Beech-tree overhanging deep water, 53, 151; | Cape Horn, the most southern point in South
Behring's Straits (Dan. pron., bā'ring), sepa- rating Asia and North America; it is about thirty-six miles broad, 31, 32.
America, on the last island of the Fuegian
Archipelago, so named in 1616 by its dis-
coverer, Schouten, in honor of his Dutch birthplace (Hoorn), 42.
Bizcacha (Span. pron., bith-kah'tchah), a rab- | Cape of Good Hope, the southern extremity bit-like animal, prey of the puma, 45; home on the Pampas, range, food, flesh good, col- lections about its burrow, 48.
Bower bird, Australian, 49, 50. Brazil, the largest country in South America, settled by the Portuguese, 112, 113; fruit- | bearing trees, 164; primeval forests, 170. Bread-fruit, 163, 164.
Buenos Ayres (Span. pron., boo-en'oce ah'è- ress), the capital of the Argentine Confed- eration-the name means "fine air"-33, 48, 109, 126, 127, 144, 146; plains, 182. Bullock wagon of the Pampas, 147, 148.
Capi'bara, or capy'bara, a water-hog, prey of the jaguar, 46, 145.
Carbonate of lime, a substance manufactured from sea-water by shell-fish and coral in- sects, 200.
Carpacho (Span. pron., kar-patch'o), an ore- sack, in Mexico called tanate (tah-nah'tā),
Casarita (Span. pron., kas-sah-rë'tah), “little house-builder," makes deep holes for nests; has no idea of thickness, 74. Castro, the capital of Chiloe, 153. Casts of trees; remains of trunks in which the vegetable fibres have been replaced by tiny particles of stone without altering the shape, 181.
| Cat, jaguar scratches like a, 47. Caterpillars, turning them into butterflies a heresy, 132.
Charles Island, one of the Galapagos group, 60, 78.
CACIQUE (Span. pron., kath-ēkā), an Indian Chatham Island, the easternmost of the Gala- chief, 108.
Chile (Span. pron., tchè'lā), a Spanish-Amer- ican republic on the Pacific coast of South America, 44, 45, 67, 109, 118, 129, 154; a raised coast, 159; mountains, 178; fossil shells and wood, 181; barrenness in north, 194.
Chileno (Span. pron., tchè-lā'no), an inhabi- tant of Chile, trap for condors, 68; po- liteness, 128; wonder at the naturalist, 129; superstition about volcanoes, 188: miners' improvidence, 129, funeral procession, 130, heavy loads, 130, endurance, 131.
Chiloe (Span. pron., tchè-lo-ā'), a large island
south of Chile, 153; abundant apple-trees, 158, 167; prospect, 177; earthquakes, 189,. 190.
China (Span. pron., tchè'nah), a young In- Cornwall, the south-western extremity of Eng- dian woman, 106.
Choiseul Sound (Fr. pron., shwah-zurl'), on the east side of the largest of the Falkland Isl- ands, 124.
Corral', a yard or enclosure, 111.
Corrobery, Australian dancing-party, 138, 140 Cotton, 184.
Cholechel (Span. pron., tcho-lā-tchel'), an isl- | Crab, plunders the noddy's nest, 75, 76; on
and in the Rio Negro, La Plata, 108. Chonos Archipelago (Span. pron., tcho'noce), on the west coast of Patagonia, 50; earth- quake, 190.
Chuzo (Span. pron., tchooth'o), a pike, 108. Cockroaches surrounded by ants, 83. Cocoa-nut, 138, 163, 171, 198, 199; opened and stripped by crabs, 89. Cocos Islands (see Keeling), 86, etc. Colonia, a town in south-western Uruguay, 128.
Combs of ladies of Buenos Ayres, 127. Concepcion (Span. pron., kon-thepth-e-ōn'), a town near the west coast of Chile, destroy- ed by earthquake, 184-186; connection with Juan Fernandez, 188, with Chiloe, 189, 190. Conchalee (in the Spanish form, Conchali), a town on the west coast of Chile, rainfall, 193.
Condor, a carrion bird, preys on the guanaco, 44; on goats and lambs, 68; plunders the puma, 45; size and range, 66; lives on steep cliffs, roosts on trees, egg-laying, 67; how caught, 68; poor sense of smell, 69; sharp sight, mode of flying, 70. Conglomerate, a mass of rock particles, 203. Copiapó, a town of northern Chile, fossil shells and wood, 181; earthquake, 192; rainfall, 193; irrigation, 194.
Coquimbo (Span. pron., ko-kèm'bo), a north-
ern seaport of Chile, earthquake, 191; rainfall, 193.
Coral reef of Tahiti, 163, of Keeling Island, 198; resistance to breakers, 199. Coralline, a marine plant, 174.
Keeling Island, lives on cocoa-nuts, 86-89, in burrows, 89; yields oil, strong pincers, 89; found in kelp, 174.
Cufre (Span. pron., koo'ƒrā), a post in Uru- guay, 149.
Cuttle-fish, means of hiding, change of color, 64; walks with difficulty, 64; inhabits the kelp, 174.
DARWIN, Charles, sketch of the life of, 17. Deer, the prey of the puma, 45. Demivolt, a mode of raising up his forelegs to which a horse is trained, 119. Der Freischütz (Ger. pron., derr fri'shēts— nearly), "the free-shooter"-name of an opera by the German composer C. M. von Weber, first performed in 1822-94. Dog, shepherd-dog's training, 37; cowardly at the house, brave with the flock, 38; drives off condors, 68; Fuegian dog not eaten till old women are, 101. Dove, 76-78.
EARTHQUAKE, of February 20, 1835, 183-192; of 1751, 188; of 1837, 190; of 1822, 192; effect on land and sea, 183; in upheaving, 184, 190; moral effect, 183, 186, 191, 192; relation to volcanic eruptions, 188; subter- ranean connections, 188, 189.
Edwards, Mr., an English resident of Co- quimbo in 1835, 191.
Elephant, fossil remains in South America, 31,
Corcova'do ("hunchback "), a volcano in the El famo'so Corcova'do (Span.), "the famous southern extremity of Chile, 177. Cordillera (Span. pron., kor-del-yer'ah), a mountain chain-in the foregoing pages gen. erally the same as the Andes-45, 66, 67, 105, 109, 159.
Cormorant, 51; playing with its prey, 65; de- pendent on kelp, 175.
Hunchback "-called "famous" to distin- guish it from other mountains having the same name, as, for instance, the Corcovado in the vicinity of Rio-177.
Emu, good swimmer. 72; male hatches the eggs. 74; Emu dance among Australian ne- groes, 139.
En el campo (Span.)—“on the open plain -123.
England, magpies in, 78; wild geese, 80; cat- tle-keeping, 126; probable effect of an earth- quake, 191.
Entre Rios (Span. pron., en'tră rè'oce), a South American country lying, as its name signifies,between rivers," namely, the Pa- rana and the Uruguay, 48.
Eskimo, compared with Fuegian, 103. Estancia (Span. pron., es-tanth'è-ah), a graz- ing farm, estate, plantation, 30, 34, 125. Estanciero (Span. pron., es-tanth-è-er'o), a planter, 115, 127.
Eucalyptus, a species of Australian tree, blue- gum, etc., 166, 167.
Europe, fossil-bearing rocks of, 181.
Eyre's Sound, west coast of Patagonia, 177.
FAGUS betuloi'des, a kind of beech, 151.
Gaucho (Span. pron., gah-oo' tcho), a general name for the inhabitant of the Pampas,
'countryman," fierce appearance, 116; meat diet, 123; opinion of jaguar meat, 47; steals Indian offerings, 111; forcing a horse to swim, 29; horsemanship, 117-119; use of lazo, 120; of bolas, 71, 121; night camp, 123, 124; mode of kindling a fire, 137. Geranium, 195.
Glaciers, in Beagle Channel, 152, 153; on Mount Sarmiento, 176; in Eyre's Sound and Gulf of Peñas, 177.
Goeree Road (Eng. pron., gō-rè'), a roadstead on the south coast of Tierra del Fuego, south of Lennox Island-"goeree" means in Dutch good road" or good anchorage "-151. Goitre, a diseased swelling of the neck, 128. Gold mines of Chile, 132.
Good Success Bay, in the south-eastern ex- tremity of Tierra del Fuego, 93.
Falkland Islands, east of the southern end of Goose, upland, tame, 79; wild, 80. Patagonia, 65, 78-80, 124.
Feast-days and idleness, 128; extravagance,
Finch, 60, 76; tameness, 78.
Granite country furnishes clear water, 145; not favorable to trees, 172; granite blocks on icebergs, 177. Grasshoppers blown out to sea, 81.
Fire procured by Tahitians and Gauchos, 137. Greenstone carried to a lime coral-reef, 203.
Fir-trees, petrified, 178, 181.
Flying-fish, food of noddy, 75, 78.
Forests in the tropics, 170; petrified, 178, 181. Fossil remains in the arctic regions, 31; of the Pampas, 149; shells and wood in Chile, 181. Fox, 78, 79.
Fuegians of Good Success Bay, 93; painted skins, 94, 108; mimicry, 94; shell - heaps, wigwams, 98; on the south coast, naked- ness, 99; food, 100; famine, blubber-eating, cannibalism, 101, 176; signal-fires, 101; easy perspiration, 102; lowest of mankind, 103; of superior capacity to Australians, 104; dependence on kelp, 175.
GALAPAGOS Islands (Span. pron., gah-lah'- pah-goce), west of Ecuador, remarkable for the differences between their animal species and those of the main-land; they got their name from the great number of " turtles" found on them, 56, 76, 79, 80.
31; fossil horse in South America, 31; horse introduced by Europeans, 33; feats of training in Chile, 118, 119; struggle with lassoed bullock, 120; entangled in bolas, 121.
Hottentots, inhabitants of South Africa, 73. Huachos (Span. pron., oo-ah' tchoce), a name given to unhatched ostrich eggs, 73.
ICEBERGS in Eyre's Sound, 177. Indian, North American, 95; South Ameri- can, 105; fine-looking, 106; work of men and women, manufacture and use of bolas, 71, 107, 108; silver riding gear, horseman- ship, 108; heroism, following a trail, 109; tree altar, 110; ancient remains near Lima, 163.
Indian file, single file, or one behind another, 139.
Indian Ocean, 197.
Irrigation in Chile, 194, 195,
Isle of France, in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, 204.
Itacaia (Port. pron., è-tah-kah'-è-ah), a village in Brazil, east of Rio, 112.
JACKASS penguin, 65, 66.
Jaguar, or American tiger, haunts great riv- ers, 46, 145; prey, attacks man in vessels and houses, 46; mode of killing, noisy hab- its, tree-scratching, flesh eaten, 47.
the Indian Ocean, south-west of Sumatra, 86, 197, 198, 200.
Kelp, 172; strength, 173; great length, use as a breakwater, swarming with animal life, 174, 175.
Kerguelen Land (Eng. pron., kerg'-e-len), an island in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, 174.
King George's Sound, in the south-western part of Australia, 138; natives, 138.
LAGOON Islands, 197-204; mode of forma tion, 204.
Land, rising and sinking of, 178, 181, 190, 204. La Plata (Span. pron., lah plah'tah), the old name of the present Spanish - American Argentine Republic or Confederation, the second largest country, after Brazil, in South America; it is also the name of the riv- er and estuary into which flow the Pa- rana, Uruguay, and other great rivers (see Plata); for this whole river system it is oc- casionally used in the head-lines of the fore- going pages, 45, 81, 118, 129, 146; flatness, 148.
La Platan medical superstitions, 124. Las Minas (Span. pron., lass mēʼnass), a town in the southern part of Uruguay—the name means "the mines"-116, 126, 143. Las Vacas (Span. pron., lass vah'kass), a town in Uruguay-the name means "the cows"-30.
James Island, one of the larger of the Gala- Lawson, Mr., an English vice-governor of the pagos Islands, 58.
Ecuadorian penal colony in the Galapagos Islands, 60.
Lazo (Span. pron., lath'o), a long slip-noose, 120, 121, 123. Lichen, 181, 194.
Liesk, Mr., an English resident of Keeling Island, formerly a ship's-mate, 89. Lima (Span. pron., lè'mah), the capital' of Peru, 70, 159, 161, 190; Indian remains,. 163.
Lizard, of the Galapagos, 56; dislike to wa- ter, 57; burrow-making, 58; cowardice, 59; not feared by birds, food, 60; com- mon lizard, surrounded by ants, 83; hiber- nation, 195, 196.
Llama (Span. pron., l-yah'mah), the South | Monkey, with prehensile tail, 38; bearded, 41.
American camel (see Guanaco), 41, etc. Locust, bred in deserts, 81; swarm like a cloud, 81; speed of flight, height from ground, noise, 82; driven off by cottagers, 83. London, the chief city of England, 74.
Low, Captain, a sealing-master in Patagonian waters, 101, 105.
Luxan or Lujan (Span. pron., loo-hahn'), a town on the western border of the Argen- tine Republic, 81.
Lyco'sa, a kind of spider, 84.
Montevideo (Span. pron., mon'-tā-vè-dā'o), the capital of Uruguay-the name means "pros- pect hill"-29; hibernation of animals, 195. Moresby, Captain, 89. Mosquitoes, 145.
| Mountains of Tierra del Fuego, 175, 176. Mount Sarmiento, in Tierra del Fuego, 176. Mule, knows its leader, follows a scent, 33; endurance, superior to its parents, 34. Murrumbidgee River, in New South Wales, Australia, a tributary of the Murray River,
woman's heroism, 112; a degraded slave, 113; cruel treatment of slaves, 113-116; negress with a goitre, 128.
MACAHE (Port. pron., mah-kah-a'), a river in | NEGRO lieutenant under Rosas, 111; negro south-eastern Brazil, north of Cape Frio, 113. Macrocys'tis pyri'fera (kelp), 172. Madrina (Span. pron., mah-drè'nah), the bell- mule (or bell-leader) of a troop of mules, 33, 34.
Magellan Strait, separating Patagonia and the island of Tierra del Fuego, 33, 66, 93, 182.
New South Wales, an eastern division of Aus- tralia, 165; peculiar trees, 165–167. New Zealand, a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, belonging to Great Britain, 171.
Noddy, a stupid and tame bird, 75.
Maldonado (Span. pron., mal-do-nah'do), a North America, some of its animals derived
seaport town of Uruguay, 63, 125.
Mango, 171.
Mares (see Horse).
Mastodon, an extinct animal resembling the el- ephant, fossil remains in South America, 31. Matë (Span. pron., mah'tā), a South Ameri- can shrub used for tea, 110. Mayor-domo (Span. pron., mah-jør-dom'o), a superintendent, 184, 185.
Mazeppa, a Pole, born 1644, died 1709, was, for a punishment, bound to a wild horse's back, which was then set loose, 109. Meat diet of Gauchos, 123; of Chilian miners, 131.
Mendoza (Span. pron., men-dō'-thah), a west- ern town and province of the Argentine Re- public, 81, 147; plains, 182. Mercedes (Span. pron., mer-tha'dace), a town in western Uruguay, 126, 128. Mimosa tree, 148. Miners of Chile, 129–132. Misericordia (Span.)—" mercy,' cy"-186.
Niagara, the most famous falls in the United --States, 176.
No sé (Span. pron., nō sā)—“ I don't know" 109.
OCEAN bed raised into mountains, 181; into plains, 182; ocean prospect tedious, 196; ocean vastness, 197.
Octo'pus, the cuttle-fish, so called from its "eight feet" or arms, 64. Olive, 143, 157.
Orange-tree, 157, 162, 163, 164, 171. Osorno, a volcano in the southern part of Chile, 177.
Ostrich, range, food, how caught, 71, 72;
good swimmer, 72; cock-bird larger, note, sits on the nest, 73; attacks man, num- bers and weight of eggs, 73; prey of puma,
Otter (see Sea-otter).
""have mer- Owl, 78, 80.
Mocking-thrush, 76; tameness, 77.
Ox-cart of the Pampas, 147, 148. Ox knows its own troop, 34.
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