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INDEX. 



Casa Grande, 75, in ; Olhos d'Agua, 

 103 ; Sao Amaro, 35, 78, 80 ; sermon, 

 78 ; calvary, 80 ; Sao Caetano, 42 ; 

 Sao Gonalo do Para, 65 ; Priest, 

 66, 69 ; Serra dos Olhos d'Agua, 35, 

 41 ; Suassuhy, 35, 37, 178 



Virgin forest, 24, 25, 90, 131, 139, 

 170, 178, 185, 206; beauty of, 90; 

 in Spanish Honduras, 90 



Visitors. Vide Native customs 



Vista Chineza (Tijuca), 223 



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Wasps (marimbombos), 85, 122, 399 



Waterfalls, 66, 90, 219 



Water-mill (monjolo), 137 



Waterworks, at Lisbon, 1 1 ; at Rio de 

 Janeiro, 224, 225, 237 



Weather. Vide Meteorological notes, 

 322 ; cold, 174, 176 ; fine, end of 

 spring, 84 ; early summer, 1 20 ; 

 summer, 142 ; winter, 34 ; tempera- 

 ture, 27 ; cloudless days, 58. Vide 

 Spring-time 



Wedding-party, 73 



Weights and measures, note on, 299 ; 



long and square measures, 299 ; 

 cubic and wine measures, avoirdu- 

 pois, weights for diamonds and 

 gold, 300 



Wild Indians, 70 



Will-o'-the-wisp, 124 



Wine-shops, 53, 63, 65 



Wolf (lobo or Aguara), visit to our 

 camp, 86 ; habits of, 350 ; deriva- 

 tion of Indian name, 351 ; wolf- fruit 

 tree, 351 



Women : Good-looking coloured girl, 

 56 ; women kept secluded in Minas 

 Geraes, 38, 56 



Woodpeckers (birds), 81, 360 



Woods (ornamental), 80, 91 



Woollen clothing, 177 



Workmen, my, 77, 78, 79, 81, no, 

 137 



Yams, 64, 68, 73, 84, 129, 134 ; size 



of, 129 

 Yellow fever (Rio de Janeiro), 187, 



201 ; treatment, 202 ; vaccination, 



203 



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