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INDEX 



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APII 



Amazons river, lagunes of the, and then- 

 beautiful scenery, 49 



— -~ fish -catching on a grand scale, 49 

 different character of the forests 



bejond and within the verge of 

 the inundation of the river, 50 

 ^ — a sail on the river, and a night's 

 encampment, 52 



— — the voracious pirangas, 54 



storms on the river, 55 



rapids and whirlpools, 55 



the Amazons regarded as the stream 



of the future, 55 



— — discovery of the Amazons by Vincent 



Yanez Pinson, 57 



— — adventures of Tizairo and Madame 



Godin on the, 57-60 

 primitive forests of the banks of the 



Amazons, 78 



the mosquito plagues of, 246 



manufacture of tortoise-oil on the 



banks of the, 342 

 Amblyrhynchus of the Galapagos Islands, 



339 

 Ainboyna,taken from the Portuguese by the 

 Dutch, 227 



— clove trade of, 229 



America, growth of cotton in, 209, 210 



— insect plagues of, 248, 250 



— snakes of the United States of, 316 



— South, influence of the Peruvian stream 



on the climate of the, 5 

 gigantic scale of the mountains, 



rivers, &c., of, 14 



savannahs of, 14 



a savannah on fire, 17 



cultivation of maize in, 162 



primitive forests of, 79 



vegetation of, 112 



— — effects of the civil war in, on the 



cotton trade, 213 

 Ammophila arundinacea of the coasts of the 



North Sea, 64 

 Amsterdam, a spice fire in, 229 

 Anaconda, or water- boa (Eunectes murinus), 



320 

 Andersson, Mr., his adventure with a rhi- 

 noceros, 445 



— and with a lion, 470 



Andes, the, considered as colossal refrige- 

 rators, 5 



— causes of the perpetual verdure of their 



eastern and aridity of their western 

 slopes, 7 



— mosquitoes of the eastern slopes of the, 



246 

 Angola, ferocious mosquitoes of, 246 



— the red ant of, 274 



Angostura, alligators in the streets of, 



353 

 Animal life in the Llanos in the dry season, 

 15-17 



— — and in the rainy season, 19 



Animal life, decomposition arrested by the 

 dry sand of the rainless regions 

 and the winds of the Puna, 25 



of the Puna, 26-34 



— — of the Peruvian sand-coast, 40 



— — of the arid plains of South Africa, 



64 



of the Sahara, 75 



of the Sikkim mountains, 92 



of the mangrove forests, 95 



insect plagues of the tropics, 245 



— — in the tropical ocean, 303 



of the Galapagos Islands, 339 



tropical birds, 358 



Anolis, the, 330 



— battles of the, 330 



— faculty of changing colour, 331 

 Anomaluri, the, 512 



Anona tripetala, of Peru, 179 

 Ant-eaters, 497 



— the great ant-bear, 497 



— his mode of licking up termites, 497 



— his characteristics, 498 



— the manides, or pangolins, 500 



— the orycteropi, 500 



— the porcupine ant-eater, 503 



— the Myrniecobius fasciatus, 503 

 Ant-hills, various forms and kinds of, 279 

 Antilles, climate of the, 5 



Antilope melampus, the, always found near 



water, 65 

 Ants, their ravages in sugar plantations, 

 187 



— vast numbers of, in the tropical zone, 



272 



— excruciating pain caused by the bite of 



the Ponera ciavata, 273 



— the ferocious ant of the Triplaris Ame- 



ricana, 273 



— the black fire-ant of Guiana, 274 



— the great red ant (Dimiya) of Ceylon, 



274 



— the red ant of Angola, 274 



— the coffee and sugar ants, 275 



— the Atta cephalotes, or umbrella ant, 



276 



— house-ants, 277 



— ranger-ants, 278 



— "societies of ants, 278 



— ant-hills, 279 



— sagacity of ants, 279 



— slave-muking expeditions of some kinds 



of ants, 280 



— the cow-keeper ants, 280 



— food of the ants of tropical America, 



280 



— the honey-ant of Mexico, 281 



— termites, or white ants, 281. See Ter- 



mites. 



— wars between black and while ants, 288 

 Apes, anthropomorplions, compared and con- 

 trasted with man, 516 



Aphides *' milked " by ants, 280 



