The Boy Travellers in South America. Thomas Wallace Knox

those specially prepared for this work, or obtained from Mr. Squier's "Peru." As a consequence of their courtesy the author has been able to present a "copiously illustrated" book, which is always a delight to the youthful eye.

      T. W. K. New York, July, 1885.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

       Table of Contents

At the Foot of the Andes

On the Sea Again

The Fog Clearing away

Sandy Hook Light-ship

A Stranded Ship

Weighing Baggage

The Shipworm and his Work

The Donkey's Descent

The Wharf at Aspinwall

Departure for Panama

Native Market, Aspinwall

Preparing for a Boat Excursion

Balboa taking Possession of the Pacific

The Isthmus of Darien

Rescue of the Survivors of Strain's Expedition

Strain's Arrival at the Coast

View on the Chagres River

Beach near Aspinwall

In the Rainy Season

A Hand-car Journey on the Panama Railway

Surveying under Difficulties

Native Village on the Isthmus

Native Idea of the Locomotive

The Espiritu Santo Flower

Gatun Station

A Tropical Harbor

Map of the Panama Railway

Crossing the Isthmus in 1849

A Bongo

Bridge Across the Chagres River at Barbacoas

Meeting a Train

The Humming-bird at Work

The Singing Hummer

The Iguana

A Centipede

A Scorpion

Exhibiting a Tarantula

Hills near the Railway

Map Showing how Ocean Routes are Shortened by the Panama Canal

Basaltic Cliff

Panama in the Distance

Station at Panama

Cathedral at Panama

Ramparts, with Old Cannon

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