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GENERAL INDEX. 



Date Palm, Deep penetration of the 

 roots of the, i, 417. 

 Palms and Dates, i, 416-18. 

 Daumas, ( French general), in the 

 Algerian Sahara, i, 351. 

 on Bedouin Nomads in the 

 Algerian Sahara, i, 442-3. 

 Anecdote of Arab Hos- 

 pitality by, i, 443. 

 Dead Game, Gralloching of, iii, 273. 

 carrying of, on horses, 



iii, 274. 



Instances of recovery 

 of apparently, iii, 277. 

 Approaching danger- 

 ous, iii, 276-278. 

 Bringing home, iii, 281. 

 De-Candolle, Alphonse, on the 



Sleep of plants, i, 296. 

 Deciduous Trees, i, 263-4. 

 Deer Shooting, iii, 105-6, 172. 

 and motionless objects, iii, 126. 

 and Still-Hunters, iii, 109. 

 and Hounds, iii, 109. 

 Keen Scent of, iii, 115. 

 Audacity of,in robbing gardens, 



etc., iii, 139-40. 

 Defence, of forest frontier posts, The, 



ii, 228-9. 

 difficulty of moving up 



supplies for, ii, 229. 

 Deir-El-Bahari, Discovery of Royal 

 Mummies at, i, 381. 

 Arab grief at their 



removal, i, 384. 

 Delhi, The Sack of, by Nadir Shah, 



ii, 528. 



Deltas, of great Rivers, ii, 488. 

 Dented gunbarrels, iii, 250. 

 Denudation, The Phenomena of, 



ii, 425. 

 The process of, ii, 3 8 5 , 



425- 

 Principal agencies of, 



ii, 386. 

 upon the British 



Islands, ii, 487. 



Deodorants, and Disinfectants, The 

 Scientific aspects of, 

 ii, 185. 



Dera-Ghazi-Khan, Floods upon the 

 Indus at, ii, 533. 

 Desert, The, Ancient Wells in the, 

 i, 405-7, 409. 



Popular Fallacies re- 

 specting, i, 344-5. 



AcaciaTreesin,i,422-3. 



Grasses of, i, 424-26. 



Desiccated and 



blown away by wind, 

 i, 79, 427-8. 



Succulent Nature of, 

 i, 320. 



Scenery, Wild magni- 

 ficence of, i, 451. 



Aromatic plants of, 

 i, 455-58. 



Vegetation during long 

 droughts, iii, 56-57. 



Tracts and great herds 

 of game, iii, 46. 



Drifting sands of, i, 3 5 3 . 



Desiccated dead bodies 

 in, i, 358-9. 



Arabs, i, 440. 



Pools, i, 337, 407-8. 



Sand grouse, i, 438. 



Extreme Solar Heats 



in, i, 376. 

 Cold Winds in, i, 398. 



Beauty of the Sunsets 

 in, 'i, 45 2 -3- 



Night, The, Splendour and 

 freshness of, i, 

 79-80, 396. 



Frequent great 



cold of, i, 75, 



397- 



Causes of the 



cold of, i, 75. 



Marches of ca- 



ravans during, 

 i, 401-2. 



Deserts, Difficulties of denning the 

 boundaries of, i, 38, 344. 

 Probable uses of, i, 88. 

 of NorthernAfrica, i, 348-9. 

 , Ancient 



Roman Wells in, i, 406, 

 414. 



