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in the, 100

       Italian porters in Monte Video not to be trusted, 104

       Itapiru carelessly abandoned by Lopez, 301

       Jesuits in Paraguay, their influence, 26

       Juquery bridge held by Brigadier Vasco Alves, 467

       KiRKLAND, Lieut., a sympathizer with the Blanco party, 370 ; hindered in the performance of his duty, 370

       La Ciudad, view of, 434

       La Paz, a useful colony against the raids of Chaco Indians, 258

       La Plata, great increase in the trade of, 151

       La Trinidad celebrated for cock-fights, 461

       La Union, bull-fights held at, 110

       La Villeta, operations hastened by the inundation of, 295

       Lasso, the, how to avoid, 148

       Law and justice in the River Plate, 91

       Libertat, M., accused of conspiracy, 131

       Liberty Square at Corrientes, a savage caricature, 278

       Libraries, billiard rooms, and drinking houses at Buenos Aires, 185

       Lines defended by the Paraguayans, 353

       Loma Valentina, Lopez's documents taken at, 472

       Lomas, proposal to attack the last Paraguayan position on the, 450

       Lopez, D. Antonio Carlo, President I., elected in 1845 56 ; his marriage with D. Juana Paula Carillo, 57; conspiracy

       to shoot him in a theatre, 64 ; sends to London for explanations, 65 ; undertakes negotiations with the Holy See, 66 ; his death in 1862, 67

       Lopez, D. Francisco Solano, President II., elected in 1862, 67 ; his first meeting with Madame Lynch in Paris, 72 ; actively prepares for war, 75; his atrocities greatly exaggerated, 128; unfit for guerilla warfare, 128; his scheme shattered by the incapacity of his oflicers and men, 264 ; prizes piratically made figuring in his flotilla, 289 ; abandons Paso la Patria when the enemy appears, 301 ; he proposes an interview with the Allied Generals, 305 ; muzzle-loaders found in front of his palace, 322 ; he is asked to abdicate his country, 329 ; reports concerning his atrocities, 330 ; his complaint of the laws of neutrality, 331 ; his letters detained at Buenos Aires, 332 ; his victory at Acayuasa, 334 ; the wife of Colonel Martinez murdered by, 335 ; he arms the Cierva redoubt with field pieces, 347 ; his defence of Paso Pucu, 357 ; his place of concealment, 357 ; he expects to. be drawn from La Villeta, 371 ; he concentrates his forces at the Tebicuary river, 401 ; his government a model of order and progress, 407 ; his ill feeling with Mr. "Washburn, 409 ; his escape from Loma Valentina, 419 ; takes up his head-quarters at Loma Cumbarity, 421 ; his palace at La Villeta, 424 ; he purposely leaves Santo Antonio undefended, 427 ; the loss of his cavalry at the battle of Itororo, 428 ; he releases the architect of his palace from imprisonment, 433 ; ignorance of the Allies concerning his movements, 448 ; he makes all the railway officials captains and lieutenants, 359 ; his documents taken from his private carriage, 472 ; his tenderness to his children, 477 ; his letters to Major-Gen, Macmahon, 478 ; he appoints Madame Lynch universal legatee, 478 ; his sympathy, sternness, and grief, 479

       Lopez, D. Benigno, doubts concerning the fate of, 476

       Lopez, D. Venancio, acquitted and released, 476

       Luque, journey by rail to, dangerous, 459 ; the normal settlement of, 462

       Lynch, Madam, her trials throughout the campaign, 71 ; birth of her first child, 73 ; miseries of the captives mitigated by, 74 ; her ambition, 74 ; her present 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


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