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INDEX 



Gold-washing, 284 



Good Success Bay, 214 



Gossamer spider, 169 



Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, 132 



on birds of Galapagos, 404 

 Granite mountains, Tres Monies, 301 



of Cordillera, 342 

 Graspus, 10 

 Gravel, how far transported, 113 



of Patagonia, 78, 180 

 Graves of Indians, 179 

 Greenstone, fragments of, 274 

 Gregory, Cape, 245 

 Gryllus migratorius, 352 

 Guanaco, habits of, 175, 197 



fossil allied genus, 182 

 Guantajaya, mines of, 387 

 Guardia del Monte, 124 

 Guasco, 367, 371, 375 

 Guasos of Chile, 275 

 Guava imported into Tahiti, 430 

 Guinea-fowl, 5, 523 

 Guitron, 279 

 Gunnera scabra, 298 

 Gypsum, great beds of, 342 



in salt-lake, 68 



in Patagonian tertiary beds, 180 



at Iquiq'ue with salt, 388 



at Lima with shells, 392 



Hachette, M., on lightning-tubes, 62 

 Hacienda, condor, and cactus, 271 

 Hail-storm, 121 

 Hall, Capt. Basil, on terraces of 



Coquimbo, 367 

 Hare, Varying, 47 



Head, Capt., on thistle-beds, 125, 130 

 Height of snow-line on Cordillera, 259 

 Henslow, Prof, on potatoes, 304 



on plants of Keeling Island, 483 

 Hermit crabs, 486 

 Hide Bridge, 334 

 Hill emitting a noise, 385 

 Himantopus, 120 

 Hippah, New Zealand, 458 

 Hobart Town and Mount Wellington, 



475 



Hogoleu barrier-reef, 499 



Holes made by a bird, 99 



Holman on drifted seeds, 484 



Holothuria; feeding on coral, 494 



Homeward bound, 531 



Hooker, Sir J., on the Cardoon, 125 

 Dr. J. D., on the kelp, 253 

 on Galapageian plants, 418, 421 



Horn, Cape, 223 



Horner, Mr., on a calcareous deposit, 10 



Horse, swimming powers of, 152 

 Horse, wild at the Falkland Islands, 202 



fossil of extinct species of, 86, 138 

 Horse-fly, 180 



Horsemanship of the Gauchos, 162, 206 

 Horses difficult to drive, 1 15 



drop excrement on paths, 125 



killed by great droughts, 1 41 



multiplication of, 247 



broken in, 160 

 Hot springs of Cauquenes, 281 

 Huacas, 394, 396 

 Humboldt on burnished rocks, I2 



on the atmosphere in tropics, 33 



on frozen soil, 93 



on hybernation, 102 



on potatoes, 304 



on earthquakes and rain, 375 



on miasma, 390, 463 

 Humming-birds of Rio de Janeiro, 33 



of Chiloe, 289 

 Hurtado, 1 13 



Hybernation of animals, 102 

 Hydrochterus capybara, 40, 51 

 Hydrophobia, 377 

 Hyla, 30 

 Hymenophallus, 34 



Ibis melanops, 175 

 Ice, prismatic structure of, 347 

 Iceberg.s, 197, 237, 260 to 267 

 Incas' bridge, 357, 380, 394 

 Incrustations on coast rocks, 9, 12 

 Indian fossil remains, 395 

 Indians, attacks of, 66, 80, 136 



antiquarian relics of, 48, 109 



Araucanian, 66, 321 



of the Pampas, 105 



decrease in numbers of, 108 



grave of, 179, 198 



Patagonian, 245 



perforated stones used by, 285 



Valdivian, 321 



powers of tracking, 350 



ruins of houses of, 380, 384, 392 

 Infection, 463 

 Infusoria in dust in the Atlantic, 5 



in the sea, 16, 168 



in the Pampas, 87, 137 



in Patagonia, 180 



in white paint, 234 



in coral mud, 494 



at Ascension, 525 

 Insects first colonists of St. PauFs rocks, 

 10 



blown out to sea, 168 



of Patagonia, 180, 349 



