I. The Secret of the Strait

 II. Canal Projects

III. The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and the Suez Canal

IV. The French Failure

V. The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

VI. The United States and Colombia

VII. A Miniature Revolution

VIII. The Battle of the Levels

IX. Man and the Gnat

X. Life at the Isthmus 

XI. The Problem of Construction

XII. The Culebra Cut

XIII. The Locks

XIV. The Completed Canal

XV. Panama and the Isthmus

XVI. The New Ocean Highways

XVII. The Canal and the Americas

XVIII. The Canal and the British Empire

XIX. The New Pacific

Appendix I.—Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

Appendix II.—Panama Declaration of Independence

Appendix III.—Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty Clauses 1-9 and 23

Appendix IV.—Proclamation as to Canal Toll Rates