INDEX. 235 



serpents, and follows the caravans that go to Mecca, to feed 

 upon the offal of the animals killed on the journey, iv. 309. 



Capons taught to clutch a fresh brood of chickens throughout 

 the year, iv. 136. 



Caracal, or the syagush, a native of the East Indies, resembles 

 the lynx in size, ii. 4*35. 



Caraguata, a plant in the West Indies, which clings round the 

 tree it happens to be near ; it keeps away that nourishment 

 designed to feed the trunk, and at last entirely destroys its 

 supporter, i. 350. 



Carapo, the gymnotus, description of this fish, v. 123. 



Carassa, a volcano in South America, i. 87- 



Caravan, a single lion of the desert often attacks an entire 

 caravan, ii. 401. The assemblage called a caravan some- 

 times composed of numbers amounting to ten thousand, iii. 

 375. 



Carcajou, name given by the North Americans to the glutton ; 

 its manner of killing the rein-deer, ii. 363. 



Caribou, name the Americans give the glutton, ii. 363. 



Carnivorous animals seek their food in gloomy solitude ; they 

 are sharper than the ruminating animals, and why; their 

 stomachs small, and their intestines short ; their intestines 

 thin and lean, ii. 222. Except the dog, none will make a 

 voluntary attack, but with the odds on their side ; in pro- 

 portion as each wants strength, it uses the assistance of 

 patience, assiduity, and cunning; all animals of this kind 

 pursue in a pack, and encourage each other by their mutual 

 cries ; support a state of famine for several weeks together ; 

 milk in those animals is more sparing than in others, 158. 



Carnivorous birds seek for such as are of the size most ap- 

 proaching their own. See Birds. 



Carp, an experiment made with this fish in a large vase of 

 water, under an air-pump, v. 17. One found by Buffon not 

 less than a hundred years old ; this discovery confirmed by 

 other authors, 20. Continues in the egg not above three 

 weeks, 24. Mr Tull famous for his invention of spaying 

 carp to give it a fine flavour, 25. Its description, 130. 

 The method of fattening it in a damp cellar ; it has been 

 known thus to live for a fortnight, grow exceedingly fat, 

 and to get a superior flavour, ib. 



Carriers, pigeons used to carry letters, iv. 238. 



Carrion-crow resembles the raven in its appetites, its laying, 

 and manner of bringing up its young, iv. 182. 



Carthagena, in America ; the heat of the climate affects the 

 speech of its inhabitants, which is soft and slow, and their 

 words generally broken ; more than three parts of our army 

 destroyed by the climate, in our unsuccessful attack upon, 

 it, i. 275. ' 



