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INDEX 



Smith, Mr. Lord, 28. 



Snakes, 9, 10, 11; poison of, 12, 13-20; 

 some mammals immune to bites of, 

 21, 22; 133; stories of, 222; 230, 249, 

 250. 



Snethlage, Miss, 172, 337. 



Solimoens, 336. 



South America, topography of, 6, 7; 

 ceremony of public functions in, 46; 

 Christianity in, 50; education in, 57; 

 mammahan and avifauna of, 68, 

 69, 70; need for work of collector in, 

 72; rich bird fauna of, 108; field for 

 work of big-game hunter and faunal 

 naturalist in, 116; ferocity of certain 

 small animals in, 168; much explor- 

 ing work to be done in, 172; two great 

 waterfalls of, 194; impostors among 

 explorers of, 254; early semiciviliza- 

 tions in, 292; social and industrial 

 development of. Appendix A, 343; 

 travellers in, 343, 345, 346; wilder- 

 ness work to be done in, 346. 



Southern Cross, the, 48, Tj, 



Sparrows, 168. 



Spear, jaguar, 103. 



Spiders, a colony of, 178, 208, 209, 233. 



Squirrels, 133. 



Stilts, 195. 



Stirrups, ornamental, 103. 



Stockton, Frank, stories by, 186. 



Store, the first, 325, 326. 



Sunsets, contrasted, 198. 



Surveying, method of, 244, 245; in- 

 struments for. Appendix B, 366, 367. 



"Swiss Family Robinson," 75. 



Tamandua bandeira. Sice Ant-eater. 



Tanageira, Doctor, 264. 



Tapajos, the, 128, 129, 182, 183, 211, 



241* 337- 

 Tapirapoan, 153; start up-stream for, 



155; arrival at, 160; party divides at, 



165; 167. 

 Tapirs, 134, 136, 138, 139, 140, 142; 



curious relation of horse and, 143. 

 Tapirs, River of. See Sepotuba. 

 Taquary, the, 62, 64. 

 Taunay River, 288, 340. 



Telegraph, establishment of, 153; high 

 wages paid for work on wilderness 

 lines of, 154, 187; spiders swarm on, 



233- 

 Telegraphic Commission, 160, 176, 

 206; work of, 212; Juruena first 

 mapped by, 214; labor of, 318; solu- 

 tion of River of Doubt mystery made 

 possible by previous work of, 33^^ 



339- 

 Tents, 209, 241; Appendix B, 353. 

 Thermometers, Appendix B, 368. 

 Tools, Appendix B, 366. 

 Tragedy, a terrible, 302-308, note, 307. 

 Transportation, 183. 

 Travellers, status of the ordinary, 171, 



172, 173; ignorance of certain, 254; 



three categories of, Appendix A, 343, 



344> 345. 346. 



Trees, 48, 49, 71; taruman, 78, 97; 

 flowers on, 97, 135; fig, 145, 156, 

 158, 159; fruit and flowers on, 159, 

 174, 185; fossil trunk of, 228; 230, 

 246; barriers formed by, 247; bee, 

 257; rubber, 268, 284; araputanga, 

 280; fruit of cajazeira, 283; pecu- 

 liarity of, 285; 291. See Palm. 



Tree-toad, 257, 258. 



Tres Burity, government ranch at, 

 236, 237. 



"Trigueiro," one of the dogs, 65, 268, 

 270,314. 



Tropics, entered the, 47; Iron cruelty 

 of life In the, 147. 



Turtle, a land, 155, 156, 313. 



"Twelfth of October," 229. 



University of Pennsylvania, a Para- 

 guayan graduate of the, 47. 



Uruguay, 9. 



Utensils, Indians, 204, 239. 



Utiarity Falls, 180; arrival at, 195; 

 telegraph station at, 195; beauty of 

 the, 196, 200. 



Vaqueiros, 103, 121, 1 40. 

 Viedma, Lake, 28. 

 Vilhena, 229, 231, 232. 

 Vines, no, in. 



