Index 



403 



Floating islands, 345 



"Fly-dope," 259, Appendix B, 

 369 



Flying-fish, 293 



Food, 186; oxen for, 209, 239; 

 248; monkeys as, 255; econo- 

 mizing, 272; palm-tops used 

 for, 281, 295, 296; shortage of, 

 295; country furnishes scant 

 supply of, 295, 296 ; toucan and 

 parrots as, 299; high prices 

 for, 331 ; vegetables and fruits 

 raised by settles for, 332; Ap- 

 pendix B, 377; itemized list 

 of, 379-381 



Football, extraordinary game of, 

 197-199 



Forage, scarcity of, 215, 229, 231 



Forests, 7, 59, 70, 136 ; multitudes 

 of insects inhabit, 151 ; 179, 

 180; absolute necessity for a 

 compass in, 163, 180 ; 216, 252 ; 

 difficulty of hunting in, 266; 

 272, 305 



Fort Bourbon, 57 



Franga, the cook, ghostly belief 

 of, 314 



Franco, Ricardo, 189, 190, 219 



Frogs, peculiar cries of, 210, 236 



Fungi, 168 



Game, big, inadequate knowledge 

 of life histories of, 119, 120 



Gauchos, 95, 96 



Geographer, work of field, in 

 South America, Appendix A, 

 353, 354 



Geological structure of land, 237 



Goff, Johnny, 119 



Gopher rat, 245, 246 



Graves, forlorn, 203, 210, 231 



Guapore, the, 189 



Guarany, 44-46 



Guiana, 347 



Gy-Parana, the, 134, 135 ; descent 

 of the, 158; boat, men, and 

 provisions lost ascending the, 

 159; 247, 270, 271, 348 



Hammocks, Appendix B, 368, 

 374 



Harper, Frank, 4, S, 166; speci- 

 mens and unnecessary bag- 

 gage returned to New York 

 in care of, 171 



Haseman, John D., 177, Appen- 

 dix A, 359-362; theories of, 

 363-367 



Headball, 198, 199, 204 



Head-nets, 212, 220, 232 



Herford, Oliver, nonsense 

 rhymes of, 197 



Hoehne, the botanist, 172 



Honey, 263 



Honey-creeper, 237 



Horses, 69, 76, curious relations 

 of tapirs and, 147 



Houses, native, 101, 132, 220, 

 233, 244 



Huatsui, camp at, 212 



Hudson, Mr., author of "Natu- 

 ralist on the Plata," 29, 34, 87; 

 Appendix A, 355 



Humboldt, 356 



Hunters, native, 78; one chris- 

 tened "Nips," 78; curious ig- 

 norance regarding habits of 

 animals of native and other, 

 86; riding costume of, 149; 

 lack of sense of direction of, 

 180 



Huquen, Marcelino, 31 



Huxley, 360, 367 



Ibis, turtles' nests plundered by, 

 103 



Iguanas, 228 



Indian mounds, 105 



Indians, 49; civilization of tribes 

 of, 52; fishing village of, 105; 

 governmental treatment of the, 

 157; wages paid the, 193; 

 Colonel Rondon's treatment of 

 the, 193; telegraph-line pa- 

 trolled by, 194; huts of, 244; 

 dog killed by, 279, 280; 286, 

 287 



Insects, 40, 41 ; man's worst ani- 

 mal foes, 41, 42; a menace to 

 wilderness travel, 55; 69, 101; 

 perpetuation of species of, 



