INDEX 



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CLI 



COR 



Climates, causes by which this diversity is 

 produced, 3 



— climate of tiie Llanos of Venezuela and 



New Grenada, 14 



— of the Puna or liigh table- lands of Peru 



and Bolivia, 23 



— vegetation always suited to the peculiar 



climate of a country, 62 



— variety of tlie climate of Mexico, 87 

 Climbing trees of the tropics, 121 

 Cloves, substitute for the essential oil of, 227 



— history of the cruel monopoly of the 



Dutch in, 227 



— clove-tree proves, 229 



— essential oil, 229 



Coary river, a tributary of the Amazons, 45 

 Coatimondi, the, 517, 518 

 Cobra di Capello, the, 317 



— tamed by the Indian jugglers, 317 



— its habitat, 318 



Coca (Erythroxylon coca), 202 



— its immense consumption in Peru and 



Bolivia, 202 



— its wonderfully strengthening effects, 



203 



— fatal consequences of its abuse, 204 



— divine honours paid to the shrub by the 



Peruvians, 205 



— its use interdicted by the Spanish con- 



querors, but finally allowed and en- 

 couraged, 206 



— analysis of, by Professor Wlihler of 



Gijtiingen, 206 

 Cocain, Professor Wbhler's discovery of, 206 

 Cocci of Europe, blights caused by the, 260 



— the cochineal coccus of Mexico, 260 

 Coccus hesperidum of Mexico, 260 



— lacca, or lac-insect, 262 

 Cochineal insect, food of the, 119 



— — exportation of, forbidden by the 



Spaniards in Mexico, 261 

 introduced into the Canary Islands, 



Spain, and other places, 261 



cultivation of the, 260 



history of cochineal, 261 



Cock of the rock (Rupicola aurantia), 366 

 Cockatoo, the, 413 



— the great white, 413 



— the black, of Australia, 414 



■ — cockatoo killing in Australia, 414 

 Cockroaches (Blatta;), tropical plague of, 

 introduced into England, 256 



— the giant cockroach of the tropics 



(Blatta gigantea), 256 



— encounter between a spider and a cock- 



roach, 298 

 Cocoa-nut tree (Cocos nucifera), the, 128 

 — extent of its domain, 129 



— — — its abundance in Ceylon, 129 

 its many uses to man, 129, 



131, 132 



cocoa-nut oil and the oil trade, 



130 



Cocoa-nut tree, toddy made from the, 131 



timber of the, 132 



cultivation of the, 132 



enemies of the, 133 



Cocoa de mer (Ladoicea Sechellarum), 140 



its former and present value, 



141 

 Cocos nucifera, the, 128. See Cocoa-nut 

 tree 



— butyracea, or oil palm-tree of West 



_ Africa, 144 

 Cocujas beetle of South America, its lu- 

 minous qualities, 270 

 Coffee, original home of the plant, 189 



— the use of, introduced into Arabia, 189 



— history of coffee-drinking, 190 



— the first coffee-houses in London and 



Paris, 190 



— present state of coffee production 



throughout the world, 191 



— Brazil and Java, 19] 



— Ceylon, Hayti, and Venezuela, 192 



— Mocha coffee, its quality, 193 



— mode of cultivation of the coffee-tree, 193 



— profits of coffee-plantations, 196, 197 



— enemies of the coffee tree, 197 



— ravages of the Viviagua ant, 275 

 Coffee bug (Lecanium coffese), of Ceylon, 



197, 198 

 Coir, or cocoa-nut fibre, uses to which it is 



applied, 131 

 Colobi of Africa, 526 

 Colocalia esculenta, 305 

 Colombo, cinnamon gardens of, 224 

 Columbus, Christopher, the first to import 



maize from America into Europe, 160 

 Combretias, the, of the banks of the rivers 



of Guiana, 82 

 Condamine, M. La, his voyage from Bran- 

 camoros to Para, 59* 



— introduces caoutchouc into Europe, 217 

 Condor, the, of the high table-lands of tro- 

 pical America, 33, 387 



— his marvellous flight, 387 



— his cowardice, 388 



— modes of capturing him, 388, 389 



— compared with the albatross, 389 

 Condors of the sand-coast of Peru, 43 

 Congo, baobab trees of, 103 



Coniferse of the slopes of the Sikkim moun- 

 tains, 90 

 Convolvulus batatas, or sweet potato, 177 

 Cooroominya beetle (Batocera rubrus), its 

 attacks on the young cocoa-nut 

 tree, 133 



eaten by the Singalese, 133 



Coot, the gigantic (Fulica gigantea), of 



tropical America, 33 

 Coppersmith bird of Ceylon (Megalasara 



Indica), 382 

 Coquero, the, or habitual coca chewer, 205 

 Coral islands, 302 



formation of, 309 



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