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INDEX 



Bayeiye, their mode of hunting the elephant, 



456 

 Bear, the cocoa-nut (Ursus malayanus), 



134 

 Bechuana country, alleged poisonous spider 



of, 297 

 Bechuanas, their love for agriculture and 

 domestic animals, 65 



— their mode of drawing water, 66 



— their umbrellas, 405 

 Beer brewed from maize, 165 



— — from millet, 166 



Beetles of the tropical forests, 83, 84 



— used as food and ornaments, 263 



— numbers of, in various countries from 



the poles to the tropics, 265 



— the carrion-feeding beetles of the tem- 



perate zone, 266 



— peculiarity of beetle-life in the torrid 



zone, 266 



— the Hercules beetle (Megasomina Her- 



cules), 266 



— habits of tropical beetles, 267 



— the Goliaths of the coast of Guinea, 



267 



— the South American incas, 267 



— luminous beetles, 270 

 Behemoth of the Bible, 432 

 Bela dates, 143 

 Bell-bird, or campanero, 365 

 Bengal, indigo of, 234, 236 



Beni river, a tributary of the Madeira, 46 

 Benin, palm-oil trade of, 146 

 Berber tribes of the oases of the Sahara, 71 

 Berbice river, the Victoria Regia of the, 



123 

 Bgte rouge, the, of Guiana and the West 



Indies, 250 

 Betel-pepper leaves chewed, 137 

 Biledulgerid, or oases south of the Atlas, 



toddy drunk in, 143 

 Birds of the Puna, or high table-lands of 



tropical America, 33 

 — ^ of the tropical forests, 82 



— of the Mexican plateaus, 87 



— of the tropical seas, 303 



— singular birds of the Galapagos Islands, 



339 



— their strange voices, 369 



— breeding season, 374 



— of prey of the tropics, 887-396 

 Birds'-nests, edible, 305 



Blast, a sugar-cane disease, 187 

 Blatta gigantea, or the drummer, 256 

 Bligli, Lieutenant, his voyage in the 



" Bounty," and adventures subsequently, 



168 

 Boa constrictor, 319 



his habitat, 320 



Boaquira (Crotalus horridus), 316 



Bogota, jwrennial rainy seasons of, 9 



Bolas, or hand stones of the Indians of 



Peru, 31 



BRE 



Bolivia, immense consumption of cocoa in, 

 202 



— the Indian's mode of preparing and 



chewing cocoa in, 203 

 Bombax ceiba of the forests of Yucatan, 



112 

 Bombyx cynthia, 259 



— niori, 259 



— mylitta, 259 

 Bonito, the, 306 



Bonny, palm-oil trade of, 146 



— divine honours paid to water-lizards at, 



335 

 Boomerang, or kiley, of the Australian 



savage, 414 

 Borassus flabelliformis, 137 

 Borelo rhinoceros, 441 

 Boselepbus oreas of South Africa, 65 

 Bo tree, the sacred, of India (Ficus religiosa), 

 108 



antiquity of one at Anarajapoora, 



in Ceylon. 108 



veneration of the Buddhists for it 



110 

 Bottle tree of tropical Australia, 124 

 •' Bounty," mutiny of the, 1 68 



— fate of the mutineers, 1 72 

 Bouradi, the, of Guiana, 360 

 Bourbon, nutmeg trade of, 229 

 Bower-birds of Australia, 378 



— their singular nests, 379 



Brachypterus aurantius, 382 



Branco, Rio, 56 



Brass country, palm oil of, 147 



Brazil, constant winds of, 7 



— weak and jealous government of, 56 



— impenetrable forests of, 79 



— the Porliera hygrometrica of, 120 



— the bushropes or lianas of, 121 



— quantity and quality of coffee exported 



from^ 191, 193 



— cotton cultivation of, 214 



— immense number of beetles found in, 265 



— comparative rareness of venomous snakes 



in, 312 

 — the bush-master of, 315 



— the giant-toad of, 338 



— tree-frog of, 338 



— colossal turtles of the coast, 344 



— birds of Brazil do not migrate, 373 



— jaguars of Brazil, 489 



— wood (Cassalpinia crista), description of 



the tree producing, 240 

 Brodin, Mr., bis steam cocoa-nut oil mill on 



Foa Island, 130 

 Bromelia ananas, 117 



— sagenaria, 117 



— variegata, 117 



Bromelias of tropical forests, 123 

 Bread-fruit tree ( Artocarpus incisa) of Poly- 

 nesia, 166 



the harvest, 167 



— the mallei, or sour paste, 167 



