INDEX 



AcAKU island, 100 

 Achaba mountain, 216 



— rapids, 215-217, 266-269 

 Alligators, 94, 95, 136, 138, 205 

 Amazon river, 56, 184-187 

 Amazonas forest, 92 



Ameha, mountain, 28, 32, 139, 202, 

 205, 246, 249, 258, 260, 272, 273, 

 286, 304 ; expedition to, 221-242 



Andes mountains, 62 -64, 92, 236 



Andre, Mrs., 285 



— Misses, 285 



Angostura, 55-56, 101. See also 



under Ciudad-Bolivar 

 Anson, Lord, 77 

 Ants, habits of, 122-123, 141, 147- 



151, 203, 261 

 Ant-eaters, 144 

 Ant-thrushes, 149, 150, 204 

 Antonia, Doiia, 121, 123, 140-145, 



282, 285 

 Apure river, 2, 62, 64, 94 

 • Apure ' steamer, 104-106 

 Arauca river, 64, 94 

 Arawa mountain, 28, 139, 218-224, 



231, 288, 246, 249, 255 



— river, 221, 224, 252 

 Araya, 68-72 

 Argentina, 90-91 



Arichi mountain, 28, 224, 225, 231, 

 238, 246, 249 



— rapids, 222, 251, 262, 268, 281 



— river, 224, 246, 248, 251 

 Aripao village, 100, 101, 109-111 

 Armadillo, 269, 270 

 Arrichapa, 212 



Arromaia, 6 



Aruy river, 100 



Asoque, Pedro (Chichi), 193, 195, 



201, 209, 217, 221, 234, 243, 259, 



263. 264 



Atahualpa, 3 

 Atures, 63 



Augustin, 281, 288, 294 

 Ayaima narrows, 210 

 Aymara (fish,) 213, 218, 225, 254, 

 256, 271 



Balata gum-tree, 66-67 



Bald-headed cotinga, 233, 240 



Bank of Venezuela, 68 



Bark, uses of 127 



Barquisimeto, 111 



Barrancas, 13, 43, 44 



Basket-making, 292 



Battistini, Aurelio, 33, 34, 108 



Bees, instincts of, 133-134 



Beetles, 132 



Belt's 'The Naturalist in Nicaragua,' 



150-151 

 Benito (native paddler), 177 

 'Bird-carpenter.' See under Ville- 



gente, taxidermist 

 Bleekrod, Professor, 66 

 Blowpipes, 299, 300 

 Bohn's Classical Library, 130 

 • Bolivar * steamer, 13, 36-38 

 Bolivar, Simon, 49, 56 w, 60 ; ' The 



Land of,' 62 

 Bompland, explorer, 100, 299 

 Branco river, 205 



Brazil, 1, 40, 65, 109, 188, 205, 289 

 Briceno, General Barroeta, 58 

 Britten, Dr. L., 187 

 Bromelias, 27-29 

 Brown, Hon. Vincent, 36 

 Buenaventura, 169 

 Bullfighting, 83 seg- 

 Bush-ticks, 30 

 Butterflies, 141-142 

 Byron, Lord, 84 



