CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAOK 



Departure from England — Porto Santo — Madeira — Funchal — 

 Hammer-headed Shark — MoUusca — Grand Curral — Phos- 

 phorescence of Sea — Porto Grande — Botany of St. Vincent 

 — Marine Zoology, Fish, MoUusca 1 



CHAPTER 11. 



Voyage to Rio— Towing-net — lanthina — Porpita — Parasite on 

 flying-fish — Halobates — Swallows — Sharks and pilot-fish — 

 Jaseur Bank — Foraminifera — Arrival at Rio — Passao Publico 

 — Sensitive plant — Botanic Gardens — Rio Comprido Valley — 

 Nictheroy — Remarkable insect-nest — Thorny palms — Curious 

 butterfly — Marine animals — Gale — Idotea annulata — Pam- 

 pero — ^Enter the River Plate — Cobwebs — Monte Video — 

 Agave — Tall thistles — Verbenas — Teru-Tero — Petunia — 

 Ants — Poverty of marine zoology — The Mount . . .25 



CHAPTER m. 



Maldonado — Botany — Ornithology — Ampullaria — Voluta - — Pej e 

 Rey — Capture of terrestrial and freshwater beetles in the tow- 

 ing-net — Sycozoa — Entomostraca — Macrocystis : its growth, 

 distribution, etc. — Enter the Strait of Magellan — Arrive at 

 the Chilian settlement of Punta Arenas or Sandy Point — 

 Climate — Products — Plants growing near the beach — Tame 

 Guanacos — Centrites niger — Senecio candidans — Serolis — 

 Lithodes — Parroquets — Cuttle-fish — Antarctic and evergreen 



