INDEX. 



443 



Sugar, 60, 417 ; cost of, 39 

 Sugar-cane, 25, 32, 51, 52, 59, 68, 134, 



246, 417 

 Sugar Loaf (Pao d'Assucar), Rio de 



Janeiro, 19, 20, 183, 184, 186, 200, 



207, 213, 221, 224, 424 

 Sunrise on the Atlantic, 241 

 Sunset, a superb, 94 

 Swamps (brejos). Vide Marshes 

 Sydney, Capitao, 123 



Tagus, the, 9 



Tapir, 70 



Telegraph and telephone wires (Rio de 



Janeiro), 211 

 Telephone at Pernambuco, 247 

 Temperature, winter, 27 ; comparison 



between Minas Geraes and Rio de 



Janeiro, 44. Vide Weather 

 Teneriffej Peak of, 12, 13, 250 

 Tent life, 34. Vide Camps, my 

 Tents, 76 

 Termites, 108, 426, note on, 401 ; nests 



used for ovens, 148 

 Thanks to officers of S.S. Cotopaxi and 



S.S. Valparaiso, 255 

 Theatres, 46, 208 

 Thorns, 74, 131, 132 

 Thunder, 77, in, 333, 334, 335 

 Thunderstorms, 77, 95, 96, 119, 122, 



138. Vide Meteorological Notes 

 Tijuca : Bamboos, 223 ; Bico do Papa- 



gaio, 20, 223 ; diligence, 223 ; fatality 



at, 223 ; visit of Lady Florence 



Dixie, 223 ; range of mountains, 213, 



223 ; Vista Chineza, 223 ; Whyte's 



Hotel, 222 

 Tile factory, 59 



Timber for ornamental purposes, 91 

 Toad, horned, 367 

 Tobacco, 51, 60, 61, 134, 246, 417; 



sold by the metre, 61 ; use by women 



customary, 36 

 Tomatoes, 129, 134 



Toucans, 51, 87, 90, no, 241, 360, 



363 

 Toucinho (salt pork), 77, 85 

 Trade in the interior, 60 

 Tramways : Bahia, 242 ; Bordeaux, 5 ; 



Lisbon, 10 ; Rio de Janeiro, 22, 183, 



222 ; note on, 235 

 Travelling, delays in. Vide Delays 

 Tree ferns, 58, 97, 131, 414 

 Tropic of Cancer, 14, 250 

 Tropical forest, 34. Vide Virgin 



forest 

 Tropical trees and flowers, 91 ; at Rio 



de Janeiro, 23, 199 

 Tze-tze of Brazil. Vide Berno 

 Turbines for grinding maize, 137 



Urubiis (vultures), 71, 83, 85 ; notes 

 on, 361, 363 



Valley scenery, 118. Fi^^ Scenery 



Valleys : Rio Camapuao, 90, 121 ; Rio 

 Cayuaba, 170, 173; Rio Para, 59, 

 170; Rio Parahybiina, 180; Rio 

 Paraopeba, 170 



Value of the niilreis, 201. Vide Finan- 

 cial Condition of Brazil 



Valparaiso^. 'S,. (P.S.N. Co.),227, 241 ; 

 log of, 258 ; thanks to Capt. Friend, 



25s 

 Vegetable marrows, 129, 134 

 Vegetable meals, 59, 62 

 Vegetables and fruits, list of, 134 

 Vehicle, a curious, 158 

 Vicente de Azevedo Souza, Senhor, 



81, 86, 89, 92, 96 ; stung by a wasp, 



96 

 Vigo, bay and town, 8 

 Villages : Cajuru, 59, 7° ; priest, 63, 



71 ; Camapuao, 125, 137 ; Capella 



Nova, 53, 73 ; accommodation, 73 ; 



