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Index. 



Porphyroid trachytes, 124, 

 Porpoises, 299. 

 Porto do Moz, 253. 

 Potatoes on the Andes, 101 . 

 Potato soup, 44, 50. 

 Prayinha, 253. 

 President's order, 176. 

 Priests of Quito, 89. 

 Protestant cemetery, 90, 334. 

 Puma, 105. 

 Pumice, 148. 



" on the Amazon, 26^^. 

 Puna, 96. 



Purus Indians, 318. 

 " Elver, 269. 



Quadrupeds on the Amazon, 309. 

 Quartz, paucity of, 122. 



Quito agriculture, 75. 



',' amusements, 80. 



" architecture, 78. 



" arts, 78. 



" atmosphere, 96. 



" bells, 89. 



" birds, 106. 



" bull-baits, 80, 94. 



" butterflies, 108. 



" capital, 66. 



" carnival, 81. 



" climate, 91. 



" cock-fights, 81. 



" cookery, 84. 



" currency, 75. 



" diseases, 93. 



" dress, 69. 



" drunkenness, 142. 



" education, 79. 



" fashions, 70. 



" fish, 108. 



" flour, 98, 101. 



" history, 56, 152. 



" insects, 108. 



" ladies, 70, 81. 



" manufactures, 77. 



" market, 77. 



" masquerades, 81 . 



" merchants, 74. 



" newspapers, 80. 



" politics, 86. 



" population, 68. 



" potatoes, 101. 



" prices, 329. 



" Protestant cemetery, 90. 



" rehgion, 87. 



" reptiles, 107. 



" scenery, 178. 



Quito servants, 83. 



" situation, 55, 59, 62. 



" streets and buildings, 64, 65. 



" street scene, 60. 



" suburbs, 55, 59. 



" under the Incas, 56. 



" under the Spaniards, 57. 



" VaUey, 51, 55, 73, 149, 152. 



" " archaeologv' of, 109, 1 1 2. 

 Quitonians, character of the, 71, 86. 

 " primeval, 109. 



Rain-fall at Quito, 93. 



" line on the Andes, 45. 

 Raposa, 233, 311. 

 Regularity of nature, 92. 

 Religion of Ecuador, 87. 

 Religious intolerance, 91, 347. 

 Reptiles at Quito, 107. 



" on the Amazon, 296. 

 Revenue of Ecuador, 87. 

 Ride doAvn the Andes, 180. 

 Rimos Indians, 322. 

 Riobamba, 150, 153. 

 River systems of South America, 118, 



275. 

 Roads on the Andes, 43, 53, 74. 

 Rodents on the Amazon, 309. 

 Romanism on the Andes, 88. 

 Rose of the Andes, 1 03. 

 Routes across South America, 325. 

 Ruminagui, 146. 



Salt on the Andes, 19^!. 



San Antonio, 233. 



Sand-flies, 224. 



Sangai volcano, 150. 



San Paulo, 237. 



Santarem, 251. 



Santa Rosa, 201. 



Sapucaya nut, 290. 



Sarsaparilla, 224. 



Saiiba ants, 1 94, 300. 



Savages on the Napo, 221 . 



Savaneta, 40. 



Scenery on the Amazon, 253. 



Sea-cows, 215. 



Serpa, 247. 



Shells in Quito Valley, 109. 



" in the Amazon Valley, 295. 

 Sierra, 33. 



Silk-cotton-tree, 220, 289. 

 Sincholagua, 146. 

 Sloths, 310. 



Slow-worm on the Napo, 194. 

 Snakes, scarcity of, 195, 332. 



