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GENERAL INDEX. 



En el cainpo (Span.) "on the open plain" 

 123. 



England, magpies in, 78 ; wild geese, 80 ; cat- 

 tle-keeping, 126 ; probable effect of an earth- 

 quake, 191. 



Entre Rios (Span, pron., en'trd re'oce), a 

 South American country lying, as its name 

 signifies, "between rivers, "namely, the Pa- 

 rana and the Uruguay, 48. 



Eskimo, compared with Fuegian, 103. 



Estancia (Span, pron., es-tanth'e-ah\ a graz- 

 ing farm, estate, plantation, 30, 34, 125. 



Estanciero (Span, pron., es-tanth-e-er o~), a 

 planter, 115, 127. 



Eucalyp'tus, a species of Australian tree, blue- 

 gum, etc., 166, 167. 



Europe, fossil-bearing rocks of, 181. 



Eyre's Sound, west coast of Patagonia, 177. 



F. 



FAGUS betuloi'des, a kind of beech, 151. 



Falkland Islands, east of the southern end of 

 Patagonia, 65, 78-80, 124. 



Feast-days and idleness, 1 28 ; extravagance, 

 129. 



Finch, 60, 76 ; tameness, 78. 



Fire procured by Tahitians and Gauchos, 137. 



Fir-trees, petrified, 178, 1 8 1 . 



Flying-fish, food of noddy, 75, 78. 



Forests in the tropics, 1 70 ; petrified, 178, 181. 



Fossil remains in the arctic regions, 31 ; of the 

 Pampas, 149 ; shells and wood in Chile, 181 . 



Fox, 78, 79. 



Fuegians of Good Success Bay, 93; painted 

 skins, 94, 10/3 ; mimicry, 94 ; shell - heaps, 

 wigwams, 98 ; on the south coast, naked- 

 ness, 99 ; food, 100 ; famine, blubber-eating, 

 cannibalism, 101, 176; signal -fires, 101; 

 easy perspiration, 102 ; lowest of mankind, 

 103; of superior capacity to Australians, 

 104 ; dependence on kelp, 175. 



G. 



GALAPAGOS Islands (Span, pron., gah-lah'- 

 pah-goce), west of Ecuador, remarkable for 

 the differences between their animal species 

 and those of the main-land ; they got their 

 name from the great number of "turtles" 

 found on them, 50, 76, 79, 80. 



Gannet, 75. 



Gaucho (Span, pron., gah-oo'tcho\ a general 

 name for the inhabitant of the Pampas, 

 "countryman," fierce appearance, 116; 

 meat diet, 123 ; opinion of jaguar meat, 47 ; 

 steals Indian offerings, 111 ; forcing a horse 

 to swim, 29 ; horsemanship, 117-119 ; use 

 of lazo, 120; of bolas, 71, 121 ; night camp, 

 123, 124 ; mode of kindling a fire, 137. 



Geranium, 195. 



Glaciers, in Beagle Channel, 1 52, 153 ; on 

 Mount Sarmiento, 176 ; in Eyre's Sound 

 and Gulf of Penas, 177. 



Goeree Road (Eng. pron., go-re'}, a roadstead 

 on the south coast of Tierra del Fuego, south 

 of Lennox Island "goeree" means in Dutch 

 "good road" or " good anchorage " 151. 



Goitre, a diseased swelling of the neck, 128. 



Goldmines of Chile, 132. 



Good Success Bay, in the south-eastern ex- 

 tremity of Tierra del Fuego, 93. 



Goose, upland, tame, 79 ; wild, 80. 



Granite country furnishes clear water, 145 ; 

 not favorable to trees, 172 ; granite blocks 

 on icebergs, 177. 



Grasshoppers blown out to sea, 81. 



Greenstone carried to a lime coral-reef, 203. 



Guanaco (Span, pron., goo-ah-nah'ko), or wild 

 llama, the South American camel, 41 : 

 range, 42 ; curiosity, bold when tame, good 

 swimmer, 43 ; drinks salt-water, travels in 

 straight lines, prey of puma and birds, 44, 

 68 ; skin for clothing, 93, 99, 105. 



Guasco, a town of northern Chile, rainfall. 

 193. 



Guava, 164. 



Gulf of Penas (Span, pron., pan y ass), west 

 coast of Patagonia, 177. 



Gull, 51. 



II. 



HAWK, 78. 



Hay un gato encerrado aqui (Span, pron., ah'f 

 oon gah'to en-ther-rah' do ah-ke'} "there 

 is a cat shut up here" there is some mys- 

 tery about it, 132. 



Hibernation, passing the winter in a torpid 

 state, 195, 196. 



Horse, good swimmer, 29, 30 ; mares killed for 

 food and hides, 30, used to tread out wheat, 



