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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