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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