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Title: Under the Southern Cross

Author: Elizabeth Robins

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UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS

by

Elizabeth Robins

Author of "The Magnetic North,"
"The Open Question" etc.

Illustrated & Decorated by John Rae

[Illustration: "FRUITS AND FLOWERS WERE SHOWERED UPON US"--_Page 3_]

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers

Copyright, 1907, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
October, 1907

_Contents_

PAGE
I. OUR AGREEABLE FELLOW PASSENGER 1

II. MY INTERPRETER AT MAZATLAN 39

III. I AM LECTURED 65

IV. I DRINK COCOANUT MILK AND GO FISHING FOR PEARLS 101

V. THE BARON IS CRAZY WITH MADNESS 133

VI. THE BARANCA 165

VII. THE INCA EYE 199

_Illustrations_

"FRUITS AND FLOWERS WERE SHOWERED UPON US" _Frontispiece_

"LOOK, SENORITA!" _Facing page_ 48

"THE BARON HAS FOUND A PEARL!" " " 112

"YOU MUST TAKE ME BACK!" " " 210

CHAPTER I

[Illustration: Chapter One]

OUR AGREEABLE FELLOW PASSENGER

In the same spirit in which a solicitous mamma or benevolent
middle