X Contents. 



CHAPTER IV. 



PAGE 



IN SOUTHERN SEAS . . . . . . -31 



The Log-Book — Bahia — Singular Appearance of the Water 

 — The Vampire Bat — Slavery — Trips into the Country — 

 Rare Collections — In the Brazilian Forest — Shooting Mon- 

 keys — The Click of a Butterfly — ^Jumping Spiders — Electri- 

 cal Displays — The Plata. 



CHAPTER V. 



IN THE LAND OF THE SACRED TREE . . . -47 



The Rio Negro — Trips into the Interior — The Sacred Tree 

 — Superstition of Natives — Salt Lakes — Bahia Blanca — A 

 Tomb of Giants — The Mylodon Darwinii — The Armadillo 

 — Hibernation — Careful Work — War — General Rosas — Bru- 

 tal Natives — Skilled Equestrians. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 AMONG THE FOSSILS $8 



A Long Bullock Ride — Santa Fe — ^An Animal Collector — 

 Large Fossils — Indian Superstitions — Darwin 111 — A Native 

 Doctor — Geology — Gigantic Armoured Animals — Drought — 

 The Parana — The Jaguar — Darwin a Prisoner — Swimming 

 Horses — Shower of Butterflies — Phosphorescence. 



CHAPTER VIL 

 THE LAND OF GIANTS ...... 72 



The Patagonians — Guanaco Hunting — Singular Burial Cus- 

 toms — A Horse with a Proboscis — Extinction — Up the Santa 

 Cruz — Puma Tracks — Catching the Condor — Falkland Isl- 

 ands — Among the Glaciers — The Fuegians — Giant Sea- 

 Weed and Its Work. 



CHAPTER VIIL 

 THE FOOT OF THE ANDES ...... 83 



At Valparaiso— Andean Life — An Old Schoolmate — An 



