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 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,