Index 
131; carving, 44; children, 33, 
34, 220; cooking vessels, 40, 
189, 225; graves, 43, 121, 128, 
131, 132, 134, 146; houses, 34; | 
love of flowers, 214; miners, 51; 
names of towns, 83, I2I, 225 
incians, brown, 277; red, 277; 
origin of, 275; wholesale bap- 
tism of, by Spanish, 133, 274 
India-rubber, 5, 28, 29, 34, I19 
Indigo, 5, 227; plantations, 194, | 
227 
Insectivorous birds, 8, 242 
Insect life at night, 137; traps, 
144 
Insects, instinct of, 239; mimetic, 
241, 243, 244 and n. 
Interoceanic canal, 31 
Ixodes bovis, 163 
Jacanas, 5 
Jaguar, 27, III, 137, 219 
Jamaily, 194 
Jatropha Manthot, 56 
Javali lode, 71; mine, 83; R., 83 
Jicara, 39, 40, 122, 127 
Jinotega, 159, 183, 
valley of, 184 
José, San, 16, 39; Plains, 39 
Uta San. ik.; 3, 4, 28, 325 Del 
185, 
Norte, 3; bar of, 3, 4, 5; delta | 
Of .34, 15,31 
Juigalpa, 82° 1x8, 122, 137, 139, 
140; R., 140 
Kidney beans, 56 
Kingfishers, 124 
Kingsley, Canon, account of 
volcanic eruption of St. Vincent, 
267, 270 and #.; on the dry 
land connecting the Islands of 
the West Indies, 206 
Kotzebue’s voyage round 
world, 283 
' Lacandones of Guatemala, 122 
Lagoon, 5 
Lamellicorns, 142, 288 
Lampyrida@, 242, 243 
Landslips, 82 
Las Lajas, 49 
Laurentian rock, 199 
Lenca Indians, 121, 122 
Leptalides, 295 
Lettuces, 56 
Leucopternis ghtesbreghtt, 259 
Lianas, 7, 29, 32, 42, 47, 49, 190; 
water, 180 
224; | 
the | 
cade 
| Libertad, 43, 51, 75, 82, 118, T4%, 
| 5463 Mines, 51, 75, 128; ram 
) at, 246 
Lime trees, 60; stone, 215, 237 
Lizards, 54, 258, 259, 2035, eee, 
259 
| Locust, 19 
Lodes, deterioration in depth of, 
72; direction of, 69 
| Logwood, 5 
Longicorn beetles, 8, 56, 89, 99, 
124, 137, 142, 243, 289 
| Louisiana, 45 
Lymn@a, 254 
Lymne@acea, 254 
Macaws, 30, 153 
Maceio, subject to fevers, 6 
| Machuca, 28, 31 
Mackleania, 110 
M‘Crae, Colonel, 28 
Madeira peaks, 115, 141 
Mahogany, 30 
Maize, 44, 46, 47, 182; cultivation 
of, 32, 45, 97, 146, 185, 186, 
228; eaters, 45, 46, 146; food 
of the people of N.-E. Brazil, 
46; of Mexico, 45, 46; of Brit. 
Guiana, 46; of the Caribs, 46; 
stone grinders, 45, 46, 128, 140, 
225 
Malacatoyo, R., 240 
Malayan dialects, 207 
Mallocera Spinicollis, 241 n. 
Mammalia, 22, 25, 170 
Mandioca, 46 
Mangos, 58, 60, 126 
Manthot aipim, 46 
Mantos, origin of, 75 
Marcgravia nepenthotdes, 100, IOt 
Masaya, 263, 264; lake of,:263; 
volcano of, 264; strata at, 265, 
266; origin of strata at, 266 
Masaya Indians, women, 275 
and n. 
Matagalpa, 5, 159, 168, 179, 186, 
| 227 
Maury, Professor T. B., on origin 
of cyclones, 230, 231 
Mayas, 278; of Yucatan, 
277 
Melastome, 14, 47, 91, 172, 173 
183, 191; pouches in, 173 
Membracts, 175, 176 
Mercury, 74 
Mestayer, Mons, 260 
Mestizos, 73, 97, 135, 156, 185 
Metlate, 46, 225 
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