Index 



Loess-kindl, 198 



Loewenfeld, General von, 12, 13 



London, 78 



Longfellow, Henry W., quoted, 



264 



lorentzii, Schinopsis, 270 

 Lutra felina, 221 



M 



McKenzie College, Sao Paulo, 311 



Mackerel, Spanish, 31, 339 



Macrauchenia patachonica, Owen, 

 208, 209 



Macropus longimanus, 75 



Madonnas in churches at Tucu- 

 man, 277 



Magellan, 136; Clouds of, 34, 35; 

 Strait of, 212, 291 



Maguari stork ( Eux e n u r a 

 maguari), 192 



Mahogany-tree (Swietenia) , 339 



Maize, 285, 352 



Malaria, 356 



Maldonado, 90, 298 



Mammalian fauna, South Amer- 

 ican, 204; of Antilles, 340 



Mammals, 4; Age of, 4; in Nation- 

 al Museum at La Plata, 117, 

 204, 340 



"Mammifero misterioso, " 218 



Man, Age of, 4 



Mariana, the land of, 83, 295 



Mangrove-swamps, 302 



Man in the moon, 39 



Manners and customs of South 

 American peoples, 68 



Man-o'-war birds, 331 



Mar del Plata, 187-210 



Market-places, 51, 339 



Marsh, Othniel C., 6-8. 



Marsh-gas, 177 



Martinique, 344-347 



Mastodon, 210 



Mate", 189 



Mat-gourds, 190, 287 



Mateina, 191 



Meals on express-trains, 188 



Medusas, 32 



Megatherium, 199, 201, 214, 218, 

 222 



Mejia, Senor Ramos, 134, 135, 271 



Melanoplus spretus, 279 



Melastomacea, 71 



Melia azedarach, 228 



Mem da Sa, 77 



Mendoza, Pedro de, 91, 136, 138 



Mendoza, vineyards and orchards 



of, 133 



Menu of banquet at La Plata, 256 

 Merchant of firearms, 126 

 Mesozoic rocks, 3-4, 6 

 Metals, 354 

 Metates, Indian mealing stones, 



353 



Meteorites, 36-39; Saline Town- 

 ship, 38; man killed at Mhow 



by, 39 



Meteors, 36-38 



Mexico, 359 



Migration of animals from differ- 

 ent continents, 206 



Mihanovitch, Miguel, 163 



Milk peddling in Buenos Aires, 

 161 



"Milk Thistle" (SUybum mari- 

 anum), 226 



Milky Way, 34 



Millennium, the, 371 



Milton, John, quoted, 89 



Milvulus tyrannus, 262 



Mimosa, 47 



Mineral resources of South Amer- 

 ica, 354 



Mirages, 264 



Moeller, Theodor von, 12 



Money, Brazilian, 45; Uruguay- 

 an, 94, 



Mongoose, 341 



"Monkey-puzzle," 228 



Monkeys, African, introduced in- 

 to the West Indies, 340; becom- 

 ing extinct in South America, 



309 



Monroe Doctrine, 367 



Monroe Palace, Rio de Janeiro, 69 

 Montevideo: Avenida 18 de Julio, 

 95; breakwaters, 92; captured 

 by English, 299; Capurro, 92; 

 Cathedral, 95; Cerro, 91; City 

 Hall, 95; domestic architecture, 

 95; first settlement, 298; French 

 immigrants,96; Italian residents, 

 96; National Library, 95; ne- 

 groes, absence of, 94; Palacio 

 de Gobierno,95 ; Parque Urbano, 

 92; Playa Ramirez, 92; Plazas, 

 95; Pocitos, 92; population, 

 93; theaters, 98; University, 



95 



