IXDSX. 



541 



COF 



Coffee, the use of, introduced into Ara- 

 bia, 178 



— history of coffee-drinking, 179 



— the first coffee-houses in London and 



Paris, 179 



— present state of coffee production 



throughout the world, 179, 180 



— Brazil, Java, Ceylon, Hayti, and 



Venezuela, 180 



— Mocha coffee, its quality, 180 



— mode of cultivation of the coffee- 



tree, 180 



— coffee plantations, 180 



— felling trees for coffee plantations 



in Ceylon, 181 



— enemies of the coffee-tree, 180 

 Coir, or cocoa-nut fibre, uses to which 



it is applied, 148 

 Colobi, the African, 505 

 Colombo, cinnamon gardens of, 198 

 Condamine, M. La, his voyage from 

 Brancamoros to Para, 52 



— introduces caoutchouc into Europe, 



190 

 Condor, the, of the high table-lands of 

 tropical America, 28, 377 



— his marvellous flight, 377 



— his food, 377 



— modes of capturing him, 377, 378 



— compared with the albatross, 378 

 Coniferse of the slopes of the Sikkim 



mountains, 83 

 Copris hamadryas, size of the, 205, 206 

 Convolvulus batatas, or sweet potato, 170 

 Coot, the gigantic (Fulica gigantea), of 



tropical America, 28 

 Coppersmith bird of Ceylon (Megalasara 



Indica), 373 

 Coral islands, 266 



— formation of, 275 



— dreary monotony of a coral islander's 



life, 289 



Coral-snake (Elaps corallinus), domes- 

 ticated in Brazil, 308 



Coriaceous turtle (Sphargis coriacea), 

 330 



Corozo palm (Eloeis oleifera), oil of the, 

 159 



Corribory of the Australians, 469 



Cotingas, the, 350 



Cotton, 189 



— cultivation of, 1 89 



— amazing rise of the cotton manufac- 



ture, 



— the cotton harvest, 1 90 



— the cotton trade of India, present 



and prospective, 190 et seq. 

 Couguar, or puma, the, 462 



— shown by the Peruvian Indians, 463 

 Counacutchi, or bush -master snake 



(Lachesis rhombeata), 297 



DEL 



Crab, land, 272, 273 



— their burrows, 273 



— their mode of defence, 274 

 Crabs, fighting, 274 



— injuries done bv, to the sugar-cane, 



177 



— short-tailed, 272 



— of the tropical seas, 272 



Crauata de rede (Bromelia sagenaria), 

 cordage made from the, 132 



Cray-fish, 272 



Creeping plants, their importance in 

 the deserts of South Africa, 64 



Crocodiles of the banks of the 

 Amazons, 45 



— their torpidity, 332, 340 



— food of the, 338 



— their friend, the Hyas ^gyptiacus, 



339 



— fables as to the ichneumon, 339 



— their power of fascinating their 



prey, 340 



— their wanderings, 340 



— anecdote of one in Ceylon, 341 



— their habitat, 337 

 Crotalus horridus, 298 



— durissus, 298 

 Crustaceans of the tropics, 272 



— decapod, 272 



Cucurito palm, splendour of the, 161 

 Cynocephali, 509 

 Cynocephalus porcarius, 510 



— spliinx, 510 

 Cyprsea aurora, 274 



DAHOMEY, human sacrifices at, 

 526 

 Damara Land, reason why droughts 



are prevalent in, 86 

 Dampier, the bread-fruit first mentioned 

 by, 167 



— his account of logwood-cutting and 



logwood-cutters, 194, 195 



— his love for the free life of wood- 



cutters, 195 



— attacked by a Guinea worm, 250 

 Date-palm (PhcRuix dactylifera). 151 



range of its cultivation, 155 



introduced into Spain and Italy, 



155 



mode of propagation, 155 



sanctity of the tree, 155 



toddy of the, 155 



varieties of dates, 156 



Decomposition arrested by sand and the 



winds of the Punas, 25 

 Delabechea, or bottlc-treo, of tropical 



Axistralia, 138, 139 

 Delebl palms of Kordofan, 158 



