CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 

 Introductory — Getting under way — Getting to Sea, - . - - 9 



NOTICES OF BRAZIL. 



CHAPTER I. 



Entrance to Rio de Janeiro — The Sugar Loaf— Glance round the harbor 

 — The Corcovado — Gldria Church — The City — Praya Grande, - IT 



CHAPTER II. 



Walk in the streets of Rio — Imperial Chapels — ^Rua Direita — Slaves — 

 Rua d*Ouvidor — Marimba — Abdication of Dom Pedro — Regency of 

 Pedro II., 23 



CHAPTER III. 



Museum — Aqueduct — Banana tree— Farinha — ^Policemen — Slave of a na- 

 turalist — Casa da Agua, 36 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Opera— The Currency, 42 



CHAPTER V. 



The Botanic Garden— A Peep at Court, 46 



CHAPTER VI. 



A walk — A ride — A dinner party, 53 

 CHAPTER VII. 



Architecture — Cries — Market — Churches — Cemetery of San Francisco 

 de Paula — Funerals — Climate — Prison — Slave market — Library — News- 

 papers, 60 



CHAPTER VIIL 



Geography of Brazil — Products — Diamond Mines, - - - . 65 

 CHAPTER IX. 



Departure— Voyage round Cape Horn — Cape Pigeons, • - • T2 



