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Index 



121 ; atrocious suffering caused 

 by, 151; 175, 176; many queer, 

 183; 193, 211, 212; torments 

 from, 232; danger from wild 

 animals less than from, 232, 

 233 ; 259, 260, 262, 268, 272, 282, 

 306; festering wounds caused 

 by bites of. 311; 330. See 

 Mosquitoes, Flies, Wasps, 

 Ants. 

 "Instituto serum-therapico, 14 

 Irala, the Spanish explorer, 60 

 Itacoatiara, 320 



Jabiru storks, SO, 66, 70, 93, 94; 

 Fiala takes a moving picture 

 of, 111; 155 



Jacanas, 74 



Jacare-tinga. See Caymans. 



Jacu, 263, 265, 269 



Jacyparana, the, 271 



Jaguar, 27, 32, 33, 55; hunt for, 

 79-85; cattle preyed on by, 85, 

 86; spears and rifles used in 

 hunting, 105 ; unsuccessful 

 hunt for, 117-119; melanism 

 common among, 127; trees 

 refuge of, 142; kills bullock, 

 344 



Jaguarundi, 127 



Jararaca, 12, 13, 21, 23; mus- 

 surama fights, 24-26; man bit- 

 ten by, 54; 137; stories of, 227 



Jesuits, missions of the, 44 



Jdao, Kermit's helmsman, 275- 

 277, 291 



Johnston, Sir Harry, 42 



Juina,.the, 229 



Julio, 250, 298; story of tragedy 

 caused by, 311-317 



Jungle, man strayed in, 163 



Juruena, the, 134, 135, 187, 208, 

 216; arrival at, 219; 348 



Kipling, poems of, 203 



Lambert', Doctor Alexander, 259 

 Lamps, Appendix B, 387 

 Landor, Savage, 179; Colonel 

 Rondon's scathing review of, 

 note, Appendix A, 359-361 



Languages, Guarany, 44-46; 56, 

 161 



La Plata Museum, 32; Appendix 

 A, 366 



"Las Palmeiras," visit to ranch 

 of, 66, 69; cattle at, 72; de- 

 lightful stay at, 90; leave, 112 



"Last Frontier," in Brazil, 333 



Lauriado, Lieutenant, 182, 208, 

 221, 340 



Lecture engagements, 2, 9 



Lobo, 279 



Long Island, spring on, 173, 329 



Lowell, 177 



Luiz, steersman, 250, 263, 279, 

 280 



Lyra, Lieutenant Joao, 52, 132, 

 158, 171, 184, 187, 189, 208, 210, 

 235, 247, 250, 259, 260, 262, 

 266-272, 275, 279, 282, 283, 291, 

 296, 297, 300, 302, 304-308, 310, 

 311, 313, 317, 321, 328, 329, 335, 

 341, 345 



Macario, 302 



MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius, 

 1 



Machetes, 118, 149, 179; falcons, 

 Brazilian name for, 320 



Mackenzie, Murdo, 125 



Madeira, the, 133-135, 189, 238, 

 247, 271, 327, 342, 343, 350 



Madeira-Marmore Railroad, 242 



Madeirainha River, 335-338 



Magalhaes, Captain Amilcar de, 

 52 



Mammals, 70 ; variety in fecun- 

 dity of different families of, 

 76; 99, 112, 166; noteworthy 

 collection of, 343 



Manaos, 247, 338, 341-346 



Mandioc, 193 



Mantes, Praying, 192 



Marino, Lieutenant, 219 



Marques, Dom Joao, the young- 

 er, 103, 105; his gift to Colonel 

 Roosevelt, 113 



Marques, Senhor Joao da Costa, 

 103 ; noteworthy family of, 105 



Marsh, difficult swim across, 118 



