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THE INDEX 



Nequi, 169 f. 



Night monkey, 172 f. 



Ocelot, 164 

 Orchids, 50 

 Orioles, 145 



Pacific Ocean, discovered by 



Balboa, i 

 Palms, 44 f . 

 Palm sail, 32 

 Panama Canal: 



building of, 198 



completed by United States, 

 9ff. 



French plan for, 8, 10 



geological conditions to be 

 overcome in digging of, 

 I iff. 



highway, a, 34 



Spaniards, plans for, 5 

 Panama City: 



eflfect of modern sanitation 

 on, 185 fT. 



unhealthful, 181 



Morgan's raid on, 7 

 Panama, Isthmus of. See 



Isthmus of Panama 

 Panama railway, route of, 25 f. 

 Papaya melon, 23 

 Paper-making ants, 63 f. 

 Paradise bird, or tinamou, 144 

 Parrakeets, 149 

 Parrots, 147 ff. 

 Passion vine, 44 

 Peccary, or wild pig, 164, 166 f. 

 Pedro Miguel Locks, 26 

 PeUcans, 139 

 Peripatus, 103 ff. 

 Peru, gold from, i 

 Pirates, English, 6, 7 

 Pirates of Panama, by John 



Esquemeling, 196 

 Poor-me-one, 144 f. 

 Porto Bello, importance of, 6 

 Protozoa, 77 



Quinine, as cure for malaria, 

 181, 190 



Railway, Panama, 25 f. 



Rainy season, 199 f. 



Real Story of the Pirate, The, 



by A. Hyatt Verrill, 196 

 Red bugs, 99, loi 

 Reptiles of the World, by 



R. L. Ditmars, 195 

 Roads : 



early, across Isthmus of 

 Panama, 2 f. 



machete-cut trail, 152 



of gold hunters in 1849, 8 

 Rodents: 



bats, 170 



conejos, 170 



in North America and South 

 America, 13 



nequis, 169 f. 



Sand-box tree, 39 

 Sand modeling, 198 

 Sanitation in Panama, by 



Colonel Gorgas, 199 

 Scorpions, 89 flf. 



sting of, 92 

 Seed ticks, 100 

 Sentinel tree, 51 

 Silent reading, value of, 197 

 Sloth, 176 ff. 

 Snake bite, 107 



cure for, no 

 Snakes, 107 ff. See also vari- 

 ous snakes 



danger from, 117 



enemies of, 116 



home of, 116 



poisonous, 21, 107, 108, no, 



115, 117 



temperature of, 115 f. 



Snow-hooded bell bird, 154 

 Spaniards : 



at Isthmus of Panama, i 



plans for Canal, 5 



road building by, 2 f. 

 Spanish bayonet palm, 37 

 Spiders: 



bird-eating, or tarantula, 

 92 ff. 



bite of, 96 



