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GENERAL INDEX. 



Water-hog (see Capibara). 



West Indies, the archipelago between North 

 and South America Columbus's first dis- 

 covery 32. 



Whale, spermaceti, sporting, 53 ; blubber eat- 

 en by Fuegians, 100, 101. 



White Cockatoo, 168. 



White Cockatoo men, an Australian tribe, 

 138. 



Wild arum, 138. 



Wild celery, 98. 



Wild pease, 195. 



Willows, 143. 



Winter 's-bark, 172. 



Wollaston Island, south of Tierra del Fnego, 99. 



Wood sorrel, 195. 



Wren, 76. 



Y. 

 YAM, 163. 



Yammerschooner, a begging word of the Fu- 

 egians, 102. 



Yaquil (Span. pron^jah-kel'^ a gold-mining 

 town of Chile, just west of San Fernando, 

 132. 



Yerba (Span, pron., jer'-bah), a South Ameri- 

 can tea, also called mate, 110, 184. 



