Chapter 19
Iguanas and lizards.—Granada.—Politics.—Revolutions.—Cacao cultivation.—Masaya.—The lake of Masaya.—The volcano of Masaya. —Origin of the lake basin.
Chapter 20
Indian population of the country lying between the great lakes of Nicaragua and the Pacific.—Discovery and conquest of Nicaragua by the Spaniards.—Cruelties of the Spaniards.—The Indians of Western Central America all belonged to one stock.—Decadence of Mexican civilisation before the arrival of the Spaniards.—The designation “Nahuatls” proposed to include all the Mexican, Western Central American, and Peruvian races that had descended from the same ancient stock.—The Nahuatls distinct from the Caribs on one side and the Red Indians on the other.—Discussion of the question of the peopling of America.
Chapter 21
Return to Santo Domingo.—The birds of Chontales.—The insects of Chontales.—Mimetic forms.—Departure from the mines.—Nicaragua as a field for emigration.—Journey to Greytown.—Return to England.
Plate 1. Sketch Map of Nicaragua
Plate 2. Alligators
Plate 3. Heads of Mot-Mots
Plate 4. Commissioner’s House at Santo Domingo
Plate 5. Nest of Leaf-Cutting Ant
Plate 6. Machinery of Chontales Gold-Mining Company
Plate 7. Section of Mine Showing Method of Extracting the Ore
Plate 8. Section of San Antonio Lode
Plate 10. Tongues of Humming-Bird and Woodpecker
Plate 12. Flower of the “Palosabre.”
Plate 13. Adventure With a Jaguar
Plate 14. Pena Blanca
Plate 15. Indian Statues
Plate 16. Path Up Steep Hill
Plate 17. Quiscalus
Plate 18. Bull’s-Horn Thorn
Plate 19. Leaf of Melastoma
Plate 20. Native Still
Plate 21. Native Plough
Plate 22. Geological Section Near Ocotal
Plate 23. Hornet and Mimetic Bug
Plate 24. Geological Section at Masaya
Plate 25. Longicorn Beetles of Chontales
Plate 26. Leaf Insect
Plate 27. Moss Insect
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