CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



Porta Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria — 

 Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul's Rocks, non- 

 volcanic — Singular Incrustations — Insects the first Colonists of 

 Islands—Fernando Noronha — Bahia — Burnished Rocks — Habits of 

 a Diodon — Pelagic Confervas and Infusoria — Causes of discol- 

 oured Sea JI 



CHAPTER II 



Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evaporation — ■ 

 Slavery — Botofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planariae — Clouds on the Cor- 

 covado — Heavy Rain — Musical Frogs — Phosphorescent Insects — 

 Elater, springing powers of — Blue Haze — Noise made by a Butter- 

 fly — -Entomology — Ants — Wasp killing a Spider — Parasitical Spider 

 — Artifices of an Epeira— Gregarious Spider — Spider with an un- 

 symmetrical Web *9 



CHAPTER III 



Monte Video — Maldonado — Excursion to R. Polanco — Lazo and Bolas 

 — Partridges — Absence of Trees — Deer — Capybara, or River Hog 

 — Tucutuco — Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits — Tyrant-flycatcher — 

 Mockmg-bird — Carrion Hawks — Tubes formed by Lightning — 

 House struck 49 



CHAPTER IV 



Rio Negro — Estancias attacked by the Indians — Salt Lakes — Flamin- 

 goes — R. Negro to R. Colorado — Sacred Tree — Patagonian Hare — 

 Indian Families — General Rosas — Proceed to Bahia Blanca— Sand 

 Dunes— Negro Lieutenant— Bahia Blanca — Saline Incrustations — 

 Punta Alta— Zorillo 74 



CHAPTER V 



Bahia Blanca — Geology — Numerous gigantic extinct Quadruped* — 

 Recent Extinction — Longevity of Species — Large Animals dp not 

 require a luxuriant vegetation — Southern Africa — Siberian Fossils 

 — Two Species of Ostrich — Habits of Oven-bird — Armadilloes^- 

 Venomous Snake, Toad, Lizard — Hybernation of Animals-^-Habrts 

 of Sea-Pen — Indian Wars and Massacres — Arrow-head, antiquarian 



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