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INDEX. 



LegmninoscB, lOO 



Le Maire Strait, 249 



Lennox Island, 277, 278 



Leona, Laguna, 40 



Lepidophylhim aiprcssiforme, 23 



Leptonyx weddeli, yj 



Lettuce, 283 



Lichens, 134, 150, 151 



Life-saving station at St. Johns, 277 



Light-house at St. John's, 277 



Lignite, 234, 235, 282 



near Sandy Point, 158 

 Liliacece, 78 

 Lion River, see River 

 Lithodes antarctica, 153,280 

 Lizards, 84, 122 

 Llamas, 271 

 Lobes Island, 10 



Longitudinal valleys, 232, .?j./, 291, 293, 294 

 Lopez, Francisco Solano, 203 

 Lota, 234 

 Lumbering, 2j8, 282 



lyTCCOY, Mr., s 

 ■^ ■*■ Macdonald, Mr., 91 

 McGee, W J, 4 

 Macloskie, Dr. George, 5 

 Macrocystis pyrifera, 1 54 

 Madonna Point, 194 

 Madryn, Port, 18 

 Magellan, Ferdinand, 212 



Straits of, see Straits 

 Magellanes, territory of, 213, 276 

 Magellanian Region, 216, 233, 238 

 Maldonado, 1 1 

 Mammals, fossil, 37, 285 



recent, 56, 61, 65, 67, 69, 70, 71, 117, 

 120, 121, 131, 13s, 139, 166 

 Mananteals, 163 

 Mantles, Tehuelche fur, 270 

 " Maori," steamship, 193 

 Maravillo, Lake, see Lake 

 Marriages, prolificness of mixed, 160, 263 

 Marshes, 15, 56, 82, 87, 91, 114, 159, 178, 

 181, 238, 240 



ancient, 174 



Marsupials, carnivorous, j^i^ '^7 Is 



herbivorous, 1 1 3 

 " Maskelyne," Lamport and Holt steamer, 155 

 Mata negra, 23, 42, 67, 98 



verde, 23, 35, 36, 42, 58, 67, 122 

 Mate, drinking, 45 



Mayer Basin, 128, 129, /j/, 140, 199 

 weather observations at, 258 

 Mayer, Governor Edelmiro, 5, 26, 27, 32, 



43. 51- 95, 131 

 death of, 149 



Mrs., 27 

 Mayer River, see River 



Meadow-lark, red-breasted, 42, 68, 121, 135 

 Megalonyx, 16 

 MegatJierium, 16 

 Melbourne, Australia, 213 

 Mercantile business in Patagonia, 280 

 Merriam, Dr. C. Hart, 4, 197 

 Mesozoic land-mass, 236 



rocks of semi-mountainous region, 235 

 Metamorphic rocks in Andes, 232 

 Meteorological table, 25 i 

 Milvago chiinango, 57 

 Minms patagoniciis, 1 2 1 

 Mineral paints, 282 

 Miners, 278 



Mines, coal, near Sandy Point, 158 

 Mining, gold, 278 



Minister, Argentine at Washington, 13 

 of the Exterior, 1 3 



U. S. at Buenos Aires, 13 

 Miocene eruptions, 220 



land in late, 292 



rocks at Lake Pueyrredon, 234 

 Mirage, remarkable, 98 

 "Mission, the," at Santa Cruz, 22 

 Missionary Society, the Church of England, 



153 

 Missions in Tierra del Fuego, 153, 275 

 Mistletoe-like plant, 145 

 Mocking-bird, Patagonian, 121, 135 

 Mollusca, 18, 41, 120, 166, 183 

 MonocHnes in Andes, 232, 290 

 Montes, Senor, 5 

 Montevideo,//, 155, 194, 202 



