INDEX. 



AAR 

 4 ARD-VARKS, 501 

 11 Abies Brunoniana of the slopes of 

 Sikkim, 90 



— Webbiana of the 8loj)es of Sikkim, 90 

 Abyssinia, the tsalt-salya or zimb of, 



253 



— mode of hunting the elephant in, 



457 

 Acacia lationum and tomentosa, thorns of 



the, 126 

 Acclimatisation of plants, 64 

 Adams, Mr., his fight with a water-lizard, 



334 

 Adanson, attacked by termites, at Goree, 



282 

 Adansonia digitata, 102 

 Aden, coffee first introduced into, 190 

 Adjutant, the, 322, 381 



— his destruction of reptiles, 322 

 iEolus, Greek worship of, 4 



Africa, influence of the heated plains of, in 

 deflecting tlie trade-winds, 10 



— gigantic trees of, 104, et seq. 



— the coffee tree first planted by nature 



in, 189 



— cultivation of cotton in, 213 



— swarms of locusts in, 255 



— ivory of, 458 



— Eastern, gigantic forests of, 61 



— South, long- continued di-oughts of, 6 



— constant winds of, 7 



— giant timber of the east coast and arid 



wastes of the interior, causes of the 

 difference, 8 



— reason why droughts are prevalent in, 



61 



— fruits of the deserts of, 62, 63 

 Agades, tower in, 66 



Agave Americana, 89, 116 



— its uses, 117 

 Agouti, the, 84 



Agriculture in the Puna, or high table-lands 



of Peru, 26 

 Air-currents, their effects in the equatorial 



regions, 4 



— the trade-winds, 4 



— polar and equatorial air-currents, 4 

 Ais, the, 496 



AMA 



Akyab, quantities of rice exported from, 

 159 



Alango, the night-blowing, or moon-flower, 

 225 



Albatross, the, compared with the condor, 

 389 



Alexander the Great, said to have intro- 

 duced the peacock into Europe, 376 



Algeria, domestication of the ostrich in, 

 405 



Alligators, torpor of, during the dry season 

 in the savannahs of South America, 14 



— their return to life, 19 



— of the lagunes of the Amazons, 49 



— their delight in the sunshine, 83 



— the Caymen, of the New World, 351 



— mode of seizing their prey, 351 



— their voice, 352 



— their preference for human flesh, 352 



— their tenacity of life, 353 



— their tenderness for their young, 354 



— their friends and enemies, 355 

 Allspice, 233 



Aloes, the, of torrid Africa, 1 16 

 Alpaca, value of its wool, 28 



— question of its acclimatisation in Eu- 



rope and Australia, 29 



— herds of, in the high table-lands of Peru 



and Bolivia, 29 



Alps, origin of the Fon-wind of the, 73 



Aluate, or howling monkey, 535 



Amache house-ant, 277 



Amaryllis toxicaria, 400 



Amazons river, 44 



its length, width, and course, 44 



its tributaries, 45 



called the Solimoens from the Bra- 

 zilian frontier to the influx of the 

 Rio Negro, 45 



its unfathomable depth at the Strait 



of Obydos, 46 



its tide-waves, 46, 47 



— — its width below Gurupa, 47 

 and when it reaches the ocean, 



47 

 extent of territory drained by the 



Amazons, 47 

 '- its colossal rise, 48 



