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INDEX. 



AMA 



Amazons, the roracioiis pirangas, 45 



mosquitoes of the, 45 



beds of aquatic grass on the. 



45 



birds on the, 46 



insects of the, 46 



storms on the river, 47 



rapids and whirlpool, 47 



the Amazons regarded as the 



stream of the future, 49 

 discovery of the Amazons by 



Vincent Yanez Pinson, 50 

 adventures of Pizarro and 



Madame Godin on the, 50- 



52 

 primitive forests of the banks 



of the Amazons, 53 



■ the mosquito plagues of, 222 



orange-red colouring matter 



used by the Indians of the, 



195 

 America, growth of cotton in, 189, 190 



— insect plagues of, 221 



— snakes of the United States of, 316 



— South, inflxieuce of the MaraSon on 



the climate of the, 5 



— Central, deflections from the ordi- 



nary course of the trade-winds 

 in, 8 



— savannahs of, 12 



— A savannah on fire, 14 



— cultivation of maize in, 165 



— primitive forests of, 54 

 Amsterdam, a spice-fire in, 200 

 Anaconda, ex water-boa (Eunectes mu- 



rinus), 301 

 Anarajapoora, sacred Bo tree of, 127 

 Anderson,, Mr., his adventure with a 

 rhinoceros, 428 



— and with a lion, 449 

 Angola, red ant of, 235 

 Anolis, the, 310, 312 



— battles of the, 312 



— faculty of changing colour, 313 

 Anomaluri, the, of the west coast of 



Africa, 495 

 Ant-eaters, 482 

 • — the great ant-bear, 482 



— his mode of licking up termites, 483 



— his characteristics, 483 



— Indian mode of killing him, 484 



— the manides, or pangolins, 485 



— the Aard-varks, or orycteropi, 486 



— the porcupine ant-eater, 488 

 Antelopes of So^jth Africa, 408 



— cervicapra, 412 



Antonio Julian, Don, regrets that the 

 use of coca had not been introduced 

 into Europe, 187 



Ants, their ravages in sugar plantations, 

 177 



ASP 



Ants, vast numbers of, in tropical coun- 

 tries, 234 



— excruciating pain caused by the bite 



of the Ponera clavata. 235 



— the red ant of Angola, 235 



— the sugar ants, 236 



— house ants, 237 



— driver or foraging ants, 238 



— societies of ants, 239 



— fiingus ants, 239 



— Formica bispinosa, 239 



— ant-hills, 240 



— sagacity of ants, 240 



— slave-making expeditions of some 



kinds of ants, 240 



— the honey ant ©•f Mexico, 240 



— termites, or white ants, 241. &ee 



Tei-mites 



— black ants, 246 



— wars between black and white ants, 



246 

 Apes, anthropomorphous, compared and 



contrasted with man, 49 & 

 Arabia, coffee first introduced into, 

 178 



— mode of cultivating coffee in, 179 

 Arabic tongue, delicacy of the» 118 

 Arandi (Bombyx Cynthia), soft threads 



spun by the, 249 

 Aranese of the tropics, 211 

 Aras of America (Macrocerus Macao), 



the, 398 

 Arauoa, Rio, mosqiaitces of, 233 

 Archipelago, the Eastern, bamboos of 



ISO 

 screw pine of the, 133 



— the Mulgrave, importance of the 



screw pine to the inhabitants 



of, 133 

 Areea palm (Areca Catechu), the. 151, 



162 

 Singhalese habit of chewiHg the 



nuts with linjfeand b&tel-pepper 



leaves, 151 

 Areca sapida of New Zealand, 160 

 Armadillos, the, 487 



— of the sand-coast of Peni, 34 



— genera of the Armadillos, 487 

 Arnatto (Bixa orellana), msed as a dvf, 



195 

 Arnee (Bubalns arnee), 413 



— uses of, 196 



Arrack made from the cocoa-nut tre<?, 



148 

 Arrowroot, from what obtained, 1 70 



— mode of obtaining it, 170, 171 

 Artocarpus incisa, or bread-fruit tree, 



166 

 Ascension, turtles of the island of, 328 

 Ashantee, human sacrifices at, 52G 

 Asp of ancient authors, 300 



