INDEX. 



413 



Santos, 305, 306 



, tropical vegetation at, 307 



Sao Joao da Barra, 312 

 Sao Salvador, 346 

 Sarmiento Channel, 231 

 Sarmiento, Mount, 243, 244, 267, 



270 

 Scavenger bird, H2 

 Schinus niolle, 77 

 Sea-sickness, 217 

 Seaweed, bands of, 6 

 Senecio, the genus, 268 

 Serra da Mantiqueira, 313, 314 

 Serra do Mar, 308, 314 

 Shannon, Captain, 269 

 Simpson, Captain, 207 

 Sitka, 274 



Smyth's Channel, 231, 237 

 Solanum Tnanimosum^ 33 

 Soroche, mountain-sickness, 81 

 Soto, Don Olegario, 171 

 South America, tropical, origin of 



flora, 35 



, rainless zone of, 48 



South Brazil, plateau of, flora, 311 

 South Patagonia, glaciers in, 239 

 Southern Atlantic, climate of, 305 

 Southern Cross, 7, 253 

 Southern hemisphere, temperature 



of, 272-274 

 Spanish-Americans, indolence of. 



Species, groups of incomplete, 181 

 Staten Island, 252, 258 

 St. Antao Island, 359 

 Steamers, Pacific coast, 31 

 Straits of Magellan, 270 

 Sunstroke, causes of, 349, 350 

 Surco station, 75 

 Swinburne, Don Carlos, 154 



Taforo, Dr., 191 

 Tagus steamship, 344 

 Talca, 14S 

 Taltal, 133 

 Tamar, Cape, 240 

 Tambo de Mora, 119 

 Tarapaci, 125 

 Taraxacum Icevigatum, 263 



Telephone, use of, in South America, 



290 

 Tierra del Fuego, 245, 267 

 Tijuca, 338 



, giant tree near, 343 



, vegetation of, 341 



Tillandsia, 307 

 Titicaca, Lake of, 63, 66 

 Tocantins river, 315 

 Tocopilla, 128, 133 



, scenery of the moon, 129 



Trade wind, north-east, 6 



Trescott, Mr., 60 



Tres Montes, Cape, 218 



Trinidad, Gulf of, 231 



Triumph, the ship, 135 



Tropaolum. tuberosum, 78 



Trumpet-flower (Bignonia venusta), 



307. 3" 

 Tucuman, 294 

 Tumaco, 36 

 Tumbez, 43 

 Tupa Berterii, 184 



secunda, 184 



Tupungato, the Peak of, 153 



U 



Ucayali river, English settler at, 



96 

 Unalaschka, 274 

 Uruguay, climate of, 279 



, fossil remains in, 291 



, islands of the, 287 



Republic of, chronic disorder, 



282, 284, 285 

 Ushuaia, mission station at, 260 

 Ushuaja, 273 

 Uspallata Pass, 200 

 Utricularia, 33 



V 



Valdivia, 145 



Valparaiso, 138, 145 



, danger of earthquakes at, 



139 



Vegetation, equatorial, 33 

 Verbena family, 201 

 Viaducts, Oroya railway, 74 



