Timbo garrison, curious contrivance of the, 342
Torpedoes, construction of, 342
Torpedoes provided by the Paraguayans, 332
Travellers deluded in Paraguay, 28
Travellers made comfortable by the Argentines, 188
Travelling to the Upper Uruguay thwarted, 221
Tres Bocas, a retreat for those flying from the reign of terror, 302
Triumpho, Brigadier-General, glorious career of, 384
Tuyu-cue occupied by Brazilians, 359
Tupy-Gruarani language, three years at work at the, 208
Urqtjiza, General, introduction to, 199 ; description of, 200 ; the improvements on his estate, 200 ; his large amount of cattle, 200; the value of his property, 201 ; a bad paymaster, 201 ; curiosity excited in conversation with, 201 ; fresco representations of his battles, 202 ; his predictions on the campaign, 203 ; his going to glory, 253 ; reviewing his cavalry at Punta Gorda, 253
Urquiza, Madame, her appearance at the dinner-table, 204 ; her handsome present, 205
Uruguay, gold mines in, 34; the best place for Irish emigrants, 94 ; not fit for English emigrants, 133 ; patriarchal marriage not the law of the land at, 133 ; her richness in metals, 133
Uruguay river, studying the features of, 193 ; fed by the rains of the Empire of the Southern Cross, 194
Uruguayan national flag, description of the, 100
Uruguayan navigation compared with the Rhine, 218
Varela, D., compelled to quit France through a duel, 223
Velasco, Colonel, tactics of, 299
Vences, battle of, in 1847, 59
Veren, Baron von, evil report of, 402 ; three times arrested as a spy, 402
Villareal, Brazilian army encamped at,4 26
War-loan of Sor Riestra, 328
Wars teach nations their geography, 139
Washburn, Hon. Charles A., nonsensical abuse of, 129 ; introduction to, 408 ; he acts as mediator between the combatants, 409 ; his ill feeling with Lopez, 409 ; receives an invitation to quit his hotel, 409 ; removed by Commander Kirkland, 410 ; his violent letter to the President of Paraguay, 410 ; his diplomatic notes concerning foreigners in Paraguay, 411 ; watched by forty policemen, 411
Water-hog, operations upon the, 392 ; excess of imagination on the, 393 ; their comic air of defiance, 394
Watch-towers used for signalling, 310
Webb, General, his passion for ultimatums, 370
Wheelwright, Mr., his trading notions, 245
Whytehead, Mr., suicide of, 435
Wild maize, where grown, 6
Xenes, Captain, his night expedition, 312
Yataitt-Cora, merit of the Conference of, 305
Yungaz coffee fragrant and delicious,
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