Capoeira (second growth of forest), 79,
90, 120, 121, 131, 178, 412
Cara. Vide Yams

Carandahy, 25, 44; origin of name,
25 note; hotel accommodation at,
25, 32

Carne secca (sun-dried beef), 38, 60
Carrapatos (bush ticks), 31, 38, 77,
86, 109, 111, 119, 173; precautions
against, 86; note on, 407

Carril, bay of, 7

Carrinho (small ox-cart), 136
Carros. Vidde Ox-carts

Castor-oil, 51, 59, 60, 68, 134, 172;
lamps, 36, 58, 126
Catamaran (raft), 245, 275
Channel fleet at Vigo, 8
Chapels, crude ornamentation of, 106.
Vide Entre Rios
Cheap living, 81

Chickens, 64; stew, 38, 85; roast, 107;
cost of, 81; method of packing, 125,
126; black skinned, 211
Chillies, 134, 418

Cidade do Rio de Peixe, 54, 72; ac-

commodation at, 72

Cigarette making, 60

Cintra Hills (Lisbon), 9, 251
Ciriema (ostrich), 38, 75, 87, 362
Civil marriage at Bordeaux, 6
Cleanliness not a Brazilian virtue, 112
Clever cat, a, 51

Climate, healthiness of, Minas Geraes,
27, 57

Cloudless nights, 110. Vide Weather
Coal, Brazilian name for, 123 note
Coati, 34, 246; note on, 347
Cockroaches, note on, 403
Cocks and hens, cost of, 82
Cocoanut trees, 246

Coffee, 25, 51, 60, 68, 134, 142; cost
of, 39, 81; plantations, 134, 180

Coinage and currency, note on, 301;
the empire in difficulties, 302, 303;
paper currency, 302; copper, 301,
302; depreciation of the milreis,
303

Cold nights in the tropics, 27. Vide
Weather

Collections, requests to make, 120
Comet, 142, 332

Communicants. Vide Religion
Conservatives, 61, 114, 143, 293, 296
Cookery book, native, 92
Corcovado (Rio de Janeiro), 19, 23,
185, 199, 200, 212, 213, 224, 424;
ascents of, 204, 225; colony proposed
at Peineiras, 206; railway, 205, 212;
geology, 424; view from summit,
207

Coronel João Luiz de Oliveira Campos
(Fazenda da Mata), 56, 58, 71
Corruption in Government offices, 190,

200

Confiscation of convent property, 188
Cost of, beef, 148; cachaça, 82; chickens,
81; cocks and hens, 82; coffee, 39,
81; composite candles, 39; cucum-
bers, 130; eggs, 81; farinha, 81;
grapes, 130; kids, 148; limes, 130;
native wine, 72; pork, 82; Portu-
guese white wine, 81 ; potatoes, 138;
rice, 81; sugar, 39, 82; Swedish
matches, 82

Cost of transport, 28

Cotopaxi, S.S., P.S.N.C., I, 13, 45,
209; log of outward passage in, 257;
electric light on board, 7; fire-drill,
15; thanks to Captain Hayes, 255
Cotton, 51, 72, 134; cotton plant, 172
Cowardice of natives, 81, 85, 86
Creepers. Vide Llianas
Crickets, 95, 110, 403

Cruelty, in killing cattle on board, 17;
to animals, 41, 67, 125, 197
Cucumbers, 129, 134, 136; cost of, 130
Cultivation, scanty, 42, 134
Custom house, Liverpool, 201; Rio de
Janeiro, 21

D

Deaf and dumb, 143, 144
Death, of H.R. H. the Duke of Albany,
171; of Mr. George Ransom, 85
note; of the Major do Cortume, 100
Decimal system, note on, 300
Delays, at funeral, 102; by ox-carts,

28, 39, 124, 125, 126; postal service,
44, 48; railways, 30, 31, 32, 42;
theatres, 46; in transmitting letters,
77; luggage, 80

Delinquencies, postal, 49, 146, 167
Deluges, tropical, 96. Vide Thunder-

storms and Weather
Dermaptera (Orthoptera), notes on, 402;
cockroaches, 403; locusts and grass-
hoppers, 403

Dinner in camp, 85, 108

Emigrants, 7, 8, 251; singing of, 14.
Vide Immigration

Emperor of Brazil, H. M. the, 22, 165,

191, 235, 291, 292, 295
Engineer, fiscal, of Minas Geraes, 148,
152

Engineering, difficulties, 424; experi-

ences, 35, 39, 42; feats, 25, 215;
in the rain, 29, 121, 131; railway
exploration, 31, 35, 42, 66, 73, 77,
170, 171; scheme of our railway,
170; plans and drawings, 85, 148,
151, 170; passed by the President,
156; completion of outdoor work,
139, 171

Entre Rios (Brumado), Cidade de, 35,

36, 41; beef, 148; chapel, 146;
church, 145, 150; description of
town and principal inhabitants, 149;
foreign musicians, 154; foreign ped-
lars, 153; Grand Hotel, 150; house
hire, 141; my house and garden,
141, 142; Hôtel Entre Riano, 140;
huts of the poor, 150, 151; kids,
148; luxuriant vegetation, 151; Missa
cantata, 146; main street, 145; mo-
notonous life. 173; my guests, 161,
166; our office, the chief's house and
garden, 147; post-office, 146; care-
lessness at, 146; railway time-table
(proposed), 151; shops or stores, 142
Epiphany in camp, 129

Espirito Santo (coast of), 18, 241
Evolution theory, article on, 379; Mr.
W. C. Hewitson and Mr. R. Trimen,
379; objection to the theory, 380;
harmony between revelation and na-
ture, 380; the reason of conflicting
opinions, 380; unity in variety, 381;
evolution does not account for phe-
nomena, 381; degeneration, 381, 382;
man and his capabilities, 382; the
true object in studying nature, 383;
Dr. Vianna de Lima's book, 383 note
Exports from Minas Geraes, 61; coffee,
210; from Minas, 262

Exposed rocks, 79. Vide Waterfalls

F

Falkland Islands, 15, 16
Familiarity of slaves, 33
Fan palms, 37, 200

Fazendas: Da Boa Vista, 37; do
Campo Novo, 52; do Cortume, 79,
97, 101, 105; visit of bishops to,
267; devoid of comfort, 52; do En-
genho, 136; Fructuoso, 64, 70; da
Mata, 56, 71; da Pedra Branca, 51;
Padre Pinto's, 135, 138; do Sape-
cado, 56

Fernando de Noronha, 18, 124; note
on, 272

Ferns, 93, 97, 98, 173, 413, 414, 416
Fête du Tropique, 14

Fever among the Staff in Pará Valley,

144

Financial condition of Brazil, note on,
304; details of Budgets, 1823-1880,
305; colonization, 306; foreign and
home debt, 307; expedients of the
Treasury, 307; bad management,
308; officialism, 308; suggested re-
forms, 310; outlook for investors,
311; table showing realized loans,
312; notes on recent and current
Budgets, 313; report of Brazilian
Finance Minister for 1885, 314
Fire drill on board Cotopaxi, 15
Fireflies (beetles), 77, 95, 114, 124,
392, 397

Fireplaces, non-existent in Minas, 145,
317

Fires, disastrous, in plantations, 57
Fireworks, 23, 197, 198

Freed blacks, 58, 116, 283, 288
Fruit trees uncared for, 147

Funerals, 101, 133, 155, 167; music

at, 103; priests at, 104
Furniture of houses, 36, 155
Future life of animals, 67

G

Garonne (river), 5, 7
Gavião (hawk), 85, 86, 361
Geology, 120; article on, 421; lime-
stone caves and their fossils, 421;
gneissic formations, 422; decompo-
sition of gneiss, 422; formation of
canyons, 422; divides, 423; valleys
of denudation, 423; Organ Moun-
tains, 423; Petropolis Railway, 423,
424; Sugar Loaf, Pedra da Gavea,
Corcovado, Pedra da Fortaleza, 424 ;
engineering difficulties, 424; Dom
Pedro II. Railway, 425; views of
Darwin, Agassiz, Liais, Hartt, Capa-
nema, 425; glacial theory examined,
425; action of vegetation, animals,
etc., on surface of the soil, 426;
cabeçudo ants, termites, 426; glacial
period, 426; erratic (?) blocks, 427;
thickness of gneiss, 427
Gironde (river), 3, 4, 252
Glass eye, a, 47, 150, 174
Glover, Mr. William H., 45, 212
Goat cart, 56
Goitre, 36, 64

Good qualities of natives, 83. Vide
Native customs

Gooseberry (gabiroba), 127, 134, 418
Gorges, 90, 424.
Vide Waterfalls

Gourds, 59, 172

Hair cutting, 113

H

Hanging birds'-nests, 59; note on, 359
Hargreaves, Senhor, 27, 28, 179
Health affected by rainy season, 128,

141

Healthiness of climate (Minas), 27
Hector, Mr. William, 211
Hemiptera, list of, collected, 405
Hills (morros), Rio de Janeiro, 207, 212
Hill of Pedra Branca, 50, 74
Hoffmann, Mr. Robert G., 211
Homoptera, list of, collected, 404
Honey bees, use of resin by, 90. Vide
Hymenoptera
Hornets, 28

Hospitality in Minas-Engineers at
Queluz, 27; fazendeiros, 38, 51, 52,
56, 58, 60, 64, 65, 70, 71, 97, 101,
102; Sr. Hargreaves, 27, 28; Sr.
João Baptista, q.v.; priests, 63, 68;
poor natives, 76; sermon on, 63
Hostility to railway, 81, 168
Hotels: Brumado, 140; Carandahy,

25, 32; Lafayette (Queluz), 179;
Paraopeba, 30, 32, 75; Rio de
Janeiro, 24, 46, 182 (Carson's).
House construction, 33
House hire, cost of, 30, 141
Humming birds, 75; notes on, 360, 363
Hymenoptera, notes on: Highest orders
of insects, 399; bees and wasps, 399;
ants, 400

I

Idleness of natives, 42, 43. Vide In-
dolence

Illegal proceedings of Government, 188
Immigration, 134, 307 note
Importation of food, 42, 61
Indians, 65; wild, 70

Indigo, 145, 421

Indolence of natives, 122, 123, 134,
147. Vide Delays

Inflamed scratches, 128, 141

Inn, at Serra, 36; Camapuão, 125

Intermarriage within prohibited degrees,
143, 192

Invitation to funeral, 101

Ipecacuanha, derivation of name, 421
Iron trunks, value of, in wet season, 126
Islands: Abrolhos, 18; Canary, 13,

14, 250; Gran Canaria, 13, 14, 250;
emigrants, 251; Canary wine, 251;
Cape Verd, 15, 250; weird appear-
ance, 248; S. Antonio, 249; Falk-
land, 15, 16; S. Paul's Rocks, 17;
Fernando de Noronha, 18, 124; note
on, 272; Ilha do Governador (bay of
Rio), 198, 213

Italians, 53, 123, 179; musicians, 154;
priests, 53

Jacu (bird), 81, 361

J

Jiggers, 38, 144, 191; note on, 409
João Baptista de Oliveira e Souza,
Senhor, 36, 50, 148, 150, 152, 171,
174; disinterestedness, 153; his
family, 143; his house, 150, 154;
hospitality, 41, 74, 140, 142, 153,
154; makes butter, 172; present to,
83

João de Barro (bird), 59, 359
Joaquim Gonçalves de Souza, Sr., 126,
136; his fazenda, 136

Joaquim Ribeiro de Oliveira, Senhor,
142, 156; his daughter, a splendid
musician, 143, 147; hospitality, 152
Joscelino Pacheco de Souza, Senhor,
136, 149

Juiz de Fora (city), 143

K

"Kill the worm," 84

Killing cattle on board, 17
Knives, native, 60

L

Ladies at dinner, 44
Lafayette (Queluz), 178, 179; hotel,
179

Lagoon Rodriguez de Freitas, 22, 208
Language, Brazilian, 351 note; inter-
change of 7 and r, 56 note
Larangeiras (Rio), 204
Laranginha (orange gin), 81, 92
Large, Mr. Thomas W., 146, 155, 170,
171, 183, 192, 199, 212, 225. Vide
Camp of second section

Lassitude in summer, 122

Lattmann, Mr. A. (New York), 211
Leather trunks, bad for wet season,
127

Lemons, 70, 73, 134
Letter, a curious, 49

Liais, M. Emmanuel, quoted, 262, 263,
264, 316-321, 345, 347, 348, 349,
350, 352, 353-356, 357, 358, 366,
421 note, 422, 423, 425, 426, 427
Liberals, 61, 143. Vide Slavery
Libraries, priests', 63, 69
Limes, 134; cost of, 130

Lisbon, 9; aqueduct, 11; Belem tower,
"Black Horse square," 10;
9, 251;
lunch, 12; jewellers' shops, 10;
public gardens, 10; quarantine, 251;

Square of the rolling motion," 12;
sub-tropical plants, 10, 11; tram-
ways, 10; waterworks, 11

List of fruits, vegetables, etc., 134
Liverpool Custom House, 255

Lizards, 89, 92; flesh of, 92; note on,
365

Llianas, 54, 91, 131, 132; used in

building log huts, 80

Locomotive engines, 26, 31, 42, 269
Locusts and grasshoppers, note on,
403

Log of outward passage, 257; return

passage, 258

Longevity, 57, 58 note

Ludicrous predicament, 177

Lunar rainbow, 152

M

Mackenzie, Mr. Colin, 212
Maize (Indian corn), 37, 52, 55, 60, 72,
134, 172; angú (porridge), 135, 172;
biscuits (broas), 84, 135; canjica
(boiled maize), 64, 135; cattle food,
135; farinha, 135; flour (fuba), 84,
135; fried pop-corn, (pipoca) 61;
large yield, 124; luxuriant growth,
135; mattresses, 26, 36, 52, 126;
plantations, 172; sponge cake
(mamath), 68; straw for cigarettes,
60; winnowing, 70

Major João Ferreira do Cortume, 79;
death, 100; funeral, 101

Mandioc, 52, 55, 73, 134, 419; cost of,

81; farinha, 36, 39, 60, 62, 77, 85;
preparation of, 41, 58, 419; tapioca,
41, 419; biscoitos de polvilho, 41,
65, 84

Mango trees, 185, 222

Mantiqueira range, 25, 260; tunnel
through, 25

Maranhão market, 211

Marimbombos (wasps), 85, 122, 399
Marmelada (quince), 61, 134

Marmosets, 73, 185, 243, 247, 345
Marriage, at Bordeaux, 6; at Queluz,
27

Marshes (brejos), 93, 121, 122, 125,
139, 412, 414
Mass. Vide Religion
"Matar o bicho," 84

Matches, Swedish, cost of, 82