INDEX. 



397 



Indian graves, 154, 166, 1G9, 



170 



houses, 40 



love of flowers, 279 



- names of towns, 293 

 Indians, brown, 364 

 red, 365 



origin of the, 363 



wholesale baptism of, by 



Spanish conquerors, 107 

 Indigo, 4, 297, 328, 3-12 

 Indolence of natives, 29S 

 Insect life at night, 174 



- traps, 183 

 Insectivorous birds, 7 

 Insects, instinct of, 313 



mimetic, 315, 381 



Instinct of ants, 26 



butterflies, 109 



cockroaches, 109 



Interoceanic canal, 36 

 Iscodcs loL'is, 209 



J AC AN AS, 3, 158 

 -Jaguar, 30, 144, 174,286 

 Jarnaily, 251 

 Janson, Mr., 380 

 Jatropha manihot, 70 

 -Javali lode, 89 



mine, 



60 

 106 



river, 



Jicara, 46, 156 

 Jinotego, 204, 240, 2D3 

 Jose, San, 15, 45 



plains, 374 



Juan, San, river, 1, 15, 35 



bar of, 2 ; del Xorte, 1 



Juigalpa river, 150, 156, 157, 163, 

 176 



KIDNEY-BEANS, 73 



Kingfishers, 158 



Kingslcy, Canon, account of vol- 

 canic eruption of St. Vincent. 

 350-355 ; on the dry land con- 

 necting the islands of the West 

 Indies, 267 



Kotzebue's voyage round the world, 

 372 



LACANDONES of Guatemala, 155 



Lagoon, 5 



Lamellicorns, 379 



Lampyridce, 317 



Land-shells of the West Indies, 238 



Landslips, 86, 95 



Las Lajas, 60 



Lasso, 189 



Laurentium rock, 259 



Laziness of natives, 245 



Leul, 89 



Leaf-cutting ant, the, 127, 219, 225 



destructive- 

 ness of, 73 ; method of eradicat- 

 ing, 77 ; growers of mushrooms, 

 79 ; nests of, 80, SI ; food of. 

 81 ; duties, &c., 82 ; reasoning 

 powers, 83 



Leaf-hoppers, 226 



ants attending, 227 



wasps attending, 223 



Leaf -insect, 8, 381 



Legrand d'Aussy, 367 



Lenca Indians, 155 



Leo Amontli, 356 



Leptalides, 385 



Lettuces, 70 



Leucoptemus ghicslrcghti, 340 



Lianas, 6, 33, 57 



Libertad, 150 



- mines, 95, 150 



Lime, 74 



trees, 65 



stone, 310 



Lizards, 12, 312 



tree, 339, 340 



Locust, 1 9 



Lodes, 86 ; Consuelo, 89 ; San 

 Benito, 89 ; San Antonio, 89 ; 

 Javali, 89 



Lodes, deterioration in depth of, 

 90 ; direction of, 86 ; dip of, 86 



Logwood, 4 



Longicorn beetles, 7, 69, 104, 127, 

 159, 173, ISO, 379, 380 



Lorenzo, San, 323 



Los Cocos, 330 



Louisiana, 55 



Lowering of the level of the 6ft 

 the glacial period, 266 



Lyninica, 333 



