CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



forto Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric 

 Dust with Infusoria— Habits of a Sea-slug and 

 Cuttle-fish— St. Paul's Rocks, non volcanic- 

 Singular incrustations— Insects the first Colo- 

 nists of Islands — Fernando Noronha — Bahia 

 —Burnished Rocks— Habits of a Diodon— 

 Pelagic Confervas and Infusoria— Causes of 

 discoloured Sea Page 1 



CHAPTER II. 

 Kio de Janeiro— Excursion north of Cape Frio 

 — Great Evaporation — Slavery — Botofogo 

 Bay— Terrestrial Planariae — Clouds on the 

 Corcovado — Heavy Rain — Musical Frogs- 

 Phosphorescent Insects — Elater, springing 

 Sowers of— Blue Haze— Noise made by a 

 utterfly — Entomology — Ants— Wasp kill- 

 ing a Spider— Parasitical Spider— Artifices of 

 an Epeira— Gregarious Spider— Spider with 

 an unsymmetrical Web 19 



CHAPTER III. 



Monte Video— Maldonado— Excursion to R. 

 Polanco — Lazo and Bolas — Partridges — Ab- 

 sence of Trees — Deer — Capybara, or River 

 Hog — Tucutuco — Molothrus, cuckoo-like 

 habits — Tyrant Flycatcher— Mocking-bird — 

 Carrion Hawks — Tubes formed by Lightning 

 — House struck 39 



CHAPTER W. 



Rio Negro— Estancias attacked by the Indians 

 — Salt Lakes — Flamingoes— R." Ne^ro to R. 

 Colorado — Sacred Tree— Patagonian Hare — 

 Indian Families— General Rosas — Proceed to 

 Rahia Blanca— Sand Dunes — Negro Lieute- 

 nant — Bahia Blanca — Saline Incrustations — 

 Punta Alta— Zorillo 63 



CHAPTER V. 



Bahia Blanca— Geology— Numerous gigantic 

 extinct Quadrupeds - Recent Extinction — 

 Longevity of Species— Large Animals do not 

 require a luxuriant Vegetation — Southern 

 Africa — Siberian Fossils — Two Species of 

 Ostrich— Habits of Oven-bird— Armadilloes 

 —Venomous Snake, Toad, Lizard — Hyberna- 

 tion of Animals— Habits of Sea- Pen — Indian 

 Wars and Massacres— .Arrow-head— Antiqua- 

 rian Relic 81 



CHAPTER W. 



Set out for Buenos Ayres— Rio Sauce— Sierra 

 Ventana — Third Posta — Driving Horses — 

 Bolas— Partridges and Foxes— Features of the 

 Country— Long-legged Plover— Teru-tero— 

 Hailstorm — Natural Enclosures in the Sierra 

 Tapalguen— Flesh of Puma— Meat Diet — 

 Guardia del Monte— Eflects of Cattle on the 

 Vegetation — Cardoon— Buenos Ayres — Cor- 

 ml where Cattle are slaughtered 106 



CHAPTER V1L 



Excursion to St. Fe— Thistle-Beds- -Habite o« 

 the Bizcacha — Little Owl — Saline Streams — 

 Level Plains— Mastodon — St Fe— Change in 

 Landscape— Geology— Tooth of extinct Horse 

 — Relation of the Fossil and recentQuadrupeda 

 of North and South America — Effects of a 

 great Drought — Parana — Habits of the Jaguar 

 — Scissor-beak — King-iisher, Parrot, and 

 Scissor-tail — Revolution — Buenos Ayres — 



State of Government 123 



CHAPTER VIH. 



Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento — Value 

 of an Estancia— Cattle, how counted — Sin- 

 gular Breed of Oxen — Perforated Pebbles— 

 Shepherd-Dogs— Horses broken-in, Gauchos 

 Riding— Character of Inhabitants— Rio Plata 

 — Flocks of Butterflies — Aeronaut Spiders- 

 Phosphorescence of the Sea — Port Desire- 

 Guanaco — Port St. Julian — Geology of Pata- 

 gonia — Fossil gigantic Animal — Types of 

 Organization constant — Change in the Zoo- 

 logy of America — Causes of Extinction . 142 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Santa Cruz — Expedition up the River — Indians 

 — Immense Streams of Basaltic Lava— Frag- 

 ments not transported by the River — Exca- 

 vation of the Valley— Condor, habits or— 

 Cordillera — Erratic Boulders of great size- 

 Indian Relics — Return to the Ship — Falk- 

 land Islands— Wild Horses, Cattle, Rabbits— 

 Wolf-like Fox — Fire made of Bones — Man- 

 ner of hunting Wild Cattle — Geology — 

 Streams of Stones — Scenes of Violence — 

 Penguin — Geese— Eggs of Doris —Compound 

 Animals 177 



CHAPTER X. 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success 

 Bay — An Account of the Fuegians on board 

 — Interview with the Savages — Scenery of 

 the Forests — Cape Horn — Wigwam Cove- 

 Miserable Condition of the Savages — Famine* 

 — Cannibals — Matricide— Religious Feelings 

 — Great Gale — Beagle Channel — Ponsonby 

 Sound — Build Wigwams and settle the Fue- 

 gians — Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel- 

 Glaciers— Return to the Ship— Second Visit 

 in the Ship to the Settlement — Equality of 

 Condition amongst the Natives 204 



CHAPTER XL 



Strait of Magellan — Port Famine — Ascent of 

 Mount Tarn — Forests — Edible Fungus — 

 Zoology — Great Sea-weed— Leave Tierra del 

 Fuego— Climate — Fruit Trees and Produc- 

 tions of the Southern Coasts — Height of 

 Snow-line on the CordiUera — Descent of 

 Glaciers to the Sea — Icebergs formed— Trans- 

 portal of Boulders — Climate and Produc- 

 tions of the Antarctic Islands — Preservation 

 of Frozen Carcasses— Recapitulation ... l'31 

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