INDEX. 



545 



HUN 



Huniman, the (Semnopitliecus entellus), 



504 

 Hurricanes, 9 

 Hyaena, the, 463 



— hunting, 463, 464 



— varieties of the, 465 



Hyphsene coriacea of Port Natal, 160 



— Thebaica, or doum palm, 157 



TBISES, 357 



1 — of Egypt, 361 



19a river, a tributary of the Amazons, 37 



Icebergs, wanderings of, 266 



Ichneumon, or mongoos, his destruction 



of venomous serpents, 304, 305 

 Icosandra Gutta, furnishes the gutta 



percha of commerce, 191 

 Iguana tuberculata, 314 

 Illanuns of Mindanao, 256 

 India, bamboos of, 130 



— the indigo of, 192, 193 



India-rubber tree (Ficus elastica), singu- 

 lar formation of the roots of the, 139. 

 See Caoutchouc 



Indian forests, the Nepenthes of the, 12 

 Indians, wild, of tropical America, 62 



— Botocudo Indians attacking a jaguar, 



62 



— physical conformation and moral 



characteristics of the Indians of 

 tropical America, 63, 64 



— their powers of endurance, 63 



— their stoical indifference and taci- 



turnity, 65 



— their means of subsistence, 65 



— not permitted to marry till they 



prove their ability in the chase, 67 



— their clothing, 68 



— their painting, tattooing, and reli- 



gion, 69 



— the moon as the abode of abundance, 



69 



— the Botuto, or holy trumpet, 70 



— the Indians of Brazil and Guiana, 70 



— vindictive ferocity of theOttomachas, 



71 



— the extinct tribes of the Atures, 72 



— dwellings of the Indians, 73 



— tattooing, 74 



— horrid custom of disinterment, 74 



— the Purupurusand their skin disease, 



75 



— their palhetas, 75 



— the Mandrucus and Parentintins, 76 



— the Caribs and Botocudos, 76, 77 



— work of the women in their migra- 



tions, 78 



— the evil spirit Tanchon, 78 



— similarity of the North American 



Indians to the Bedouin Arabs, 119 



JAG 



Indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria), 

 Bengalese cutting the plant, 

 192, 193 



mode of cultivation, 192 



and of preparing the colour, 193 



Insects, tropical, size of the, 205 



— of the Sikkim mountains, 84 



— of the tropical world, 205 



— insect plagues, 221 



— the universal dominion of, 22 1 



— mosquitoes, 222 



— the (Estrus hominis, 225 



— the chegoe, pique, or jigger, 225 



— Filaria medinensis, 226 



— the bete rouge, 227 



— blood-sucking ticks, 227 



— land-leeches of Ceylon, 228 



— the tsetse-fly, 229 



— the Tsalt-salya, or zimb. 230 



— the Soudan fly, 230 



— the locust, 231 



— cockroaches, 233 



— tropical insects directly useful to 



man, 234 



— ants of the tropics, 234 



— silk-worms, 249 



— cochineal, 250, 251 . 



— the gum-lac insect, 251 



— eaten by man, 251 



— worn as ornaments, 252 



— similarity of some to the soil or ob- 



ject on which they are found ; the 

 walking-leaf and walking-stick in- 

 sects, 208 



— luminous, 210 



— ants and termites, 234, 241 



— spiders and scorpions, 211, 218 

 Island of Ascension, 328 



— Banda, 199, 200 



— Ceylon, 146 



— Madeira, 123 

 Islands : — 



— Bahamas, 328 



— Coral, 266, 275 



— Feejee, 329 



— Galapagos or Tortoise, 321 



— Keehng, 329 



— Kingsmill, 6 



— Sandwich, 281 



— Tortoise or Galapagos, 321 



JACANA (Parra jacana), the, or 

 surgeon -bird, 358 

 Jackal, the, of the Sahara, 456 

 Jagua Palm, elegance of the, 160 

 Jaguar (Gueparda jubata, gutrata), 4.'8 



— his habits in the impenetrable forests 



of South America, 459 



— his boldness, 458 



— hunting. 459 



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