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Index 



Argentina Continued 



281; topography, 129; towns 

 with English names, 143; war 

 vessels, 100; waterfalls, 135, 291 



Argentines, meat-eaters, 189; poli- 

 ticians, 136; proud of nation- 

 ality, 360 



Arid lands. 132-133 



Armadillos, 206, 287 



Armadillo-baskets, 287 



Arms, merchant of, 126 



Artisans in Bahia, 52 



Artistic sense, lack of, 52 



Artocarpus incisa, 48; integrifolia, 

 48 



Arundo donax, 229 



Asama-yama, ascent of, by author, 



347 

 Asarum caulescens, 226 



Asimina triloba, 327 



Asphalt Lake, Trinidad, 331 



Aspidosperma quebracho, 270 



Astronomers, 35, 42, in, 112 



Astronomy, the study of, 42 



Asuncion, Paraguay, 137 



Atlantic City, 351 



Attitude of South Americans to 

 North Americans, 362 



Australia, flora of, 155 



Australian shipmate, 98 



Automobiles, 106 



Avebury, Lord, n 



Avenida Beira-Mar, Rio de Jan- 

 eiro, 69, 316; de Mayo, Buenos 

 Aires, 103, 104, 287, 294 



Avocado-pears, 317 



Azoic rocks, 4 



B 



"Back to the soil," 143 



Bade, Dr., 166 



Baedeker, 125 



Baggage lost, 16 



Bag- worm (CEketicus platensis), 



229 

 Bahia, 17, 29, 31, 37, 43~56, 60, 81, 



317; churches, 50-51; forts at, 



43? parks, 48 

 Bamboo, 62, 318, 329 

 Bananas, 45, 87, 304 

 Banquet at Jockey Club, Buenos 



Aires, 287: at La Plata, 255 

 Barbados, 336-343 

 Barrancas at Mar del Plata, 196 

 Basques, 137, 357 



Bates, H. W., 73, 325 



Bathing on deck, 18 



Bath-room, 273 



Beach at Mar del Plata, 196 



Beagle, the Voyage of H. M. S., 

 116, 207 



Beans, frijoles, 189 



''Beast, mysterious," 222 



Beauharnais, Alexandre, Vicomte 

 de, 345, 349 



Bed-straw, 227 



Bees, 182, 308 



Beetles, 63, 74, 234 



Belenopterus cayennensis, 194 



Belgian hares, 149 



Belgrano, 167, 261 



" Bellasombra-tree, " 228 



Bell-bird, 75 



Berbers, 357, 358, 359 



Berg, Dr. Carlos, 209, 245 



Beta Centauri, 33 



Bethlehem Steel Company, foun- 

 der of, 342; vice-president of, 

 301 



Bichos, 293 



Biddies, the, 2 



Bienteveo, 63, 64 



Billiards, 98 



Birds, 62, 64, 75; at sea, 29; in 

 Museum, La Plata, 117; whole- 

 sale destruction of, 309, 341 



Bird-voices, 230 



:< Black Belt" of Brazil, 46 



Bleaching bones in Museum at La 

 Plata, 116 



Blixen, Senor Don Carlos, 300 



Blue sky of Argentina, 147 



Boa-constrictors, 157 



Bocas de Dragos, Las, 334 



Bolborhynchus monachus, 178 



Bolivar, "the Liberator," 141 



Bolivia, 283, 362 



Bombay, ceiba, 339 



Bombay-wallas, 330 



Bombilla, use of, 190 



Bonpland, Aime, 244, 325 



Botanical Garden, Buenos Aires, 

 155; Rio de Janeiro, 67; Trini- 

 dad, 328 



Boundary dispute between Argen- 

 tina and Chili, 114 



Braganza, the House of, 309 



Brain, the, vs. the stomach, v 



Brazil, National holiday of, 59; 

 "Greater Portugal," 78 



