INDEX 



373 



Sao Luis de Caceres, 8, 115 ; arrival 

 at 122 ; fine government school at, 

 123, 187 



Sao Paulo, 13, 14, 123 



Scents, 157 



Scorpion, a, 290 



Sepotuba, the, or River of Tapirs, 

 127 ; fine cattle country along the, 



146 ; exploration and first maps of, 



147 ; camp beside, 163, 187 

 Sequoia, 43 



Serpents, 290 



" Sertao," or wilderness, note, 196 



Serums, anti-venom, 9, 12, 13, 15, 

 Appendix B, 343 



" Shenzi," one of the dogs, G3 



Shipton, Major, 232 



Sigg, Jacob, 4, 6, 9 ; motor-boat im- 

 povised by, 123, 155, 174, 192 ; 

 return to Tapirapoan, 194 



Simplicio, 258 ; death of, 258 



Skobelo£f, 1 



Sloth, a, 321 



Smith, Mr. Lord, 27 



Snakes, 9, 10, 11 ; poison of, 12, 13- 

 20 ; some mammals immune to 

 bites of, 20, 21, 128; stories of, 

 213, 221, 239, 240 



Snethlage, Miss, 166, 324 



Solimoens, 323 



South America, topography of, 6, 7 ; 

 ceremony of public functions in, 

 44 ; Christianity in, 49 ; education 

 in, 65 ; mammalian and avifauna 

 of, 66, 67 ; need for work of col- 

 lector in, 70 ; rich bird fauna of, 

 104 ; field for work of big-game 

 hunter and faunal naturalist in, 

 112 ; ferocity of certain small 

 animals in, 162 ; much exploring 

 work to be done in, 166 ; two great 

 waterfalls of, 187 ; impostors among 

 explorers of, 244 ; early semiciviliza- 

 tions in, 281 ; social and industrial 

 development of. Appendix A, 331 ; 

 travellers in, 331, 333, 334 ; wilder- 

 ness work to be done in, 334 



Southern Cross, the, 46, 75 



Sparrows, 162 



Spear, jaguar, 100 



Spiders, a colony of, 171, 200, 201, 

 224 



Squirrels, 128 



Stilts, 188 



Stirrups, ornamental, 100 



Stockton, Frank, stories by, 179 



Store, the first, 313 



Sunsets, contrasted, 190 



Surveying, method of, 234, 235 ; in- 

 struments for, Appendix B, 366, 

 357 



" Swiss Family Robinson," 73 



TamanduA bandeira. See Ant-eater 



Tanageira, Doctor, 253 



Tapajos, the, 124, 125, 175, 177, 203, 



231, 324 

 Tapirapoan, 147 ; start up-stream for, 



149 ; arrival at, 154 ; party divides 



at, 159, 161 

 Tapirs, 129, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136 ; 



curious relation of horse and, 137 

 Tapirs, River of. See Sepotuba 

 Taquary, the, 60, 62 

 Taunay River, 277, 327 

 Telegraph, establishment of, 147 ; 



high wages paid for work on wilder- 

 ness lines of, 149, 181 ; spiders 



swarm on, 224 

 Telegraphic Commission, 164, 170, 



197 ; work of, 203 ; Juruena first 



mapped by, 206 ; labour of, 306 ; 



solution of River of Doubt mystery 



made possible by previous work of, 



325, 326 

 Tents, 201, 231 ; Appendix B, 342 

 Thermometers, Appendix B, 358 

 Tools, Appendix B, 356 

 Tragedy, a terrible, 290-296; note, 



296 

 Transportation, 176 

 Travellers, status of the ordinary, 



164,165, 166 ; ignorance of certain, 



244 ; three categories of. Appen- 

 dix A, 331, 332, 333, 334 

 Trees, 47, 48, 69 ; taruman, 76, 94 ; 



flowers on, 94, 130 ; fig, 139, 150 ; 



fruit and flowers on, 153, 168, 178 ; 



fossil trunk of, 219, 221, 236; 



barriers formed by, 237 ; bee, 246 ; 



rubber, 257, 273 ; araputanga, 269 ; 



fruit of cajazeira, 272 ; peculiarity 



of, 273, 280. See Palm 

 Tree-toad, 247 

 Tres Burity, Government ranch at, 



227 

 "Trigueiro," one of the dogs, 63, 



257, 259, 302 

 Tropics, entered the, 46 ; iron cruelty 



of life in the, 141 

 Turtle, a land, 150, 301 

 "Twelfth of October," 220 



