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CAC 



Cactuses did not exist in the Old World 

 previous to the discovery of 

 America, 134 



— ranf^e of their growth, 134 



— of Peru and Bolivia, 134 



— of the Puna, 134 

 Cfjesf-lpina crista, 195 



Cafta and Enarea, the original home of 



the coffee plant, 178 

 Calabar, ISew and Old, palm-oil trade 



of, 146 

 Calao, or rhinoceros horn-bill (Buceros 



rhinoceros), 358 

 Calcutta, heavj fall of rain in, 18 

 Californian firs, size of the, 159 

 Calms, zone of, 6 



— intense heat of tlie, 6 



• — heavy afternoon rains of the, 6 

 Camel, its resemblance to the ostrich, 

 387 



— the dromedary the ship of the 



desert, 399 



— adaptation of its organisation to its 



mode of life, 400 



— Bedouin mode of training it, 400 



— the Bactrian camel, 401 



— immemorial slavery of the camel, 



401 



— its unamiable character, 402 

 Camelopard. See Giraffe 

 Campanero, or bell-bird, 350 

 Canary Islands, gigantic dragon-trees 



-of the, 123 



Canis Ingge of the Punas, 28 

 Caoutchouc tree (Siphonia elastica), 

 Indians incising some of them, 

 188 



description of the tree, 190 



introduction of caoutchouc into 



Europe, 190 



mode of collecting the resin, 190 



other trees yielding caoutchouc, 



191 



various uses of India-rubber, 191 



Caouana,or loggerhead turtle (Chelonia 



eaouana), 331 

 Capybara, or water-pig, eaten by the 



alligator, 333 

 Caribs, 76 

 Caracara eagle (Polyborus caraeara), 



his station, 246 

 Cardinal bird of Mexico, 80 

 Carinaria vitrea, the, 274 

 Carnauba palm (Corypha cerifera),wax 

 obtained from the, 158 



other uses of the tree, 158 



Caroa (Bromelia variegata), fishi no- 

 nets made frum the fibres of the, 132 

 Caroline Islanders, ^89 

 Cassava, or Mandioca root (Jatropha 

 Manihot), how prepared as food, 169 



CHA 



Cassava, the sweet cassava (Jatropha 



janipha), 170 

 Cassicus cristatus. 354 



— ruber, 354 



— persicus, 354 

 Cassiques, the, 354 



— their pendulous nests, 354 

 Cassowary, the galeated (Casuarins 



galeatus), 390, 391 

 Caterpillars, eaten by man in Africa, 

 251 



— their means of defence, 209 

 Cayman. See Alligator 

 Cecropias, of the Amazons river, 45 

 Ceiba (Bombax ceiba), the, of the 



forests of Yucatan, 128 



Cephalopods. gigantic, 274 



Cerastes, or horned viper, of the Egyp- 

 tian jugglers, 301 



Cercopitheci. their chai'acteri sties, 505 



— parental affection of one, 507 

 Ceroxylon andicola, wax obtained from 



the, 159 



— height at which it will grow, 159, 

 160 



Ceylon, abundance of the cocoa-nut 

 tree in, 146, 147 



— its love of the sea, 146 



— the tree, and its fruit and flowers, 



147 



— cocoa-nut oil trade of, 148 



— coir of the, 148 



— palmyra toddy of, 148 



— wood of the cocoa-nut tree, uses f(^r 



it, 149 



— enemies of the, 149 



— cultivation of rice in, 164 



— the coffee cultivation of, 180 



— cinnamon gardens of, 198 



taken by the Dutch, who save 



the plants, 198 



— former profits of the Dutch, 198 



— dimensions of the atlas moth of, 



207 



— Mr. Stewart's plantation at Ceylon, 



199 



— nutmegs of, 202 



— snakes of, 209 



— comparative rareness of venomous 



snakes in, 209 



— the rat-snake and cobra domesticated 



in, 308 



— barbarous mode of selling turth'- 



flesh in, 330 



— birds of, 374 



— elephants of. 440 



— elephant-catchers of, 440 

 Chacma. or pig-faced baboon (Cynoce- 



phalus porcarius), 510 

 Chalias, the, of Ceylon, and their supply 

 of cinnamon, liS 



