Index 



375 



Brazil-wood, 54 



Breadfruit, 47, 340 



Bridgetown, Barbados, 336 



Bridge-whist, 88, 351 



British Guiana, 321 



British Museum, Trustees of, 9,11 



Bromelias, 326 



Bronchos, 154 



Brown, Barnum, 340 



Bruch, Dr. Carlos, 117, 234, 256 



Bryant, W. C., quoted, 27, 68 



Buccaneers, the, 344 



Buenos Aires: Agricultural Mu- 

 seum, 150, 153; arrival in, 101; 

 automobiles, 164; Avenida Al- 

 vear, 163; Avenida de Mayo, 

 161, 163; Botanical Garden, 147, 

 155; Capitol, 101, 286; cattle- 

 show, 150-155; cemeteries, 286; 

 climate, 91 ; Colon Theatre, 162; 

 docks, 100; hut in suburbs, 162; 

 Jockey Club, 290; milkman, 161 ; 

 millionaires, 143; mounted po- 

 lice, 164; Museum, 208, 244; 

 origin of name, 91; Presidential 

 Mansion, 101; parks, 162; Plaza 

 Hotel, 150; Plaza San Martin, 

 IOT, 150; slums, 144; Sociedad 

 Rural Argentina, 150; streets, 

 105, 161; taken by British, 299; 

 taxicabs, 164; uniforms, 164; 

 University, 265; Zoological Gar- 

 den, 156 



Bufalini, Francesca Turina, 

 quoted. 108 



Bufo americanus, 175 



Bumble-bees, 73 



Burmeister, Dr. Karl Hermann 

 Conrad, 200, 207, 209, 245, 325 



Burrowing-owl (Speotyto cunicu- 

 laria), 195, 284 



Butterflies, 32, 50, 62, 67, 73, 88, 

 177, 182, 185, 234, 276, 280, 

 293, 314, 327, 328 



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Cabbage-palm, 65 



Cabot, Sebastian, 90, 136 



Cabral, Pedro Alvarez, 53, 54 



Cacao (Theobroma cacao], 327, 353 



Cacao-pod, 327 



Cacica of Guarina, the, 362 



Cacti, giant, 283 



Cadiz, merchants of, 139 



Caesar, 257 



Calderon, F. Garcia, quoted, 358, 



359 



Caldo da cana, 316 



Callithea, 293 



Camels, true, originated in North 



America, 157 



"Camp," the, in Argentina, 237 

 Campo, 237 

 Cannas, 72 

 Canopus, 36 

 Cape-Pigeons, 29 

 Cape St. Roque, 17, 54, 56, 319 

 Capetown, South Africa, 128 

 Cape Verde Islands, negro from, 



79 



Capricorn, Tropic of, 39 

 CaprimulgidfE, 331 

 Captain of S. S. Vasari, 33, 58, 79 

 Captain of S. S. Vestris, 300, 314, 



321,330,346,348,350 

 Carabid beetles, 203 

 Caracara, 284 



Carancho (Polyborus tharus), 284 

 Carapace of Glyptodon utilized as 



a bathtub, 204 

 Cardinal Finch, 173 

 Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus] , 



225 



Caribbean Sea, 334 

 Caribbees, 335-6 

 Caricature from Caras y Caretas, 



364 



Carnegie, Andrew, i, 7-9, 11-13, 

 15, 252, 253, 254, 259, 289 



Carpathia, S. S., 333 



Carpincho (Hydroch&rus capy- 

 bara], 180 



Carryl, C. E., quoted, 260 



Carthaginians, 358, 359 



"Casa Historica," 274, 275 



Cassava-meal, 340 



Casuarina, 228 



Cathedral, Bahia, 44; European, 

 51; La Plata, 109 



Catopsilia, species, 327; eubule, 47 



Cattle driven by woman, 266; ex- 

 portation of, 154; native race 

 of, 116 



Cattle-herders, cuisine of, 188 



Caucasians, 355 



Cave at Consuelo, 212 



Cavendish, Lord, 218 



Cemeteries in Buenos Aires, 286 



Cenozoic rocks, 3-4, 6 



