IV CONTENTS. 



tions — Excursion up the Valley — Road to Guasco — Deserts — 

 Valley of Copiapo — Rain and Earthquakes — Hydrophobia — 

 The Despoblado — Indian Ruins — Probable Change of Climate 

 — River-bed arched by an Earthquake — Cold Gales of Wind — 

 Noises Iroin a Hill — Iquique — Salt Alluvium — Nitrate of Soda 

 — Lima — Unhealthy Country — Ruins of Caliao, overthrown by 

 an Earthquake — Recent Subsidence — Elevated Shells on San 

 Lorenzo, their Decomposition — Plain with embedded Shells 

 and Fragments of Pottery — Antiquity of the Indian Race 



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CHAPTER V. 



The whole Group volcanic — Number of Craters — Leafless Bush- 

 es — Colony at Charles Island — James Island — Salt-lake in Cra- 

 ter — Natural History of the Group — Ornithology, curious 

 Finches— Reptiles— Great Tortoises, Habits of— Marine Liz- 

 ard, feeds on Sea-weed — Terrestrial Lizard, burrowing Habits, 

 Herbivorous — Importance of Reptiles in the Archipelago — Fish, 

 Shells, Insects — Botany — American Type of Organization — Dif- 

 ferences in the Species or Faces on different islands — Tame- 

 ness of the Birds — Fear of Man, an acquired Instinct . 138 



CHAPTER VI. 



Pass through the Low Archipelago — Tahiti — Aspect — Vegetation 

 on the Mountains— View of Eimeo — Excursion into the Interi- 

 or — Profound Ravines — Succession of Waterfalls — Number of 

 wild useful Plants — Temperance of the Inhabitants — Their 

 Moral State — Parliament Convened — New Zealand — Bay of 

 Islands — Hippahs — Excursion to Waimate — Missionary Estab- 

 lishment — English Weeds now run wild — Waiomio — Funeral 

 of a New Zealand Woman — Sail for Australia . . . 176 



CHAPTER VII. 



Sydney — Excursion to Bathurst— Aspect of the Woods — Party of 

 Natives — Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines — Infection gen- 

 erated by associated Men in Health— Blue Mountains — View 

 of the grand gulf-like Valleys — Their Origin and Formation — 

 Bathurst, general Civility of the lower Orders — State of Socie- 

 ty — Van Diemen's Land — Hobart Town — Aborigines all ban- 

 ished—Mount Wellington— King George's Sound— Cheerless 

 Aspect of the Country — Bald Head, calcareous Casts of Branch- 

 es of Trees — Party of Natives — Leave Australia . .214 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Keeling Island — Singular Appearance — Scanty Flora — Transport 

 of Seeds— Birds and Insects— Ebbing and Flowing Springs- 

 Fields of dead Coral— -Stones transported in the Roots of Trees 



