INDEX, 



439 



Negresses, good-looking, 56 

 Neuroptera (termites), notes on, 401 

 Nhambu (bird), 84, 362 

 Nichteroy, 183, 184, 198, 207 ; ferry, 



192 ; water supply, 192 

 Nightly preparations in camp, 96 



O 



Ocelot, note on, 350 



Olhos d'Agua. Vide Villages 



Onca (ounce), 70 ; visit to our camp, 

 87 ; different species, 87 ; note on, 348 



Onions, 129, 134, 136 



Orange gardens, 83 



Oranges, 37, 59, 68, 134, 142, 185 



Organ Mountains, 19, 34, 43, 197, 1 9%> 

 206, 207, 210, 212, 224, 423 



Origin of savage tribes by degradation, 

 article on, 296 ; man a family of one 

 genus, 297 ; his origin revealed, 297 ; 

 fossil remains show high develop- 

 ment, 297 ; degradation, how pro- 

 duced, 298 ; Mr. Drummond, 298 



Orioles (birds), 50, no, 359; har- 

 bingers of rain, 53 



Orthoptera (Dermaptera), note on, 402 



Ouro Branco range, 150 



Ouro Preto, 29, 152; railway to, 28, 

 269 



Ox-carts (carros), 29, 37, 39, 40, 56, 

 61, 75, 80, 100, in, 124, 141, 145, 

 172, 176; musical performance of, 

 29, 40, IOO; carrinho, 136; ox- 

 sleigh, 58 



Paca, 53 ; flesh of, 53, 92 ; note on, 



246 



Pack mules, loo 

 Palm avenue, Botanical Gardens, Rio, 



23 



Palms, 37, 53, 58, 71, 182, 200 

 Palm-fibre hammock, 63, 93 



Parahybuna valley, 180; derivation of 

 name, 180 



Paraopeba, hotel at, 30, 32, 75 ; dinner, 

 30; railway-station, 26, 151, 170, 

 1 80; scenery near, 33; butterflies, 

 birds, coati, 34 ; winter weather, 34 



Parroquets, no 



Parrots, 87, 139, 360, 363; flesh of, 



87 



Patriarchal life, 57 ; style of reckoning 

 riches, 1 12 



Pauillac, 4, 253 ; cultivation, 253 ; 

 chateaux, 253 ; vineyards, 254 ; 

 hospitality, 254 ; houses, 254 ; pretty 

 lasses, 254 



Peaches, 128, 129, 138, 148; given to 

 horses and pigs, 138 



Peak of Teneriffe, 12, 13, 250 



Pedra da Fortaleza (Minas), 180, 424 



Pedra da Gavea (Rio), 200, 207, 224, 

 424 



Pernambuco (Recife), 244 ; Brazil nuts, 

 cost of, 247 ; exports, 246 ; health 

 of, 246 ; landing passengers, 245 ; 

 market on board, 246 ; rafts (cata- 

 marans), 245 ; rainy season, 247, 320; 

 curious sandstone reef, 244, 246, 256 

 note ; storms, 320 ; telephone, 247 



Petropolis, 215, 216; cold at, 215; 

 cotton mill, 219; German colony, 

 220 ; Hotel MacDowel, 215 ; garden, 

 216; mountain scenery, 218; mete- 

 orological notes, 344 ; public road, 

 Uniao e Industria Co., 217, 219; 

 railway, 213, 214, 221, 423, 424; 

 rivers, 217 ; old coach road, 219 



Picadas, 62, 72 



Pigs, 53. 60 ; sucking, 64 



Pineapples, 148 



Pink's Oxford and Cambridge Sauce, 



147 

 Pitanguy, 27, 68, 70, 152, 270; mines 



at, 262 ; newspaper, 98 

 Pitcairn Islanders, 191 

 Piano Inclinado (Sta. Theresa), 45, 225 

 Plantations, 25, 172 

 Plants, 173. Vide Botany, etc. 



