A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL. 



CHAPTER I. 



VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO RIO DE JANEIRO. 



FIRST SOT&amp;gt;AY AT SKA. GULF STREAM. GULF-WEED. LECTURES PRO 

 POSED. FIRST LECTURE: &quot; ON THE GULF STREAM IN THE GULF STREAM.&quot; 



AQUARIUM ESTABLISHED ON ROA RI). S Ef . ONI&amp;gt; LECTURE. ROUGH SEA. 



PECULIAR TINT OF \\ ATKR. THIRD LECTURE: LAYING OI;T WORK OF 



.VPEDITION IN P.RA/IL ; DISTRIBUTION OF FlSHES IN BRAZILIAN RlVEKS; IT3 

 BEARING ON OlJlGIN OF SPECIES; COLLECTING OF FGGS. TROPICAL SUX- 



,r/r. Fof i :TH LECTURE: PLAN OF GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS WITH SFE- 



IAL REFERENCE TO GLACIAL PHENOMENA IN Sou III AMKRICA. pLYING- 



ISH. FIFTH LECTURE: GLACIAL PHENOMENA, CONTINUED. SECOND SUN- 

 &amp;gt;AV AT SKA. ROUGH WATER. SIXTH LECTURE: EMBRYOLOGICAL INVES 

 TIGATIONS AS A GUIDE TO SOUND CLASSIFICATION. SEVENTH LECTURE. 

 MOONLIGHT NIGHTS. TRADE-WINDS. KIGIITH LECTURE: IMPORTANCE OF 

 PRECISION IN I.OCALI/.ING SPECIMENS. SOUTHERN ( ROSS. NINTH LEC 

 TURE: FRESH-WATER FIMIES OF I .RAXIL. KASTER SUNDAY. FIRST SIGHT 

 OF SOUTH AMERICAN SHOKE. OUNDA PERNAMRUCO. CATAMARANS. 

 TENTH LECTURE: METHODS OF COLLECTING. KLEVENTH LECTURE: CLAS 

 SIFICATION OF FlSHES, AS ILLUSTRATED P.Y F.M I .R YOLOfJ Y. PREPARATIONS 



FOK ARRIVAL TWELFTH LECTURE: PRACTICAL LESSON IN EMBRYOLOGY 



CI/&amp;gt;SING LECTURE: TRAN.-MI TATION THEOP.Y ; INTELLECTUAL AND Po- 

 IJTICAL INDEPENDENCE. RESOLUTIONS AND SPEECHES. SINGULAR RED 

 PATCHES ON THE SURFACE OF THE SEA. 



April 2&amp;lt;7, 1805. Our first Sunday at sea. The weather 

 is delicious, the ship as steady as anything on the water 

 can lie, and even the most forlorn of our party have little 

 excuse for sea-sickness. We have had service from Bishop 

 Potter this morning, and since then we have been on deck 

 reading, walking, watching a singular cloud, which the 

 captain says is a cloud of smoke, in the direction of Pe 

 tersburg. We think it may be the smoke of a great deci- 



