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Adams, Mr,, warned against harming the bricks of a fallen building, 110
Adventure, an, which might have been serious, 472
Alegre, General, at the storming of Humaita, 304
Alen, Colonel, his attempt at suicide, 334
Allied armies invest Humaita, 333
Alvim, Commodore, visit to, 341
American Gran Hotel, imposing grandeur of, 106
American Mineral Water Establishment at Buenos Aires, 181
Andrade, the Portugal patriot, death of, 142
Angostura battery surrendered, 423
Angulo Eedan attacked by the Brazilians, 360
Animated scene, remembrance of an, 403
Anti-Lopists, false reports of the, 329
Argentine army, weapons of the, 323 ; various reports on the, 324
Argentine camp at Luque, aspect of the, 464
Argentine Contingent ajumble of nationalities, 325
Argentine railway, machinery for making the, 246
Argentine soldiers, loss of, at the battle of Corrientes, 290
Argentine Voluntary Legion led into a fatal ambush, 343
Argolo, General, and his staff boasting of their prowess, 322 ; visit to, 349 ; the predictions of his friends, 350 ; his invitations to a campaigning dinner, 350
Arroyo Hondo, visit to the, 347
Artesian well in Buenos Aires, 150
Assembly of Representatives, ignorance of, 276

Asuncion, the seat of the first diocess, 24; General Congress at, 41; meeting of an Extraordinary Congress at, 55 ; fired into by Brazilian ironclads, 407 ; detailed description of, 431 ; palace of the Marshal President at, 432; the architect of the palace cruelly tormented, 433 ; pest-houses at, 435 ; landing-place and river at, 436 ; bad state of the streets at, 436 ; picturesqueness of the old cathedral at, 437 the much talked of arsenal at, 435 ; the terrible palace of Dr. Francia at, 439 ; deadly dungeons at, 440 ; fantastic palace of the elder Lopez at, 440 ; palace of D. Benigno Lopez at, 441 ; plundering the Club Nacional at, 442 ; various estimates of the population at 443 ; no pretensions to civilization at 444 ; complete change of masters at head-quarters, 445 ; candidates for the chief magistracy at, 446 ; the French consul removed from, 446 ; confiscation of the property of a foreigner at, 449 ; its changeable climate, 452 ; prices of provisions and house-rent at, 452 ; produce of the orange-trees at, 456 ; unprotected state of, 454 ; rude appliances of the railway at, 460
Atrocities of Lopez grossly exaggerated, 128 ; frightful reports concerning the, 330
Attempts to assault two ironclads, 311
Ayolas, D. Juan, attacked by canoe Indians, 424



Bajada, mother-of-pearl found at, 255
Balloons tried in the early part of the campaign, 382
Banda, miserable state of the mixed population in, 134
Barracas artesian well, curious, 150
Barranca de Bella Vista, a settlement of convicts, 263
Barreto, General, cuts up a piquet of troopers, 375 ; his retreat from the
banks of the Arroyo, 375 ; he volunteers to capture the enemy, 420
Barrios, Vicente, degradation of, 476
Barros, Jose de, duped by a farcical project, 141
Barrosa, Vice-Admiral, neglects to push his victory, 267
Basque and Italian sutlers murdering one another, 367
Bateria de Cueva, the Paraguayan position of defence, 262
Bateiia Londres, the Prince of Humbugs, 319