Skeleton of the Ostrich 497 Captain Smiley 498 Mountains and Glaciers in Magellan's Strait 499 Jemmy Button's Sound 500 Fuegians Visiting a War Steamer 501 The "Allen Gardiner" at Banner Cove 502 Starvation Beach 503 A Fuegian and his Food 504 A Fuegian Feast 505 Ruins at Port Famine 506 Borgia Bay 507 Inscriptions at Borgia Bay 507 "H" Cliff, Wateree Bay 508 The Yankee Wood-dealer 509 Near the Coast of Patagonia 509 Map of South America, with Route of the Boy Travellers _Front Cover._ Physical Map of South America _Back Cover._ THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN SOUTH AMERICA. CHAPTER I. FROM NEW YORK TO THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.--INCIDENTS OF THE VOYAGE.--OLD TIMES AND THE PRESENT.--ASPINWALL.--A TROPICAL CITY.--THE TEREDO.--ENTRANCE OF THE PANAMA CANAL. "Is everything ready?" "Yes," was the reply. "The trunks are packed and strapped, and the carriage will be at the door at ten o'clock." "That is quite early enough. The steamer leaves the dock at noon, and we can easily be settled on board by eleven o'clock." "Quite easily," was the response. "And here comes Frank, who has been to see the porter about the heavy baggage." "It's all arranged," said the latter; "the baggage-wagon will take our trunks, chairs, and other heavy things, and have them ready at the pier, so that we shall have only our satchels and rugs for the carriage." "An excellent plan," was the reply; "and the next business before us is to go to breakfast." The conversation recorded above took place not many months ago in the corridor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York. The parties to the dialogue were Dr. Bronson, his nephew, Fred Bronson, and Frank Bassett, a cousin of Fred. Some of our readers have met this trio of travellers, or, at all events, have read of their wanderings in Asia and Africa. When we last saw them they were on their homeward journey from Zanzibar, after making the ascent of the Nile, visiting the equatorial lakes of the Dark Continent, and reaching the Indian Ocean at Bagamoya. Those who have perused the narrative of the travels of Frank and Fred with the amiable doctor will need no further introduction.[1]