CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Porto Praya — Ribeiva Grande — Atmos|»lieric Dust with Infusoria 

 — Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul's Rocks, non- 

 volcanic — Singular Incrustations — Insects the first Colonists 

 of Islands — Fernando Noronha — Bahia — Burnished Rocks — 

 Habits of a Diodon — Pelagic Confervas and Infusoria — Causes 

 of discoloured Sea Page 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evaporation 



— Slavery — Botofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planaria? — 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 19 



CHAPTER III. 



Montevideo — 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 39 



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