INDEX. 



435 



Falkland Islands, IJ, l5 

 Familiarity of slaves, 33 

 Fan palms, 37, 200 



Fazendas : Da Boa Vista, 37 j do 

 Campo Novo, 52 ; do Cortume, 79, 

 97, loi, 105 ; visit of bishops to, 

 267 ; devoid of comfort, 52 ; do En- 

 genho, 136 ; Fructuoso, 64, 70 ; da 

 Mata, 56, 71 ; da Pedra Branca, 51 ; 

 Padre Pinto's, 135, I38; do Sape- 

 cado, 56 

 Fernando de Noronha, 18, 124 ; note 



on, 272 

 Ferns, 93, 97, 98, 173, 4.13, 414, 416 

 Fete du Tropique, 14 

 Fever among the Staff in Para Valley, 



144 

 Financial condition of Brazil, note on, 



304 ; details of Budgets, 1823-1880, 



305 ; colonization, 306 ; foreign and 

 home debt, 307 ; expedients of the 

 Treasury, 307 ; bad management, 

 308 ; officialism, 308 ; suggested re- 

 forms, 310; outlook for investorsj 

 311; table showing realized loans, 

 312 ; notes on recent and current 

 Budgets, 313 ; report of Brazilian 

 Finance Minister for 1885, 314 



Fire drill on board Catopaxi, 15 

 Fireflies (beetles), 77, 95, 114. 124, 



392, 397 

 Fireplaces, non-existent in Minas, 145, 



317 



Fires, disastrous, in plantations, 57 



Fireworks, 23, 197, 198 



Fleas, 109 



Flowers, handsome, 91, 98 ; in spring, 



90 

 Flying fish, 15 

 Fog-horn, 2, 252 

 Food, on board P.S.N.C. steamers, 3 ; 



at Rio, 46 ; at Paraopeba, 30 ; at 



fazendas, 57. Vide Fazendas 

 Forests, near divides (Para), 74; 



scenery, 39. Vide Virgin Forest 



Freed blacks, 58, 116, 283, 288 



Fruit trees uncared for, 147 



Funerals, loi, 133, 155, 167; music 



at, 103 ; priests at, 104 

 Furniture of houses, 36, 155 

 Future life of animals, 67 



Garonne (river), 5, 7 

 Gaviao (hawk), 85, 86, 361 

 Geology, 120 ; article on, 421 ; lime- 

 stone caves and their fossils, 421 ; 

 gneissic formations, 422 ; decompo- 

 sition of gneiss, 422 ; formation of 

 canyons, 422 ; divides, 423 ; valleys 

 of denudation, 423 ; Organ Moun- 

 tains, 423 ; Petropolis Railway, 423, 

 424 ; Sugar Loaf, Pedra da Gavea, 

 Corcovado, Pedra da Fortaleza, 424 ; 

 engineering difficulties, 424 ; Dom 

 Pedro II. Railway, 425 ; views of 

 Darwin, Agassiz, Liais, Hartt, Capa- 

 nema, 425 ; glacial theory examined, 

 425 ; action of vegetation, animals, 

 etc. , on surface of the soil, 426 ; 

 cabe9udo ants, termites, 426 ; glacial 

 period, 426 ; erratic (?) blocks, 427 ; 

 thickness of gneiss, 427 

 Gironde (river), 3, 4, 252 

 Glass eye, a, 47, 150, 174 

 Glover, Mr. William H., 45, 212 

 Goat cart, 56 

 Goitre, 36, 64 

 Good qualities of natives, 83. Vide 



Native customs 

 Gooseberry (gabiroba), 127, 134, 418 

 Gorges, 90, 424. Vide Waterfalls 

 Gourds, 59, 172 

 Granite at Botafogo (Rio), 200 

 Grapes, 72, 134 ; cost of, 130 

 Grasshoppers, 95 ; note on, 403 

 Guavas, 418; marmalade, 155; un- 

 palatable raw, 154 

 Guitar-playing in Minas, 114, "6. 

 Vide Native music 



