INDEX. 



435 



Falkland Islands, 15, 1 6 



Familiarity of slaves, 33 



Fan palms, 37, 200 



Fazendas : Da Boa Vista, 37 ; do 

 Campo Novo, 52 ; do Cortume, 79, 

 97, 101, 105 ; visit of bishops to, 

 267 ; devoid of comfort, 52 ; do En- 

 genho, 136; Fructuoso, 64, 70; da 

 Mata, 56, 71 ; da Pedra Branca, 51 ; 

 Padre Pinto's, 135, 138; do Sape- 

 cado, 56 



Fernando de Noronha, 18, 124; note 

 on, 272 



Ferns, 93, 97, 98, 173, 413, 414, 416 



Fete du Tropique, 14 



Fever among the Staff in Para Valley, 

 144 



Financial condition of Brazil, note on, 



304 ; details of Budgets, 1823-1880, 



305 ; colonization, 306 ; foreign and 

 home debt, 307 ; expedients of the 

 Treasury, 307 ; bad management, 

 308 ; officialism, 308 ; suggested re- 

 forms, 310 ; outlook for investors, 

 311 ; table showing realized loans, 

 312 ; notes on recent and current 

 Budgets, 313 ; report of Brazilian 

 Finance Minister for 1885, 314 



Fire drill on board Cotopaxi, 15 

 Fireflies (beetles), 77, 95, 114, 124, 



392, 397 

 Fireplaces, non-existent in Minas, 145, 



317 



Fires, disastrous, in plantations, 57 

 Fireworks, 23, 197, 198 

 Fleas, 109 

 Flowers, handsome, 91, 98 ; in spring, 



90 



Flying fish, 15 

 Fog-horn, 2, 252 

 Food, on board P.S.N.C. steamers, 3 ; 



at Rio, 46 ; at Paraopeba, 30 ; at 



fazendas, 57. Vide Fazendas 

 Forests, near divides (Para), 74 ; 



scenery, 39. Vide Virgin Forest 



Freed blacks, 58, 116, 283, 288 



Fruit trees uncared for, 147 



Funerals, 101, 133, 155, 167; music 



at, 103 ; priests at, 104 

 Furniture of houses, 36, 155 

 Future life of animals, 67 



G 



Garonne (river), 5, 7 



Gaviao (hawk), 85, 86, 361 



Geology, 120; article on, 421; lime- 

 stone caves and their fossils, 421 ; 

 gneissic formations, 422 ; decompo- 

 sition of gneiss, 422 ; formation of 

 canyons, 422 ; divides, 423 ; valleys 

 of denudation, 423 ; Organ Moun- 

 tains, 423 ; Petropolis Railway, 423, 

 424 ; Sugar Loaf, Pedra da Gavea, 

 Corcovado, Pedra da Fortaleza, 424 ; 

 engineering difficulties, 424 ; Dom 

 Pedro II. Railway, 425 ; views of 

 Darwin, Agassiz, Liais, Hartt, Capa- 

 nema, 425 ; glacial theory examined, 

 425 ; action of vegetation, animals, 

 etc., on surface of the soil, 426; 

 cabe9udo ants, termites, 426 ; glacial 

 period, 426 ; erratic (?) blocks, 427 ; 

 thickness of gneiss, 427 



Gironde (river), 3, 4, 252 



Glass eye, a, 47, 150, 174 



Glover, Mr. William H., 45, 212 



Goat cart, 56 



Goitre, 36, 64 



Good qualities of natives, 83. Vide 

 Native customs 



Gooseberry (gabiroba), 127, 134, 418 



Gorges, 90, 424. Vide Waterfalls 



Gourds, 59, 172 



Granite at Botafogo (Rio), 200 



Grapes, 72, 134 ; cost of, 130 



Grasshoppers, 95 ; note on, 403 



Guavas, 418; marmalade, 155; un- 

 palatable raw, 154 



Guitar-playing in Minas, 114, 116. 

 Vide Native music 



