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INDIAN CORN Description of Beauty of its construc- 

 tion Variety of tints Local scenery . . .143 

 INDIANS of the Mississippi . . . . . 135 



JAGUAR Chief resorts of Anecdote of one in the 

 forests of Demerara Grand effect produced by 

 their voices when heard at night Hunting in 

 packs Mode of catching fish Great strength and 

 sagacity Hereditary enemies to the alligator 

 Method of surprising them Attempts to seize a 

 tortoise How foiled Terrible onset with a Gaucho 

 Wild horses trained to face the jaguar . . 84 



JESUITS' BARK TREE Where most abundant Descrip- 

 tion of Place of growth How first discovered, 

 and by whom introduced as a medicine Mode of 

 collecting it . . . . . . .194 



KANGAROO Sagacity of Easily domesticated Diffe- 

 rent species assigned to different parts . . .108 



KOOLA A burrowing animal Carrying the young upon 



its back . . . . . . . .111 



LAMA Common to the Cordilleras and South America 

 How differing from the camel Characteristics of 

 Invaluable to the natives . . . .189 



LANA DE CEIBO A high and tufted tree, producing 



cotton 31 



LAURIERE ........ 90 



LEMMING of Hudson's Bay Formidable migrations 



Progress of vegetation in the countries they frequent 124 



LETTER-WOOD Its beautiful brown colour, spotted like 



a leopard's skin . . . . . . .91 



LLANOS Climate of 280 



LOCUST TREE Where found By whom brought into 



Europe Peculiarities of . . . .100 



LOGWOOD Where found 237 



LYNX Two species of Where found Curious illusion 

 with respect to the size of objects on the Platte 

 shown in the instance of the elk and turkey . 88 



