Table of Contents
Chapter I The Start 1
Chapter II Up the Paraguay 38
Chapter III A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary 62
Chapter IV The Headwaters of the Paraguay 95
Chapter V Up the River of Tapirs 132
Chapter VI Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil 167
Chapter VII With a Mule-Train Across Nhambiquara Land 203
Chapter VIII The River of Doubt 243
Chapter IX Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest 282
Chapter X To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition 321
Appendices
A The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America 343
B The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness 353
C My Letter of May I to General Lauro Müller 370
Index 373