A monument in the cemetery of Montevideo 113
A gentleman of Montevideo depicts in stone his grief at the loss of his life’s companion 113
The fertile Uruguayan plains in the Cerro Chato (Flat Hills) district 128
“Pirirín” and his cowboys at an _estancia_ round-up in northern Uruguay 129
Freighting across the gentle rolling plains of the “Purple Land” 129
A rural Uruguayan in full Sunday regalia 133
An ox-driver of southern Brazil, smeared with the blood-red mud of his native heath 133
The parasol pine-trees of southern Brazil 140
Dinner time at a railway construction camp in Rio Grande do Sul 140
A horse ran for seven miles along the track in front of us and made our train half an hour late 141
The admirable Municipal Theater of São Paulo 160
A glimpse of the Rio sky-line from across the bay in Nictheroy 161
The slums of Rio de Janeiro are on the tops of her rock hills 161
An employee of the “Snake Farm” of São Paulo 176
Residents of Rio’s hilltop slums, in a chosen pose 176
The heart of Rio, with its Municipal Theater, the National Library, the old Portuguese aqueduct, and, on the left, a shack-built hilltop 177
A news-stand on the mosaic sidewalk of the Avenida Rio Branco 224
A hawker of Rio, with his license and his distinctive noise-producer 224
The brush-and-broom man on his daily round through the Brazilian capital 225
The sweetmeat seller announces himself with a distinctive whistle 240
The opening of the “Kinetophone” in Brazil 240
The ruins of an old plantation house on the way to Petropolis, backed by the pilgrimage church of Penha 241
At a suburban cinema of São Paulo the colored youth charged with the advertising painted his own portrait of Edison. He may be made out leaning affectionately on the right shoulder of his masterpiece 288
Catalão and the plains of Goyaz, from the ruined church above the town 289
Amparo, like many another town of São Paulo, is surrounded on all sides by coffee plantations 289
Itajubá, state of Minas Geraes, the home of a former Brazilian president 304
Ouro Preto, former capital of Minas Geraes 305
The walls of many a residence in the new capital, Bello Horizonte, are decorated with paintings 305
Diamantina spills down into the stream in which are found some of its gold and diamonds 320