.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



H.M.S. Beagle in Straits of Magellan. Mt. Sarmiento 



IN the distance .... Frontispiece- 



Fernando Noronha ...... i 



Incrustation of Shelly Sand . ... 9 



Diodon maculatus (Distended and Contracted) . . -13 



Pelagic Conferv/e . . . . . .15 



Catamaran (Bahia) . . . . . .18 



BoTOFOGO Bay, Rio Janeiro . . . . .19 



Vampire Bat (Desmodus D'Orbignyi) , , . .23 



Virgin Forest ..... > . To face 25 



Cabbage Palm .... ... 26 



Mandioca or Cassava . . . . . .27 



Rio Janeiro ...... To face 32 



Darwin's Papilio feronia, 1833, now called Ageronia 



feronia, 1889 . . . . . .39 



Hydroch.^rus capybara or Water-Hog . . .40 



Recado or Surcingle of Gaucho . . . .46 



Halt at a Pulperia on the Pampas . . . .64 



El Carmen, or Pat agones, Rio Negro . . .65 



Brazilian Whips, Hobbles, ^ND Spurs . . .75 



Bringing in a Prisoner . . , . .84 



Irregular Troops . . . . . .85 



Skinning Uji or Water Serpents . . . .103 



