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Index. 



Quito street scene, 60. * 



" suburbs, 55, 69. 



" under the Incas, 56. 



" under the Spaniards, 57. 



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



" " archaeology of, 109, 112. 

 Quitonians, character of the, 71, 86. 

 " primeval, 109. 



Rain-fall at Quito, 93. 



" on the Maranon, 379, 614. 

 Rain-line on the Andes, 45. 

 Raposa, 233, 311. 

 Regularity of nature, 92, 411. 

 Religion of Ecuador, 87. 

 Religious intolerance, 91. 

 Reptiles at Quito, 107. 



" on the Amazons, 296, 482. 

 Revenue of Ecuador, 87. 

 Ride down the Andes, 180, 451. 

 Rimos Indians, 322. 

 Riobamba, 150, 153. 

 Rise and fall of the Amazons, 583. 

 River systems of South America, 118, 



275. 

 Roads on the Andes, 43, 53, 74, 393. 

 Rodents on the Amazons, 309. 

 Romanism on the Andes, 88. 

 Rose of the Andes, 103. 

 Routes across South America, 325, 



385, 620. 

 Ruminagui, 146. 



Sailing craft on the Amazons, 352. 



Saliter, 435. 



Salt on the Andes, 196, 388, 392 



San Antonio, 233. 



Sand-dunes, 414. 



Sand-flies, 224. 



Sangai volcano, 150. 



San Paulo, 237. 



San Regis, 383. 



Santarem, 251, 366. 



Santa Rosa, 201. 



Santiago River, 350. 



Sapucaya nut, 290, 502. 



Sara vac u, 383. 



Sarsaparilla, 224, 523. 



Sauba ants, 194, 300, 486. 



Savages on the Napo, 221. 



Savaneta, 40. 



Saw-mills on the Amazons, 374, 377, 



491. 

 Scenery on the Amazons, 253, 363. 

 Sea-cows, 215, 299, 477. 

 Seasons on the Amazons, 581. 



Serpa, 247. 



Shells in Quito valley, 109. 



" in the Amazons valley, 295. 

 Sierra, 33. 



Silk-cotton-tree, 220, 289, 533. 

 Silk-culture, 108, 439. 

 Silver mines, 440. 

 Sincholagua, 146. 

 Skin-diseases, 590. 

 Sloths, 310. 



Slow-worm on the Napo, 194. 

 Snakes, scarcity of, 195, 332. 



" on the Amazons, 305, 483. 

 Snow at high altitudes, 138. 



" limit in the Andes, 125. 

 Soil in the Amazons valley, 286, 489. 

 Solimoens, 237, 376. 

 South America, geology of, 114. 



" American fauna and flora, 103. 



" " Indians, 315, 454. 



Southerners on the Amazons, 240. 



251, 368. 

 Spanish character, 328. 

 " language, 71. 

 " republicanism, 58. 

 Spiders on the Amazons, 304, 483. 

 Spruce, Dr., 537, 538. 

 Stars at Quito, 97. 

 Staunton, Col., burial of, 91, 334. 

 Steam on the Amazons, 230, 234. 



330, 353. 

 Storm on the Napo, 213. 

 Straw-hats, 392. 

 Sugar in Peru, 436. 



" on the Amazons, 252. 



" on the Andes, 329. 

 Sugar-cane on the Amazons, 291, 



520. 

 Suno, 205. 

 Superstition, 54. 



Tabatinga, 233, 378. 



Table-lands of the Old World, 152. 



Tablon, 178. 



Tacunga, 53. 



Tambillo ridge, 55. 



Tanibo on the mountains, 40, 394. 



Tapajos River, 270, 340, 355. 



Tapir, 104, 310, 474. 



Tariff' at Para, 361, 374, 629. 



TeflTe, 239, 378. 

 " River, 269, 470. 



Temperature, correspondence of alti- 

 tude and latitude as to, 145. 



Termite ants, 301. 



Textile plants, 532. 



