512 



INDEX. 



Gravel, how far transported, 108 



of Patagonia, 75, 171 



Greenstone, fragments of, 257 

 Gryllus migratorius, 329 

 Guanaco, habits of, 1G6 



, fossil allied genus, 172 



Guantajaya, mines of, 363 

 Guardia del Monte, 118 

 Guasco, 348 

 Guasosof Chile, 258 

 Guava, imported into Tahiti, 403 

 Guinea-fowl, 5, 493 

 Gunnera scabra, 278 

 Gypsum, great beds of, 319 



in salt-lake, 66 



in Patagonian tertiaiy- 



beds, 171 



at Iquique with salt, 3G4 



at Lima with shells, 369 



Hachette, j\I., on lightning-tubes, 60 



Hailstorm, 115 



Hall, Capt. Basil, on terraces of Co- 



quimbo, 343 

 Hare, Varying, 45 

 Head, Capt., on thistle-beds, 119, 124 

 Height of snow-line on Cordillera, 



244 

 Henslow, Prof., on potatoes, 285 

 ■ , on plants of Keeling 



Island, 454 

 Hermit crabs, 457 

 Hill, emitting a noise, 361 

 Himantopus, 114 

 Hogoleu barrier-reef, 469 

 Holes made by a bird, 95 

 Holman on drifted seeds, 454 

 Holuthuriai feeding on coral, 465 

 Hooker, Sir J., on the Cardoon, 119 



, Dr. J. D., on the Kelp, 239 



. , on Galapageian 



plants, 392, 395 

 Horn, Cape, 211 

 Horner, Mr., on a calcareous deposit, 



10 

 Horse-fly, 170 

 Horses difficult to drive, 110 



drop excrement on paths, 119 



killed by great droughts, 134 



multiplication of, 233 



broken in, 151 



Horse, fossil, 82, 130 

 Horsemanship of the Gauchos, 153, 



195 

 Hot springs of Cauquenes, 263 

 Huacas, 368, 370 

 Humboldt on burnished rocks, 12 

 on the atmosphere in 



tropics, 32 



• on frozen soil, 88 ' 



on hybernation, 98 



on potatoes, 285 



on earthquakes and rain, 



351 



on miasma, 366, 435 



Humming-birds of Kio de Janeiro, 32 



of Chile, 271 



Hybernation of animals, 98 

 Hydrocha;rus capybara, 49 

 Hydrophobia, 353 

 Hyla, 29 

 Hymenophallus, 32 



Jackson, Col., on frozen snow, 325 

 Jaguar, habits of, 135 

 Jajuel, mines of, 259 

 James Island, Galapagos Archipe- 

 lago, 376 

 Juan Fernandez, volcano of, 310 

 , flora of, 392 



Ibis melanops, 165 



Ice, prismatic structure of, 325 



Icebergs, 187, 224, 246 to 251 



Incas' bridge, 334, 356 



Incrustations on coast rocks, 9, 12 



Indian fossil remains, 370 



Indians, attacks of, 64, 77, 129 



, Patagonians, 231 



, Araucarians, 299 



of the Pampas, 100 



of Valdivia, 299 



, perforated stones used by, 267 



, powers of tracking, 328 



, grave of, 169, 187 



. ruins of houses of, in Cor- 

 dillera, 356, 368 



, antiquities of, in La Plata, 



46, 105 



decrease in numbers, 104 



Horse, powers of swimming of, 143 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 



191 



Infection, 435 



Infusoria in dust in the Atlantic, 5 



in the sea, 15, 162 



in Pampas, 82, 130 



in Patagonia, 170 



