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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