dashed to
pieces--The Mount St. Benedicto pp. 266-277

CHAPTER XVIII
Starting across the Virgin Forest--Cutting the Way incessantly--A
Rugged, Rocky Plateau--Author's Men throw away the Supplies of
Food--Attacked by Fever--Marching by Compass--Poisoned--Author's
Men break down--Author proceeds across Forest endeavouring
to reach the Madeira River--A Dramatic Scene pp. 278-298

CHAPTER XIX
Benedicto and Filippe show Courage--Confronted with a Mountainous
Country--Steep Ravines--No Food--Painful Marches--Starving--Ammunition
rendered useless by Moisture--The "Pros" and "Cons" of Smoking--A Faint
Hope--A Forged Tin which should have contained Anchovies--Curious Effects
of Starvation upon the Brain--Where Money is of no avail--Why there was
Nothing to eat in the Forest--The Sauba Ants--Sniffed by a
Jaguar--Filippe tries to commit Suicide pp. 299-320

CHAPTER XX
Benedicto and the Honey--Constantly collapsing from Exhaustion--A
Strange Accident--Finding a River--People's Mistaken Ideas--Sixteen
Days of Starvation--An Abandoned Hut--Repairing a Broken-down
Canoe--Canoe founders--A Raft constructed of Glass pp. 321-338

CHAPTER XXI
The Launching of the Glass Raft--Accidents--The Raft sinking--Saved--Our
First Solid Meal--Its Consequences--The Canuma and Secundury
Rivers--Marching back across the Forest to the Relief of the Men left
behind--A Strange Mishap--A Curious Case of Telepathy pp. 339-364

CHAPTER XXII
Baggage Saved--The Journey down the Tapajoz River--Colonel
Brazil--Wrecked--From Itaituba to the Amazon--Benedicto and the Man X are
discharged pp. 365-385

CHAPTER XXIII
Santarem to Belem (Para)--The Amazon--From Belem to Manaos--The
Madeira-Mamore Railway pp. 386-404

CHAPTER XXIV
Attacked by Beri-beri--A Journey up the Madeira River to the Relief of
Filippe the Negro and Recovery of Valuable Baggage left with
him--Filippe paid off--A Journey up the River Solimoes--Iquitos pp. 405-418

CHAPTER XXV
From Iquitos to the Foot of the Andes up the Rivers Ucayalli, Pachitea
and Pichis--The Cashibos or "Vampire Indians" pp. 419-438

CHAPTER XXVI
Across the Andes--The End of the Trans-continental Journey pp. 439-457

CHAPTER XXVII
The Peruvian Corporation Railway--The Land of the Incas--Lake
Titicaca--Bolivia--Chile--The Argentine--A Last Narrow Escape--Back
in England pp. 458-476

APPENDIX
Some of the Principal Plants of Brazil--Mammals--Birds--Fish--
Reptiles--Vocabularies pp. 477-496

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