CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



Porto Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric dust with Infusoria — Habits of a Sea- 

 slug and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic — Singular incrustations — 

 Insects the first colonists of Islands — Fernando Noronha — Bahia — Burnished 

 Rocks — Habits of a Diodon — Pelagic Conferva and Infusoria — Causes of dis- 

 coloured Sea ....... Pages 1-18 



CHAPTER n 



Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evaporation — Slavery — 

 Botofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planarise — Clouds on the Corcovado — Heavy rain 

 — Musical frogs — Phosphorescent insects — Elater, springing powers of — Blue 

 Haze — Noise made by a Butterfly — Entomology — Ants — Wasp killing a Spider 

 — Parasitical Spider — Artifices of an Epeira — Gregarious Spider — Spider with 

 an unsymmetrical web ...... '9-39 



CHAPTER HI 



Monte Video — Maldonado — Excursion to R. Polanco — Lazoand Bolas — Partridges — 

 Absence of trees — Deer — Capybara, or River Hog — Tucutuco — Molothrus, 

 cuckoo-like habits — Tyrant - flycatcher — Mocking-bird — Carrion Hawks — 

 Tubes formed by lightning — House struck . , . 40-64 



CHAPTER IV 



Rio Negro — Estancias attacked by the Indians — Salt Lakes — Flamingoes — R. 

 Negro to R. Colorado — Sacred Tree — Patagonian Hare — Indian Families — 

 General Rosas — Proceed to Bahia Blanca — Sand Dunes — Negro Lieutenant — 

 Bahia Elanca — Saline incrustations^Punta Alta — Zorillo . 65-84 



