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GENERAL INDEX. 



Beech-tree overhanging deep water, 53, 151 ; 

 large size, 172. 



Behring's Straits (Dan. pron., bd'ring\ sepa- 

 rating Asia and North America ; it is about 

 thirty-six miles broad, 31, 32. 



Bizcacha (Span, pron., bitk-kah'tchaK), a rab- 

 bit-like animal, prey of the puma, 45 ; home 

 on the Pampas, range, food, flesh good, col- 

 lections about its burrow, 48. 



Blue-gum tree, 16G. 



Bolas ("balls"), with which Gauchos catch 

 ostriches and cattle, 71, 121 ; made and 

 used by Indians, 107, 108 ; catch Mr. Dar- 

 win's horse, 121. 



Bones used as fuel, 124. 



Booby, a stupid and tarne bird, 75. 



Boomerang, an Australian missile, 104. 



Botafo'go Bay, in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, 

 39, 41. 



Bower bird, Australian, 49, 50. 



Brazil, the largest country in South America, 

 settled by the Portuguese, 112, 113 ; fruit- 

 bearing trees, 164 ; primeval forests, 170. 



Bread-fruit, 163, 164. 



Buenos Ay res (Span, pron., boo-en'oce ah'e- 

 ress), the capital of the Argentine Confed- 

 eration the name means "fine air" 33, 

 48, 109, 126, 127, 144, 146; plains, 182. 



Bullock wagon of the Pampas, 147, 148. 



C. 



CACIQUE (Span, pron., kath-e'kd\ an Indian 



chief, 108. 

 Cactus, 59 ; food of lizards, 60 ; of tortoises, 



61 ; on the Parana, 148 ; in Chile, 194. 

 Callao (Span, pron., kal-yah'o), port of Lima, 



159 ; liability to earthquake waves, 190. 

 Camping out, on the Pampas, 123; in Tahiti, 



136. 



Cannibalism of Fuegians, 101, 175. 

 Cape Blanco, on the east coast of Patagonia 



the name means "white " 44. 



, also a cape on the west coast of 



Northern Africa, 81. 



Cape de Verd Islands, west of Northern Afri- 

 ca, in the Atlantic Ocean the name means 



"green" 64, 81. 

 Cape Gregory, in Patagonia, on Magellan 



Strait, 104. 



Cape Horn, the most southern point in South 

 America, on the last island of the Fuegian 

 Archipelago, so named in 1616 by its dis- 

 coverer, Schouten, in honor of his Dutcli 

 birthplace (Hoorn), 42. 



Cape of Good Hope, the southern extremity 

 of Africa, 165. 



Capi'bara, or capy'bara, a water-hog, prey of 

 the jaguar, 46, 145. 



Carbonate of lime, a substance manufactured 

 from sea-water by shell-fish and coral in- 

 sects, 200. 



Carpacho (Span, pron., kar-patch'o), an ore- 

 sack, in Mexico called tanate (tah-nah'td), 

 131. 



Carrion-buzzard, 76. 



Casara (Span, pron., kas-sah'ra), "house- 

 builder," or oven-bird, 74. 



Casarita (Span, pron., kas-sah-re 'tah\ "little 

 'house-builder, "makes deep holes for nests , 

 has no idea of thickness, 74. 



Castro, the capital of Chiloe, 153. 



Casts of trees; remains of trunks in which 

 the vegetable fibres have been replaced by 

 tiny particles of stone without altering the 

 shape, 181. 



Cat, jaguar scratches like a, 47. 



Caterpillars, turning them into butterflies a 

 heresy, 132. 



Charles Island, one of the Galapagos group, 

 60, 78. 



Chatham Island, the easternmost of the Gala- 

 pagos group, 61. 



Chile (Span, pron., tcht'la), a Spanish- Amer- 

 ican republic on the Pacific coast of South 

 America, 44, 45, 67, 109, 118, 129, 154; a 

 raised coast, 159 ; mountains, 178 ; fossil 

 shells and wood, 181 ; barrenness in north, 

 194. 



Chileno (Span, pron., tche-ld'no), an inhabi- 

 tant of Chile, trap for condors, 68 ; po- 

 liteness, 128; wonder at the naturalist, 121); 

 superstition about volcanoes, 188 ; miners' 

 improvidence, 129, funeral procession, 130, 

 heavy loads, 130, endurance, 131. 



Chiloe (Span, pron., tche-lo-d'), a large island 

 south of Chile, 153 ; abundant apple-trees. 

 158, 167; prospect, 177; earthquakes, 189, 

 190. 



