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Batlle, Colonel, seizure of, 114
Battalions of women, rumours about, 379
Batteries of Humaita, various, 319
Battle cf Abay, hard fighting at, 425
Battle of Acayuasa a great victory, 334
Battle of Corrientes, loss of Argentines and Paraguayans equal, 290
Battle of Cueva, failure of the Paraguayans at, 268
Battle of Curupaity, serious loss of soldiers at, 305; scaling ladders forgotten by the Argentines, 305
Battle of Itororo, loss of Brazilian sat, 427
Battle of Loma Valentina, loss of Paraguayans and Brazilians at, 419 ; the whole affair a mystery, 419
Battle of Monte Caseros, fall of Dictator Rosas at, 61 ; General Urquiza going to glory at, 253
Battle of Paysandu, between the Blancos and Colerados, 211
Battle of Potreiro- Sauce, surprises of the, 303
Battle of the Lomas, and escape of General Caballero, 346
Battle of Riachuelo, arrest of General Robles at, 264
Battle of Veuces, and conquer of Corrientes, 59
Battle of Yataity-Cora in 1866, 303
Battle of Yatay, defeat of Colonel Duarto at, 221
Belgrano, General, defeat of, at Corrientes, 288
Berges, D., sent to govern Corrientes, 289
Berro, D. Bernardo, grotesque appearance of, 114 ; murder of, 115
Biscayans emigrating to PotosI, 104
Blancos, rise of the, 114
Bliss and Masterman arrested for high treason, 410
Blood thirstiness of Montevideans, 122
Bonpland, herbarium of, 288; taken prisoner, 51
Bonpland, Madame, desperate adventures of, 288
"Botany Bay" of Dr. Francia, 7
Brazilian army, wrinkle offered to the, 310
Brazilian cavalry, review of, 323
Brazilian consul forgets his mother tongue, 219
Brazilian infantry stubborn and obstinate, 387 ; the soldiers not free from corruption, 389
Brazilian forces, inspecting the, 372
Brazilian Marine Hospital, embezzlement of stores at, 291
Brazilian negroes, manly fighting of the, 452
Brazilian officers maltreated by Blanco girls, 119
Brazilian soldier, curious antics of a, 468
Brazilian soldiers in camp, clean appearance of, 336 ; cost of feeding them, 337
Brazilian squadron, official list of the, 345
Brazilian subaltern officers, bullying manners of, 447
Brazilian treachery and indiscriminate massacre, 213
Brazilians and Argentines, their alliance not sympathetic, 326
Brazilians' confidence in two Paraguayan officers, 448
Brazilians, oversight of the, 449
Brazilians refuse a flag of truce, 447
Brown, Admiral, successful feat of, 191
Bruguez, General, lively little episode of, 262
Buceo admired by bathers, 94

Buenos Aires, revolutionary committee established at, 65 ; Fenian club at, 94 ; thirty people drowned in a storm, 127 ; salting houses in, 147 ; irregularity of steamers at, 152 ; savage mob at, 153; dangerous state of the new Muelle at, 153; the kiosk mania at, 154; injury to merchandize at, 155 ; difficulties in constructing a port at, 155 ; various opinions for constructing a port at, 156; Coghlan's project for improving the channel at, 156 ; increase of population at, 158; how Sunday is passed at, 159; dangerous state of streets at, 160 ; prevailing winds at, 162 ; street scandal inexcusable at, 162 ; thoroughfares imperfectly named at, 163 ; epidemic disorders at, 163 ; abusive and indecent writings on the wall at, 165 ; how a revolution begins at, 165 ; hotels, abominably bad and dear, 172 ; an Englishwoman's lodging-house at, 173 ; hideous Methodist chapel at, 173 ; Merced convent at, 170 ; Church of England temple at, 173 ; beauty and solidity of the buildings, 174 ; hideous relic of antiquity at, 176 ; scarcity of public vehicles at, 179 ; Cabildo, court of justice at, 179 ; impunity of crime at, 180 ; Mineral Water Establishment at, 181 ; museum of San Ignacio Church, 182 ; free club for travellers at, 183 ; a good opening for London publishers at, 183 ; fashionable shops in, 183 ; statue of General San Martin at, 183 ; attempts to burn the dead at, 184 ; familiarity at, 187 ; hospitality of the natives at, 188

Buenos Aires to Southampton, parting grumble of the voyage from, 481
Butter, preserving for two years, 205