills 422

The head and bright eyes of a superb jaguar appeared about
fifty paces from us 426

We now came upon some creeping plants 430

The monkey slid down, and fell dead at our feet 435

In front of us opened a glade, bordered by tall palm-trees 442

A band of peccaries were pursuing us 447

The banks of the river were covered with alligators 454

The Indian and his branch descended with a splash into the
river 458

The entire drove dashed at full gallop into the stream 461

The reeds were pushed aside 468

The deer sank down under the weight of a puma 472

While the moon dimly lighted up the landscape. 475

Lucien began to repeat to the parrots the names of Hortense
and Emile 479

We had to cross some muddy marshes 486

Also numerous Woodcuts embodied in, and illustrative of, the text.

[Illustration: Decoration]

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INTRODUCTION.

The evening before leaving for one of my periodical excursions, I was
putting in order my guns, my insect-cases, and all my travelling
necessaries, when my eldest son, a lad nine years old, came running to
me in that wheedling manner--using that irresistible diplomacy of
childhood w