540 



INDEX. 



CHA 



Chamserops humilis, of Nizza, 160 

 Chameleon, the, 313 



— its habitat, 313 



— its manner of hunting for its food, 



313 



— peculiarities of its organisation, 



314 

 Chancay, sand-hills of, 35 

 Cheetah, or hunting leopard, 446 

 Chegoe, Pique, or Jigger, of the West 



Indies (Pulex penetrans), 225 



— its mode of working, 225 



— - native method of extirpating it, 225 

 Chelonia imbricata, 329, 331 



— midas, 329 



— caouana, 331 

 Chelonians, 321 



Chimpanzee, the (Simia troglodytes), 

 499 



— cbim in Paris, 499 

 Chincha, or Guano Islands, 35 

 Chinchilla lanigera, the, of the high 



table-lands of Peru, 27 



its appearance and habits, 27 



Chirimova(Anona tripetala), a Peruvian 



fruit, "172 

 Choco of Chili, 160 

 Chocolate, 183 

 Chuiiu, or chaps, caused by the biting 



winds of the Puna, 21 

 Cicadae, or frog-hoppers, eaten by man, 



252 

 Cilgero bird of Cuba, his song, 356 

 Cinnamon plant, 198 



— gardens of Ceylon, 198 



— immense profits of the Dutch, 198 



— decline of the trade, 198 



— mode of cultivating the plant and 



procuring the rind, 199 



— the Ceylon chalias, 198 

 Ck'opatra, her death, 300 



Climates, diversity of, within the 

 tropics, 1 



— causes by which the diversity of, is 



produced, 2 



— varieties of the tropiail, 3 



— climate of the Llanos of Venezuela 



and New Granada, 1 1 



— of the Puna or high table-lands of 



Peru and Bolivia, 20 

 Cloves, history of the cruel monopoly 

 of the Dutch in, 200 



— clove- tree groves, 201 



Coary river, a tributary of the Amazons, 



37 

 Coatimondi, the, 499 

 Cobra di Capello, the, 298, 299 



— tamed by the Indian jugglers, 299 

 •— its habitat, 300 



• — its sea voyages, 300 



Coc^ (Erythroxylon coca), 184 



COF 



Coca, its immense corsumption in Peru 

 and Bolivia, 184 



— mode of preparing it by the Indians, 



185 



— its wonderfully strengthening effects, 



186 



— use of, in ascending mountains, 186 



— fatal consequences of its abuse, 



18 5 



— the coquero, or confirmed coca- 



chewer, 186 

 i — divine honours paid to the shrub by 

 the Peruvians, 187 



— its use interdicted by the Spanish 



conquerors, but finally allowed 

 and encouraged, 187 



— its remarkable properties long re- 



mained -unnoticed, 187 

 Cocci, the cochineal coccus of Mexico, 



249, 250 

 Coccus cacti, 250 



— hesperidum of Mexico, 249 



— lacca, or lac-insect, 249, 251 



— of the coffee tree, 182 



Cochineal insect, exportation of, forbid- 

 den by the Spaniards in Mexico, 

 250 



introduced into the Canary 



Islands, Spain, and other places, 

 251 



cultivation of the, 250 



history of cochineal, 250 



Cock of the Rock of Guiana (Rupicola 



aurantia), 351 

 Cockatoo, the, 396 



— the great white, 396 



— the bhick of Australia, 396 



— cockatoo-killing in Australia, 396 

 Cockroaches (Blatta), tropical plague 



of, introduced into England, 233 



— the giant cockroach of the tropics 



(Blatta gigantea), '233 



— encounter between a spider and a 



cockroach, 218 

 Cocoa-nut tree (Cocos nucifera), the 

 146 



— its abuiudance in Ceylon, 146 



its many uses to man, 147 



cocoa-nut oil and the oil 



trade, 148 



toddy made from the, 148 



timber of the, 148, 149 



cultivation of the, 1 49 



enemies of the, 149 



Cocos nucifera, the, 146. See Cocoa- 

 nut tree 



— butyracea, or oil palm-tree of West 



Africa, 158 

 Cocujas beetle of South America, its 



luminous qualities, 210 

 Coffee, original home of the plant, 178 



