INDEX 



543 



APU 



Apure river in the rainy se;ison, 19 

 Arabia, coffee first introduced into, 189 

 — mode of cultivating coffee in, 194 

 Arabs, their mode of hunting the lion, 472 

 Arachnotherre, 295 



Arachuna river during the rainy season, 19 

 Arandi (Bombyx Cynthia), soft threads 



spun by the, 259 

 Araneae of the tropics, 291 

 Aras of America, the, 411, 415 

 Arauca river in the rainy season, 19 

 Archipelago, the Eastern, bamboos of, 114 



screw pine of the, 118 



climate of the, 5 



Archipelago, the Mulgrave, importance of the 



screw-pine to the inhabitants of, 118 

 Arctic day and night, 302 

 Areca palm (Areca catechu), the, 137, 153 

 Malay and Singalese habit of chew- 

 ing the nuts with lime and 

 betel-pepper leaves, 137 

 Areca sapida of New Zealand, 151 

 Arenaria rupifraga, great elevation at which 



it grows, 91 

 Argala, or adjutant-bird, of Africa and 



India, 381 

 Argus pheasant, 376 



Aristolochia, gigantic, of South America, 102 

 Arkwright, his invention of the cotton- 

 spinning frame, 208 

 Armadillos, the, 501 



— on the sand-coast of Peru, 40 



— genera of the Armadillos, 502 

 Arnatto (Bixaorellana), used as a dye, 241 

 Arracan, rice trade of, 158, 159 

 Arrowroot, from what obtained, 177 



— mode of obtaining it, 1 78 



Arrows, poisoned, of the bushmen of South 

 Africa, 400 



Artocarpus incisa, or bread-fruit tree. 166 



Ascension, turtles of the island of, 345, 346 



Asp of ancient authors, 319 



Ateles hypoxanthus, 532 



the, or spider monkeys, 536 



Athene cunicularia of the Peruvian sand- 

 coast, 41 



Atlantic, limits of the trade-winds in the 

 Northern, 6, 7 



Atlas mountains, ephemeral streams of the, 

 70 



the lions of, 467 



— ^. — a lion-hunt in, 472 



Atlas-moth, cinnamon-eating, of Ceylon, 276 



Atolls, or coral islands, 309 



Atta cephalotes, its ravages amongst the 

 banana and cassava fields, 276 



Attalia funifera, 149 



Aura vulture, 390 



Australia, North, long-continued droughts 

 of, 6 



— — no monkey or tortoise indigenous 



in, 342 



— birds of, 378 



BAY 



Avaca, or Manilla hemp, 175 

 Avicennia tomentosa, its magnificence, 98 

 Axis, the, 475 



BABOONS, 527 

 Baboon, the great, of Senegal, 528 

 Bacha, the (Falco bacha), 394 

 Bactrian camel, 420 



Bahama Islands, mode of catching turtle on 

 the, 346 



— — the guana lizard of the, 333 

 Bahia, two rainy seasons of, 9 



— toad of, 337 



Bakalahari, the, of the Kalahari, 65 



— their love for agriculture and domestic 



animals, 65 

 Balize, mahogany trees of, 113 

 Balsam-bog of the Falkland Islands, 91 

 Baltimore bird (Icterus Baltimore), 367 

 Bamboos, the (Bambusacese), of the tropics. 

 114 y t , 



— variety of uses to which they are ap- 



plied, 115 

 Bambusaceaj, the, of the tropics, 114 



— rapidity of their grovvth, 114 

 Banana (Musa sapientum), its importance 



as food, 154, 173 



— the wild, of the lower slopes of Sikkim, 



90 



— ravages of the Atta cephalotes in the 



banana fields, 276 

 Banana-bird (Icterus xanthornus), of Ame- 

 rica, 383 

 Banda, nutmeg trees of, 228, 230 

 Baiiijai, their mode of hunting the elephant, 



Banyan tree (Ficus indica), 106 



fondness of the Hindoos for it, 107 



its historical celebrity, 107 



Baobab, ^ African, or monkey-bread tree 

 (Adansonia digitata), 1 02 



— — immense specimens of, 103 



used as a vegetable cistern, 103 



its age, 104 



family to which it belongs, 104 



Barima river, the Upper, gigantic trees of, 



114 

 Basilisk, the, 336 



Batavia, the coffee-tree introduced into, 190 

 Batocera rubrus, 133 

 Bats, huge, of tropical forests, 84 



— organisation of, 505 



— the kalongs, or fox-bats, of Java, 507 



— the vampire, 507, 509 



— the Rhinolophi, or horse-shoe bats, 510 



— the Scotophilus Coromandelicus of Cey- 



lon, 511 



— flying squirrels, 511 



— the Galeopitheci, 512 



— the Anomaluri, 513 

 Batticaloa, forests of satinwood at. 111 

 Baya birds of Hindostan, tlieir nests, 383 



