Xll CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



THE PAPUANS AND POLYNESIANS. 



The Papuans — Their Physical and Moral Characteristics — Their Artistic Tastes — 

 Their Dwellings — Their Primitive Political Institutions — Their Weapons and 

 Mode of Fighting — The Polynesians — Their Manners and Customs when first 

 visited by Europeans — Tattooing — The Tapa Cloth — Their Canoes — Swimming 

 Feats — Aristocratic Forms of Government — The Tabu — Religion — Supersti- 

 tious Observances — Human Sacrifices — Infanticide — Low Condition of the Coral 

 Islanders Page 276 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



SNAKES. 



First Impressions of a Tropical Forest — Exaggerated Fears — Comparative rareness 

 of Venomous Snakes — Their Habits and External Characters — Anecdote of the 

 Prince of Neu Wied — The Bite of the Trigonocephalus — Antidotes — Fangs 

 of the Venomous Snakes described — The Bush-Master — The Echidna Ocellata 

 — The Rattlesnakes — Extirpated by Hogs — The Cobra de Capello — Indian 

 Snake-Charmers — Maritime Excursions of the Cobra — The Egyptian Haje — 

 The Cerastes — Boas and Pythons — The Jiboya — The Anaconda — Enemies of 

 the Serpents — The Secretary — The Adjutant— The Mungoos — A Serpent 

 swallowed by another — The Locomotion of Serpents — Anatomy of their Jaws — 

 Serpents feeding in the Zoological Grardens — Domestication of the Rat-Snake — 

 Water-Snakes 292 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



LIZARDS, FROGS, AND TOADS. 



Their Multitude within the Tropics — The Geckoes — Anatomy of their Feet — 

 The Anolis — Their Love of Fight — The Chameleon — Its wonderful Changes 

 of Colour — Its Habits — Peculiarities of its Organisation — The Iguana — The 

 Teju — The Water-Lizards — Lizard Worship on the Coast of Africa — The 

 Flying Dragon — The Basilisk — Frogs and Toads — The Pipa— The Bahia 

 Toad — The Giant Toad — The Musical Toad — Brazilian and Surinam Tree- 

 Frogs 310 



CHAPTER XXV. 



TORTOISES AND TURTLES. 



The Galapagos— The Elephantine Tortoise— The Marsh-Tortoises — Mantega — 

 River-Tortoises — Marine-Turtles — On the Brazilian Coast — Their Numerous 

 Enemies — The Island of Ascension — Turtle-Catching at the Bahama and 

 Keeling Islands — Turtle caught by means of the Sucking-Fish — The Green 

 Tvirtle — The Hawksbill Turtle — Turtle Scaling in the Feejee Islands— Barbarous 

 mode of selling Turtle-flesh in Ceylon — The Coriaceous Turtle — Its awful 

 Shrieks 321 



