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tries where found : in the Leeward Islands they continue in 

 a torpid state during the severity of winter : Labat asserts, 

 that besides the humming noise produced by their wings, 

 they have a pleasing melancholy melody in their voices, 

 small and proportioned to their organs : the Indians make 

 use of this pretty bird's plumage : in what manner the chil- 

 dren take them : when taken they are instantly killed, and 

 hung up in the chimney to dry : some dry them in stoves : 

 at present the bird is taken rather for selling as a curiosity 

 to Europeans, than an ornament for themselves, 287, &c. 



Hump of the bison of different sizes, weighing from forty to 

 fifty pounds, sometimes less : cuts and tastes like a dressed 

 udder, ii. 241. In a few generations it wears away, 242. 



Hunger, every animal endures the wants of sleep and hunger 

 with less injury to health than man : hunger kills man sooner 

 than watchfulness: more dreadful in its approaches than 

 continuance : dreadful effects of hunger, related to the au- 

 thor by the captain of a ship, who was one of six that en- 

 dured it in its extremities : different opinions concerning the 

 cause of hunger : few instances of men dying, except at sea, 

 of absolute hunger : those men whose every day may be con- 

 sidered as a happy escape from famine, at last die of a dis- 

 order caused by hunger : the number of such as die in Lon- 

 don of hunger supposed not less than two thousand in a 

 year : method of palliating hunger among the American 

 Indians, ii. 1. Instances of amazing patience in hunger, 78. 



Hunters, the English considered as the noblest and the most 

 useful horses in the world, ii. 197. Terms used by hunters 

 in pursuing the stag : names invented by them for the stag, 

 317. For the fallow-deer, 329. 



Hunting, the natural right of hunting made royal, and when, 

 ii. 313. The stag and the buck performed in the same man- 

 ner in England, and how, 316. Ancient manner of hunting 

 the stag : the manner in Sicily, and in China, 322. The 

 wolf, iii. 40. Wolves used in hunting, 44, Hunting of the 

 fox, 49. Hunting the sable chiefly the lot of the exiles in 

 Siberia, 89. The ourang-outang, or wild man, in Borneo, 

 a favourite amusement of the King, 289. Of the elephant 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, 354. Manner of hunting the 

 ostrich by the Arabians, and by the Struthophagi, iv. 49. 

 Manner of hunting the turkey, 144. 



Hurricane, the cloud preceding a hurricane, called by sailors 

 bull's eye, described : houses, made of timber, bend to the 

 blast of the hurricane like osiers, and recover their recti- 

 tude ; hurricanes offensive to the sense of smelling ; mag- 

 gots brought with them: common in all tropical climates 

 on the coasts of Guinea, frequently three or four in a day : 

 their seasons upon those coasts, at Loango and the opposite 



