INDEX. 



439 



Negresses, good-looking, 56 

 Neuroptera (termites), notes on, 401 

 Nhambu (bird), 84, 362 

 Nichteroy, 183, 184, 198, 207 ; ferry, 



192 ; water supply, 192 

 Nightly preparations in camp, 96 



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Ocelot, note on, 350 



Olhos d'Agua. Vide Villages 



Onja (ounce), 70 ; visit to our camp, 

 87 ; different species, 87 ; note on, 348 



Onions, 129, 134, 136 



Orange gardens, 83 



Oranges, 37, 59, 68, 134, 142, 185 



Organ Mountains, 19, 34, 43, 197, 198, 

 206, 207, 210, 212, 224, 423 



Origin of savage tribes by degradation, 

 article on, 296 ; man a family of one 

 genus, 297 ; his origin revealed, 297 ; 

 fossil remains show high develop- 

 ment, 297 ; degradation, how pro- 

 duced, 298 ; Mr. Drummond, 298 



Orioles (birds), 50, i lo, 359 ; har- 

 bingers of rain, 53 



Orthoptera (Dermapiera), note on, 402 



Ouro Branco range, 150 



Ouro Preto, 29, 152 ; railway to, 28, 

 269 



Ox-carts (carros), 29, 37, 39, 40, 56, 

 61, 75, 80, 100, III, 124, 141, 14s, 

 172, 176 ; musical performance of, 

 29, 40, 100 ; carrinho, 136 ; ox- 

 sleigh, 58 



Paca, 53; flesh of, 53, 92; note on, 



246 

 Pack mules, 100 

 Palm avenue. Botanical Gardens, Rio, 



23 



Palms, 37, 53, 58, 71, 182, 200 

 Palm-fibre hammock, 63, 93 



Parahybilna valley, 180 ; derivation of 

 name, 180 



Paraopeba, hotel at, 30, 32, 75 ; dinner, 

 30; railway-station, 26, 151, 170, 

 180; scenery near, 33; butterflies, 

 birds, coati, 34 ; winter weather, 34 



Parroquets, no 



Parrots, 87, 139, 360, 363 ; flesh of, 

 87 



Patriarchal life, 57 ; style of reckoning 

 riches, 112 



Pauillac, 4, 253 ; cultivation, 253 ; 

 chateaux, 253 ; vineyards, 254 ; 

 hospitality, 254 ; houses, 254 ; pretty 

 lasses, 254 



Peaches, 128, 129, 138, 148; given to 

 horses and pigs, 138 



Peak of Teneriffe, 12, 13, 250 



Pedra da Fortaleza (Minas), 180, 424 



Pedra da Gavea (Rio), 200, 207, 224, 



. 424 



Pernambuco (Recife), 244 ; Brazil nuts, 

 cost of, 247 ; exports, 246 ; health 

 of, 246 ; landing passengers, 245 ; 

 market on board, 246 ; rafts (cata- 

 marans), 24S ; rainy season, 247, 320 ; 

 curious sandstone reef, 244, 246, 256 

 note ; storms, 320 ; telephone, 247 



Petropolis, 215, 216; cold at, 215; 

 cotton mill, 219 ; German colony, 

 220 ; Hotel MacDowel, 215 ; garden, 

 216 ; mountain scenery, 218 ; mete- 

 orological notes, 344 ; public road, 

 Uniao e Industria Co., 217, 219; 

 railway, 213, 214, 221, 423, 424; 

 rivers, 217 ; old coach road, 219 



Picadas, 62, 72 



Pigs, S3, 60 ; sucking, 64 



Pineapples, 148 



Pink's Oxford and Cambridge Sauce, 



147 

 Pitanguy, 27,68, 70, 152, 270; mines 



at, 262 ; newspaper, 98 

 Pitcairn Islanders, 191 

 Piano Inclinado (Sta. Theresa), 45, 225 

 Plantations, 25, 172 

 Plants, 173. Vide Botany, etc. 



