GENERAL INDEX. 



541 



Polar Bears, ii, 304. 

 Game list, A, ii, 320. 

 Snows, as a home to certain 

 birds and animals, ii, 313, 

 322. 

 Pontiac, The Conspiracy of, ii, 



224-25. 



Potosi, The Mountain City of, ii, 4 1 1 . 

 " Poudre, " or dry Canadian Snow, 



ii> 354-55 iii> l8 4-5- 

 Powell, Professor J. W., on the 

 Cafion of the Colorado, 

 ii, 62-3. 



on the great line of Prairie 



Bluffs of Colorado, ii, 69. 



Prairie Streams, The crossing of, ii, 



49-5- 



grasses, ii, 75. 

 Prairies, The Herbaceous Vegetation 



of the, ii, 74. 

 Preservative effects of very dry air, 



i, 378, 380-3. 

 Prey, Beasts of, 

 ,, at drinking places, 



iii, 139. 

 driven by hunger, 



iii, 139- 

 ,, ,, Timidity of, iii, 



140. 

 Destruction of 



stock by, iii, 1 42. 

 as the friends of 



sportsmen, iii, 



145- . 



,, ,, ,, and African Trav- 



ellers' camps, iii, 

 141. 

 Prey, Birds of, The flight of, iii, 



334> 339-40. 

 ,, How they hunt, 



iii, 335-39- 

 as scavengers, iii, 



343-4, 348. 



and game in wild 



Countries, iii, 

 449-50. 



,, Movements of, to be 



carefully watched 

 by sportsmen, iii, 

 484. 



Primeval Forest of the Equatorial 

 Zone, The, i, 

 171. 



The great, of the 



Upper Congo, i r 



173-4- 



PerpetualTwilight 



in the, i, 173, 



175- 



Density of the 



foliage canopy, 

 i, .178. 

 in North America, 



ii, 128. 



Pringle, Thomas, poem of "Afar 

 in the Desert," iii, 83. 

 Professional Hunters, i, 12. 

 Protective Colouring of large game 

 animals, i, 321-2, 

 325-6, 328. 

 Ptarmigan in the Polar Regions 



in Winter, ii, 321. 

 ,, flying into snow-drifts. 



ii, 322. 

 Pufia or Mountain Sickness, ii, 409 ; 



iii, 305- 

 Punjab, The or the Land of the Five 



Rivers, ii, 534. 

 Pant gun, A big, iii, 424. 

 Heavy shots made with 



a, iii, 422-3. 

 Pyramids of Egypt, The, i, 378. 



Quagmires, Enormous losses of 



Wild Animals in, ii, 50. 



Quail, Power of withholding their 



scent when alarmed, iii, 120. 



Qualifications of a good shooting 



horse, The, iii, 231-2. 



Quebec, The Ancient Fortress of, 



ii 557, 559- 

 Magnificent Panorama 



from, ii, 558. 

 Harbour, ii, 558. 

 Queensland as a great cattle raising 



State, ii, 38. 

 Quick-Sand, 2000 Buffaloes lost in 



a, ii, 50. 



Description of a 



dangerous, ii, 51-2. 



