290 INDEX. 



Hiera, island in the Mediterranean, formed by subterraneous 

 explosions, i. 110. 



Hind, or female of the stag, has no horns; time of gestation, 

 and usual season of bringing forth ; hides her young in ob- 

 scure thickets ; obliged to use all arts to conceal them from 

 the stag, the most dangerous of her pursuers ; how she de- 

 fends her young, ii. 312. The female stag so called the 

 third year, 317. Manner of knowing the track of a hind, 

 318. Inhabitants of Canada have no other milk but that 

 of the hind ; and no other cheese but that made of it, 326. 

 The hunter's name for the roebuck, the first year, 336. 



Hippocampus, the sea-horse, its description, v. 108. 



Hippocrates, his opinion about the formation of the incipient 

 animal, i. 359. 



Hippopotamus, not afraid singly to oppose the lion, ii. 409. 

 Its dimensions ; places where it resides ; its food ; swims with 

 much force, and remains at the bottom for thirty or forty 

 minutes ; it commits dreadful havock among the plantations ; 

 method the Africans use to frighten it back to its element ; 

 inoffensive in its dispositions; never attacks mariners in 

 their boats, unless inadvertently struck against, or otherwise 

 disturbed, then it would send them at once to the bottom ; 

 instances of its great strength ; never goes beyond the mouth 

 of fresh water rivers ; attacked on shore, and incapable of 

 vengeance upon a flying enemy, returns to the river, and 

 plunges in head foremost ; the negroes apprised of its force, 

 do not engage it ; continues uncontrolled master of the 

 river ; all others fly its approach, or become an easy prey ; 

 moves slowly upon land ; seldom goes from the river side, 

 unless pressed by necessities of hunger, or of bringing forth 

 its young ; lives upon fish and vegetables ; natives of Africa 

 say it often devours children, and other creatures surprised 

 upon land ; the young are excellent eating ; the female sel- 

 dom produces above one at a time ; hearing the slightest 

 noise she dashes into the stream, and the young one follows 

 her with equal alacrity ; Dr Pococke has seen their flesh 

 sold in the shambles like beef; their breast thought as de- 

 licate eating as veal ; this creature, once plenty at the mouth 

 of the Nile, now wholly unknown in Lower Egypt, and no 

 where found but above the cataracts, iii. S63. 



Historian (Natural), his proper business, i. 5. Going too 

 much into speculation wrong, and why, 16. Method his 

 principal help, ii. 135. Faults of systematic writers, 137. 



History (Natural), of all other sciences, has the least danger 

 of obscurity, and why, ii. 143. Best set forth, as Mr 

 Locke has observed, by drawings of animals taken from 

 life, 149. 



Hobby, bird of the generous breed of hawks, for smaller game, 

 daring larks, and stooping at quails, iv. 100. 



