CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Porto Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric dust with infusoria— Habits of 

 a sea-slug and cuttle-fish — St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic — Singular in- 

 crustations—Insects the first colonists of islands — Fernando Noronha — 

 Bahia— Burnished rocks — Habits of a diodon — Pelagic confervae and 

 infusoria — Causes of discoloured sea 15 



CHAPTER H. 



Rio 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 powers 

 of — Blue haze — Noise made by a butterfly — Entomology — Ants — Wasp 

 killing a spider — Parasitical spider — Artifices of an epeira — Gregarious 

 spider — Spider with an unsymmetrical web • 3* 



CHAPTER HI. 



Monte Video — Maldonado — Excursion to R. Polanco — Lazo and bolas — 

 Partridges — Absence of trees — Deer — Capybara, or river hog — Tucutuco 

 — Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits — Tyrant-flycatcher — Mocking-bird — 

 Carrion-hawks — Tubes formed by lightning — House struck . . • SO 



CHAPTER IV. 



Rio Negro — Estancias attacked by the Indians — Salt-lakes — Flamingoes — 

 Rio Negro to Rio Colorado — Sacred tree — Patagonian hare — Indian 

 families — General Rosas — Proceed to Bahia Blanca — Sand-dunes — Negro 

 lieutenant — Bahia Blanca^Saline incrustations — Punta Alta — Zorilla . 73 



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 ov«o-bird — Armadilloes — Venomous snake, toad, 

 lizard— Hybernation of animals-^Habits of Kca-pen — Indians' wars and 

 massacre* — Arrow-head, antiquarian relic 90 



CHAPTER VI. 



Set out for Buenos Ayres — Rio Sauce — Sierra Ventana — Third Poata — 

 Driving horses — Bolas — Partridges and foxes — Features of the country — 

 Ix)ng-legged plover — Teru-tero — Hail-Btorm — Natural enclosures in (he 

 Sierra Tanalguen — Flesh of puma — Meat diet — Guardia del Monto — 

 Effects of cattle on the vegetation— Cardoon— Buenos Ayres— Corral 

 where cattle are »laiightrred 113 



