Letters from the Battlefields of Paraguay. Richard Francis Burton
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in the, 100
Italian porters in Monte Video not to be trusted, 104
Itapiru carelessly abandoned by Lopez, 301
Jesuits in Paraguay, their influence, 26
Juquery bridge held by Brigadier Vasco Alves, 467
KiRKLAND, Lieut., a sympathizer with the Blanco party, 370 ; hindered in the performance of his duty, 370
La Ciudad, view of, 434
La Paz, a useful colony against the raids of Chaco Indians, 258
La Plata, great increase in the trade of, 151
La Trinidad celebrated for cock-fights, 461
La Union, bull-fights held at, 110
La Villeta, operations hastened by the inundation of, 295
Lasso, the, how to avoid, 148
Law and justice in the River Plate, 91
Libertat, M., accused of conspiracy, 131
Liberty Square at Corrientes, a savage caricature, 278
Libraries, billiard rooms, and drinking houses at Buenos Aires, 185
Lines defended by the Paraguayans, 353
Loma Valentina, Lopez's documents taken at, 472
Lomas, proposal to attack the last Paraguayan position on the, 450
Lopez, D. Antonio Carlo, President I., elected in 1845 56 ; his marriage with D. Juana Paula Carillo, 57; conspiracy
to shoot him in a theatre, 64 ; sends to London for explanations, 65 ; undertakes negotiations with the Holy See, 66 ; his death in 1862, 67
Lopez, D. Francisco Solano, President II., elected in 1862, 67 ; his first meeting with Madame Lynch in Paris, 72 ; actively prepares for war, 75; his atrocities greatly exaggerated, 128; unfit for guerilla warfare, 128; his scheme shattered by the incapacity of his oflicers and men, 264 ; prizes piratically made figuring in his flotilla, 289 ; abandons Paso la Patria when the enemy appears, 301 ; he proposes an interview with the Allied Generals, 305 ; muzzle-loaders found in front of his palace, 322 ; he is asked to abdicate his country, 329 ; reports concerning his atrocities, 330 ; his complaint of the laws of neutrality, 331 ; his letters detained at Buenos Aires, 332 ; his victory at Acayuasa, 334 ; the wife of Colonel Martinez murdered by, 335 ; he arms the Cierva redoubt with field pieces, 347 ; his defence of Paso Pucu, 357 ; his place of concealment, 357 ; he expects to. be drawn from La Villeta, 371 ; he concentrates his forces at the Tebicuary river, 401 ; his government a model of order and progress, 407 ; his ill feeling with Mr. "Washburn, 409 ; his escape from Loma Valentina, 419 ; takes up his head-quarters at Loma Cumbarity, 421 ; his palace at La Villeta, 424 ; he purposely leaves Santo Antonio undefended, 427 ; the loss of his cavalry at the battle of Itororo, 428 ; he releases the architect of his palace from imprisonment, 433 ; ignorance of the Allies concerning his movements, 448 ; he makes all the railway officials captains and lieutenants, 359 ; his documents taken from his private carriage, 472 ; his tenderness to his children, 477 ; his letters to Major-Gen, Macmahon, 478 ; he appoints Madame Lynch universal legatee, 478 ; his sympathy, sternness, and grief, 479
Lopez, D. Benigno, doubts concerning the fate of, 476
Lopez, D. Venancio, acquitted and released, 476
Luque, journey by rail to, dangerous, 459 ; the normal settlement of, 462
Lynch, Madam, her trials throughout the campaign, 71 ; birth of her first child, 73 ; miseries of the captives mitigated by, 74 ; her ambition, 74 ; her present to Captain Xenes' soldiers, 312 ; her quarters at Humaita, 318
M 'Donald, Dr., suggests a plan for a channel across the Albardon, 333
M'Mahon demands the release of Messrs. Bliss and Masterman, 130
Madariaga, Grovernor, treachery of, 59
Maldonata and the lioness, romantic tale of, 252
Mamelukes of S. Paulo, plunder by the, 10
Mariette, Captain, arrest of, 115
Maroon settlement at La Villeta, 430
Marshall and Grant stabbed by a native, 435
Martin Garcia and her batteries, 192
Martin Garcia, an island only fit to travel on stilts, 228
Martin, General, his defeat of the Spaniards in 1810, 251
Martinez, Colonel, shot at Paso la Patria, 290 ; his wife murdered by Lopez, 335
Martins, Enrique, shot for refusing to give up his flag, 268
Masterman and Bliss, violent and illegal arrest of, 129
Memorial from the married women of Buenos Aires to the Archbishop, 186
Mendoza's tent, collection of yarns in, 390
Menna Barreto, General, his head-quarters, 212
Mercado del Puerto, market-place of, 99
Mesa, Captain, mortally wounded, 267
Metropolitan cemetery at Buenos Aires, 184
Military and mob law, struggles of, 115
Military correspondent constituted, 80
Misiones first established in Paraguay, 26
Mission of Paraguay, military organization of the, 32
Missions system, remarkable features of, 32
Mitre, President, a prominent personage, 166
Money a signal for disorders among Brazilian soldiers, 468
Monte Video, terrific gales in, 84 ; short sketch of, 95 ; Cerro, the best view of, 100 ; uselessness of English cruisers at, 100 ; importance of knowing the currency of, 103 : extortions of travellers at, 103 ; Italian porters at, 104 ; tramway in, 105 ; dishonesty of custom-house officers in, 105 ; their lodging houses, 105; bad roads in, 107 ; drainage unknown in, 107 ; old Spanish houses in, 107 ; impoverished look of the tenements at, 108 ; General Oribe's nine years' siege of, 110 ; the cause of the revolution of 1868 at, 110 ; murder of General Flores at, 111 ; danger from soldiers in, 122 ; an Englishman's head laid open by one of the vicious "bobbies" at, 123; theatres and amusements in, 123 ; the fair sex partial to bull-fighting at, 124 ; soldiers and priests in the cockpit at, 124 ; prize-fighting and fair play at, 125 ; public institutions at, 126 ; attempt to form an English club at, 126; Gormandizing club at, 126 ; terrific storm and loss of life at, 127 ; worship on Holy Saturday at, 127
Monte Video and Humaita, sketch of the route between, 136 ; names of the various writers on, 149
Montevidean shops, glitter and attractions of, 118
Montevidean soldiers, danger of, 122
Montevideans and Portenos, their jealousy, 96
Morvonnais, M. de la, regret at not being able to accept his invitation, 207
Mosquitoes, sufferings of the soldiers from, 348
Mothers and wives of officers forced to disown their sons and husbands, 474
Murder of two Spanish subjects, 116
Music Hall at Buenos Aires, nightly revels at, 185
Newkirk, Dr., and his drunken servant, 460 ; his fraudulent apothecary, 463 ; his lucrative practice, 451
Nueva Burdoes, failure of the French colony of, 454
Obes, Commander-in-chief of the Argentine army, 308
O'Connor, Mr., his narrow escape from being shot, 261
Oliveira, Admiral, out-generalled by Lopez, 63
Oriental army reduced to a remnant, 326
Osorioand Argolo badly wounded, 445
Osorio and Flores laud upon Paraguayan ground, 301
Osorio, General, repulsed from the Gran Chaco, 354 ; his popularity, 384 ; his soldierly