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


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