Chapter 12

Jaguars,311.Japurá River,267,320.Javarí River,269,320.Jesuits,89,321.Jiggers,108.Jívaros Indians,165,171.Jurís Indians,319.Juruá River,269,319.Jutahí River,269.Lady travelers on the Amazon,236.La Mona,38.Lauguage of Ecuador,71.Latacunga,53.Lava, absence of,122.streams,144.Lepers,55,94.Lianas,188.Lice-eating,181.Life within the Amazon,295.around the Amazon,300.Lignite on the Amazon,225,283.Lion, American,105.Living on the Amazon,235.Lizards of the Amazon,304.Llama,104.fossil,154.Llanganati Mountains,149.Locro,44.Loja,152.Longevity on the Andes,92.Loreto,232.Lotteries in Quito,90.Lungs of mountaineers,95.Lyell on the Valley of the Amazon,347.Macaws,306.Machachi,55.Madeira River,269.Mamaï,234.Mamelucos,239.Mammals on the Amazon,309.Manáos,243.Manati,215,299.Mandioca,291.Mango,34.Manufactures of Quito,77.Marañon River,227.steamers,230.Maravilla,48.Market of Quito,77.Mashka,36.Maspa,186.Masquerade, Indian,110.Mastodon, Andean,154.Matá-matá turtle,299.Maucallacta,232.Mauhés Indians,318.Mazan River,226.Meat, preservation of,222.Merchants of Quito,74.Mica Lake,146.Milk on the Andes,179.Milky Way at Quito,98.Mixed races,68,322.Mocha,52.Mongruba-tree,288.Monkey meat,203.Monkeys,223,313.Montaña of Peru,231.Monte Alégre,252.Montúca flies,224.Moreno, President,54,86,138.Mountaineers,43,69,95.Mountains on the Amazon,252.Moyabamba,231.Mules,43.Muleteers,36.Mundurucus Indians,318.Múras Indians,318.Music in the forest,205.Musquitoes,224,228,303.Napo country,164.diseases,198.fish,226.Indians,165,197,180,210.journey,174.navigation,197,209.productions,196.rapids,200.river,197,199,227,268.scenery,216,220.tea,193.turtles,226.village,194.wilderness,188,191.Nauta,231.Negroes on the Amazon,247,323.Negro River,242,266,319.Newspapers in Ecuador,27,80.Nocturnal music,205.Obidos,248.Obsidian,124,148.Orchids,216.Orchilla,347.Orejones,222.Orellana's expedition,183,207.Organ-bird,308.Oriente,164.Otovalo,157.Outfit for travel,327.Paita, raised beach at,115.Paja, or Paramo grass,49.Palms, cocoa,35.on the Amazon,287.on the Napo,219.Palo de cruz,228.Pampas, geology of,282.Panama hats,31.Pañuelon,69.Papallacta,177,181.Papaya-tree,202,234.Pará City, buildings,257.climate,262.commerce,259.currency,260.government,261.people,258.view of,254.Para River,254,271.Paramo,33.Parrots,206,306.Passés Indians,319.Pastassa River,150,268.Pebas,227.fossils,282,347.Peccaries,221,310.Peons,36,183.Peruvian bark,47.steamers,230.Pfeiffer, Ida,53.Piassaba palm,289.Pichincha volcano,124,133,140.Pigs, mode of dressing,49.Pirarucu fish,295.Piums,224.Pizarro at Coca,183,207.Plantain,34.Poison antidote,332.Politeness, Ecuadorian,35,71.Politics in Quito,86.Polylepis-trees,50,179.Poncho,69.Porphyroid trachytes,124.Porpoises,299.Porto do Moz,253.Potatoes on the Andes,101.Potato soup,44,50.Prayinha,253.President's order,176.Priests of Quito,89.Protestant cemetery,90,334.Puma,105.Pumice,148.on the Amazon,268.Puna,96.Purus Indians,318.River,269.Quadrupeds on the Amazon,309.Quartz, paucity of,122.Quito agriculture,75.amusements,80.architecture,78.arts,78.atmosphere,96.bells,89.birds,106.bull-baits,80,94.butterflies,108.capital,66.carnival,81.climate,91.cock-fights,81.cookery,84.currency,75.diseases,93.dress,69.drunkenness,142.education,79.fashions,70.fish,108.flour,98,101.history,56,152.insects,108.ladies,70,81.manufactures,77.market,77.masquerades,81.merchants,74.newspapers,80.politics,86.population,68.potatoes,101.prices,329.Protestant cemetery,90.religion,87.reptiles,107.scenery,178.servants,83.situation,55,59,62.streets and buildings,64,65.street scene,60.suburbs,55,59.under the Incas,56.under the Spaniards,57.Valley,51,55,73,149,152.archæology of,109,112.Quitonians, character of the,71,86.primeval,109.Rain-fall at Quito,93.line on the Andes,45.Raposa,233,311.Regularity of nature,92.Religion of Ecuador,87.Religious intolerance,91,347.Reptiles at Quito,107.on the Amazon,296.Revenue of Ecuador,87.Ride down the Andes,180.Rimos Indians,322.Riobamba,150,153.River systems of South America,118,275.Roads on the Andes,43,53,74.Rodents on the Amazon,309.Romanism on the Andes,88.Rose of the Andes,101.Routes across South America,325.Rumiñagui,146.Salt on the Andes,193.San Antonio,233.Sand-flies,224.Sangai volcano,150.San Paulo,237.Santarem,251.Santa Rosa,201.Sapucaya nut,290.Sarsaparilla,224.Saüba ants,194,300.Savages on the Napo,221.Savaneta,40.Scenery on the Amazon,253.Sea-cows,215.Serpa,247.Shells in Quito Valley,109.in the Amazon Valley,293.Sierra,33.Silk-cotton-tree,220,289.Sincholagua,146.Sloths,310.Slow-worm on the Napo,194.Snakes, scarcity of,195,332.Snakes on the Amazon,305.Snow at high altitudes,138.limit in the Andes,125.Soil in the Amazon Valley,286.Solimoens,237.South America, geology of,114.American fauna and flora,103.American Indians,315.Southerners on the Amazon,246,251.Spanish character,328.Spanish language,71.Spanish Republicanism,58.Spiders on the Amazon,304.Stars at Quito,97.Staunton, Col., burial of,91,334.Steam on the Amazon,230,234,330.Storm on the Napo,213.Sugar on the Amazon,252.on the Andes,329Sugar-cane on the Amanzon,291.Suno,205.Superstition,54.Tabatinga,233.Table-lands of the Old World,152.Tablon,178.Tacunga, 53Tambillo ridge,55.Tambo on the mountains,40.Tapajos River,270.Tapir,104,310.Teffé River,269.Temperature, correspondence of altitude and latitude as to,145.Termite ants,301.Thermometer, variations of,92.Tide on the Amazon,275.Timber on the Amazon,289.Tiupullo,54.Toads of the Amazon,304.Tobacco on the Amazon,291.use of, by the Napos,197.Tocantíns River,271.Tolling-bell bird,307.Tortoise-shell wood,289.Toucan,206,306.Trade wind,118.Trail in the forest,182.Trapiche,207.Traveling in South America,325.Trees in Quito Valley,100.on the Amazon,288.Trogon,308.Tropical flowers,292,347.forest,287.Tropical vegetation,34,38,188,190,219.Tucúna Indians,320.Tucker, Admiral,232.Tunantíns,237.Tunguragua volcano,149.Tupi race,316.Turtles in the Amazon,297.in the Napo,215,220.Uaupés Indians,319.Ucayali Indians,321.River,268.Umbrella bird,307.Upper Amazon towns,231.Urarí poison,228.Valediction on the Napo,204.Valley of the Amazon,280.of the Andes,130.of the Chimbo,46.of Quito,51,55,73,149,151,155.Vanilla on the Napo,196.Vegetation in the tropics34,38.on the Amazon,287.zones of, on the Andes,50.Verdure on the Amazon,285.Veta,96.Victoria Regia,292.Views from the Andes,45.Villa Nora,248.Vocabularies Indian,339.Volcanoes of Ecuador,122,125,151.Washerwomen of Quito,83.Water-beetles,295.carriers,61.Water-shed of the Atlantic and Pacific,54.Water-snakes,296.Wayside inn.40.White ants,301.Wisse, M., descent into Pichincha,138.Wool, Andean,104.Xingú River,271.


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