Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). Through the Brazilian Wilderness. 1914.
Subject Index
| Fort Bourbon, 57 |
| França, the cook, ghostly belief of, 314 |
| Franco, Ricardo, 189, 190, 219 |
| Frogs, peculiar cries of, 210, 236 |
| Fungi, 168 |
| Game, big, inadequate knowledge of life histories of, 119, 120 |
| Gauchos, 95, 96 |
| Geographer, work of field, in South America, Appendix A, 353, 354 |
| Geological structure of land, 237 |
| Goff, Johnny, 119 |
| Gopher rat, 245, 246 |
| Graves, forlorn, 203, 210, 231 |
| Guaporé, the, 189 |
| Guarany, 44–46 |
| Guiana, 347 |
| Gy-Paran&á, the, 134, 135; descent of the, 158; boat, men, and provisions lost ascending the, 159; 247, 270, 271, 348 |
| Hammocks, Appendix B, 368, 374 |
| Harper, Frank, 4, 5, 166; specimens and unnecessary baggage returned to New York in care of, 171 |
| Haseman, John D., 177, Appendix A, 359–362; theories of, 363–367 |
| Headball, 198, 199, 204 |
| Head-nets, 212, 220, 232 |
| Herford, Oliver, nonsense rhymes of, 197 |
| Hoehne, the botanist, 172 |
| Honey, 263 |
| Honey-creeper, 237 |
| Horses, 69, 76, curious relations of tapirs and, 147 |
| Houses, native, 101, 132, 220, 233, 244 |
| Huatsui, camp at, 212 |
| Hudson, Mr., author of “Naturalist on the Plata,” 29, 34, 87; Appendix A, 355 |
| Humboldt, 356 |
| Hunters, native, 78; one christened “Nips,” 78; curious ignorance regarding habits of animals of native and other, 86; riding costume of, 149; lack of sense of direction of, 180 |
| Huquen, Marcelino, 31 |
| Huxley, 360, 367 |
| Ibis, turtles’ nests plundered by, 103 |
| Iguanas, 228 |
| Indian mounds, 105 |
| Indians, 49; civilization of tribes of, 52; fishing village of, 105; governmental treatment of the, 157; wages paid the, 193; Colonel Rondon’s treatment of the, 193; telegraph-line patrolled by, 194; huts of, 244; dog killed by, 279, 280; 286, 287 |
| Insects, 40, 41; man’s worst animal foes, 41, 42; a menace to wilderness travel, 55; 69, 101; perpetuation of species of,
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| “Instituto serum-thérapico,” 14 |
| Irala, the Spanish explorer, 60 |
| Itacoatiara, 320 |
| Jabiru storks, 50, 66, 70, 93, 94; Fiala takes a moving picture of, 111; 155 |
| Jacanas, 74 |
| Jacaré-tinga. See Caymans. |
| Jacu, 263, 265, 269 |
| Jacyparan&á, the, 271 |
| Jaguar, 27, 32, 33, 55; hunt for, 79–85; cattle preyed on by, 85, 86; spears and rifles used in hunting, 105; unsuccessful hunt for, 117–119; melanism common among, 127; trees refuge of, 142; kills bullock, 344 |
| Jaguarundi, 127 |
| Jararaca, 12, 13, 21, 23; mussurama fights, 24–26; man bitten by, 54; 137; stories of, 227 |