550 



INDEX. 



PAC 



Pacific Ocean, causes. of the distribution 

 of rain on the Pacific off 

 Central America, 8 



violent tropical storms of, 9 



Palhetas of the Purupurus, 75 



Pallah (Antilope melampus), always 



Toiind neKr water, 88 

 Palm-martin (Paradoxus typus or Pou- 

 gouni), its fondness for cocoa-nuts, 

 147 



— stalks of, used as arrows, 67 

 Palm-squirrel (Sciurus palmarum), its 



fondness for coeoa-nut«, 149 

 Palm trees, 146 



— the cocoa-nut tree, 146 

 -7- the sago palm, 150 



— the saguer or gomuti, 150 

 ■ — the arcca palm, lol 



. — the palmyra palm, 151 



— the talpot or talipot palm, 153 



— cocoa de mer, 153 



— date palms, 154 



— doum palms, 157 



— oil pahus, 157, 158 



— the Curnauba (Corypha cerifera), 158 



— the Ceroxylon andicola, 159 



— the cabbage palm, 159 



— the corozo, 159 



— the pirijao and pia9ava palms, 160 



— eabeza di negro, 160 



— different physiognomy ofpalms accor- 



ding to tli-eir heights, 160 



— position and form of their fronds, 



160 

 Palma Real of the Havana, beauty of 



the, 161 

 Palmyra palm (Borassnsflabelliformis), 



extent of its range, 151 

 its uses to man, 151, 152 



— treatment of the toddy-drawer, 152 

 Pangolin, the Indian (Manis penta- 



dactyla), 482, 485 

 Panther, the, 457 

 Pao Barrigudo (Chorisia -ventricosa), 



singular shape of the, 134 

 Paper, Chinese, material of which it is 

 made, 131 



— made from the talipot'tree of Ceylon, 



153 

 Papuans, their dwelling-places, 276 



— their physical and moral charac- 



teristics, 276, 277 



— compared with the Malays, 277 



— their food and clothing, 277, 278 



— their immense houses in New Guinea, 



,278 



— their political institutions, 279 



— their agriculture and weapons, 279 



— their mode of fighting, 279 



— future prospects of the race, 280 ! 

 Para, perennial rainy season of, 6 j 



PHY 



Para, population of, 49 

 Paradise, great bird of (P. apoda), 3G3, 

 364 



— fables respecting, 364 

 Paradoxus typus or Pougouni, 134 

 Paraguay, constant east winds of, 5 

 Parentintin Indians, 76 

 Paroquets, or parakeets, 398 



— ring and green, 398 



Parrots of the Peruvian sand-coas*s, 

 34 



— their peculiar manner of climbing, 



392 



— their resemblance to monkeys, 392 



— their food, 393 



— their sociability, 393 



— their connubial love, 394 



— th^eir powers of mimicry, 394 



— African (Psittacus erithacus), 394 



— his dreams and memory, 395 



— American Indian mode of catching 



•them, 395 



— various species of them, 395, 396 



— the colours of, artificiaHy changed, 

 396 



Parsley, a deadly poison to pan-ots, 



416 

 Pasco, Cerro de, 37 

 Peacock, Javanese, the, 360 

 Pebas. heavy fall of rain at, 8 

 Peireskia of the Lake of Titicaca, 131 

 Pepper, 202 



— description of the vine, 202 



— mode of cultivation, 202 



— its habitat, 202 



— "the black and white sorts, 202 

 Peradenia, india-rubber trees of tho 



garden of, 139 

 Peru, the Puna, or hig'h table-lands of, 

 20 



— Puna chases in the times of the 



Incas, 27 



— the Lomas of, 33 



— the sand-coast of, 29 



— extreme dryness of the soil in the 



northern coast districts of, 33 



— animal world of the coast, 33 



— the Gruano or Chincha Islands, 35 

 Peruvian stream, influence of tln\ on 



climate, 36. See Amazons 

 Pfeiffer, Mrs, Ida, her account of the 



Malays, 265 

 Phasmas, the herbivorous, 208, 209 

 Pheasant, Argus, 360 

 Phoenix dactylifera, or date palm, 15.'} 

 Phylliums, the herbivorous, 208, 200 

 Phyllosomas, 272 

 Phyllostomidse, 492 



— their food, 492 



Physalia, or ' Portuguese man-of-.var,' 

 274, 275 



