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Caballero, General, captured at the Battle of Lomas, 346
Cafe de Paris at Buenos Aires the great resort for bachelors, 184 ; dining at the, 169
Californian widows, how they make fortunes, 352
Calle Florida, the fashionable part of Buenos Aires, 183
Caminos, M., reported to have been shot, 428
Camp and City men, difference in the habits of, 120
Campos and Martinez de la Hoz taken prisoners, 333
Capella de Ipane, the place to enjoy picnics, 426
Carvalho, Admiral, his neglect to pursue the flying enemy, 343
Castle of S. Joseph, view of the ruins, 99
Cattle estate not pleasant to visit, 102
Caxias, Marshal, repulsed at the Cierva redoubt, 348 ; his career, 377 ; his fight at Monte Caseros, 377; employed in reducing Monte Video,377; accused of being slow in his military movements, 377 ; famous for selecting the strongest point of attack, 378
Cemetery at Humaita, 353
Census of Paraguay, 8
Cerriio station, flooding of the, 301 ; seizure of, by Paraguayans, 301
Cerro de Lambare the scene of an historic fight, 42t)
Cerro, the, a fine view of Montevideo, 100
Chaco, paradise and elysium of savages at, 256; wants a serious exploration, 257
Chaco islets attributed to the agency of the earth's revolution, 259
Chain at Gran Chaco, uselessness of, 332
Charloni, Colonel, death of, 362
ChS,teau des Fleurs, the familiar devil's acre, 243 ; it has the genuine look of a penny gaff", 243
Chilenas ladies destroyed by fire in a Jesuit church, 414
Chodasiewicz, Colonel, his proposed plan of attack on Paso Pucu, 359 ; plans of his first campaign, 382 ; his projects for the future, 382
Christie, Mr., sent as Plenipotentiary to Asuncion, 64 ; fails in his mission, 64
Club for travellers free at Buenos Aires, 183
Club Nacional, Brazilian soldiers plundering the, 442
Club Progreso and its invitations, 186 ; dancing at the, 187
Colon theatre mean and ugly, 170
Colonel du Graty, a mutilated translation of procured at Luque, 462
Colonel Thompson's Guarani vocabulary, 3
Colonizing in the River Plate, 88
Colonia, La, short description of, 143
Commerce of Paraguay, 18
Comte d'Eu volunteers his services as Commander-in-Chief, 469; his promptitude on hearing a salute, 470 ; his proclamation at Luque to his men, 470 ; his Order of the Day not original, 471
Concepcion del Uruguay, description of, 196 ; provisions at, 197 ; interesting prairie gallop at, 198
Convent of San Carlos, pronouncement of the, 251
Cordillera, supposed rise of the, 5
Cordoba, wandering about the quaint city of, 414
Corpus Christi built to control the Timbu Indians, 252
Correntine tobacco preferable to Havannahs, 287

Corrientes, arrival of the Brazilian fleet at, 265 ; ridiculous fashion of naming the streets at, 271 ; savage mastiffs at,
273 ; orange-farms at, 273 ; Turks painfully transmogrified at, 274 ; scarcity of provisions at, 275 ; religious
superstition at, 276 ; family vaults in the cemetery like a Californian steam-bath, 280 ; miraculous cross at, 281 ;
variations of temperature at, 282 ; female beauty at, 284 ; their aversion to marriage, 284 ; bitterness of political
parties at, 285 ; revolvers at night necessary, 288 ; war at once resolved at, 289 ; piratical seizure of ships at,
289

Crabtree, Mr., prevents serious national troubles, 165
Costa, Brigadier-General, visit to the tent of, 381
Courts marshal, specimens of sundry copies, 474
Cuchilla de los Palmares, glorious view from, 208
Curious party of pleasure, 253
Curious reports in Paraguay, 30
Curupaity, far-famed lines of, 361
Curuzu, bombardment of, by the Allies, 303 ; capture of, 304
Cuverville, M., ugly story concerning, 446



Dairy, experiments for a model, 204
Derivations of the word Paraguay, 2
Diamente, formation of banks of patience at, 255
Diaz, General, killed by a shell from an ironclad, 299
Discontent, suggesting a mode to preven