CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



OUTWARD BOUND. 



Off— Land's End — Sounding— The Gironde — Bordeaux— Civil marriage 

 — Electric light— Bay of Carril— Vigo— Emigrants — Lisbon — Peak 

 of Teneriffe — St. Paul's Rocks — Fernando de Neronha — Abrolhos 



CHAPTER IL 

 ARRIVAL AT RIO, AND JOURNEY TO QUELUZ. 

 Bay of Rio de Janeiro — The town — ^Jardim Botanico — Railway journey to 

 Carandahy — Scenery — Fellow-travellers — Hotel — Ride to Queluz — 

 Engineers — Ox-carts — Paraopeba ... ... ... ... 19 



CHAPTER in. 



PRELIMINARY EXPLORATIONS. 



Exploring the first sectioij — Village of Serra — Brumado — Road to 

 Suassuhy — Canyons — Fazenda da Boa Vista — Preparations for work 

 — Back to Rio — Hill of Sta. Theresa— Return to Minas Geraes ... 35 



' CHAPTER rv. 



RIDE UP COUNTRY. 



A friend in need — A curious letter — Postal delinquencies — Delays — John 

 Baptist — Orioles — Pedra Branca — Such a funny cat — An old fazenda 

 — An awkward position — Fazenda do Campo Novo— Capella Nova — 

 City of Rio de Peixe — Camp — Bad bridges — A roadside farm — 

 Fazenda da Mata — Patriarchal customs — Longevity — A welcome hut 

 — Cajuru — Politics — A pleasant Sunday — Goitres — Fazenda Fruc- 

 tuoso — Sao Gonfalo da Para — A ride round — Torture of an arma- 

 dillo — The priest— Camp — Poisoned fish— The colonel — Valley of 

 Rio de Peixe ... ... ... ... ... ... 4S 



