INDEX. 



PHY 



Phytelephas (Cabeza di Negro), hard 



white nuts of the, i 60 

 Pia9ava palm (Attalia funifera), uses of 



the nuts and fibres Of the, 160 

 Pichiciago (Chlamyphorus truncatus), 



of the Andes, 488 

 Pig-faced baboon, 510 

 Pimento, or allspice (Myrtus pimenta), 

 203 



— cultivation of the plant, 203 



— its habitat, 203 



Pine-apple (Bromelia ananas), its abun- 

 dance in Brazil, 132 

 Pines, the screw, of the East Indian and 

 South Sea Isles, 133 



— their importance to the inhabitants 

 of the Mulgrave Archipelago, 1 33 



Pippul tree of India. See Bo tree 



Pipra, the, 366 



Pique, or Jigger, of the "West Indies, 

 (Pulex penetrans), 225 



Pitcairn Island, storm and famine 

 in, 9 



Plantain (Musapara disiaca), its impor- 

 taace as food, 167 



. — luxuriance of the plant, 168 



Podada tree of the river banks of Bor- 

 neo, 210 



Polanarrua, climbing fig trees of, 136, 

 137 



Polynesian fishermen, 276 



— race, the, 280 



— their degree of civilisation, 281 



— their physical characteristics, 281 



— their languages, 281 



— their cultivation of the taro, 281 



— food of the various classes, 281 



— their intoxicating beverage, kava, 



.282 



— their dresses of tapa, 282 



— their desire for adornment, 282 



— their canoes and basket-work, 282 



— their joiners' work, 283 



— ^ admiraAile swimmers, 283 



— their dwellings, 284 



— their form of government, 284 



— the Tabu, 285 



— the Polynesian gods, 286, 287 



— their infanticide, 286 



— influence of European customs, 288, 



289 

 Pongo de Manseriche, defile of, 36 

 Porcupine ant-eater (Echidna hystrix), 



488 

 Pororocca, or a^pring-tide wave of the 



Amazons, SS 

 * Portuguese man-of-war,' 275 

 Potato, the Spanish or sweet (Convol- 

 vulus batatas), 170 



— its spontaneous multiplication, 170 



— propagation of, 170 



RAT 



Pothos family of epiphytes of the tropi- 

 cal forests, 137 



— beauty of the leaves, 137 

 Precheur insect, 209 



Prie Dieu, Le, insect, 209 



Priest, conjuror, or medicine man of the 



negroes, 529 

 Proboscis monkey, the (Semnopithecus 



nasicus), 504 

 Pterois volitans, 271 

 Ptilotus sonorus, 370 

 Pulex penetrans of the West Indies, 225 

 Pulque, or Mexican agave wine, 132 

 Puma, or couguar, in the high tal)le- 



lands of tropical America, 28, 462 

 Puna, or ' Uninhabited' high table- 

 lands of Peru and Bolivia, 20 



— their contrast with the Llanos, 20 



— violent changes in their temperature, 



21 



— plagues of the Puna, 21 



— vegetable life of tlie, 22 



— animal life, 23-28 



— chases in the times of the Incas, 27 



— beasts of prey of the, 28 



— birds of the, 28 



— flocks and herds of the P-una valleys, 



28 



— the mountain valleys, 28 



Purus, river, a tributary of th« Amazon?, 

 37 



QUAGGA, the, of South Africa, 414 

 Queiiua tree (Polylepis raccmosa) 

 in the Puna, 23 

 Quito, perennial rainy season of, 6 



EAIN, abundance and distribution 

 •of, within the tarrid zone, 4 



— causes which produce an abundance 



or want of, 4 



— .hea-vy afternoon showers of the zone 



• of calms, 6 



— zone of two distinct rainy seasons, 7 



— and of one j-ainy season, 7 



— immense quantity of, in the tropics, S 



— no rain in the northern coast- 



districts of Peru, 35 



— the garua or -drizzling rain of Peru, 

 32 



Rarotonga Island, devastation of, by a 



tropical storm, 9 

 Rat, its attacks on the cocoa-nnt tree, 

 149 



— its destructive ravages in »ugar 



plantations, 177 



— the Golunda, or coffee rat, 182 

 Ratans, their immense length, 164 



— uses of, 154 



