INDEX. 



325 



Bats, 138. 



smoking out, 114. 



vainpire, 189. 

 Baul, towu of, 66, 85. 

 Bees, 279. 



cells of, 280. 

 Birds, aquatic, 101. 



tipon the Llanos, 81. 

 Bixa Orellaiia, 76. 

 Black waters, causes of coloration, 



108. 

 Blow-gun, 1-41. 



use of, 145. 

 Bodegas, 207. 

 Bogota, plains of, 10. 

 Bongo, 66, 77. 



Books, difficulty of preserving, 18. 

 Bowlders, erratic, 300. 



formation of, 136. 

 Brazil-nuts, 183. 

 Bread-trays, 260. 

 Breves, 317. 



Bridge-building monkeys, 76. 

 Butclicring, abnormal, 107. 



Cabo Blanco, 6. 



Cacao, cultivation of, 45. 



fruit of, 46. 

 Cactuses, 28, 223. 

 Cactus melo, 137. 

 Caimans, 73. 

 Calabash-tree, 25. 

 Calenture, 84. 

 Camachina, town of, 162. 

 Camaguan, town of, 87. 

 Cambure, 53. 

 Camino Eeal, 212. 

 Campos, 315. 

 Caiia Brava, 31. 

 Cannibal-fish, 98. 



Canoe-navigation, diflBculties of, 77. 

 Canoes, 66. 

 Caracas, books in, 18. 



cutliedral in, 13. 



cemeteries at, 19. 



churches of, 19. 



climate of, 10, 21. 



earthquake at, 15. 



government-house at, 14. 



houses in, 12. 



population of, 12, 17. 



printing-press in, 19. 



situation of, 11. 



streets of, 12. 



university of, 14. 



valley of, 4, 10. 



vegetation about, 10. 

 Caribe fish, 98. 

 Casa Real, 165. 



Cassiquiare, 59. 



mouth of, 172. 

 Cattle, wild, 94, 263. 

 Cave of Ataruipe, 140. 



Encantado, 20, 24. 

 Cemeteries at Caracas, 19. 

 Ccrbatana, 144. 

 Cliica, manufacture of, 284. 

 Chillo, hacienda of, 236. 

 Chimbo, valley of, 213. 

 Chiniborazo, 218, 241. 



ascent of, 243. 



first view of, 205. 



not a volcano, 243. 

 Chiguire, 104. 

 Chisinchi, ridge of, 225. 

 Christmas on the Amazons, 305. 



on the Eio Negro, 183. 

 Chuquipoyo, 217. 

 Churches in Caracas, 19. 

 Clay, Tabatinga, 157. 

 Climate of Caracas, 10. 



of Guayaquil, 202. 



of Javita, 166. 



of Maypurcs, 154. 



of Peruvian coast, 200. 



of Quito, 227. 



of San Fernando, 90. 



of Upper Kio Negro, 177. 



of Urbana, 120. 



of Valley of Amazons, 321. 

 Clock, repairing a, 169. 

 Coaches, 35. 

 Coca Eiver, 285. 

 Cock of the Eock, 170, 

 Cocoa-palms, 55. 

 Coffee, 21, 33, 45. 

 Colombia, name changed, 9. 

 Colonel Staunton, 255. 



grave of, 236. 



Ms object in visiting the tropics, 

 256. 

 Colonization in Brazil, 192. 

 Condor, 264. 



Constellations, southern, 184. 

 Cotopaxi, 244. 



last view of, 287. 



plains about, 223. 

 Cotton, 158. 

 Cotton-tree, 153. 

 Cow-tree, 52, 320. 

 Crater of Pichineha, 247. 

 Crocodiles, 94. 



sleep of, 95. 

 Curare, manufacture of, 146. 

 Custom-house reasonableness, i. 



Decomposition of rocks, 124. 

 Departure from Baul, 84. 



