Index 



409 



game hunter and faunal nat- 

 uralist in, 120; ferocity of cer- 

 tain small animals in, 173; 

 much exploring work to be 

 done in, 177 ; two great water- 

 falls of, 199; impostors among 

 explorers of, 261 ; early semi- 

 civilizations in, 301 ; social and 

 industrial development of, Ap- 

 pendix A, 353; travellers in, 

 353, 357; wilderness work to 

 be done in, 358 



Southern Cross, the, 49, 80 



Sparrows, 173 



Spear, jaguar, 106 



Spiders, a colony of, 183, 213, 

 214, 239 



Squirrels, 137 



Stilts, 201 



Stirrups, ornamental, 106 



Stockton, Frank R., stories by, 

 192 



Store, the first, 334 



Sunsets, contrasted, 203 



Surveying, method of, 250, 251; 

 instruments for. Appendix B, 

 388 



Swallows, 164 



"Swiss Family Robinson," 78 



Tamandua bandeira. See Ant- 

 eater. 



Tanageira, Doctor, 270 



Tapajos, the, 134, 135, 187, 189, 

 216, 247, 347 



Tapirapoan, 136, 158; start up- 

 stream for, 160; arrival at, 

 165; party divides at, 170; 172 



Tapirs, 138, 140, 142-144, 146; 

 curious relation of horse and, 

 147 



Tapirs, River of. See Sepotuba. 



Taquary, the, 66 



Taunay River, 296, 349 



Telegraph, establishment of, 158; 

 wages paid for work on wil- 

 derness lines of, 159, 193; 

 spiders swarm on, 239 



Telegraphic Commission, 157, 

 J65, 181, 210; work gf, 217; 



Juruena first mapped by, 220; 

 labor of, 327; solution of 

 River of Doubt mystery made 

 possible by previous work of. 



Tents, 214, 247; Appendix B, 

 368 



Thermometers, Appendix B, 390 



Tools, Appendix B, 387, 388 



Tragedy, a terrible, 311-317 



Transportation, 189 



Travellers, status of the ordi- 

 nary, 176-178; ignorance of 

 certain, 261; three categories 

 of. Appendix A, 353-357 



Trees, 49, 50, 74; taruman, 81; 

 flowers on, 100; 139; fig, 149; 

 160-164, 179, 190; fossil trunk 

 of, 234; 235, 251; barriers 

 formed by, 253; bee, 263; 

 rubber, 235, 275, 292; arapu- 

 tanga, 287; fruit of cajazeira, 

 291; peculiarity of, 293; 300. 

 See Palm. 



Tree-toad, 264 



Tres Burity, government ranch 

 at, 239, 242 



"Trigueiro," one of the dogs, 67, 

 275, 277, 323 



Tropics, entered the, 49; iron 

 cruelty of life in the, 151 



Turtle, land, 160; river, 322 



"Twelfth of October," 235 



University of Pennsylvania, a 



Paraguayan graduate of the, 



48 

 Uruguay, 9 



Utensils, Indian, 209, 244, 245 

 Utiarity Falls, 186; arrival at, 



200; telegraph station at, 201; 



beauty of, 201, 202, 206 



Vaqueiros, 106, 126, 145 

 Viedma, Lake, 29 

 Vilhena, 235-239 

 Vines, 100, 114 

 Vireo, 234 



Wallace, 345 



