3 82 



Index 



Montgomery, James, quoted, 334; 

 father of, 342 



Montgomery, John, 342 



Montserrat, 349 



Monuments, 70 



Moon, the, devoid of water and 

 air, 26; volcanoes of, 26 



Moravian Missions in the West 

 Indies, 343 



Moreno, Dr. Francisco P., 113, 

 134, 212, 214 



Morphos, 62, 72, 293 



Mosquito, cause of yellow fever, 

 80 



Mosses, 303 



Moths, 63, 64, 73, 234; mimicking 

 bees and wasps, 73 



Motor-boat trip from Trinidad 

 to Florida, 335 



Mourning, black garments of 

 women in South America, 165 



Municipal Theatre, Sao Paulo, 310 



Musa sapientium, paradisiaca, 87 



Museums: Agricultural, Buenos 

 Aires, 150, 153; American, of 

 Natural History, New York, 

 340; Buenos Aires (National) 

 208, 224; British (Natural His- 

 tory), 11-12; Carnegie, Pitts- 

 burgh, 7, 12; d'Histoire Natur- 

 elle, Paris, II, 13; Field (Na- 

 tural History), Chicago, 38; 

 Geological, Rio de Janeiro, 65; 

 Imperial, St. Petersburg, 249; 

 Imperial, Vienna, 13; Italian, of 

 Paleontology, Bologna, 13; Na- 

 tional, La Plata, 14, 113, 114, 

 208; Paulista, Sao Paulo, 305- 

 311; Royal, of Berlin, 13 



"Mush" or "hasty pudding," 

 standard dish in Argentina, 189 



Mussel-shells, 232 



Mylodon, 199, 201, 214, 215, 222 



Mylodon robustus Owen, 200 



"Mysterious Beast," 222 



N 



Naaman, King, 273 



Nahuel-Huapi, Lake, 131, 134 



Nails turned into iron pyrites, 346 



Napoleon, 244, 345 



Napoleon III., 345 



National Museum at La Plata, 208 



Negri, Signer, 147, 225 



Negro attendant in Botanical 



Garden, Trinidad, 328 

 Negroes, 46, 53, 83, 94, 313, 330, 



337, 338 



Nelson, Dr. Ernesto, 120; Madam 

 Nelson, 121 



Nelson, Horatio, 344, 349 



Neomylodon listai, 214, 216, 220 



Neptune, 21 



Nest of Oven-bird, 279 



Nevis, 340, 349 



Newport, the, of Argentina, 195 



Newspapers, reporters of, in Buenos 

 Aires, 218 



' New York Yankee," 20 



Niata race of cattle, 116 



Night-clothes vs. evening dress, 

 241 



Nisbet, Fanny, wife of Lord Nel- 

 son, 349 



Nombre-de-Dios, 138 



Nordenskjold, Dr. Otto, 212 



Norfolk pine (Araucaria excelsa), 

 228 



North America, true camels orig- 

 inated in, 157 



Nudity, juvenile, 53 



Nutria (Myopotamus coy pus), 168 



O 



Observatory, C6rdoba, in; La 



Plata, no, 113, 225 

 Ocean, changeable colors of, 22; 



mother of life, 25; origin, 24 

 Ojeda, Alonso de, 324 

 Onelli, Dr. Clemente, 156 

 Opera House, Rio de Janeiro, 69 

 Opossums, 206 

 Oranges, 317; orange-trees, 169, 



182 



Orchids, 61, 71, 179, 326, 328 

 Oreodoxa regia, 47 

 Organ mountains, 76 

 Orient expresses, 188 

 Orinoco, 320 

 Orion, 39 



Ortmann, Dr. Arnold E., 232 

 Osborn, Henry F., 7 

 Ostrich, South American, 148 

 Otter, South American, 221 

 Oven-bird, nest of, 279 

 Owen, Sir Richard, 5, 207 

 Owls, 107, 195, 331 



