Index 



405 



Marsh plants, 108, 118 



Matte, 46, 55, 186; Appendix B, 

 381 



Matto Grosso, 9, 104; largest 

 ranch-house in, 113; 132, 134; 

 future possibilities of interior 

 of, 156, 157; beginnings of 

 province of, 189; 350 



McLean, , 126 



Meat, Appendix B, 378, 379 



Medicines, Appendix B, 369 



Mello Filho, Lieutenant Joaquin, 

 52, 182, 208, 234, 246 



Merriam, Hart, 84 



Mess-kit, Appendix B, 382 



Mice, new varieties of, 112 



Miller, Leo E., 3, 5, 9, 40, 43, 

 63-65, 73, 98, 99, 103; good 

 work done by, 166; 167-169, 

 173, 175, 186, 188, 205, 208, 210, 

 214, 218; interesting tales told 

 by, 228; 234, 236, 240, 245, 246, 

 249, 341; rejoins party, 343; 

 345-347; Appendix A, 357, 380 



Monkeys, black howler, 76, 108; 

 114, 116; nocturnal, 121; 125, 

 245, 253 ; flesh of, good eating, 

 255, 305; fish eats, 320; 346 



Montes, Captain Vicente, 32 



Montevideo, 14 



Moreno, Doctor Francisco P., 

 extraordinary discoveries of, 

 27, 28; puma attacks, 29-32; 

 Appendix A, 366 



Mosquito-biers, 232 



Mosquitoes, 103, 114, 118, 124; 

 few, 162; absence of, 187; 233, 

 330 



Motors, Appendix B, 373 



Motor-trucks, 182, 186 



Mountains, 302, 304 



Mules, pack, 165, 174; 175, 186; 

 weather exhausts, 204; loads 

 for the, 214; weakness of, 214, 

 215; abandoned, 214, 231; pas- 

 turage for, 232, 233 ; loads for, 

 Appendix B, 374 



Miiller, General Lauro, 8, 51, 

 188, 286; Colonel Roosevelt's 

 letter to. Appendix B, 393-395 



Mundurucu Indians, 338 

 Museums, trained observers 



should be sent into wilderness 



by, 166 

 Music, 145, 206, 224, 225, 241 

 Mussurama, 15, 18-21; jararaca 



fights, 24-26 



Natives, 138 



Naturalists, outdoor, possibilities 

 for useful work of, 74, 75, 93, 

 94; slight experience of big 

 game possessed by most, 119, 

 120; ideal place for work of 

 field, 124; museums should 

 send into the wilderness 

 trained, 166 



Navaite Rapids, 259-261 



Nests, communal, 124; troupials', 

 163 



Nhambiquara Indians, 200; land 

 of the, 208; 211; Colonel Ron- 

 don's just treatment of the, 

 222 ; no wilder savages than 

 the, 222; life and habits of, 

 222-224; improvised dance of 

 the, 224; dog stolen by, 225; a 

 visit from three, 229; former 

 hostility of, 230; an encamp- 

 ment of, 240; their lack of 

 clothing, 241 ; ornaments of, 

 244; probable strain of negro 

 blood in, 244; archery of, 246; 

 258; the Navaite, a sub-tribe 

 of the, 259 



"Nips," a native hunter, 78 



North, the call of the, 329 



Nunlet, 169 



Nuts, Brazil, 270, 300; crop of, 

 fails, 335 



Nuts, unwholesome, 324 



Nyoac, the river boat, 98 



Ocelot, 127, 128 



Oliveira, Doctor Euzebio de, the 



geologist, 52, 188, 208, 234, 237 

 Onelli, Doctor, 32 

 ' Opossum, 99, 173 

 Orchids, 137, 155, 163; sobralia, 



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