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INDEX 



University of Pennsylvania, a Para- 

 guayan graduate of the, 46 



Uruguay, 9 



Utensils of the Indians, 196, 229 



Utiarity Falls, 174 ; arrival at, 187 ; 

 telegraph station at, 188 ; beauty 

 of the, 188, 192 



Vaqueiros, 99, 118, 135 

 Viedma, Lake, 27 

 Vilhena, 220, 221, 222 

 Vines, 107 



Wallace, 323 



Wasps, orioles' nests surrounded by, 



96 ; dangerous sting of red, 110 ; 



spiders preyed on by, 113 ; mari- 



bundi, 128, 140, 235 ; ants plunder 



nests of, 157 

 Weapons, Indian, 196, 229 

 Weasel, tayra, 93 



Weather, 56, 61, 90, 106, 149, 

 159 



Wilderness, party enters the, 196 ; 

 difficulties of travel in, 202 ; eti- 

 quette of the, 225 ; first stage of 

 conquest of the, 313 ; geographical 

 and zoological work still to be done 

 in the. Appendix A, 334 



Wolf, red, 118 



Woods, 221 



Wrens, ant, 157 



Xingu, 177, 324 



Zahm, Father, 1, 2, 6 ; children bap- 

 tized by, 64, 123 ; Colonel Roose- 

 velt reminded of his wish to shoot 

 tapir and jaguar by, 136, 161, 174, 

 192 ; returns to Tapirapoan, 194 



Zoologist, work of field, in South 

 America, Appendix A, 331, 334 



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