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 _SPECIAL EDITION_

 WITH THE WORLD'S
 GREAT TRAVELLERS

 EDITED BY CHARLES MORRIS
 AND OLIVER H. G. LEIGH

 VOL. II

 CHICAGO
 UNION BOOK COMPANY
 1901




 COPYRIGHT 1896 AND 1897
 BY
 J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

 COPYRIGHT 1901
 E. R. DUMONT




[Illustration: BOSTON COMMON, BOSTON, MASS.]




CONTENTS.


 SUBJECT.                                AUTHOR.                    PAGE

 New York, Washington, Chicago           OLIVER H. G. LEIGH            5
 Winnipeg Lake and River                 W. F. BUTLER                 21
 A Fine Scenic Route                     HENRY T. FINCK               31
 South Pass and Fremont's Park           JOHN C. FREMONT              42
 In the Yellowstone Park                 FERDINAND V. HAYDEN          49
 The Country of the Cliff-Dwellers       ALFRED TERRY BACON           58
 Lake Tahoe and the Big Trees            A. H. TEVIS                  68
 The Chinese Quarter in San Francisco    HELEN HUNT JACKSON           78
 Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley      CHARLES LORING BRACE         88
 A Sportsman's Experience in Mexico      SIR ROSE LAMBERT PRICE       99
 The Scenery of the Mexican Lowlands     FELIX L. OSWALD             108
 Among the Ruins of Yucatan              JOHN L. STEPHENS            119
 The Route of the Nicaragua Canal        JULIUS FROEBEL              130
 The Destruction of San Salvador         CARL SCHERZER               137
 Scenes in Trinidad and Jamaica          JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE        145
 The High Woods of Trinidad              CHARLES KINGSLEY            157
 Animals of British Guiana               C. BARRINGTON BROWN         169
 Life and Scenery in Venezuela           ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT      179
 The Llaneros of Venezuela               RAMON PAEZ                  190
 The Forests of the Amazon and Madeira
     Rivers                              FRANZ KELLER                200
 Canoe- and Camp-Life on the Madeira     FRANZ KELLER                212
 Besieged by Peccaries                   JAMES W. WELLS              219
 The Perils of Travel                    IDA PFEIFFER                232
 Brazilian Ants and Monkeys              HENRY W. BATES              240
 The Monarchs of the Andes               JAMES ORTON                 251
 Inca High-Roads and Bridges             E. GEORGE SQUIER            261




List of Illustrations

VOLUME II

 BOSTON COMMON, BOSTON, MASS.                             _Frontispiece_
 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, WASHINGTON                                      14
 MEMORIAL MONUMENT TO SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, FOUNDER OF
     QUEBEC                                                           34
 THE UPPER YELLOWSTONE FALLS                                          50
 GRAND CANON, ARIZONA                                                 66
 RED WOOD TREE, CALIFORNIA                                            96
 REGINA ANGELORUM (Queen of the Angels)                              116
 A WATERFALL IN THE TROPICS                                          146
 LA GUAYRA, VENEZUELA                                                180
 A SOUTH SEA ISLAND                                                  214
 THE MONARCHS OF THE ANDES                                           252




 WITH THE WORLD'S
 GREAT TRAVELLERS.




THE WORLD'S GREAT CAPITALS OF TO-DAY.

OLIVER H. G. LEIGH.


NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, CHICAGO.

The reflective voyager, on his first sight of New York, is baffled when
he attempts to catalogue his sensations. All is so completely in
contrast with the capitals of Europe. The gloriously bright sky, air
that drinks like champagne, the resultant springiness of life and
movement, that overdoes itself in excitement and premature exhaustion,
and the obtrusively visible defects of this surface enthusiasm,
monotonous streets, unfinished or unbegun city improvements, and the
conspicuous lack of play-spaces for children--this is the rough
portrait sketch New York draws of itself for the newcomer. It does not
disguise the fact that money-making was for many years the dominant
consideration. The city was laid out for business, and public comfort
had to look out for itself. The workers, the poor, and the helpless were
apparently overlooked.

But there are at