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545 



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Biead-fuiit tree, its uses besides those of 

 food, 1G8 



— first ineiitioiied by Dumpier, 168 



— history of its transplantation to the 



West Indies, 168-171 

 Breviceps gibbosus, of Guinea, 338 

 Buceros Malabaricus, 386 



— rhinoceros, 374 



Buddhists, their veneration for the sacred 



Bo tree at Anarajapoora, 1 10 

 Butfalo always found near water, 65 



— the African, his guardian bird, 442 

 Buffalo-thorn (Acacia latronum), thorns of 



the, 126 

 Buffaloes, ferocity of the male solitaires of 

 the, 453 



— attacked by the tiger, 480 



Bufo gigas, agua, of the Brazilian campos, 



338 

 Bull-frog of Virginia, 338 

 Bulls, wild, of the Puna mountain valleys, 34 

 Buphaga Africana, the, 442 

 Buprestis gigas, the elytra of the, worn as 



an ornament, 204 

 Burgomaster bird (Larus glauca), 391 

 Burgundy, former woollen cloth trade of, 207 

 Bushmen, African, 61, 65 



— their mode of catching ostriches, 399, 



400 



— their mode of hunting the elephant, 456 



— their mode of hunting the lion, 473 

 Bush-master snake (Lachesis rlionibeata), 



315 

 Busliropes, or lianas, of tropical vegetation, 



120 

 Butterflies of the Sikkim mountains, 93 



pABBAGE-PALM of the Antilles (Oreo- 

 V^ doxa oleracea), its magnificence, 148 



— — grub eaten, 149 



Cabeza di Negro (Phytelephas), hard white 



nuts of the, 149 

 Cacao tree (Cacao theobroma), 199 



— — indigenous, in Mexico, 199 



— — Humboldt's description of a cacao 



plantation, 199 



— — mode of cultivation, 200 



— — management of the beans, 200 

 Cacatua cristata, 413 



— banksii. 414 

 Cachalot, the, 303 



Cactus Opuntia of the shores of the Medi- 

 terranean, 119 

 Cactus cochinellifer, 261 

 Cactuses, description of tlie, 118 



— their usefulness to man, 119 



— did not exist in the Old World previous 



to the discovery of America, 119 



— range of their growth, 119 

 Caesalpinia crista, 240 



— echinata, 241 



— brasiliensis, 241 



CAS 



Caesalpinia Sappan, 241 



— bimas, 241 



CafFa and Enarea, the original home of the 



coflfee plant, 189 

 Calabar, New and Old, palm-oil trade of, 146 

 Caladium esculentum of the Sandwich 



Islanders, 178 

 Calami, the, 152 

 Calao, or rhinoceros horn-bill (Buceros 



rhinoceros), 374 

 Caledonia, New, spiders eaten by the natives 



of, 297 

 Caliatour wood, 241 

 Calms, zone of, 8 



— intense heat of the, 8 



— heavy afternoon rains of the, 8 

 Camel, its rej^emblance to the ostrich, 403 



— the dromedary the ship of the desert, 417 



— adaptation of its organisation to its mode 



of life, 418 



— Bedouin mode of training it, 420 



— the Bactrian camel, 420 



— immemorial slavery of the camel, 421 



— its unamiable character, 422 

 Canicleopard. See Giraffe 

 Camelides of tropical Ameiica, 26-32 

 Campanero, or bell-bird, 365 



Canary Islands, gigantic dragon-trees of the, 

 105 



— — cochineal trade of the, 261 



Canis azaras of the liigh table-land of 



Peru and Bolivia, 33 

 of the Peruvian sand-coast, 40 



— ingaj, of the Puna, 34 

 Caoutchouc tree (Siphonia elastica), 216 



— — description of the tree, 217 

 introduction of caoutchouc into Eu- 

 rope, 217 



— — mode of collecting the resin, 217 



— — other trees yielding caoutchouc, 217 

 various uses of India rubber, 218 



— — vulcanisation, 218 



— — supply of India rubber, 221 

 Caouana, or loggerhead turtle, (Chelonia 



caouana), 349 



Capybara, or water-pig, 351 



Carabi, comparative numbers of, in the tropi- 

 cal and temperate zones, 266 



Cardinal bird of Mexico, 87 



Carinaria vitrea, the, 308 



Carnauba palm (Corypha cerifera), wax ob- 

 tained from the, 148 



— — other uses of the tree, 148 



Caroa (Bromelia variegata), fishing-nets 

 made from the fibres of the. 117 



Carolina, South, introduction of rice into, 157 



Cartwright, his invention of the power-loom, 

 208 



Cassava, or Mandioca, root (Jatropha mani- 

 hot), how prepared as food, 175 



— the sweet cassava ( Jatropha janipha), 1 76 



— ravages of the Atta cephalotes in the 



cassava fields, 276 



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