CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



Porto Pray a — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric dust with Infusoria — Habits of a Sea- 

 sh;g and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic — Singular incrustations — 

 Insects the first colonists of Islands — Fernando Noronha — Bahia — Burnished 

 Rocks — Habits of a Diodon — Pelagic Confervse and Infusoria — Causes of dis- 

 coloured Sea ....... Pages i-i8 



CHAPTER II 



Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evaporation — Slavery — 

 Botofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planarige — Clouds on the Corcovado — Heavy rain 

 — Musical frogs — Phosphorescent insects — Elater, springing powers of — Blue 

 Haze — Noise made by a Butterfly — Entomology — Ants — Wasp killing a Spider 

 —Parasitical Spider — Artifices of an Epeira — Gregarious Spider — Spider with 

 an unsymmetrical web ...... 19-39 



CHAPTER III 



Monte Video — Maldonado — Excursion to R. Polanco — Lazoand Bolas — Partridges — 

 Absence of trees — Deer — Capybara, or River Hog — Tucutuco — Molothrus, 

 cuckoo - like habits — Tyrant - flycatcher — Mocking - bird — Carrion Hawks — 

 Tubes formed by lightning — House struck . . . 40-64 



CHAPTER IV 



Rio Negro — Estancias attacked by the Indians — Salt Lakes — Flamingoes — R. 

 Negro to R. Colorado — Sacred Tree — Patagonian Hare — Indian Families — 

 General Rosas — Proceed to Bahia Blanca — Sand Dunes — Negro Lieutenant — 

 Bahia Elanca — Saline incrustations — Punta Alta — Zorillo . 65-84 



