publication as performance, 90–91, 94, 119, 127, 172

Puerto de Valdivia, 165

Puerto Montt, 72, 77, 81–83, 174, 190, 199, 220

Püschel, Wilhelm, 75

the radically other, 75

Ramírez, José, 150, 212

Ranco (lake), 37, 143, 213–214, 217

reader as writer, 17, 19

reader networks, 91, 112

reading (as epistemological strategy), 14, 19, 63, 65–66, 136, 148

recession of frames, 147

refusal of signification, 67

Reichenbach, Baron von, 40

“Reichsdeutsche,”, xxii

reinstallation (of the colonial state), 132

Renous, Johann, 35–37, 39–40, 42, 47, 78–79, 151, 185, 187, 189, 192–194, 197

representation as verisimilitude, 57, 173

representedness, 57

retrospection (as epistemological strategy), 64, 71, 84, 173

rewriting, 4–10, 19, 167

Ried, Aquinas, 28–30, 38, 43, 149, 161, 179, 182, 187–189, 193, 214, 219

Riffaterre, Michael, 18

Río Bueno, 35, 37, 195

Ritter, Carl, 95–96, 98, 214

rivalry (among naturalists), 119, 127, 172

road (as script), 26, 72–78, 143

road to Lake Llanquihue, 4–8, 30, 72, 81–82, 134, 140–141, 143, 150–152, 169, 196

Röstel, H., 179

Romanticism, 29, 56, 135–136, 211

romanticized landscape, 40, 54–56, 82, 150, 174, 192

Rosaldo, Renato, xx, 216

Salas, Gabriel (deputy governor of Magallanes), 87, 201

salps

observed by Chamisso, 101, 103, 109

observed by Meyen, 101–102, 111

interpreted by Hegel, 109–110

San Fernando, 120–124, 126, 209

Sanfuentes, Salvador (intendant of Valdivia), 31–32, 36–37, 72, 178, 182–183, 185

San Juan de los Cuncos, 165

Santo Domingo, 165

Santo Tomás de Quilacahuín, 184–185

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 15

Schell, Patience, 160, 217, 219

Schmidtmeyer, Peter, 152

Schmillen, Joachim (German ambassador to Chile), 174

Schultz, August, 42, 66, 69–71, 188, 195–196, 217

Schwarzenberg, Georg, xx, 129, 184, 201, 212, 218

script of trails, 134

script and the road. See road (as script)

seeing–man, 54, 59–61, 67, 152