INDEX 



295 



Santa Fe, 26, 52, 112, 114, 175, 



191, 196, 198, 253 

 Santa Maria, 55, 56, 77 

 Santiago del Estero, 26, 28, 50, 



60, 77, 97, 113 

 Saw-mills, 106-8 

 Scrub, the, 22, 96 

 Seasonal migrations, 266 

 Selective breeding, 21, 179, 188, 



189 

 Sheep-breeding, 139-144, 183-186 

 Shipping, 236, 740, 253-259 

 Sierra de los Llanos, 59-63, 67 

 Sierra d'UIapes, 66 

 Somuncura, 122, 152 

 Spaniards, the early, 28, 29, 48 

 Stage-coaches, 210 

 Straits of Magellan, 129 

 Sugar-industry, the, 69-79 

 Suerte de agua, the, 85 



Tablelands, the alluvial, 17, 37 

 Tandil, Sierra de, 25, 172, 179, 182, 



184, 190 

 Tannin, 102, 105, 106, 107 

 Tehuelches, the, 131 

 Texas fever, 22, 189 

 Teran, M. J. B., 7 

 Tercero, the Rio, 211, 213 

 Tierra del Fuego, 128, 140 

 Tinogasta, 48 

 Tobacco, 10 1 

 Tobas, the, 24, 26 



Toma, the, 63 



Tosca, the, 123, 172, 173, 178 

 Tostado, 114 



Trans-Andean railway, 220, 221, 

 222 



Transhumation, 143, 156-159, 182 



Transport, evolution of, 215-220, 

 228 



Travelling, early difficulties of, 

 2 1 1-2 19, 237-238 



Travesias, the, 52, 60, 142, 211 



Tronador, Mount, 128, 147 



Troperos, the, 217-19 



Tucunicin, 29, 32, 33, 69-79, 218, 

 221, 270, 271 



Tunuyan, the, 81, 82 



Tupungato, 19 

 Turno, the, 44, 85, 86 



United States, comparison with 



3-2. 34 

 United States, trade with, 8 

 Urban centres, 268, 269 

 Urquiza, 26, 180, 215 

 Uruguay, 116 

 Uruguay, the river, no, 235, 238, 



259 

 Useless Bay, 129 



Valcheta, 122, 123, 149, 150, 153 



Valle de Lerma, 48, 54 



Valle Viejo, 43, 45 



Valles, 37-48 



Vegas, 54, 144 



Veinte cinco de Mayo, 194, 262 



Ventana, Sierra de, 172, 182, iy8, 



199 

 Villa Concepcion, no 

 Villa Maria, 113, 213 

 Villa Mercedes, 25, 66, 113, 164, 



174, 177, 207, 221 

 Villa Parana, 245 

 Villa Rica, no, in 

 Villarino, 130, 133 

 Villa Urquiza, 244 

 Vilque, 56 

 ViHatores, 87-93 

 Vineyards, 80-93 

 Volcada de agua, 45 

 Volcanic eruptions, 122, 125 



Wagons, travel by, 216, 217 

 War, the European, effect of, 8 

 Water-power in Patagonia, 146 

 Water-rights, 43-46, 61, 64, 84-86 

 Water-supply, 36, 38, 39, 41-46, 



61, 64, 72, 83-86, 141, 154, 181 

 Welsh in Patagonia, 138 

 Wheat, 190-192, 194, 198, 199, 



230 

 Wheelwright, 221 

 Wild cattle, 1 79-1 81 

 Willis, Bailey, 138, 146, 147, 152, 



171 

 Wind, action of the, 20, 124, 170 



