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INDEX. 



BEE 



Beetles of the Amazons, 46 



— of the tropical forests, 46 



— edible, of the Oreodoxa oleracea, 159 



— peculiarity of beetle-life in the torrid 



zone, 206 



— the Hercules beetle (Megasomina 



Hercules), 206 



— Goliath, of the tropics, 206 



— the Groliaths of the coast of Gruinea, 



206 



— luminous beetles, 210 



cocujas of South America, 210 



Begus, or evil spirits, of the Malays, 260 



Behemoth of the Bible, 417 



Bell-bird, or campanero, 350 



Bengal, indigo of, 192, 193 



Berbice river, the Victoria Eegia dis- 

 covered in the, 137 



Bete rouge, the, of Guiana and the 

 West Indies, 227 



Bhain (Babalus Bhain), 414 



Biledulgerid, or oases south of the 

 Atlas, toddy drunk in, 155 



Birds of the Puna, or high table-lauds 

 of tropical America, 28, 34 



— of the tropical soas, 267, 268 



— of prey of the tropics, 376 

 Birds'-nests, edible, 269 

 Black ants, 246 



Blast, a sugar-cane disease, 177 

 Blattse, 233 



Blatta gigantea, or the drummer, 233 

 Bo tree, or pippul, of India (Ficus 



religiosa), 126 

 antiquity of one at Anarajapoora, 



in Ceylon, 126 

 veneration of the Buddhists for 



it, 127 

 union of the Bo tree with the 



Palmyra palm, 137 

 Boa constrictor, 301 



his habitat, 301 



the water, 301 



■ his habitat, 302 



Boaquira (Crotalus liorridus), 298 

 Bogota, perennial rainy seasons of, 6 

 ]]ombax Ceiba, 139 

 Bombay, heavy fall of rain at, 8 

 Bombyx cjmthia, 249 



— mori, 249 



— mylitta, 249 



Bonny, mode of providing for the wants 

 of the dead at, 527 



— the town of, 529, 530 

 Boomerang of the Australian savage, 



476 

 Botocudo Indians, 62 

 Botocudos Indians, 77 

 Bottle tree of tropical Australia, 139 

 Botuto, or holy trumpet, of the South 



American Indians, 70 



CAC 



Bourbon, nutmegs of, 201 



Bow Island. See Hau 



Brazil, impenetrable forests of, 55^ 



— sensitive plants of, 135 



— the bushropos or lianas of, 135 



— immense number of beetles found 



in, 210 



— the bush-master of, 297 



— the giant-toad of, 320 



— tree-frog of, 320 



— birds of, 347 



— humming birds of, 347 



— wood (Csesalpina crista), description 



of the tree producing, 195 

 Brazilian nut (Berth oil etia), 145 

 Bread-fruit tree (Artocarpus incisa) of 

 Polynesia, 166 



the harvest, 166 



the SOUP paste, 167 



Bromelids, American, 132 



— uses of the, 132 



Buddhists, their veneration for the 

 sacred Bo tree at Anarajapoora, 127 

 Buffalo, the African (Bubalus Caftcr), 

 his guardian bird, 442 



— ferocity of the, 413 

 Buffalo-thorn (Acacia latronum), thorns 



of the, 144 

 Buffaloes, ferocity of the male solitaires 



of the, 413 

 Bnlls, wild, of the Puna mountain 



valleys, 28 

 Buprestis gigas, elytra of the, worn as 



an ornament, 252 

 Bushmen, African, 88 



— their habitat, 88 



— their weapons, 89 



— their treatment of the Bakalahari, 92 

 Bush-master snake (Lachesis rhom- 



beata), 297 

 Bushropes, or lianas, of tropical vege- 

 tation, 135 



CABBAGE-PALM of the Antilles 

 (Oreodoxa oleracea), its magni- 

 ficence, 159 



grub of the, 159 



Cabeza di Negro (Phytelephas), hard 



white nuts of the, 160 

 Cacao tree (Cacao theobroma), 182 



origin of the name of theobroma, 



182 



indigenous in Mexico, 182 



Humboldt's description of a cacao 



plantation, 182 



mode of cultivation, 183 



management of the beans, 183 



used in the form of cliocolate, 1 83 



Cactuses, description of the, 133 

 — their usefulness to man, 133 



