INDEX. 395 
Tetracha beetle, 106. 
Ticks, 150. 
Tides felt 530 miles up the Amazons, 
240. 
Tiger-beetles, 156, 166. 
Timbo, poisonous liana, 220. 
Tobacco cultivation, 165. 
Tocantins River, 2, 3, 57, 60. 
Tonka bean, 203. 
Tortoise-shell wood, 218. 
Toucans, 347. 
43 use of beak of, 348. 
Trade winds on the Amazons, 121. 
Trees, colossal, 33, 34. 
Troglodytes furvus, 7. 
Trogon bird, 69. 
Tropics of New World, non-glacial, xxxi., 
Ixxx1. 
Troupial bird, 193. 
Trumpet tree, 143. 
Trypoxylon wasp, 199, 200. 
Tucuna Indians, 380. 
Tucupi sauce, 163, 164. 
Tucuxi dolphin, 73. 
Tunantins River, 366. 
Tupi language, 277. 
Turtles, 300, e seq. 
Turtle egg-oil, preparation of, 313, 314. 
Turtles, fishing and shooting, 307, 308. 
», modes of cooking, 283, 284. 
Uakari monkey, 332. 
Ubusst palm, 59. 
Viki fruit, 286. 
Umbrella bird, 320. 
Umiri berry, 253. 
soe = LEee, TOD. 
Unicorn bird, 143. 
Urania Amazonica, 25. 
Urari arrow poison, 296. 
Urubt River, 165. . 
5» vultures, 1526 
Urucuri palm, 262. 
Vampire bat, 345. 
Varieties, formation of local, 135. 
Victoria water-lily, 146. 
Villa Nova, 146. 
5 insects of, 153. 
Von Martius on colossal trees, 33. 
Vultures, 152. 
Wajuru fruit, 286. 
Wallace, A. R., xx., xxiv., xxxiL, Ixxiii., 
Ixxxiii. 
= Letter from, xxxiv. 
Wasps, 195, 199. 
Water-beetles, 194. 
Whaiapu-sai monkeys, 145. 
White ants, 105, 208, 209, 355. 
Willow, 143. 
Witchcraft, 206. 
Woods, valuable, 218, 219. 
Wren, 7. 
Yellow fever, 178. 
Ygapo, or flooded forest, 322. 
Ypadu, 283. 
FINIs. 
