INDEX 



553 



INS 



Insects, cochineal, 260 



— the gum-lac insect, 262 



— eaten by man, 262 



— worn as ornaments, 263 



— increasing numbers in various countries 



advancing from the poles to the 

 tropics, 265 



— vast numbers of Coleoptera in Brazil, 



267 



— dragon- flies of the tropics, 267 



— similarity of some, to the soil or ob- 



ject on which they are found : the 

 walking-leaf and walking-stick insects, 

 268 



— luminous, 270 



— ants and termites, 272 



— spiders and scorpions, 291 

 Island of Ascension, 345 



— Banda, 228 



— Ceylon, 282 



— Cubagua, 58 



— Goree, 282 



— Lonshoir, 228 



— Madeira, 184 



— Melville, 265 



— Pitcairn, 172 



— Pulo Aij, 228 



— Tahiti, 184 

 Islands : — 



— Bahamas, 333, 346 



— Carolinas, 130 



— Coral, 309 



— Feejee, 347 



— Friendly, 169 



— Galapagos or Tortoise, 339 



— Keeling, 130. 134 



— Kingsmill, 130 



— Moluccas, 347 



— Sandwich, 1 78, 376 



— Society, 130 



— South Sea, 375 



— Tonga, 130 



— Tortoise, or Galagapos, 339 

 Italy, origin of the sirocco of, 73 

 Ivory, African, 458 



Ixodes sanguisuga, 250 



JABIRU of America, 372 

 Jacana, the, or surgeon-bird, 372 

 Jackal, the, of the Sahara, 75, 480 

 Jaffna, forests of Palmyra palms in the 



peninsula of, 137 

 Jaggery, or Singalese sugar of the palmyra 



palm tree, 139 

 Jagua palm, elegance of the, 151 

 Jaguar, the, of the sand-coast of Peru, 40, 

 486 



— his habits in the impenetrable forests of 



South America, 78 



— his boldness, 487 



— hunting, 488 



Jaguarundi (Felis jaguarundi), the, 491 



KIN 



Jamaica, two rainy seasons of, 9 



— pimento of, 232 

 Jatropha manihot, 175 



— janipha, 176 



Java, teak forests of, 111 



— cocoa-nut oil trade of, 131 



— ratans of, 141 



— sparrow, or rice-bird (Loxia oryzivora), 



155 



— state of the coffee culture in, 191 



— Javanese mode of cultivating coffee, 



195 



— cultivation of vanilla in, 201 



— giant spiders of, 292 



— the crocodile considered a sacred animal 



in, 354 



— rhinoceros of, 448 



— a Javanese jungle and its terrors, 476 



— the kalongs, or fox-bats of, 507 

 Jelly-fish, 309 



Jiboya, or boa constrictor, 319, 320 

 Jigger of the West Indies (Pulex penetrans), 



248 

 Job, his description of Behemoth, 432 

 Jungle-fires in Sikkim, 115, 156 

 Jungle-fowl (Megapodius tumulus), mound- 

 like nest uf the, 381 

 Jungle-nail of Ceylon, 126 

 Jutay river, a tributary of the Amazons, 45 



KADDIYA ANT of Ceylon, 274 

 Kala bird, the (Buphaga Africana), 

 442 

 Kalahari, causes of drought in the, 62 



— abundance of vegetation in the, 62 



— singular and useful plants of the, 62 



— animal life of the, 64 



— Bushmen and Bakalahari of the, 65 



— skins of animals of the, 66 

 Kalongs, or fox-bats, of Java, 507 

 Karabamite, the largest of the humming- 

 birds, 364 



Kaross, or skin dress of the deserts of South 



Africa, 66 

 Keeling Island, method of catching turtle 

 on, 346 



cocoa-nut oil mills of, 130 



cocoa-nut crab of, 134 



Keitloa rhinoceros, 441 



Kengwe, or Kerne, plant (Cucumis CafFer), 



of the Kalahari, 63 

 Khaidge pheasants, 92 

 Khamsin, or sand-storm of the Sahara, 72 

 Khaya Senegalensis, or mahogany tree of 



Africa, 113 

 Kiley, or boomerang, of the Australian savage, . 



414 

 Kinchinghow mountain, 89 

 Kinchinginga mountain, 89 

 Kingsmill Islands, perennial rainy season of 



the, 9 

 cocoa-nut oil trade of the, 130 



