Index 



385 



Schiller, Dr. Walther, 117 

 Schistocerca paranensis, 279 

 Scholarship of Argentina, 257 

 Schwab, Charles M., 343 

 Scirpus, 170 

 Scissor-tailed Fly-catcher (Mil- 



vulus tyrannus), 262 

 Scorpio, the Constellation, 39 

 Scotch whiskey, 175 

 Scotchmen, in Chubut and Santa 



Cruz, 133; in Tierra del Fuego, 



129 



Screamer, Crested, 184 

 Seals, 29 

 Sea-pens, 31 

 Seed-finch (Sycalis luteola], 230, 



231 



Selva, 284 

 Semi-arid belt, 283 

 Semi-forested belt near Tucuman, 



270 



Serpent's Mouth, 323 

 Setting sail, 17 

 Setting up Diplodocus in La Plata, 



249 



"Seventh of September" in Bra- 

 zil, 5? 

 Sexes, intermingling of, in South 



America, 165 



Shakespeare, quoted, 286, 316 

 Shaw, Bernard, 123 

 Sheep, 133 



Sheep-rancher from Australia, 98 

 Shepard, Charles Upham, 37-38 

 Shepherd's purse, 227 

 Shipmasters, early, 139 

 Shops in Bahia, 52 

 Short-horns, 152, 262 

 Siesta, 202 



Sightseeing surfeiting, 276 

 Silk-cottonwood tree (Bombax cei- 



ba), 339 



" Silver River, " vi 

 Silybum marianum, 226 

 Sirius, 34, 36 

 Sisters, the Three, 323 

 Sky, the, in level countries, 224 

 "Sky scraper" in Buenos Aires, 



101 



Sleep, its inventor blessed, 351 

 Sleeping-car, 187, 312 

 Sleepless night on train, 312 

 Sloths. 82, 302, 341 

 Slums of Buenos Aires, 144 

 " Small farmer " in Argentina, 239 



25 



Smugglers on River Plate, 139 



Snake, 185 



Snappers, 339 



Snow-fall in Tierra del Fuego, 129 



Socrates, death of, 227 



Soil of Argentina, 238 



Solanum, 171 



Soldiery, 164 



Sombrero, the Spanish Hat, 350 



Song Book, Geological Society of 



America, quoted, i 

 "Sopa sin bichos, " 294 

 Sour-sop (Anona muricata), 339 

 South American ostrich, 148 

 Southern Cross, the, 33-34 

 Southern heavens, appearance of, 



33-42, 112 



South Kensington, Whaleroom at, 



H5 



Souvenirs, scarcity of, 286 

 Souza, Martim Affonso da, 80 

 Spain is African, 358 

 Spaniards, 357; in Trinidad, 229 

 Spanish mackerel, 339 

 Spanish repression of trade, 138 

 Sparrows, 64 



Speckled Brook- trout, 131 

 Spenser's Faerie Queene, quoted, 



302 



Speotyto cunicularia, 195 

 Spider-webs at sea, 32 

 Spix, 325 



Sports on deck, 19 

 Sportsman's Hotel, La Plata, 125, 



255 



Spring-plowing in Argentina, 237 



Spur-winged Goose, 183 

 Spur-winged Lapwing (Belenop- 



terus cayennensis) , 194 

 Star Catalogue, in 

 Stars, 33, 39, 42, in 

 Steatornithid<z, 331 

 Stegomyia guarding against attacks 



of, 278 



"Stone Ship," the, 343 

 Store at the cross-roads, 239 

 Strait of Magellan, 212, 291 

 Street-merchants, 68 

 Street traffic, 164 

 Streets, 51, 95, 103, 120, 161, 164, 



329 



Students picnicking, 240 

 Sugar-cane, 50, 316 

 Sugar industry of Argentina, 281; 

 of Barbados, 342 



