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INDEX 



VAN 



Vanilla, culri ration of, in Mexico and 

 Java, 184 



— a rare and costly spice, 184 

 Vargas, Sanchez, his fate, 51 



Vejuco de huaco (Mikania Huaco) an 



antidote against snake-bites, 295 

 Velella, the, 274 



Venado, a species of deer, of the sand- 

 coast of Peru, 34 

 Veta, a disease caused by the rare- 

 faction of the air in the high 

 table-lands of Peru and Bolivia, 

 21, 22 



— effect of, in arresting putrefaction, 

 22 



Veys, their recently invented alphabet, 



519 

 Victoria Eegia, discovery of the, 137 

 Vicuiia, its solitary habits, 25 



— value of its wool, 25 



— its appearance, 25 



— Indian mode of hunting it, 26 



— mode of preparing its flesh, 26 



— its enemies, 27 



Viper, small brown (Echidna ocellata), 



of Peru, its fatal bite, 297 

 Viscachas, the, of Peru, 27 



— of the Pampas, 27 

 Vomito, the, 81 



Vultures, Carrion, of the Peruvian 

 sand-coast, 35, 379 



— of America, 378, 379 



— king of the (Sarcoramphus papa), 



379 



— of the Old World, 381 



— sociable, 381 



WADINa-BIRDS, tropical, 360 

 Walking-leaf insect, 208. 

 Walking-stick insect, 208 

 Wanderoos of Ceylon (Presbytes cepha- 



lopterus), 496, 505 

 Water-lizards (Hydrosauri), 316 



Mr. Adams' contest with one, 316 



their habitat, 317 



worshipped at Bonny, 317 



Water-plants of the tropics, 137 

 Water-snakes, 301, 309 

 Wax obtained from the Carnauba palm, 

 168 



ZIM. 



Wax obtained from the Ceroxylon andi- 



cola, 159 

 Weaving-birds, African, 364 



— their nests, 365 



West Indies, invalids from Europe re- 

 siding in the, 178 

 Winds, the system of, and its import- 

 ance, 4, 5 



— trade-winds, and polar and equatorial 



air-currents, 4, 5 



— constant east-winds of Paraguay, 5 



— deflections from the ordinary cuurso 

 of the trade-winds. 8 



Wine of the Agave Americana, 132 



— of the gomuti palm, 150 

 Woodpecker, 60 



— orange-coloured of Ceylon (Brachy- 

 pterus aurantius), 374 



Wood-nymph, a humming-bird of 



Brazil, 347 

 Wourali, or urari, poison, 67, 68 

 Wou-wou (Hylobates leuciscus), the 



503 



XAVARI river, a tributary of the 

 Amazons, 37 

 Xingu river, a tributary of the Amazons, 

 38 



YACIT-MAMA of the Amazons, 45 

 Yams (Dioscorea sativa and 

 alata), 170 

 Yapura river, a tributary of the Ama- 

 zons, 37 

 Yaruras Indians, 70 

 Yriartea exorrhif^a, 161 

 — ventricosa, 161 



ryANCUDO, bite of the, 233 



/i — on the Magdalen river, 224 



Zebra, Burchell's, or douw, 415 



— its piteous wailings, 416 



— its inaccessible retreats, 416 

 Zelgague, the, or skink, of the Saliara, 



102 

 Zimb, or tsalt-salya of Abyssinia, 230 



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