CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



BERMUDAS TO MADEIRA. 



Final Departure from Bermudas. — Temperature Sounding near the Island. — Man- 

 ganese Concretions. — Gulf -weed. — Gnathophausia. — The General Aspect of the 

 A9ores. — Island of Fayal. — Horta. — Island of Pico. — San Miguel. — Ponta Del- 

 gada. — Orange Cultivation. — Excursion to Furnas. — Sete-Cidades. — The Garden 

 of M. Jose do Canto. — A Religious Ceremony. — Arrival at Funchal Page y 



Appendix A. — Table of Temperatures observed between Bermudas and Madeira. 68 

 Appendix B. — Table of Specific Gravities observed between Bermudas and Madeira . 60 



CHAPTER H. 



MADEIRA TO THE COAST OP BRAZIL. 



Return to Madeira. — The Black Coral. — Ophiacantha clielys. — Ophiorrmsium pulchel- 

 lum. — Ceratias vranoscopits. — The Island of San Vicente. — Porto Praya. — The 

 Island of San lago. — A Red-coral Fishery. — The Guinea Current. — Balmwglossus. 

 — Luminosity of the Sea. — St. Paul's Rocks. — Fernando Noronha. — Low Bottom 

 Temperatures under the Equator. — Ceratotrochus diadema. — Pentacrinus Maclea- 

 raiius. — Dredging at Moderate Depths. — Arrival at Bahia 61 



Appendix A. — Table of Temperatures observed between Madeira and Bahia during 

 the months of July, August, and September, 1873 116 



Appendix B. — Table of Serial Temperature Soundings down to 500 fathoms, taken 

 between Madeira and Station CII. (Lat. 3° 8' N., Long. 14° 49' W.) 118 



Appendix C. — Table of Serial Temperature Soundings down to 200 fathoms, taken 

 between Station CII. and Bahia 118 



Appendix D. — Specific-gravity Observations taken between Madeira and Bahia dur- 

 ing the mouths of July, August, and September, 1873 119 



CHAPTER HI. 



BAHIA TO THE CAPE. 



A Shower of Butterflies. — Bahia de Todos os Santos. — Excursion into the Forest. — 

 San Salvador. — Hospitality of the English Residents. — Dredging in Shallow Wa- 

 ter in the Bay. — A Case of Yellow Fever. — Fungia symmetrica. — Tristan d'Acun- 

 ha. — Inaccessible Island. — Story of the Stoltenhoffs. — The Birds of Inaccessible 

 Island. — The Habits of the Penguin. — Nightingale Island. — Subsequent History 

 of Tristan d'Acunha. — To the Cape of Good Hope 121 



