546 



INDEX 



CAS 



Cassia, 224 



Cassicns cristatus^ 368 



— uber, 368 



— persicus, 368 

 Cassiques, the, 368 



— tlieir pendulous nests, 368 

 Cassiquiare river, 56 



Cassowary, the galeated (Casuarius galea- 



tus), 407 

 Caterpillars eaten by man in Africa, 262 

 Catoblepas gnu, always found near water, 65 

 Cats unable to live at a great height above 

 the sea, 25 



— wild, their ravages in coffee plantations, 



197 

 Cayenne, two rainy seasons of, 9 

 Cayman. See Alligator 

 Ceiba (Bombax ceiba), the, of the forests of 



Yucatan, 112 

 Centipede, its virulent bite, 301 



— its phosphorescence, 301 

 Cephalopoda, gigantic, 308 

 Cephalopterus ornatus, 369 

 Cephalopus mergens of South Africa, 65 

 Cerastes of the Sahara, 75 



— or horned viper, of the Egyptian jug- 



glers, 319 

 Cercopitheci, their characteristics, 526 

 Cereals, traditional birthplace of the, 174 

 Cerei, or torch-cactuses, 118 

 Cerro de Pasco, silver mines of, 45 

 Cervus antisiensis, an animal peculiar to the 



Punas, 32 

 Ceroxylon andicola, wax obtained from the, 

 148 



— height at which it will grow, 151 

 Ceylon, timber-trees of. 111 



— abundance of the cocoa-nut tree in, 129 



— cocoa-nut oil trade of, 130 



— palmyra toddy of, 138 



— cultivation of rice in, 155 



— the ruined tanks of, 1 56 



— Singalese mode of clearing the mountain 



forests, 195 



— the coffee cultivation of, 192, 195 



— cinnamon gardens of, 222 



— taken by the Dutch, 227 



— land-leeches of, 252 



— immense number of ants in, 274 



— the formidable dimiya, or great red ant, 



274 



— the kaddiya, 274 



— snakes of, 317 



— comparative rareness of venomous snakes 



in, 311 



— the rat-snake «nd cobra domesticated in, 



326 



— barbarous mode of selling turtle-flesh in, 



348 



— birds of, 382 



— elephants of, 450, 452, 458, 459 



— elephant-catchers of, 460 

 - — species of bats in, 510 



CLI 



Chacma, or pig-faced baboon (Cynocephalus 



porcarius), 528 

 Ciiama;rops humilis, 150, 152 



— palmetto, 150 

 Chameleon, the, 331 



— its habitat, 331 



— its manner of hunting for its food, 331 



— peculiarities of its organisation, 331, 332 

 Champsa vallifrons, 353 



Chancay, sand-hills of, 42 

 Cheetah, or hunting leopard, 466, 482 

 Chegoe, Pique, or Jigger, of the West Indies 

 (Pulex penetrans), 248 



— its mode of working, 248 



— native method of extirpating it, 248 

 Chelonia imbricata, 347, 349 



— midas, 347 



— caouana, 349 

 Chelonians, 339 

 Chenopodium quinoa, 177 

 Chicha, or maize beer, 165 

 Chilicabra cockroach of Peru, 258 

 Chimpanzee, the (Simla troglodytes), 515, 



517 

 China, bamboo of, 114 

 care with which it is cultivated, 115 



— probably the original home of the sugar- 



cane, 183 



— cotton cultivation of, 214 



Chinese allow nothing edible to go to waste, 



263 

 Chinese sea, north-east monsoon of the, 9 



violence of the storms of the, 1 1 



Chinchilla lanigera, the, of the high table- 

 lands of Pern, 33 



its appearance and habits, 33 



Chirimoya (Anona tripetala), a Peruvian 



fruit, 179 

 Chloephaga melanoptera, the, of the Puna, 33 

 Chloroxylon Swietenia, forests of, in Ceylon, 



111 

 Chocolate, 201 

 Chorisia ventricosa of the Brazilian forests, 



124 

 Christian, his mutiny on board the " Bounty," 



168 



— his abode in Pitcairn Island, 1 72 

 Chunu, or chaps, caused by the biting winds 



of the Puna, 24 

 Cicada Aiiglica, 263 



Cicadas, or frog- hoppers, eaten by man, 263 

 Cilgero bird of Cuba, his song, 370 

 Cinnamon plant, 222 



— gardens of Ceylon, 223 



— immense profits of the Dutch, 223 



— decline of the trade, 224 



— export of, from Java, 224 



— mode of cultivating the plant and 



procuring the rind, 225, 226 



— the Ceylon chalias, 226 



— oil, 227 

 Cleopatra, her death, 319 



Climates, diversity of, within the tropics, 3 



