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Index 



Italians, 97 

 Ithomia, 73 



Jackf ruit, 47 



Jacksonville, Florida, 129 



Jack-tree, 48 



jaguars, 156, 221; jaguar-skins, 



287 



Jamaica, 341 

 Japanese, 83 

 'Japanese peril," 367 

 Java, coffee introduced into, 85 

 Jebel Mousa, 84 

 Jelly-fishes, 32 

 Jerked beef, 154 

 'Jersey lightning," 23 

 Jesuits, 61, 8 1 

 Jockey Club, Buenos Aires, 258, 



288, 290 



John VI., King of Portugal, 78 

 Jones, Sir William, paraphrase of 



Alcaeus, 146 



Jordan, Dr. D. Starr, 339 

 Josephine, Empress, 245, 345, 349 

 Jujuy, 283 

 Junpt, Marshal, 78 

 Jupiter, the planet, 36 

 Jurassic rocks, 6 



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Kaiser Wilhelm II., 13 

 Keats, quoted, 41 

 Kew, palm-house at, 77 

 Kibitz, 194 

 King -bird, 262, 263 

 King Edward VI L, 114 

 King Xaaman, 273 

 Kite, Everglade, 233 

 Knight, Charles R., 256 



La Banda, 272 



Labor, price of, 144 . 



Laborers, Italian, 271 



Laborers, on wharves at Santos, 



83 

 Lace, Paraguayan, 287 



Lacroix, Mons. Alfred, 346 

 Lady, young, extricated from 

 trouble, 268 



Lafone-Quevedo, Dr. Samuel A., 

 118, 254 



Lagos tomus trichodactylus, 194 



Lake-region of Argentina, 115, 131 



Lampyrids, 267 



Land-bridge, connecting North 

 America with Asia, 205; con- 

 necting South America with 

 Africa, 206 



"Land of mariana, " 83, 295 



Land, price of, 145 



Land-shells, collecting, 233 



Langustos, 279 



Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, 10, 

 219 



La Plata, 102, 103, 106, 108-127, 

 223-247, 285; art-gallery, 119; 

 canal, 108; grass in streets of, 

 109,120; National Museum, 1 13, 

 114, 208; National University, 

 103, 258; Observatory, no, 113; 

 Railway Terminal, 106; real 

 estate, 120; Zoological Garden, 



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 Larcom, Lucy, quoted, 223 



Larus maculipennis, 172 



Lasiopyga callitrichus, 340 



Latin America, 357 



Latin culture, 368 



Latin races, 357 



" Leaf -cutting ants," 235 



Lehmann-Nitsche, Dr. Robert, 



118, 221 

 Lemons, 169 



Level lands, 130, 233, 266 

 Licensed porter, 295 

 Life on shipboard, 18, 317 

 Lighthouse, 318, 321, 351 

 Link, G. A., 340 

 Lipton's teas, 182 

 Lisbon, 44 

 Lista, Ramon, 214 

 Literary wares, v 

 Liverworts, 327 

 Living, cost of, in South America, 



144 



Living things in the waters, 27-32 

 Llamas, 149 

 Lobos Island, 91 

 Locust, Rocky Mountain, 279 

 Locust-tree (Robinia pseudacacia), 



229 



Lonnberg, Dr., 212 

 Loess, material of Pampean beds, 



197; thickness, 198 



