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

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