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 Confervae and Infusoria |
Causes of discoloured Sea |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Arrow-head, antiquarian Relic |
Set out for Buenos Ayres |
Rio Sauce |
Sierra Ventana |
Third Posta |
Driving Horses |
Bolas |
Partridges and Foxes |
Features of the Country |
Long-legged Plover |
Terutero |
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 |
Excursion to St. Fe |
Thistle-Beds |
Habits of the Bizcacha |
Little Owl |
Saline Streams |
Level Plains |
Mastodon |
St. Fe |
Change in Landscape |
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 |
Scissor-beak |
Kingfisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail |
Revolution |
State of Government |
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 |
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 |
Streams of Stones |
Scenes of Violence |
Penguin |
Geese |
Eggs of Doris |
Compound Animals |
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 |
Second Visit in the Ship to the Settlement |
Equality of Condition amongst the Natives |
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 |
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 |
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 |
San Carlos, Chiloe |
Osorno in Eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina |
Ride to Cucao |
Impenetrable Forests |
Valdivia |
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 |
Portilla Pass |
Sagacity of Mules |
Mountain-torrents |
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 |
Coast-road to Coquimbo |
Great Loads carried by the Miners |
Coquimbo |
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 |
River-bed 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 |
Galapagos Archipelago |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Leave Australia |
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 |
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 |
Brazil |
Splendour of Tropical Scenery |
Pernambuco |
Singular Reef |
Return to England |
Retrospect on our Voyage |
Index |
Porta Praya |
Ribeira Grande |
Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria |