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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