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CHAPTER IV. 



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Baths of Apoquinto — Slopes of the Cordillera — Excursion to Santa 

 Rosa de los Andes and the valley of Aconcagua — Return to 

 Valparaiso — Voyage in the German steamer Rhamses — Visit to 

 Lota — Parque of Lota — Coast of Southern Chili — Gulf of Peiias 

 — Hale Cove — Messier's Channel — Beautiful scenery — The 

 English narrows — Eden harbour — Winter vegetation — Eyre 

 Sound — Floating ice — Sarmiento Channel — Puerto Bueno — 

 Smyth's Channel — Entrance to the Straits of Magellan — 

 Glorious morning — Borya Bay — Mount Sarmiento ... ... 1 88 



CHAPTER V. 



Arrival at Sandy Point — Difficulties as to lodging — Story of the 

 mutiny — Patagonian ladies — Agreeable society in the Straits 

 of Magellan — Winter aspect of the flora — Patagonians and 

 Fuegians — Habits of the South American ostrich — Waiting for 

 the steamer — Departure — Climate of the Straits and of the 

 southern hemisphere — Voyage to Monte Video — Saturnalia of 

 children — City of Monte Video — Signor Bartolomeo Bossi ; his 

 explorations — Neighbourhood of the city — Uruguayan politics 

 — River steamer — Excursion to Paisandu — Voyage on the Uru- 

 guay — Use of the telephone — Excursion to the camp — Aspect 

 of the flora — Arrival at Buenos Ayres — Industrial Exhibition — 

 Argentine forests — The cathedral of Buenos Ayres — Excursion 

 to La Boca — Argentaria as a field for emigration ... ... 248 



CHAPTER VL 



Voyage from Buenos Ayres to Santos — Tropical vegetation in 

 Brazil — Visit to San Paulo — ^Journey from San Paulo to Rio 

 Janeiro — Valley of the Parahyba do Sul — -Ancient mountains 

 of Brazil — Rio Janeiro —Visit to Petropolis— Falls of Itamariti 



Struggle for existence in a tropical forest — The hermit of 



Petropolis — Morning view over the Bay of Rio — A gorgeous 



