Letters from the Battlefields of Paraguay. Richard Francis Burton
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Commerce of Paraguay, 18
Comte d'Eu volunteers his services as Commander-in-Chief, 469; his promptitude on hearing a salute, 470 ; his proclamation at Luque to his men, 470 ; his Order of the Day not original, 471
Concepcion del Uruguay, description of, 196 ; provisions at, 197 ; interesting prairie gallop at, 198
Convent of San Carlos, pronouncement of the, 251
Cordillera, supposed rise of the, 5
Cordoba, wandering about the quaint city of, 414
Corpus Christi built to control the Timbu Indians, 252
Correntine tobacco preferable to Havannahs, 287
Corrientes, arrival of the Brazilian fleet at, 265 ; ridiculous fashion of naming the streets at, 271 ; savage mastiffs at,
273 ; orange-farms at, 273 ; Turks painfully transmogrified at, 274 ; scarcity of provisions at, 275 ; religious
superstition at, 276 ; family vaults in the cemetery like a Californian steam-bath, 280 ; miraculous cross at, 281 ;
variations of temperature at, 282 ; female beauty at, 284 ; their aversion to marriage, 284 ; bitterness of political
parties at, 285 ; revolvers at night necessary, 288 ; war at once resolved at, 289 ; piratical seizure of ships at,
289
Crabtree, Mr., prevents serious national troubles, 165
Costa, Brigadier-General, visit to the tent of, 381
Courts marshal, specimens of sundry copies, 474
Cuchilla de los Palmares, glorious view from, 208
Curious party of pleasure, 253
Curious reports in Paraguay, 30
Curupaity, far-famed lines of, 361
Curuzu, bombardment of, by the Allies, 303 ; capture of, 304
Cuverville, M., ugly story concerning, 446
Dairy, experiments for a model, 204
Derivations of the word Paraguay, 2
Diamente, formation of banks of patience at, 255
Diaz, General, killed by a shell from an ironclad, 299
Discontent, suggesting a mode to prevent, 82
Discovery of an infernal machine to blow up the Ministry, 113
Documents taken at Loma Valentina, inspectiug the, 472
Elisiario, Vice-Admiral, popular rumour of, 369 ; his predictions on the campaign, 369
El Pilar, the gaol of foreigners, 367 ; Brazilian outrages at, 367
Emigrants, outward bound, description of, 86
Emigrants' colony, utter failure of the, 60
Emilio, General D., visit to, 464 ; his aptitude for warfare, 465 ; his prepossessing and military figure, 465 ; his
praise of the Brazilian whites, 466
English cruisers, uselessness of, 100
English subjects enlisting in the Brazilian army, 388
Esmerata, Padre, his devotion in the cause of humanity, 338
Extractum carnis, a detestable kind of beef-tea, 193
Feminine volunteers, courage of, 380
Ferreira, Colonel, his quarters an official residence, 466
Floating hotel, life on board a, 292
Flores and his son, violent altercation between, 113
FJores, D. Manuel, supposed poisoning of, by the Blancos, 116
Flores, Don Pedro, his duties on board ship, 292
Flores, General, origin of the murder of, 110 ; the banishment of his three sons, 117
Fogs in the Boca del Guazu, 229
France annoyed by the treatment of her subjects in Paraguay, 66
Francia, Dr., his remarkable character, 39; how England derived her knowledge of, 43 ; origin of his family, 47 ; elected
perpetual Dictator, 47 ; his remarkable administration, 48 ; diplomatic relations with foreign powers cut off by,
50 ; his deeds of generosity, 51 ; his death, 52 ; resting-place of, 438
Fulton's formidable defence for rivers, 342
GalvIO and his gallant wife fought to death, 144
Gastavino, Bernardino, successful manoeuvre of, 267
Garay, D. Juan de, the restorer of Buenos Aires, 233
Garibaldi considered an obscure adventurer, 259
Garibaldi's loss of his legion of cooks, 211
Gaucho and Gauchito, hideous costume of the, 277
Gaucho warfare, what it consists of, 466
Gauchos of Rozario, ugliness of the, 243
Gelly, General, his courtsey, 351
Gold mines in Uruguay, 34
Gould, Mr., his predictions, 166; his hopeless errand, 329 ; his conditions of peace between the Allies and Paraguay, 329 ; his departure from Paraguay, 330 ; his unfavourable opinion of Paraguayan resources, 330 ; his second mission to Paraguay, 330 ; his erroneous opinions on the Paraguayan cause, 330
Gomez and Braga shot, 214
Gomez demanded by the Colorados, 213
Goya famous for oranges and cheeses, 261
Gran Chaco, the visit to, after the action, 338
Grass of Paraguay poisono ii s to animals, 373
Great Chaco, loafing and di'inking of the men at, 277
Guard-houses on the Paraguay established to watch strangers, 311
Guardia Tacuara, free-and-easy system of operations at, 371 ; reconnoitring the ground at, 372
Guayquiraro, the home of the fat boy, 260
Guazu river, opinions on the formation of, 227
Guerilla warfare determined, 79
Guns of the Paraguayans a curious spectacle, 322
Handbook of the River Plate deserving of patronage, 108
Hawaii, terrible earthquake at, 127
Health-officer of Monte Viddo, arbitrary powers of, 102
Henley, Mr., his uncertain prospects of flax-growing, 217
Holy week, worship of the Montevideans in, 127
Hopkins, Mi\ E., his claims for compensation ignored, 63
Horses storming fortified and insulated posts, 191
Hotel de la Minute, its proprietor charged with receiving stolen goods, 449
Hotham, Sir Charles, his arrival at Asuncion, 61
Humaita invested by the Allied armies, 333 ; a Paraguayan sortie repulsed from, 333 ; true description of, 314 ;
its importance exaggerated, 316 ; merchant fleet at, 316 ; line of shopboats at, 316 ; wants and notions sold at, 316 ; absurd entrenchments of, 448 ; disappearance of the batteries at, 471
Human Zoology, collection of, at Luque, 464
Hunting farmed out by the Oriental government, 93
Hutchinson, Mr., his heroic services during the cholera plague, 244 ; caricatured at Rozario, 244 ; presented with a medal, 244
Infernal machines, fishing up, 341
Ironclads attacked by Cimoes, 364
Isla de las Flores, fragrancy of its wild vegetation, 94
Island of Liberty, imprisonment