Category: Travel Writing
With three exceptions these chapters have appeared in the pages of _The Atlantic Monthly_, and I publish them through the kindness of the Editor, Ellery Sedgwick. "Hoatzins at Home" is adapted from a title in my _Tropical Wild Life_, Volume I, published by the New York Zoölogi...
Within gun-reach in front of me trudged my little Akawai Indian hunter. He turned his head suddenly, his ears catching some sound which mine had missed, and I saw that his profi...
7. Part 7With relief we reached the bridge, where our Scotch friend had kindly provided mule, rope, boat, and coolies. We waited for a while, but as the downpour showed no signs of abati...
12. Part 12With these came a crowd of workers, both white and black-headed, and soldiers, all empty-jawed, active, but taking no part in the actual preparation of the trail. This second co...
8. Part 8Thus must the first amphibian have climbed into the thin air. But the young hoatzin neither gasped nor shivered, and seemed as self-possessed as if this was a common occurrence...
5. Part 5The tide had reached full ebb and the sun was low when I started back, and now I found a new beach many feet farther out and down. Still no shells, but a wonderful assortment of...
4. Part 4The crowd was curious, thoughtless, selfish, with the dominant hope of a laugh at some one's expense. Here was one who sought us out, who left unguarded her little tray of banan...
9. Part 9One could watch the changing seasons of the great tropical jungle from the same wonder windows of Kalacoon. A dull rose suffused the tree-tops, deepening day by day, and finally...
2. Part 2Among the luggage which I take on board is invariably a large, eight-pronged, iron grapple, with a long coil of rope. These the stewards eye askance when they place them in my c...
10. Part 10For a period, utter desolation reigned. Charcoal and gray ash covered everything. No life stirred. Birds had flown, reptiles and insects made their escape or succumbed. Only the...
11. Part 11Such treats--floral and avian--were all that might be expected of any tree, but the cashews had still more treasures in store. The weeks passed and we had almost forgotten the f...
3. Part 3Our steamer is preferable to the seven-league trip, for we thereby omit the big, cumbersome West Indies. It is a curious fact that any land projecting above the surface of the w...
6. Part 6We started at last, and only a few miles of glistening rails had passed beneath us when, finally, proof of the complete schism between police and weather bureaus became evident:...
13. Part 13In memory, there now remain only the highlights of new discoveries, the colorful moments of unalloyed realization of success. Nevertheless this new method of tropical work broug...
1. Part 1With three exceptions these chapters have appeared in the pages of _The Atlantic Monthly_, and I publish them through the kindness of the Editor, Ellery Sedgwick. "Hoatzins at H...
15. Part 15Along the moonlit trail there came wavering whiffs of orchids, ranging from attar of roses and carnations to the pungence of carrion, the latter doubtless distilled from as deli...
16. Part 16PAINE, THOMAS Writings 108 PATER, WALTER The Renaissance 86 PATER, WALTER Marius the Epicurean 90 PEPYS, SAMUEL Samuel Pepys' Diary 103 PETRONIUS ARBITER The Satyricon 156 POE,...