548 



INDEX. 



Copiapo village and roadstead, 32, 244, 245, 448. 

 Copigue. See Lapageria rosea. 

 Copigue peak, or Volcano Puychue, 14. 

 Coquimbito village, 47. 

 Coquitnbo bay, 30, 31, 272. 



mines in the province of, 46, 284-288. 

 province, 45, 46, 76, 77, 88, 231. 

 river, 9, 26, 27, 45, 276. 

 town, 31, 45, 244, 271, 273, 449. 

 Corcolen town, 53. 

 Corcovado gulf, 37, 38. 



volcano, 13, 103. 

 Cordillera de la Costa, 4. 

 meaning of, 19. 



Cornurus cyanalysios (Loro), 393. 

 Corona Point, 35. 

 Coronel coal mines, 36, 292. 



Corpus Christi, origin of, and ceremonials at festival, 169,170. 

 Corylus avellano (Avellano), 185, 186. 

 Council of state, duties of, 134. 

 Coyarco, town of, 60. 



Crime and criminals, 193-201, 220, 477-480. 

 Cruces town in Chile, 69. 



in New Grenada, 407, 408. 



river, 20, 69. 

 Cruz, General, 304, 308, 310, 312, 318, 321 , 323, 330, 336, 337- 



339, 502. 



Cruz de Hierro, wayside posada, 409. 

 Cruz de Piedra mountain, 13, 25. 

 Cuatro Amigos silver mine, 265. 

 Cucao district, 73. 

 Cudico river, 66. 

 Cucsta de las Animas, 11. 



Blanquillo, 46. 



Chacabuco. See Chacabuco. 



Dortnida, 46. 



Paragudehue, 13. 



Prado, 13,452. 



Zapata, 452. 



Cuevas, Pablo, the medico of Chuapd, 347,348. 

 Cumberland or San Juan B:iutista bay, 41. 

 Cuinbro Pass, brief notice of, 4, 6, 10, 13. 



ridge of the Andes, 26. 

 Cunco or Cuncho tribe of Indians, b7. 

 Curacavi, earthquakes at, 107, 111, 114, 124. 



town of, 48, 452, 46:5. 

 Curico city, 11, 52, 369, 391. 



department, 52, 76. 



earthquake at, 103. 

 Curimon town, 55. 

 Cuyo, the province of, 2. 



D. 



Dalcahue department, 72. 



town, 73. 



Damas, las, river, 21. 

 Datura arborea (Floripondia), 80, 250, 465. 



stramonium, 382. 



Declination of the magnet at Herradura bay, 273. 

 Dehesa range of mountains* 3, 289. 



Dehesa, reported pass of the, 10. 



Del Carmen, mines on the hacienda of, 289. 



Delirio, silver mine, 265. 



Deputies, Chamber of, in Santiago, 130-132. 



in Lima, 434. 



Descabezado, el, 13, 23, 369, 370, 371. 

 Descubridora, la, silver mine, 257, 265. 

 Diaguita village, 9. 

 Diamante lake, 25. 

 Dichas, los, village, 51. 

 Diezmo, 56, 204, 352. 



Diseases, and causes of mortality, 203-211, 230, 373, 433. 

 Dolichos funarius (Coigui), 185, 186. 

 Dominican monks, 160, 182, 227, 372, 432 

 Dona Ana mineral springs, 303. 

 Dona Ana pass, account of the journey to, 9-13. 

 Don Diego Carvallo, temperature of his well, 269. 

 Dos Hermanos, settlement on the Chagres river, 406. 

 Drymis chilensis (Canelo), 11,65,359. 

 Duties on imports into Chile, 232. 

 Duqueco river, 21, 22. 



E. 



Earthquakes, 93-128, 438, 515-632. 

 Earthquakes of 1617, 94. 



1659, 95. 



1688, 95. 



1730, 96. 



1751,97. 



1783, 97. 



1819, 97. 



1822, 97-99. 



1829, 99. 



1835, 100-103. 



1837, 104. 



1849, 104,105,515. 



1850, 105-107,515. 

 March, 1851, 108,515. 

 April, 1851, 108-116,515,516. 

 May, 1851, 117, 118,516,529-532. 

 May, 1852, 118,517. 



August, 1852, 118,119,517. 

 attributed results of, 127,208. 

 dynamics, 122. 



local and meteorological influences of, 119, 120. 

 mode of registering shocks, 105, 119. 

 permanent effects of, 125. 

 realities and exaggerated accounts of, 128. 

 sensations they produce, 93, 96, 105, 109, 113, 



116. 



Easter Sunday, ceremonies at the church on, 167, 389. 

 Education, 55, 58, 69, 72, 187-193, 229, 251, 276, 373, 391, 393, 



435. 



Egualistas, 478, 479, 480, 501-504. 

 Elections, how conducted, 304-309. 

 Electors of President, qualifications of, 130. 

 Elqui department, 45, 76. 



village, 9, 45. 



Ercilla, Alonzo de, account of the Araucanians, 37, 64, 67. 

 Escallonia thyrsoidea (Luma), 65. 



