Biographical Note | p. v |
Introduction | p. xv |
Map | p. xx |
Preface | p. xxv |
| p. 3 |
Porta Praya | |
Ribeira Grande | |
Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria | |
Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish | |
St. Paul's Rocks, nonvolcanic | |
Singular Incrustations | |
Insects the first Colonists of Islands | |
Fernando Noronha | |
Bahia | |
Burnished Rocks | |
Habits of a Diodon | |
Pelagic Confervae and Infusoria | |
Causes of discoloured Sea | |
| p. 18 |
Rio de Janeiro | |
Excursion north of Cape Frio | |
Great Evaporation | |
Slavery | |
Botofogo Bay | |
Terrestrial Planariae | |
Clouds on the Corcovado | |
Heavy Rain | |
Musical Frogs | |
Phosphorescent Insects | |
Elater, springing powers of | |
Blue Haze | |
Noise made by a Butterfly | |
Entomology | |
Ants | |
Wasp killing a Spider | |
Parasitical Spider | |
Artifices of an Epeira | |
Gregarious Spider | |
Spider with an unsymmetrical Web | |
| p. 36 |
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 | |
Mocking-bird | |
Carrion Hawks | |
Tubes formed by Lightning | |
House struck | |
| p. 57 |
Rio Negro | |
Estancias attacked by the Indians | |
Salt-Lakes | |
Flamingoes | |
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 | |
| p. 73 |
Bahia Blanca | |
Geology | |
Numerous gigantic extinct Quadrupeds | |
Recent Extinction | |
Longevity of Species | |
Large Animals do 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 | |
Habits of Sea-Pen | |
Indian Wars and Massacres | |
Arrowhead, antiquarian Relic | |
| p. 95 |
Set out for Buenos Ayres | |
Rio Sauce | |
Sierra Ventana | |
Third Posta | |
Driving Horses | |
Bolas | |
Partridges and Foxes | |
Features of the Country | |
Long-legged Plover | |
Teru-tero | |
Hail-storm | |
Natural Enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen | |
Flesh of Puma | |
Meat Diet | |
Guardia del Monte | |
Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation | |
Cardoon | |
Buenos Ayres | |
Corral where Cattle are Slaughtered | |
| p. 110 |
Excursion to St. Fe | |
Thistle Beds | |
Habits of the Bizcacha | |
Little Owl | |
Saline Streams | |
Level Plains | |
Mastodon | |
St. Fe | |
Change in Landscape | |
Geology | |
Tooth of extinct Horse | |
Relation of the Fossil and Recent Quadrupeds of North and South America | |
Effects of a great Drought | |
Parana | |
Habits of the Jaguar | |
Scissorbeak | |
Kingfisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail | |
Revolution | |
Buenos Ayres | |
State of Government | |
| p. 127 |
Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento | |
Value of an Estancia | |
Cattle, how counted | |
Singular Breed of Oxen | |
Perforated Pebbles | |
Shepherd Dogs | |
Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding | |
Character of Inhabitants | |
Rio Plata | |
Flocks of Butterflies | |
Aeronaut Spiders | |
Phosphorescence of the Sea | |
Port Desire | |
Guanaco | |
Port St. Julian | |
Geology of Patagonia | |
Fossil gigantic Animal | |
Types of Organization constant | |
Change in the Zoology of America | |
Causes of Extinction | |
| p. 158 |
Santa Cruz | |
Expedition up the River | |
Indians | |
Immense Streams of Basaltic Lava | |
Fragments not transported by the River | |
Excavation of the Valley | |
Condor, Habits of | |
Cordillera | |
Erratic Boulders of great size | |
Indian Relics | |
Return to the Ship | |
Falkland Islands | |
Wild Horses, Cattle, Rabbits | |
Wolf-like Fox | |
Fire made of Bones | |
Manner of Hunting Wild Cattle | |
Geology | |
Streams of Stones | |
Scenes of Violence | |
Penguin | |
Geese | |
Eggs of Doris | |
Compound Animals | |
| p. 182 |
Tierra del Fuego, first arrival | |
Good Success Bay | |
An Account of the Fuegians on board | |
Interview with the Savages | |
Scenery of the Forests | |
Cape Horn | |
Wigwam Cove | |
Miserable Condition of the Savages | |
Famines | |
Cannibals | |
Matricide | |
Religious Feelings | |
Great Gale | |
Beagle Channel | |
Ponsonby Sound | |
Build Wigwams and settle the Fuegians | |
Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel | |
Glaciers | |
Return to the Ship | |
Second Visit in the Ship to the Settlement | |
Equality of Condition amongst the Natives | |
| p. 206 |
Strait of Magellan | |
Port Famine | |
Ascent of Mount Tarn | |
Forests | |
Edible Fungus | |
Zoology | |
Great Sea-weed | |
Leave Tierra del Fuego | |
Climate | |
Fruit-trees and Productions of the Southern Coasts | |
Height of Snow-line on the Cordillera | |
Descent of Glaciers to the Sea | |
Icebergs formed | |
Transportal of Boulders | |
Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands | |
Preservation of Frozen Carcasses | |
Recapitulation | |
| p. 226 |
Valparaiso | |
Excursion to the Foot of the Andes | |
Structure of the Land | |
Ascend the Bell of Quillota | |
Shattered Masses of Greenstone | |
Immense Valleys | |
Mines | |
State of Miners | |
Santiago | |
Hot-baths of Cauquenes | |
Gold-mines | |
Grinding-mills | |
Perforated Stones | |
Habits of the Puma | |
El Turco and Tapacolo | |
Humming-birds | |
| p. 244 |
Chiloe | |
General Aspect | |
Boat Excursion | |
Native Indians | |
Castro | |
Tame Fox | |
Ascend San Pedro | |
Chonos Archipelago | |
Peninsula of Tres Montes | |
Granitic Range | |
Boat-wrecked Sailors | |
Low's Harbour | |
Wild Potato | |
Formation of Peat | |
Myopotamus, Otter and Mice | |
Cheucau and Barking-bird | |
Opetiorhynchus | |
Singular Character of Ornithology | |
Petrels | |
| p. 261 |
San Carlos, Chiloe | |
Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina | |
Ride to Cucao | |
Impenetrable Forests | |
Valdivia Indians | |
Earthquake | |
Concepcion | |
Great Earthquake | |
Rocks fissured | |
Appearance of the former Towns | |
The Sea Black and Boiling | |
Direction of the Vibrations | |
Stones twisted round | |
Great Wave | |
Permanent Elevation of the Land | |
Area of Volcanic Phenomena | |
The connection between the Elevatory and Eruptive Forces | |
Causes of Earthquakes | |
Slow Elevation of Mountain-chains | |
| p. 280 |
Valparaiso | |
Portilla Pass | |
Sagacity of Mules | |
Mountaintorrents | |
Mines, how discovered | |
Proofs of the gradual Elevation of the Cordillera | |
Effect of Snow on Rocks | |
Geological Structure of the two main Ranges, their distinct Origin and Upheaval | |
Great Subsidence | |
Red Snow | |
Winds | |
Pinnacles of Snow | |
Dry and clear Atmosphere | |
Electricity | |
Pampas | |
Zoology of the opposite Sides of the Andes | |
Locusts | |
Great Bugs | |
Mendoza | |
Uspallata Pass | |
Silicified Trees buried as they grew | |
Incas Bridge | |
Badness of the Passes exaggerated | |
Cumbre | |
Casuchas | |
Valparaiso | |
| p. 301 |
Coast-road to Coquimbo | |
Great Loads carried by the Miners | |
Coquimbo | |
Earthquake | |
Step-formed Terraces | |
Absence of recent Deposits | |
Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Formations | |
Excursion up the Valley | |
Road to Guasco | |
Deserts | |
Valley of Copiapo | |
Rain and Earthquakes | |
Hydrophobia | |
The Despoblado | |
Indian Ruins | |
Probable Change of Climate | |
Riverbed arched by an Earthquake | |
Cold Gales of Wind | |
Noises from a Hill | |
Iquique | |
Salt Alluvium | |
Nitrate of Soda | |
Lima | |
Unhealthy Country | |
Ruins of Callao, overthrown by an Earthquake | |
Recent subsidence | |
Elevated Shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition | |
Plain with embedded Shells and fragments of Pottery | |
Antiquity of the Indian Race | |
| p. 332 |
The whole Group Volcanic | |
Number of Craters | |
Leafless Bushes | |
Colony at Charles Island | |
James Island | |
Salt-lake in Crater | |
Natural History of the Group | |
Ornithology, curious Finches | |
Reptiles | |
Great Tortoises, habits of | |
Marine Lizard, feeds on Seaweed | |
Terrestrial Lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous | |
Importance of Reptiles in the Archipelago | |
Fish, Shells, Insects | |
Botany | |
American Type of Organization | |
Differences in the Species or Races on different Islands | |
Tameness of the Birds | |
Fear of Man, an acquired Instinct | |
| p. 359 |
Pass through the Low Archipelago | |
Tahiti | |
Aspect | |
Vegetation on the Mountains | |
View of Eimeo | |
Excursion into the Interior | |
Profound Ravines | |
Succession of Waterfalls | |
Number of wild useful Plants | |
Temperance of the Inhabitants | |
Their moral state | |
Parliament convened | |
New Zealand | |
Bay of Islands | |
Hippahs | |
Excursion to Waimate | |
Missionary Establishment | |
English Weeds now run wild | |
Waiomio | |
Funeral of a New Zealand Woman | |
Sail for Australia | |
| p. 385 |
Sydney | |
Excursion to Bathurst | |
Aspect of the Woods | |
Party of Natives | |
Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines | |
Infection generated by associated Men in health | |
Blue Mountains | |
View of the grand gulf-like Valleys | |
Their origin and formation | |
Bathurst, general civility of the Lower Orders | |
State of Society | |
Van Diemen's Land | |
Hobart Town | |
Aborigines all banished | |
Mount Wellington | |
King George's Sound | |
Cheerless Aspect of the Country | |
Bald Head, calcareous casts of branches of Trees | |
Party of Natives | |
Leave Australia | |
| p. 404 |
Keeling Island | |
Singular appearance | |
Scanty Flora | |
Transport of Seeds | |
Birds and Insects | |
Ebbing and flowing Springs | |
Fields of dead Coral | |
Stone transported in the roots of Trees | |
Great Crab | |
Stinging Corals | |
Coral-eating Fish | |
Coral Formations | |
Lagoon Islands, or Atolls | |
Depth at which reef-building Corals can live | |
Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands | |
Subsidence of their foundations | |
Barrier Reefs | |
Fringing Reefs | |
Conversion of Fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, and into Atolls | |
Evidence of changes in Level | |
Breaches in Barrier Reefs | |
Maldiva Atolls; their peculiar structure | |
Dead and submerged Reefs | |
Areas of subsidence and elevation | |
Distribution of Volcanoes | |
Subsidence slow, and vast in amount | |
| p. 432 |
Mauritius, beautiful appearance of | |
Great crateriform ring of Mountains | |
Hindoos | |
St. Helena | |
History of the changes in the Vegetation | |
Cause of the extinction of Land-shells | |
Ascension | |
Variation in the imported Rats | |
Volcanic Bombs | |
Beds of Infusoria | |
Bahia | |
Brazil | |
Splendour of Tropical Scenery | |
Pernambuco | |
Singular Reef | |
Slavery | |
Return to England | |
Retrospect on our Voyage | |
Discussion Guide | p. 453 |
Index | p. 455 |
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