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GENERAL INDEX. 



Life on board ship The Starlit 



heavens, iii, 43. 



Lima (Peru), The Climate of, ii, 397. 



Linnaeus, The great Naturalist, on 



the beauty of the Arctic 



Summer, ii, 302. 



Lions near camps at night, iii, 139. 



,, in Somaliland, iii, 142. 

 Livingstone, Dr. David, on song 

 birds near African 

 villages, iii, 147. 

 on great herds of game 



on the Zambesi, 

 iii, 70. 



A day and night in the 



African Wilder- 

 ness, iii, 70-1. 



Lloyd, Capt. L., on great flocks of 

 wildfowl in The Great Belt, 

 iii, 410. 



Local Colourings of animals, i, 320. 

 Long Point (Lake Erie), Duck 



shooting at, iii, 420-1. 

 Long-range target shooters and short 



range hunters, iii, 212-3. 

 -range shooters often bad at 



short ranges, iii, 213. 



Looking down from great altitudes 



(on Mountains), ii, 436-7. 



Lord, Mr. J. K., on dexterity of 



American axemen, ii, 127-8. 



on fishing in wild countries, 



iii, 486. 

 Lost in the Wilderness, ii, 100; 



iii, 93- 

 Loti, Mons. Pierre, on scented desert 



herbage, i, 457. 

 on desert manna, i, 458. 

 Love of Country, Its probable first 



cause, i, 326. 

 Lulea River, The, ii, 113. 

 "Lull of the Storm," The, i, 117,125. 

 Luminous paint for gun sights by 



night, iii, 285. 



Lunatics, Supposed saintly charac- 

 ters of, hi the East, i, 

 366. 



JMachans, Construction of, Jin 

 India, iii, 291-93. 



Madden's Climatic Zones, Table 



of, i, 49. 

 Mahogany Tree, The, i, 264. 



Cutting in Honduras, i, 



264-5. 



Mahseer Fishing in India, iii, 281-3. 



Malarial Disease in England, in 



ancient times, 



^ 153- 



,, ,, in England, its 



fatal character ,. 



ii, 153- 



in newly settled 



districts, ii, 153. 



Fever, Outbreaks of, at 



Sea, i, 271. 



,, germs, Question of, their 

 absorption by water, i, 

 271. 

 Malarious Districts, iii, 291. 



best time for cross- 



ing, i, 274. 



Exhalations from newly 

 turned soil in wild 

 countries, iii, 182. 

 Man, The hunting instinct in, i, 



9; iii 176. 

 His place among infinities, 



i, 34 1 - 



as a denizen of the forest, 



ii, 20 1 ; iii, 97-99. 



as the great destroyer, iii, 



176-77; 33 2 -3. 

 The Scent of, iii, in. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, savage tribes 

 distinguishable one from 

 another, by, iii, 114. 

 Mango Tree, The, i, 230. 

 Marcy, Capt. R. B. (U.S.A.), on 

 a great Colorado blizzard, 

 i, 129. 



on the absence of scent in 

 the young of game animals, 

 iii, 117. 



Markham, Mr. Clements R., and 

 introduction of Chin- 

 ch ona Trees into India, 

 i, 236. 



Capt. A. H. (R.N.), on 

 the progressive cold 



