642 



INDEX. 



DEM 



Demerara, the goat-sucker of, 355 

 Demoiselle, or Numidian crane (Grus 

 virgo), 362 



— the crowned, 362 



Derryas,the (Cynocephalus haraadryas), 



formerly regarded with divine 



honours, 510 

 Desert, the ship of the. See Camel 

 Dew, causes of, 5 

 Diactor bilineatus, 209 

 Diamond-beetle (Entimus nobilis), used 



as an ornament, 252 

 Diana monkey (Cercopitheeus diana), 



506 

 Diodon, the, 272 

 Dioscorese, habitat of the, 170 

 Diseases to which the traveller is liable 



in the Punas, or hiech table- lands of 



Peru and Bolivia. 22 

 Dogs, half wild (Cauis Ingae), of the 

 Punas, 28 



— eaten by the Polynesians, 281 

 Dolphins, 271 



Doum-palm (Hyphaene thebaica), 157 



— used for the preparation of sherbet, 



157 

 Douw, or Burchell's zebra, 415 

 Dracaenas, or dragon-trees, 123 



— gigantic ones of the Canary Islands, 



Madeira, and Porto Santo, 123 



— celebrated specimen at Orotava, in 



Teneiiffe, 123 



Dragons, flying, 317 



Dragon-trees. See Dracaenas 



Dromedary. See Camel 



Drummer cockroach (Blatta gigantea), 

 233 



Du Chaillu, M., his description of the 

 gorilla, 501 



Duck (Chenalobex jubata) of the Ama- 

 zons, 46 



Duiker (Cephalopus mergens), the, of 

 South Africa, 88, 410 



Durian of the Indian Archipelago, 145 



Durissus (Crotalus durissus), 298 



Dutch, their progress in the Indian 

 Ocean and cruel monopolies, 200 



— their cultivation of nutmegs and 



cloves, 199-202 

 Dyaks of Borneo, 263 

 Dyes, tropical vegetable, 192 



— indigo, 192, 193 



— logwood, 193 



— Brazil wood, 195 



— arnatto, 195 



I^AGLE, the harpy, ,'^80 

 ij — his habitat, 380 

 — his ferocity, 381 



FEL 



Eagle, the fishino:, of Africa (Halia-tus 



vocifer), 382 

 Earth-hogs of the Cnpe, 488 

 Echidna, the, or porcupine ant-eater, 



488 

 Eehinocacti, the, 133 

 Eehinocactus nana, or dwarf-cacti;s, 133 



— visnaga, its immense size, 133 

 Elaeis gumeensis, or oil palm-tree of 



West Africa, 158 

 Elands (Boselaphus oreas) of South 



Africa, 88, 409 

 Electrical eel (Gymnotus electricus), 1 7 



Indian modeof Ciipturing them, 17 



Elephant, plague of the Soudan fly to 

 the, 231 



— his love of solitude, 431 



— his senses of smell and of hearing, 432 



— his mode of ascending and descend- 



ing abrupt banks, 432 



— his stomach, 433 



— his trunk, 433 



— uses of his tusks, 433 



— his discipline, 434 



— his sagacity and devotion, 434 



— rogues, 435 



— value of the elephant to man, 435 



— species of the, 435 



— wide range of the African elephant, 



435 



— mode of hunting him in various 



countries, 435 



— ivo2*y of the African elephant, 43G, 



439 



— cutting up by a negro tribe, 437 



— escape of Mr. Oswell, 438 



— the Asiatic, 439 



— catchers, of Ceylon, 440 



— corrals, 441-443 



Emu of Australia (Dromaius Novae Hol- 



landiae), 391 

 Enarea and Caffa, the original home of 



the coffee plant, 178 

 Entomo phila picta, 370 



— albogularis, 370 

 Esmeralda, mosquitoes of, 233 

 Eucalypti of Australia, size of the. 159 

 Euphorbia arborescens of Africa, 122 

 Exocoetus volitans, 271 



Eyes, acute inflammation of the, in the 

 Puna, 21 



FALCON (Falco sparverius) of the 

 Peruvian sand-coast, 34, 246 

 Fan palms, crown of the, 161 

 Feejee Islands, verdure of, 6 



barbarous mode of treating turtles 



in the, 329 

 Felidae of the tropical forests, 446 

 — of the Old World, 446 



