of transport, 28; fiscal engineer,
148, 152; hospitality, q.v.; house
construction, 33; schoolboys, 43;
shops, 33; population, 267; state of
crime in, 123; the President, 29,
152, 156; traffic on main roads, 39,
99
Minas Geraes Meteorology-Cold in
winter, 27, 28; dry season, 28;
snow, 115; severe winter of 1870,
316; explanation, 318; hail, 319;
storms and rain, 320; mists, 321;
meteorological notes, at Casa Grande,
322; Serra, 322; Olhos d'Agua,
325; Camapuão, 328; Entre Rios
(Brumado), 331; note on thermo-
metrical and barometrical readings,
331
Minas Geraes: Notes on the province
-First explorations, 259; contest
for supremacy, 260; area, 260;
mountain ranges, 260; rivers, 261;
exports, 262; the mines, 262; poli-
tical representatation, 265; curious
names of parishes, 265; ecclesiastical
division, 267
Minas Geraes: Railways, note on, 267 ;
Dom Pedro II., 268; Oeste de Minas
(São João del Rey), 269, 271; Ouro
Pretana, 269; Leopoldina, 270;
Minas and Rio, 270; Minas Central,
270
Mince-pies, 154
Mint sauce, 148
Mocata (rice and cow-heels), 64
Monjolo (water-mill), 137
Monkeys, 90, 139; note on, 345
Moon, magnificent, 95
Morritt, Mr. William (Petropolis), 253
Morritt, Mr. John M. (Petropolis), 218
Morros (hills), Rio de Janeiro, 20, 183,
197, 207, 212. Vide Rio de Janeiro,
Mosquitoes, 23, 122, 139
Moths, 91; list of one hundred and
forty-nine species collected, 276
Mountain scenery (Petropolis), 218
Mud birds'-nests, 59, 359
Musical evenings, 71, 114, 116
Native bridges, 55, 66, 103, 136, 178;
coffins, 102, 103, 155, 167; furniture
of houses, 36, 69; gardens, 37, 68,
127, 134; letters, 49, 101; produce,
90, 134; roads, 29, 41, 99, 133;
road crosses, 35, 80, 159
Native customs, 56, 60; unchanged for
two hundred years, 51; camping out,
40; children ask a blessing, 112;
cigarette making, 60; cruelty to
animals, 41, 67, 125, 197; doctoring
horses, 50; familiarity, 33; going to
Mass, 62; home life, 113; ladies at
dinner, 44; sleeping in clothes, 26;
visitors, 69, 113, 127, 129, 139, 154,
161
Native food, 25, 39, 57, 163; break-
fast, 29, 53; butter, 172; cooks, 75,
85, 140, 145, 170, 177; cookery, 62,
85, 107; cookery book, 92; dinner,
29, 36; ovens, 148; poisoned fish,
71; salt, 61, 129; wines, cost of,
72, 82
Native music, 71, 114, 116, 168; bands,
43, 103, 155, 156; dancing, 116;
singing, 157; spiritless, 115, 129;
nigger songs, 100, 116; a splendid
pianiste, 143, 147
Natives, cowardice of, 81, 85, 86;
curiosity, 40, 60, 66, 69; dirty habits,
163, 170; dress, q.v.; good quali-
ties, 83; ideas about England, 105;
ideas on railway location, 57, 72, 73;
idleness, 42, 43; indolence, 122, 123,
134, 147; juries, 123; kindness of
slave, 136; longevity, 57; names of
persons, high-sounding, 110; names
of parishes, curious, 265; polite-
ness, 129; spinning, 137, 145; talent
for mechanics, 137; native terms
“rapaz,” “moço,” = lad, 128;
weaving, 137, 145
Onça (ounce), 70; visit to our camp,
87; different species, 87 ; note on, 348
Onions, 129, 134, 136
Orange gardens, 83
Oranges, 37, 59, 68, 134, 142, 185
Organ Mountains, 19, 34, 43, 197, 198,
206, 207, 210, 212, 224, 423
Origin of savage tribes by degradation,
article on, 296; man a family of one
genus, 297; his origin revealed, 297;
fossil remains show high develop-
ment, 297; degradation, how pro-
duced, 298; Mr. Drummond, 298
Orioles (birds), 50, 110, 359; har-
bingers of rain, 53
Orthoptera (Dermaptera), note on, 402
Ouro Branco range, 150
Ouro Preto, 29, 152; railway to, 28,
269
Ox-carts (carros), 29, 37, 39, 40, 56,
61, 75, 80, 100, 111, 124, 141, 145,
172, 176; musical performance of,
29, 40, 100; carrinho, 136; ox-
sleigh, 58
Paca, 53; flesh of, 53, 92; note on,
246
Palm avenue, Botanical Gardens, Rio,
23
Palms, 37, 53, 58, 71, 182, 200
Palm-fibre hammock, 63, 93
Parahybúna valley, 180; derivation of
Paraopeba, hotel at, 30, 32, 75; dinner,
30; railway-station, 26, 151, 170,
180; scenery near, 33; butterflies,
birds, coati, 34; winter weather, 34
Parroquets, 110
Parrots, 87, 139, 360, 363; flesh of,
87
Patriarchal life, 57; style of reckoning
riches, 112
Pauillac, 4, 253; cultivation, 253;
chateaux, 253; vineyards, 254;
hospitality, 254; houses, 254; pretty
lasses, 254
Peaches, 128, 129, 138, 148; given to
horses and pigs, 138
Peak of Teneriffe, 12, 13, 250
Pedra da Fortaleza (Minas), 180, 424
Pedra da Gavea (Rio), 200, 207, 224,
424
Pernambuco (Recife), 244; Brazil nuts,
cost of, 247; exports, 246; health
of, 246; landing passengers, 245;
market on board, 246; rafts (cata-
marans), 245; rainy season, 247, 320;
curious sandstone reef, 244, 246, 256
note; storms, 320; telephone, 247
Petropolis, 215, 216; cold at, 215;
cotton mill, 219; German colony,
220; Hotel MacDowel, 215; garden,
216; mountain scenery, 218; mete-
orological notes, 344; public road,
União e Industria Co., 217, 219;
railway, 213, 214, 221, 423, 424;
rivers, 217; old coach road, 219
Picadas, 62, 72
Pigs, 53, 60; sucking, 64
Pineapples, 148
Pink's Oxford and Cambridge Sauce,
147
Pitanguy, 27, 68, 70, 152, 270; mines
at, 262; newspaper, 98
Pitcairn Islanders, 191
Plano Inclinado (Sta. Theresa), 45, 225
Plantations, 25, 172
Plants, 173. Vide Botany, etc.
Politics, 61, 167, 293, 296; fall of
Lafayette Ministry, 188; Senhor
Dantas, 191. Vide Slavery
Ponchos, 55, 25, 120, 177
Pork, 36, 57, 61; à l'Anglaise, 148;
cost of, 82
Porridge (oatmeal), 172; Indian corn,
172
Portuguese, money, 10; white wine in
Brazil, 36, 85; cost of, 81
Postage-stamps, use for old, 89
Post-office, delays, 44, 48; delinquen-
cies, 49, 146, 167; postman, 178
Potatoes, 89, 134, 138, 418; new, 148;
sweet, 418
Practical joke, a, 253
Presents from poor natives, 79, 84, 92
Preserved English soups, 76, 128
Prickly heat, 128
Priests, 36, 53, 104; Cajurú, 63, 71;
São Amaro, 80; São Gonçalo do
Pará, 66, 69; hardworking, 68, 69;
libraries, 63, 69; Padre Antonio, 84,
154, 157, 163, 166; Padre Francisco,
105, 152; Padre Pinto, 135, 156,
167, 174, 176
Processions. Vide Religion
Prospects of trade in the interior, 60
Protective colouring and mimicry, 185;
article on, 384; butterflies and moths,
384; beetles, 386; grasshoppers and
Phasmida, 387; theory, 387
Psychical Research Society, a case for,
119 note.
Public assassination at Rio, 190
Public gardens, Lisbon, 10; at Rio,
Passeio Publico, 21, 199, 237; Largo
da Constituição, 21; Parque da
Acclamação, 238
Pullman cars, 24
Pumas, 28
Queen Victoria, H.B.M., 115, 171
Queluz de Minas, 27, 124, 179;
baptisms, 27; Sr. Hargreaves, 27,
28, 179; hospitality, 27; marriages,
27; Mass, 27
Quince, 61, 134, 418
Railway, exploration, 31, 35, 42, 66,
73, 77, 170; proposed line under
Bay of Rio, 192; time-table to Entre
Rios, 151
Railways, Brazilian, Mr. Walter Ham-
mond's letter on, 175
Railways: Dom Pedro II., 24, 151,
179, 268, 425; construction, 25,
26, 30; delays, 30, 31, 32, 42;
dust, 25; Mantiqueira range, 25;
Pullman cars, 24; scenery, 24, 43
São João del Rey (Oeste de Minas),
61, 269; objected to our route,
152, 271
Petropolis (Principe do Grão Para),
213, 214, 423, 424
Leopoldina, 270
Minas and Rio, 270
Ouro Pretana, 28, 269
Corcovado, 205, 212, 424
Plano Inclinado (Sta. Theresa), 45,
225
Rainy season, commencement of, 89;
in camp, 130; effect on health, 128,
141; floods, 132; rivers unpassable,
124; roads unpassable, 136;
temperature of, 89. Vide Weather
Ransom, Mr. George, hospitality of,
85, 86, 90; his death, 85 note
Rattlesnakes, 28. Vide Snakes
Rebouças, Dr. André, 20, 25, 26 27,
30, 85, 118, 148, 150
Religion, article on, 275; the Eucha-
rist, 276; celibacy of the clergy, 276;
invocation and cult of saints, 277;
indulgences, 278; prohibition to read
the Bible, 278; Protestant zeal, 279;
the Atonement, 279; Formalism
and Rationalism, 279; plea for
charitable views, 280
Religion, a talk on, 164; New Testa-
ments distributed, 164; sermons, 63,
78, 160, 161, 169
Religious customs, 80, 158; reverence
at Mass, 64, 107, 121; reverence to
parents, 114; appeal to the senses,
160; baptisms at Queluz, 27; be-
haviour in church, 63; calvaries, 35,
80, 159; communicants, 153, 155,
166; Epiphany, 129; expressions of
natives, 83; grace at meals, 155;
Holy Week, preparation for, 154;
processions, 157, 159, 161, 164, 165,
166; work in, 161; visitors, 158, 166;
observing the hours, 68; oratories,
149, 158; procession, to avert small-
pox, 83; religious feeling of natives,
164; spiritual relationship, 162, 166;
sugar-plums in church, 160; the
Month of Mary, 169
Religious fasts and feasts: Ascension
Day, 175; Candlemas, 147; Christ-
mas Day, 127; Easter Day, 165;
Good Friday, 162, 163, 165; Lady
Day, 156; Lent, 153; Palm Sunday,
156; Passion Sunday, 155; SS. Peter
and Paul, 23, 197
Religious services: Mass, at São
Amaro, 78, 80; Entre Rios, 145,
146, 155, 156, 165, 169, 175; Olhos
d'Agua, 121; Queluz, 27; Missa
Cantata, at Cajurú, 63; Mass of
the pre-Sanctified, 163; Requiem,
105
Reptiles, note on, 365
Revolution, prospective, 210
Rice, 39, 60, 62, 129, 134, 138, 161,
163; cost of, 81
Rio de Janeiro, notes on: City Im-
provements Co., 226; fountains,
226, 237; Carioca, derivation of
name, 227; history of foundation
of the city, 228; Huguenot settle-
ment, 228; conquest by Portuguese,
230; aborigines, 229, 233; S. Sebas-
tian, 233; French expedition, 234;
arrival of Portuguese Royal Family,
234; tramways, 235; success of,
235; tramcars, 236; water supply,
237; Passeio Publico, 237; Jardim
do Campo da Acclamação, 238; the
carnival, 239; lotteries, 239
Rio de Janeiro, town of, 20; origin of
name, 232; aqueduct, 225, 226;
assassination, 189; athletic sports,
22; bad paving, 21; beggars, 45;
bull-fight, 192; butterflies, 23; chest
diseases, 188; Chinamen, 187;
custom house (Alfandega), 21; Dr.
Bento, 203; Dr. King, 203; Engi-
neers' Club, 21; English church, 45;
fine houses, 182; fish, 187; Guinness's
stout, 191; Hotel, Carson's, 182,
dos Quatro Nacões, 46; itinerant
vendors, 21; Larangeiras, 204;
Largo da Constituição, 21; life at
Rio, 46, 182; Misericordia Hospital,
183; morros, 20, 183, 198; do
Castello, 197, 212; de Sta. Theresa,
205; mosquitoes, 23; narrow streets,
22; New London and Brazilian
Bank, 21; our office, view from, 210;
Passeio Publico, 21, 199, 237; ped-
lars, 187; Sta. Theresa, inclined
plane, 45, 225; table of sunrise and
sunset, 188; theatres, 46, 208;
tramways, 22, 183, 222, 235; tropi-
cal plants, 23, 190; tropical rain,
45; reservoirs, 224, 225, 237;
view from Nichteroy, 184; water-
works, 224; winter weather, 188
Rios (rivers and streams): Brumado,
150; Camapuão, 87, 90, 103, 121,
132; scenery, 90; Carioca, 226;
Cayuaba, 173; do Cortume, scenery,
90, 97; São Francisco, 50, 68, 70;
Pará, 50, 53, 54, 55, 62, 66, 68, 149;
Parahyba do Sul, 180; Parahybúna,
180: Paraopeba, 50, 149; bridge,
178; de Peixe, 54, 73
Roads, bad, 41, 133
Road crosses. Vide Calvaries
Rocks, exposed, 79
Rola (ortolan), 84, 361
Roberts, Mr. Richard, my partner, 96,
99, 107, III, 113, 114, 116, 127, 135,
141, 146, 148, 149
Ross, Mr. Leathom Earle, our chief,
107, 127; hospitality, 148, 172 note,
208
Rum, native. Vide Cachaça
São Amaro. Vide Villages
São Antonio dos Patos (city), 152, 270
São Caetano. Vide Villages
São João del Rey, exports to, 72. Vide
also Railways
St. Paul's Rocks, 17
St. Vincent (Cape Verd Islands), 248;
quarantine, market-boats, diving
boys, fish, 248; cost of water, 249;
São Antonio, 249
Salt imported, 61
Sarsaparilla, 421
Scenery, 54, 90; Bay of Botafogo, 186;
Bay of Rio de Janeiro, 19, 213, 224;
Dom Pedro II. Railway, 24, 43;
Paraopeba, 33; Rio do Cortume,
97, 98
Scorpion, 82
Sea currents, 18
Seclusion of women, 38, 56
Self-indicating lead, 2
Sermons. Vide Religion
Serra dos Olhos d'Agua (village), 35,
Sketches of Serra do Cortume, de-
Slavery, note on, 281; the law of free
birth, 281; Emancipation Fund, 281,
283, 284; cost of slaves, 281; law
of 1831, 281, 283; liberation of
slaves, 284; treatment of slaves,
285; results of Socialistic teaching,
285; abolitionism, 287; abolition in
Ceará, 287, 311 note; in Amazonas,
288; free labour, 288; Dantas Cabinet,
289; Emancipation Bill, 289; eulogy
in daily papers, 290; Dr. J. Nabuco,
290; dissolution of the Chambers,
291; Times leaders, 292, 294; Mr.
Walter Hammond, 292; New Parlia-
ment, the Emperor's speech, 292,
295; Saraiva Cabinet, 293; his Bill,
294; Chevalier Corrêa de Souza,
294; number of slaves in Brazil, 294;
Dr. Ferreira França, 295; Cotegipe
Cabinet, 296; Emancipation Bill
passed, 296
Slaves, 58, 136; allotments given to,
116; gradual emancipation, 115, 116;
singing, 116; Sunday work of, 155
Small-pox, 78, 79, 83
Snails, note on, 368
Snakes, 31, 38, 70, 125; cure for bites,
28; dangerous species, 366; note
on, 365
Sounding at sea, off Land's End, 2; off
Brazil, 18
Southern constellations, 95, 169
Southern latitudes colder than northern,
15
Spiders (Arachnida), note on, 406
Spinning, 137, 144
Spring-time, cold weather, 97, 108;
on the Campos, 95; flowers, 98;
vegetation, rapid growth, 108. Vide
Weather
Steam-steering apparatus, 6
Steamy heat, 122, 135
Study of an interior, 113
Suassuhy, 35, 37, 178
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