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INDEX 



Peons, 48, 65, 71. 



Peres, Colonel Telles, 301. 



Pescada, a, 314. 



Photographic supplies. Appendix B, 

 368, 369. 



Pineapples, wild, 291. 



Pioneers, 323, 324. 



Pipes, natives dance to, 200. 



Piraiba, 311, 312. 



Piranha, or cannibal fish, 41, 42, 43; 

 stories of attacks by, 51, 52; Miller's 

 study of the, 62, 63; 86; dogs' tails 

 bitten off by, 133; 280; flesh of, good 

 eating, 292; 310, 313, 314; attack 

 Cherrie, 331. 



Plan Alto, the, 119, 169; healthy re- 

 gion of, 174-176; 177; singular 

 topographical feature of, 232. 



Plantains, or pacovas, 174, 260. 



Portages, 251, 254, 293, 296, 309, 314. 



Porto Campo, 132, 140, 141. 



Porto Martinho, 54. 



Positivists, the, 49. 



Pranchas, native trading-boats, 132, 

 160. 



Provisions, 6, 41, 155; tin cases of, 165, 

 166; loss of ferry-load of, 233; 241, 

 242; half supply of, consumed, 289; 

 Fiala's suggestions for, Appendix 

 B, 359. 362. 



Puma. See Cougar. 



Puma-skin helmet, a, 224. 



Pyrineus, Lieutenant, 52, 263, 264, 

 278,289,330,331,332. 



"Queixada," the, 141. 

 Quinine, 275. 



Rain, severe storm of, 107; beginning 

 of rainy season, 109, no; forty-eight 

 hour fall of, 113; 174, 184, 196, 199; 

 difficulties of travelling in rainy sea- 

 son, 215; 220, 221, 229, 230, 248, 

 283; end of rainy season, 297, 321. 



Rainey, Paul, hounds used by, 115. 



Ramsey, 1 21. 



Ranches, 156, 157, IS9, 160. 



Rapids, 160; a mishap in the, 215; 

 form serious obstacle, 251; 252, 2SS> 



256, 258, 259, 261; Broken Canoe, 

 262; 267, 268, 269, 270, 273, 27s, 284, 

 28s, 289, 291, 293, 294, 295; time 

 spent in going through, 298; note on, 

 299; 300, 309, 312, 313, 314; Panela, 

 322; Inferno, 325, 326; Infernino, 

 327; Carupanan, 328; last of the, 



329- 



"Regional Volunteers," 263. 



Regions, healthy, 189, 190, 197; enter 

 wilder, 203; rich and fertile, 290, 

 291; beautiful, 313. 



Reinisch, Colonel Rondon's taxider- 

 mist, 109, 228. 



Religions, 5, 56, 57; need for churches 

 of all, 56, 57; liberty for all, 57. 



Rheas, ostriches, 175. 



Ribeiro, Miranda, 263. 



Rickard, Tex, 40, 45. 



Rifles, S, 206, 229, 269; Appendix B, 



3S3, 363- 



Rio Branco, 322. 



Rio Cardozo, 310, 318, 326. 



Rio de Janeiro, 8, 339. 



Rio Grande do Sul, 214. 



Rio Kermit, 276, 278, 340. 



Rio Marciano Avila, 340. 



Rio Negro, 333. 



Rio Papagaio, 180, 195, 203; Fiala's 

 loss on, 215; 216, 331. 



RioSacre, 184, 188. 



River of Doubt (Rio da Duvida), 8, 

 130, 181, 182; preparations for de- 

 scent of the, 241, 242; start down, 

 243; probable direction of, 255; im- 

 portance of the, 277; possible course 

 of, 277; formally christened Rio 

 Roosevelt, 278; conjectures as to, 

 289; losses in rapids of, 299; junc- 

 tion of Rio Cardozo and, 3 10; is put 

 upon the map, 317, 318; length of 

 the, 330, 333, 339; source of, 339, 

 340. 



Rivers, 6, 7, 211; hazards of descending 

 unknown, 216; 300, 301; methods 

 of crossing, 223; 229; courses and 

 outlets of, 232. 



Robiliard, Mr., 334. 



Rodeo, or round-up, 102. 



