INDEX 



ards of his future, 239-241; and 

 altruism, 272; ultimate fate of 

 the race, 272, 273; his existence 

 on other spheres, 272, 273. 



Mango, 124, 134. 



Maui, 129; a visit to, 133-149; shape 

 of, 147. 



Mauna Kea, 148, 155. 



Mauna Loa, 143, 148, 155. 



Merced River, 71, 80. See also 

 Yosemite. 



Mercury, the planet, 269. 



Millerite excitement, 267. 



Mina, 132, 143. 



Mind, human and animal, 202. 



Mirror Lake, 73. 



Mississippi River, mineral matter 

 carried by, 169. 



Molokai, 121, 148. 



Monophyletic hypothesis, the, 231. 



Monroe, Miss Harriet, 47. 



Montana, an over-thrust in, 172. 



Mosquitoes, in the Hawaiian Is- 

 lands, 140. 



Mt. Hillers, 173. 



Mt. Tamalpais, 172. 



Mt. Tantalus, Oahu, 123, 128. 



Mountains, short-lived, 93-96; 

 walks in the Hawaiian, 125-130; 

 a trip to Haleakala, 133-146; 

 robbing the clouds, 147; a trip to 

 Kilauea, 149-155. 



Mules, at the Grand Cafion, 66, 67. 



Murder, among animals, 256. 



Natural selection. See Selection, 

 natural. 



Nature, as an inventor and experi- 

 menter, 34, 35; in the tropics, 126; 

 vast time taken by the processes 

 of, 199; the "gospel" of, 243-273; 

 and God, 246; teaches more than 

 she preaches, 247; knowledge and 

 enjoyment of, 249-251; reason in, 

 259-262; progresses by trial and 

 error, 261, 262; intercourse with, 

 264, 265; largeness of, 266; merci- 

 less justice of, 271, 272. 



Nature-study, 249, 250. 



Needles, the, Maui, 129. 



Negro, unchanged physically from 

 ancient times, 190. 



Nevada Falls, 74. 

 North Dome, 73. 



Oahu, first sight of, 121; seen from 

 Haleakala, 143, 144; erosion on, 

 147. 



Oaks, a peculiarity in, 78, 79. 



Ohelo berries, 151. 



Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 217, 218, 

 230; quoted, 237. 



Over-thrusts, 171, 172. 



Paia, 148. 



Palaeontologist, the, a detective of 



the rocks, 214. 

 Palsentology. See Evolution. 

 Pali, Hawaiian Islands, 129. 

 Palisades, the, 174. 

 Palola Valley, a walk up, 125- 



128. 

 Papaya, 124. 

 Parunuweap Cafion, 62. 

 Penhallow, Mr., sugar plantation 



of, 134. 

 Petrified Forests, the, 43, 44, 76. 

 Pheasant, in the Hawaiian Islands, 



137. 

 Pineapple, plantation, 144, 145; 



canning-plant, 145. 

 Punch Bowl, Oahu, 123. 



Quartz, 108. 



Raven, northern {Corvus corax prin- 

 cipalis), 230. 



Religion, on the wane, 195; forms 

 change but the sentiment persists, 

 246. 



Rice-bird, of the Hawaiian Islands, 

 127. 



Robin, western {Planesticus migra- 

 tor ius propinquus) , 71, 78. 



Rocks, old and young, 96; gene- 

 alogy of the sedimentary, 98-110; 

 amount of Archaean, 98-101; 

 chemistry in the growth of, 105- 

 108; depths of the layers of sedi- 

 mentary, 107; soil made from, 

 167, 168; robbed by the waters, 

 169; formation of the sediment- 

 ary, 169, 170; over-thrusts in 

 the, 171, 172. 



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