548 



INDEX. 



MAN 



Mangrove tree, itg peculiarities of growth 

 and adaptation to its site, 140 



its importance in furthering the 



growth of land, 140, 141 



animal life in the mangrore 



forests, 141-143 



Manis pentadactyla, 482, 485 



Mantichora mygaloides, 205 



Mantis, or soothsayer, its habits, 208, 

 209 



— names by which it is known, 209 

 Mantides, 208 



Mantis religiosa, 209 

 Maquiritani Indians, 70 

 Marajo Island, size of the, 38 

 Maranon river. See Amazon* 

 Marantea arundinacea, arrowroot mad« 



from the, 170 

 Marinionda, the (Ateles Belzebub), 513 

 Mauritia palm, 18, 19 

 irs importance to the South 



American Indian, 19 

 Mauritius, tornado in, 9 



— cultivation of nutmegs in, 201 

 Maysunah, song of, 109 



Medanos, or sand hillocks, of the coast 



of Peru, 32 

 Mediterranean, the Cactus Opuntia of 



the, 134 

 Melocacti, the pulp of the, 134 

 Menura, or lyre-bird, 362 

 Menzaleh, Lake, flamingoes caught in 



nets on the banks of, 361 

 Mesembryanthemum, its admirable 

 adaptation to the deserts of Africa, 

 87 



— various kinds of, 87 



Mexico, Gulf of, influence of the 

 heated plains of, in deflecting the 

 trade-winds, 8 

 . — geological formation of, 79 

 >^ — the tierra callente, or lowlands of, 

 80 



— vegetable and animal life of, 81 



— the tierra templada, 81 



— the tierra /ria, 82 



— the Agave Americana of, 132 



— the pulque of, 132 



— cultivation of vanilla in, 184 



— the honey ant of, 240 



Millet (Sorghum vulgare), cultivation of, 



166 

 Mimosas of the tropics, their beauty, | 



134 " j 



Minkokas of Celebes, customs of the, ! 



263 ! 



Mirage in the llanos in the dry season, j 

 13 • I 



-Hr causes of the, 13 

 Miriki monkey (Ateles hypoxanthus) of 



Brazil, 67 



MUS 



Mocking-bird of Mexico (Cassicus per- 



sicus), 354 

 Mokuri plant, its importance to the in- 

 habitants of the Kalahari, 87 

 Molluscs of the tropics, 274 

 Mongoos, or ichneumon, 304. 305 

 Monitor-lizard (Tejus monitor), 102, 



315 

 Monkey-bread tree. Sec Baobal) 

 Monkeys and apes of the primitive 

 forests, 496 



— their destruction of the sugar-cano, 



176 



— of the Old World, 496 



— their climbing powers, 497 



— bad pedestrians, 497 



— contrasted and compared with man, 



498 



— the chimpanzee, 499 



— the gorilla, 500-502 



— the uran, or wild man of the woods, 



502 



— gibbons, 503 



— the semnopitheci, 504 



— the proboscis monkey, 504 



— the huniman, 504 



— the wanderoos of Ceylon, 505 



— the colobi and cercopitheci, 505 



— the magots of Gibraltar, 508 



— the baboon, 508, 509 



— the maimon, 509 



— the mandrill and drill, 509 



— - wide difference between the mo^ke3^s 



of the New and Old AYorld. 511 



— the aluate, or howling monkey, 



512 



— the spider monkey, 512, 513 



— sakis, or fox-tailed monkeys, 513 

 Monsoon, the north-east, 17 



— the south-west, 8 



— eflfects of the sea monsoon on t'lo 



oi'di nary course of the trade-winds, 



8 

 Montgomery, Mr., his introduction of 



gutta percha into Europe, 191 

 Mora excelsa of the forests of Guiana, 



description of the, 1 29 



— nest of the toucan in the, 129 

 Mormolyce, the Javanese, 210 

 M(^untain-taro, its habitat, 171 

 Mosquitoes, 222 



— of the Amazons, 45 



— ferocious, of the river Seuza. 222 



— and of tropical America, 222 



— migration of, 224 

 Moth, Atlas, of Ceylon, 207 



Mule, the ' ship of the desert ' in Peru, 



31 

 Mulgrave Archipelago, importance of 



the screw pine of the, 133 

 Musa paradisaica, 167 



