INDEX. 



549 



MUS 



Musa sapientiim, 167 



— tfxtilis, 169 

 Miibacese, the, 167, 169 



— various uses of, 169 



Musk-deer on the slopes of the Sikkim 



mountains, 84 

 Mutasen, the Caliph El, story of, 111 

 Mygales, or trap-door spiders, 218 

 Myrtus pimenta, 20S " 



NAJA Haje of Egypt, 30a 

 Narmiqua country, reason why- 

 droughts- are prevalent in the, 86 

 Nfgro, Rio, a tributary of the Amazons, 

 37 



cause of its name, 39 



Negroes, causes of the inferiority of 

 their civilisation, 518 



— natural capabilities of the negroes, 



519 



— difficulty arising from the geographi- 



cal position of Africa, 520 



— and from the political position of 



it, 521 



— Mahometanism and fetissism, 523 



— their diseases attributed by the 



fetissist to ' possession,' 525 



— their belief in sorcery, 525 



— their chief religious observances, 



526 



— human sacrifices in Ashantee and' 



Dahomey, 526, 527. 



— provision for the wants of the dead, 



527 



— painting or tattooing: the body, 528 



— the disfigurement of the pelele, 528 



■ — authority of the priest, conjuror, or 

 m.edicine man among them, 529 



— offerings to the sea at Bonny, 530 



— idleness of the negroes,. 531 



— style of saltation, in East Africa, 



532 



— African slay«ry,.and a slave-hunting 



expedition, 533 



— a slave caravan at Ghartum, 534 



— belief of, respecting death,. 74 

 Nelumbias of the tropics,. 137 

 Nepenthes, the,, of the Eastr Indian 



forests, 12 

 NocUly bird (Sterna stolida), its attacks 



on the cocoa-nut tree, 1.49 

 Nopal (Cactus opuntia), the,, of the 



shores of the Mediterranean, 134 

 Nutmegs, cultivation of, confined by the 

 Dutch to Banda, Lonthoir,' and 

 Pulo Aij, 199, 200 



— their present extended range, in 



Sumatra. Mauritius, B<)urbon, adid 

 Ceylon, 201 



— description of the tree, 2i)l 



PAC 



Nutmegs, mode of cultivation, 202 

 Nyctopitheci, or nocturnal monkeys, 51 4 

 Nylghau, the (A. picta), 412 

 Nymphaeas of the tropics, 137 



OBYDOS, Strait of, 37 

 Ocelot (Feiis pardalis), the, 463 

 Odontolabris Cuvera, of China, 205, 



206 

 CEnocarpus disticha, oil of the, 159 

 (Estrus hominis, 225 

 Oil made from palm trees of West 

 Africa, 157, 158 



— of the Corozo palm, 159 



— of the (Enocarpus distichn-, 160 

 Opossum of the sand-coast of Peru, 34 

 Orchids, flowering, of the slopes o: 



Sikkim, 83 

 Orellana, Francis, his voyage and 



treacheryto Pizarro, on the Amazons 



51 

 Organist bird (Troglodytes leueophrys), 

 356 



— his song, 356 



Oricou,. or sociable vulture (Vultur 



auricularis), 38^1 

 Origma rubricata, 370 \ 

 Orinoco river, ST 

 Oriolus varius, 352 



— nest of the, 353 



Orotava, in Teneriffe, gigantic dragon 



tree near. 123 

 Oscollo (Felis celigaster), the, 463 

 Ostrich, its endurance of thirst, 75 



— mode of hunting it, 368 



— its speed, 385 



— mode of catching it,. 386 



— its stratagem' for protecting its 



young, 386 



— its enemies,. 386' 



— its young, 387 



— its resemblance to the camel, 387 



— its voracity, 388 



— its feathers, 388 



— domesticated in Algeria, 388 



— analogies between the giraffe and 



ostrich, 408 



— an Arab Legend respecting it, 389, 



390 

 Ottoraaca» Indians, 70 



— become 'dirt-eaters,' 71 



— the country they inhabit, 71 

 Ouij*titis, or squirrel monkeys, 515 

 Owl, burrowing (Athene cunicularia), of 



the Peruvian sand-coast, 34 



— the pearl, of the same region, 34 



PACIFIC Ocean, limits of the trade- 

 winds in the, 4 



