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to Captain Xenes' soldiers, 312 ; her quarters at Humaita, 318



M 'Donald, Dr., suggests a plan for a channel across the Albardon, 333
M'Mahon demands the release of Messrs. Bliss and Masterman, 130
Madariaga, Grovernor, treachery of, 59
Maldonata and the lioness, romantic tale of, 252
Mamelukes of S. Paulo, plunder by the, 10
Mariette, Captain, arrest of, 115
Maroon settlement at La Villeta, 430
Marshall and Grant stabbed by a native, 435
Martin Garcia and her batteries, 192
Martin Garcia, an island only fit to travel on stilts, 228
Martin, General, his defeat of the Spaniards in 1810, 251
Martinez, Colonel, shot at Paso la Patria, 290 ; his wife murdered by Lopez, 335
Martins, Enrique, shot for refusing to give up his flag, 268
Masterman and Bliss, violent and illegal arrest of, 129
Memorial from the married women of Buenos Aires to the Archbishop, 186
Mendoza's tent, collection of yarns in, 390
Menna Barreto, General, his head-quarters, 212
Mercado del Puerto, market-place of, 99
Mesa, Captain, mortally wounded, 267
Metropolitan cemetery at Buenos Aires, 184
Military and mob law, struggles of, 115
Military correspondent constituted, 80
Misiones first established in Paraguay, 26
Mission of Paraguay, military organization of the, 32
Missions system, remarkable features of, 32
Mitre, President, a prominent personage, 166
Money a signal for disorders among Brazilian soldiers, 468

Monte Video, terrific gales in, 84 ; short sketch of, 95 ; Cerro, the best view of, 100 ; uselessness of English cruisers at, 100 ; importance of knowing the currency of, 103 : extortions of travellers at, 103 ; Italian porters at, 104 ; tramway in, 105 ; dishonesty of custom-house officers in, 105 ; their lodging houses, 105; bad roads in, 107 ; drainage unknown in, 107 ; old Spanish houses in, 107 ; impoverished look of the tenements at, 108 ; General Oribe's nine years' siege of, 110 ; the cause of the revolution of 1868 at, 110 ; murder of General Flores at, 111 ; danger from soldiers in, 122 ; an Englishman's head laid open by one of the vicious "bobbies" at, 123; theatres and amusements in, 123 ; the fair sex partial to bull-fighting at, 124 ; soldiers and priests in the cockpit at, 124 ; prize-fighting and fair play at, 125 ; public institutions at, 126 ; attempt to form an English club at, 126; Gormandizing club at, 126 ; terrific storm and loss of life at, 127 ; worship on Holy Saturday at, 127

Monte Video and Humaita, sketch of the route between, 136 ; names of the various writers on, 149
Montevidean shops, glitter and attractions of, 118
Montevidean soldiers, danger of, 122
Montevideans and Portenos, their jealousy, 96
Morvonnais, M. de la, regret at not being able to accept his invitation, 207
Mosquitoes, sufferings of the soldiers from, 348
Mothers and wives of officers forced to disown their sons and husbands, 474
Murder of two Spanish subjects, 116
Music Hall at Buenos Aires, nightly revels at, 185



Newkirk, Dr., and his drunken servant, 460 ; his fraudulent apothecary, 463 ; his lucrative practice, 451
Nueva Burdoes, failure of the French colony of, 454



Obes, Commander-in-chief of the Argentine army, 308
O'Connor, Mr., his narrow escape from being shot, 261
Oliveira, Admiral, out-generalled by Lopez, 63
Oriental army reduced to a remnant, 326
Osorioand Argolo badly wounded, 445
Osorio and Flores laud upon Paraguayan ground, 301
Osorio, General, repulsed from the Gran Chaco, 354 ; his popularity, 384 ; his soldierly greeting, 385 ; his charmed life, 385 ; his examples of gallantry, 385 ; shot through the mouth at the Loma Valentina, 385 ; not popular with either army, 469
Otters and sea-wolves in the Parana river, 232
Outbreak of the pronunciamento, 117