GENERAL INDEX. 



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Sugar-cane, 163. 



Sumatra, a large island on the equator, south 



of Asia, 198. 



Superstition about earthquakes, 1 88, 1 90. 

 Swan, black-necked, 52, 80. 

 Sweet-potato, 163. 



T. 



TAHITI, the principal one of the Society Isl- 

 ands in the South Pacific, 135 ; valley of 

 Tia-auru, 136; coral reef, vegetable pro- 

 ducts, 163. 



Tahitian, mildness, tattooed, 133 ; women in- 

 ferior, 136 ; fire-making, 137 ; cooking, 138. 



Talcahuano (Span, pron., tal-kah-hwah'no), a 

 seaport of Chile, destroyed by earthquake, 

 184, 185, 187, 188, 192; liability to great 

 waves, 190. 



Tapulquen (Span, pron., tah-pool-kdn'\ a town 

 in the south-eastern part of the Argentine 

 Republic, 123. 



Tattooing in Tahiti, 135, 136. 



Teneriffe, the largest of the Canary Islands, 

 155, 156. 



Tern, 51, 75. 



Tia-auru, a valley of Tahiti, 136. 



Tierra del Fuego (Span, pron., te-er'ra del 

 foo-ago\ a large island south of Patagonia, 

 called "land of fire" by Magellan on ac- 

 count of the native bonfires on the coast. 

 43, 45, 53, 79, 98, 101, 155 ; mountainous 

 and peaty, 151 ; full of bays and inlets, 159 ; 

 forests, 170, 172; mountains and glaciers, 

 175, 176. 



Tides, affected by earthquakes, 183-185, 187; 

 on shallow coasts, 190. 



Toad, black with red belly, in hot desert, un- 

 able to swim, 63 ; hibernation, 196. 



Tortoise, of Galapagos Islands, vast numbers 

 and size, 60 ; difference between the sexes, 

 food, long journeys for drink, 61, 62 ; pow- 

 er to go without water, rate of travel, egg- 

 laying, old age, deafness, 62 ; carrying a 

 man, 63. 



Toucan, 41. 



Trade-wind, a steady wind blowing from north- 

 east or south-east toward the equator, 199. 



Trafalgar', a cape on the south-western coast 

 of Spain, off which the British fleet under 



Nelson defeated the French and Spanish, 



Oct. 21, 1805, 136. 

 Tree-fern, 171. 

 Trees of Australia, 165-167 ; of the Tropics, 



170; petrified, 178, 181. 

 Tropilla (Span, pron., tro-pel'yah\ a little 



troop, 34. 

 Turkey-buzzard, companion of seals, 50; feeds 



on young tortoises, 62. 

 Turtle-dove, tameness,' 77, 78. 

 Tyrant fly-catcher, 76. 



U. 



URUGUAY (Span, pron., oo-roo-gwah'e), a 

 country of South America (see Banda Ori- 

 ental), 48, etc. ; also the name of the river 

 which forms its western boundary, 47 r 48; 

 clearness, 145. 



Uruguayan, astonishment at compass and 

 matches, ignorance of geography, 125- 

 127; wonder at face -washing and beard- 

 growing, 126 ; indolence, requirements of 

 legislative representatives, 128. 



Uspallata range and pass (Span, pron., oos- 

 pal-yah' taK), on the western border of the 

 Argentine Confederation, 178. 



V. 



VALDIVIA, a southern port of Chile, 158, 167; 

 earthquake of 1835, 183, 189; of 1837, 190. 



Valparaiso (Span, pron,, val-par-ah-eso\ the 

 principal seaport of Chile the name means 

 "paradise valley" 69,154; immunity 

 from earthquake waves, 190; earthquake 

 of 1822, 192; rainfall, 193. 



Villarica (Span, pron., vel-yah-re kah}, a vol- 

 cano in the south-eastern part of Chile, 189. 



Volcano of Aconcagua, 156 ; Osorno, Corco- 

 vado, 177; Antuco, 188, 190; Villarica, 

 189 ; volcanic soil in western La Plata, 178. 



W. 



WAIMATE, a town in the north-western part 

 of New Zealand, on New Ulster Island, 171. 



Walleechu, an Indian name for a sacred tree 

 in the southern part of the Argentine He- 

 public, 110, 111, 122. 



Wasp, hunts down a spider, 84; caught by 

 spider, 85. 



