CONTENTS. 



aL\rTER I. 



Porto Praya — Kiheira Grande — Atmospheric 

 Dnst with Infusoria — Habits of a Sf a-slu;,' and 

 Cuttle-lish — St. Paul's Rocks, non volcanic — 

 Singular incrustations — Insects the first Colo- 

 nists of Islands — Fernando Noronha — Bahia 



— Hurnisli-d Rocks -Habits of a Diodon— 

 Pelajs,'ic Confervas and Infusoria— Causes of 

 discoloured Sea Page 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Rio de Janeiro — Rxcursioii north of Cape Frio 



— Great Evaporation — Slavery — liotofogo 

 Pa\ — Terrestrial Flanaria^ — Clouds on the 

 Corcovado— Heavy Rain — Musical PVops — 

 Phosphorescent Insects — Elater, sprin;,Mng 

 powers of— IJlue Haze— Noise made by a 

 liutterlly — Entomology — Ants— \Vasp till- 

 ing a Spider — Parasitical Spider — Artifices of 

 an Epeira— Gregarinus Spider — Spider with 

 an unsymmetrical Web • 19 



CHAPTER III. 



Monte Video — Maldonado — Excursion to R. 

 Polanco— Lazo and Bolas — Partridges — Ab- 

 sence of Trees — Deer — Capybara, or River 

 Ho^' — Tucutuco — Molothrus, cuckoo-like 

 habits — Tyrant Flycatcher — Mocking-bird — 

 Carrion Hawks — Tubes formed by Lightning 

 — House struck 39 



CHAPTER IV. 



Rio Netrro— Estaneias attacked by the Indians 

 — Salt Lakes — Flamingoes — R. Nej:ro to R. 

 C^ilorado — Sacred Tree — Pata,'onian Hare — 

 Indian Families — General Rosas — Proceed to 

 lialiia Rlanca- Sand Dunes — Negro Lieut«!- 

 nant — Hahia Blanca — Saline Incrustations — 

 Punta Alta— Zorillo 63 



CHAPTER V. 



Dahia Blanca — Geology — Numerous gigantic 

 extinct Quadrupeds Recent Extinction — 

 I^nirevity of Species— Lar.e Animals do not 

 require a luxuriant Vegetation — Southern 

 Africa — Siberian Fossils — Two Species of 

 Ostrich— Habits of Oven-bird — Armadilloes 



— Venomous Snake, Toad, Lizard — Hyberna- 

 tion of Animals — Habits of Sea-Pen — Indian 

 Wars and Massacres — jVrrow-head — Antiqua- 

 rian Relic .., 81 



CHAPTER V.r. 



?et out for Buenos A\Tes — Rio Sauce — Sierra 

 Ventana — ITiird Posta — Dri\ing Horses — 

 Bolas — Partridges and Foxes— Features of th*- 

 Country — I>ing-le;;ged Plover — Teru-tero^ 

 Hailstorm — Natural Enclosures in the Sierra 

 I'apaliruen — Flesli of Ihima — Meat Diet — 

 Guardia del Monte — Eflect.« of Cattle on the 

 Vegetation — Cardoon — Buenos Ayres — Cor- 

 ih1 'vhere Catt'.e are slaujjhtered . ,' 106 



CIIAFrER VII. 



Excursion to St. Fe — Thistle-Bed*— Habits ol 

 the Bizcaclia — Little Owl — Saline Streams- 

 Level Plains — Mastotlon — St. Fe— Change in 

 Landscape — Geology — Tooth of extinct Horse 

 — Relation of the Fossiland recentQuadrupeds 

 of North and South America — Ellects of a 

 great Drought — Parana — Habits of the Jaguar 



— Scissor-beak — King-fisher, Parrot, and 

 Soissor-ta 1 — Revolution — Buenos Ayres — 

 State of Government 123 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento — Value 

 of an Estancia— Cattle, how counted — Sin- 

 gular Breed of Oxen — Perforated Pebbles — 

 Shepherd- Dogs— Horses broken-in, Gauchos 

 Riding — Character of Inhaliitants— Rio Plata 



— Flocks of Buttertl es — Aeronaut Spiders — 

 Phosphorescence of the Sea — Port Desire — 

 Guanaco^l'ort St. Julian — Geology of Pata- 

 gonia — Fossil gigantic Animal — Typos <>l 

 Organization constant — Change in the Zoo- 

 logy of America — Causes of Extinction , \42 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Santa Cruz — Expeilition up tlie River — Indians 

 — Immense Streams of liasaltlc I*iva— Frag- 

 ments not transported by the River — Exca- 

 vation of the Valley— Condor, hal)its of — 

 Cordillera — Erratic Boulders of great si.c— 

 Indian Relics — Return to the Ship — Falk- 

 land Islands — Wild Horses, Cdttle, Itabbits — 

 Wolf-like Fox — Fire made of Bones — Man- 

 ner of hunting Wild Cattle — Geology — 

 Streams of Stones — Scenes of Violence — 

 Pen:;uin — Geese— Eggs of Doris —Compound 

 Animals in 



CHAPTER X. 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success 

 Bay — .\ri Account of the Fuegians on board 

 — Interview with the Savages — Scenery of 

 the Forests — Cape Horn — W'igwam Cove — 

 Miserable Condition of tlie Savages — Famines 

 — Cannibals — Matricide— Religious Feelings 

 — Great Gale — Beagle Cliannel — Ponsonl y 

 Sound — Build Wigwams and settle the Fue 

 gians — Bifurcation of the Beagle Cliannel — 

 Glaciers — Return to the Ship — Second \isit 

 in the Ship to the Settlement— Equality <>l 

 Condition amongst tlie Natives ^u-j 



CHAPTER XL 



Strait of Magellan — Port Famine — Ascent of 

 Mount Tarn — Forests — E«lible Fungus — 

 Zoolo;;y — Great Sea- weed— Leave Tierra del 

 Fuego— Cimate — Fruit Trees and Produc- 

 tions of the Southern Coasts — Height of 

 Snow-line on the Cordil'era — Descent ol 

 Glaciers to the Sea — Icebergs formed — Trans- 

 portal of Boulders — Climate and Produc- 

 tions of tlie Antarctic Islands — l*reservation 

 of Frozen Carcasses— Recapitulation . . . 231 



