Index 



Prichard, Hesketh, 219 

 " Pride-of -India, " the, 228 

 Princeton University, 207 

 Prosopis alba, 270 

 Province of Tucuman, 281 

 Pseudolestodon, 215 

 Puchero, favorite dish in Spanish- 

 speaking lands, 189 

 Puerto Rico, 335 

 Pulmonary disease, 282 

 Punta Arenas, 133 

 Purser, the jolly, 17 

 Purslane, 227 

 Pyrameis, 28 



Q 



Quaternary Age, 4 



Quebracho bianco (Aspidosperma 



quebracho), 270; Colorado (Schin- 



opsis Lorentzii}, 270 

 Queen's Hotel, Port of Spain, 329 

 Querendi Indians, 137 

 Quilmes, 106, 175 

 Quince- jelly, 169 



R 



Race purity maintained, 361 

 Races, fused, in Spain, 358; in 



South America, 359 

 Racing instinct in animals, 28 

 Racowitza, Dr., 212 

 Ragweed, 227 

 Railways, 49, 61, 66, 70, 76, 80, 95, 



96, 104, 106, 126, 135, 148, 166, 



187,261,283,303,311,369 

 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 344 

 Ramalho, Joao, 81 

 Rambla, the, at Mar del Plata, 196 

 Ranch-houses, 264 

 Read, T. Buchanan, quoted, 43 

 Red- winged Blackbird, 173 

 Relief -map of Brazil, 66 

 Reporters of newspapers in Buenos 



Aires, 218 



Reptiles, fossil, 4; Age of, 4 

 Republica Oriental, 176 

 Republicanism in Argentina, 140 

 Rhea americana, 148; darwini, 149; 



on prairies, 194 

 Riachuelo, 137 



Rio de Janeiro, 57-78, 3H-3I6 

 Rio de la Plata, 90, 99, 105, 136, 



138, 142, 149, 296, 320 



Rio Grande do Sul, 89, 298 

 Rivadavia, the first President of 



Argentina, 362 

 River, the, at Tucuman, 281 

 Riverside Drive, 69 

 River-thieves, 170 

 Roads in Argentina, width of, 105 

 Rocky Mountain locust, 279 

 Rome, 356 



Roosevelt, Theodore, 123, 320 

 Rosario, 261, 266, 269 

 Rostrhamus sociabilis, 233 

 Roth, Dr. Santiago, 102, 113, 166, 



176, 180, 182, 192, 195, 196, 198, 



203, 210, 220, 295 



Royal Palm, 47, 61, 67 



Saba, 349 



Sabre-toothed Tiger, 1 14 



Sailing-ships, 149 



St. Eustatius, 349 



St. Kitts, 340, 349 



St. Lucia, 343 



St. Petersburg, 251 



St. Pierre, Martinique, 346 



St. Vincent, 343 



Salisbury, Dr. Rollin D., 134, 242 



Salix babylonica, 169; chilensis, 



169 



Salta, 283 



Salvelinus fontinalis, 131 

 Sancho Panza, 315 

 San Fernando, 167, 170 

 San Gabriel, Island of, 137 

 San Martin, 140 

 San Nicolas, 265 

 Santa Catharina, Province of, 89, 



298 



Santa-Cruz, the great caudillo, 362 

 Santa Cruz, colonies of Boers, 



Welsh, and Scotch in, 133 

 Santa F6, Argentina, 130 

 Santiago del Estero, 137, 272 

 Santos, 59, 79-88 

 Sao Paulo, 54, 80, 93, 301-311 

 Sao Vicente, 80 

 Sapodillas, 317 

 Sarmiento, "the Schoolmaster 



President," 141 

 Saxe, John G., quoted, 128 

 Scarlet-headed Marsh-bird, 173 

 Scarlet verbena, 283 

 Scelidotherium, 200 



