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INDEX. 



T TNGULATES, 52, 173 



United States, Bureau of Ethnology, 4 

 consul at Buenos Aires, 13 



at Montevideo, 194 

 Dep't of Agriculture, 4, 134 

 miners 'from, 278 

 minister at Buenos Aires, 13 

 National Museum, 113, 160 



Upuccrtliia diunctoria, 83 



Uruguay, first sight of, lO 



Useless Bay, 277, 291, 293 



Ushuaia, 1^2, i^j, 277, 278, 280 



^ GALLEYS, ancient, 182, 235 

 desiccated, 237 

 longitudinal of Andes, 231, 2j^, 290, 



291, 293, 294 

 transverse, 2 1 ^,224,22,6, 29 1 , 292, 293 , 294 

 Ameghino on, 226, 227, 228 

 origin and date of, 225 

 Vegetables, raising of, 283 

 Vegetation, in valley of Coy River, 43 

 of lava plains, 165 

 of pampa, 44, 1 00 

 of Patagonia, 23, 273 

 of south and west coasts of Tierra del 



Fuego, 273 

 of west coast of Patagonia, 250 

 Venus, 19 

 Verbena car 00, 23 



Vessels trading along Patagonian coast, 277 

 Vice-consuls at Sandy Point, 276 

 Vicunas, 271 

 Viedma, Lake, sec Lake 



" Villarino," Argentine Transport, 13, 14, 16, 

 30, 76, 149, 153, 15s 

 wreck of, 201 

 Villarino Bay, 149 



forests of, 150 

 Villegrand, Seiior Cornelius, 5- 32, 33, 34, 38, 



39. 40, 95 

 Virgin, Cape, see Cape 

 Volcanic ash, 37, 50, 5 i 



neck, 220 

 Volcanoes, ancient, 25, 37, 87, ill, 117, 217, 



220, 287 



TXT AGON, 157 

 ^ ^ Wallace, A. R., i 

 War, Paraguayan, 203 



Spanish-American, 109 

 Waterfall, 139 



Waterfowl, 20, 21, "j-j, 120, 166, 188 

 Watershed, continental, 237, 288 



in southern Andes, 131 



shifting of, 226 

 Weather, at New Bay, 19 



at Santa Cruz, 23 



in Mayer Basin, 135 



near Lake Pueyrredon, 175, 196 



observations, 251, ff. 

 Welsh colonies on Chubut River, 18 

 West coast, rainfall of, 213, 233 

 islands of, 232 

 vegetation of, 214, 250, 273 

 Western Plains Region, 219 

 Whale, fisheries, 277 



skeleton of, 71, 223 

 Whalers, American, 277 

 Whales, 24 



fossil, 285 

 Wheat, 283 



White-crested flycatcher, 130 

 White Lake, sec Lake 

 Williwaws, 1 5 i 

 Wilson, Captain, 193 

 Winds of Patagonia, 76, 120, 250, 251 

 Winter's bark, 150, 153 

 Woodman and Redman, estancia of, 56 

 Woodpecker, gray-banded, 135 



red-headed, 136 

 Wool-growjng, 278 

 Wool production, 282 

 Worms, 9, 83 

 Wren, brown, 67, 83 



Chilian, habits of, 130 

 Wrens, 120, 135 



VTAHGAN Indians, see Indians 

 Yerba, drinking, 45 



^ EN AID A auriculata, 121 



Zonotrichia canicapilla, 42, 68, 83, I2q 



