Introduction / H. Graham Cannon --
Atmospheric dust with infusoria --
Habits of a sea-slug and cuttle-fish --
St. Paul's rocks, non-volcanic --
Singular incrustations --
Insects the first colonists of islands --
Pelagic confervæ and infusoria --
Causes of discolored sea --
Excursion north of Cape Frio --
Clouds on the Corcvado --
Phosphorescent insects --
Elater, springing powers of --
Noise made by a butterfly --
Artifices of an epeira --
Spider with an unsymmetrical web --
Excursion to R. Polanco --
Capybara, or river hog --
Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits --
Tubes formed by lightning --
Estancias attacked by the Indians --
R. Negro to R. Colorado --
Proceed to Bahia Blanca --
Numerous gigantic extinct quadrapeds --
Large animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation --
Two species of ostrich --
Venomous snake, toad, lizard --
Hybernation of animals --
Indian wars and massacres --
Arrow-head, antiquarian relic.
Set out for Buenos Ayres --
Features of the country --
Natural enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen --
Effects of cattle on the vegetation --
Corral where cattle are slaughtered --
Habits of the Bizcacha --
Tooth of extinct horse --
Relation of the fossil and recent quadrupeds of North and South America --
Effect of a great drought --
King-fisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail --
Chapter VIII Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento --
Singular breed of oxen --
Horses broken-in, gauchos riding --
Character of inhabitants --
Phosphorescence of the sea --
Fossil gigantic animal --
Types of organization constant --
Change in the zoology of America --
Expedition up the river --
Immense streams of basaltic lava --
Fragments not transported by the river --
Excavation of the valley --
Erratic boulders of great size --
Wild horses, cattle, rabbits --
Manner of hunting wild cattle --
Chapter X Tierra del Fuego, first arrival --
Account of the Fuegiams on board --
Interview with the savages --
Scenery of the forests --
Miserable condition of the savages --
Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians --
Bifurcation of the beagle Channel --
Second visit in the ship to the settlement --
Equality of condition amongst the natives --
Chapter XI Strait of Magellan --
Fruit trees and productions of the Southern coasts --
Height of snow-line on the Cordillera --
Descent of glaciers to the sea --
Transportal of boulders --
Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands --
Preservation of frozen carcasses --
Chapter XII Valparaiso --
Excursion to the foot of the Andes --
Ascend the Bell of Quillota --
Shattered masses of greenstone --
Hot-baths of Cauquenes --
Peninsula of tres Montes --
Myopotamus, otter, and mice --
Cheucau and barking-bird --
Singular character of ornithology --
Chapter XIV San Carlos, Chiloe --
Osorno in erruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina --
Appearance of the former towns --
Directions of the vibrations --
Permanent elevation of the land --
Area of the volcanic phenomena --
Connexion between the elevatory and eruptive forces --
Slow elevation of mountain-chains.
Chapter XV Portillo Pass --
Proofs of the gradual elevation of the Cordillera --
Effect of snow on rocks --
Geological structure of the two main ranges, their distinct origin and upheaval --
red snow Dry and clear atmosphere --
Zoology of the opposite side of the Andes --
Silicified trees buried as they grew --
Badness of the passes exaggerated --
Chapter XVI Coast-road to Coquimbo --
Great loads carried by the miners --
Absence of recent deposits --
Contemporaneousness of the tertiary formations --
Probable change of climate --
River-bed arched by earthquake --
Elevated shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition --
Plain embedded with shells and fragments of pottery --
Antiquity of the Indian race.
Chapter XVIII Galapagos Archipelago --
Colony at Charles Island --
Natural history of the group --
Ornithology, curious finches --
Great tortoises, habits of --
marine lizard, feeds on sea-weed --
Terrestrial lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous --
Importance of reptiles in the archipelago --
American type of organization --
Differences in the species or races on different islands --
fear of man, an acquired instinct --
Chapter XVIII Pass through the Low Archipelago --
Vegetation on the mountains --
Excursion into the interior --
Succession of waterfalls --
Number of wild useful plants --
Temperance of the inhabitants --
Missionary establishment --
English weeds now run wild --
Funeral of a New Zealand woman --
Gradual extinction of the Aborigines --
Infection generated by associated men in health --
Bald head, calcareous casts of branches of trees --
Chapter XX Keeling Island --
Ebbing and flowing wells --
Stones transported in the roots of trees --
Lagoon islands or atolls --
Depth at which reef-building corals can live --
Conversion of fringing reefs into barrier reefs and into atolls --
Breaches in barrier reefs --
Maldiva Atolls; their peculiar structure --
Distribution of volcanoes --
Subsidence slow, and vast in amount --
Chapter XXI Mauritius, beautiful appearance of --
Great crateriform ring of mountains --
History of the changes in the vegetation --
Cause of the extinction of land-shells --
Variation in the imported rats --
Splendour of tropical scenery --
Retrospect on our voyage.
