INDEX. 333 



Painters never fully imitate that bold relieyo, which both eyes 



give to the object, ii. 23. 



Paleness often the effect of anger, and almost ever the attend- 

 ant of fright and fear, i. 421. 



Palm-tree, its juice drank by the rousette, or the great bat of 

 Madagascar, iii. 239. The elephant eats the shoots, leaves, 

 and branches to the stump, 337. 



Pangolin, vulgarly the scaly lizard, is a native of the torrid 

 climates of the ancient continent ; of all animals, the best 

 protected from external injury ; its description ; at the ap- 

 proach of an enemy it rolls itself up like the hedgehog; 

 the tiger, panther, and hyaena, make vain attempts to force 

 this animal, when it rolls itself up like the hedgehog ; its 

 flesh is considered by the Negroes of Africa as a great de- 

 licacy ; it has no teeth ; lives entirely upon insects ; there 

 is not a more harmless, inoffensive creature, than this un- 

 molested; cunning in hunting for its prey; chiefly keeps 

 in the obscure part of the forests ; its tongue, when extend- 

 ed, is shot out about a quarter of a yard beyond the tip of 

 the nose; countries where found, iii. 219. 

 Panther, it naturally hunts the sheep and the goat, ii. 159. 

 The foremost of the mischievous spotted kind, by many 

 naturalists mistaken for the tiger ; the panther of Senegal ; 

 the large panther ; difference between these two ; that of 

 America, or jaguar, compared with the two former, 4-28. 

 Sometimes employed in hunting ; the gazelle or leveret are 

 its prey ; it sometimes attacks its employer, 437. Attends 

 to the call of the jackall, iii. 57. 

 Parr, a peasant, lived to an hundred and forty-four, without 



being abstemious, ii. 65. 



Paradise bird, few have more deceived and puzzled the learned 

 than this; it is an inhabitant of the Molucca Islands; errone- 

 ous reports concerning this bird, and what has given rise to 

 them ; the native savages of those islands carefully cut off its 

 legs before they bring it to market, and why ; two kinds of the 

 bird of Paradise ; their distinction from other birds ; the des- 

 cription of this bird ; found in great numbers in the island of 

 Aro, where the inhabitants call it God's bird ; live in large 

 flocks, and at night perch upon the same tree ; are called 

 by some the swallows of Ternate, and, like them, have their 

 stated times of return ; their king distinguished from the 

 rest by the lustre of his plumage, and the respect and vene- 

 ration paid to him ; killing the king is the best chance of 

 getting the flock ; chief mark to know the king is by the 

 ends of the feathers in the tail, having eyes like those of 

 the peacock ; a number of these birds taken, the method 

 is to gut them, cut off their legs, dry the internal moisture 

 with a hot iron, and fill the cavity with salt and spices, then 

 sell them to the Europeans for a mere trifle ; how this bird 



