INDEX 



555 



LOG 



MEG 



Locusts, Mr. Barrow's description of a swarm 

 of, in South Africa, 255 



— army of them at Poonah, 255 



— larvae of the, or " Voetgangers," 255 



— Southey's description of them, 256 



— eaten by man in the Sahara and South 



Africa, 262 

 Loggerhead turtle, 349 

 Logwood, 238 



— a native of America, 238 



• — logwood-cutters, their mode of life, 238, 

 239 



— disputes with the Spaniards, 238, 239 

 Lomas, or chains of hills, which hound the 



east of the sand-coast of Peru, 39 



— the pasture-grounds of the Lomeros, 39 



— heasts of prey in the Lomas, 40 

 Lonthoir, nutmeg trees of, 228 

 Loris, the, 529 



Lory, the, 413 



Loxia oryzivora, 1 55 



Lucan, sugar alluded to by, 183 



Luminous beetles, 270 



Lum tree of Ualan, singular formation of 



the roots of the, 125 

 Lyre-bird, 376, 377 



MACA, a tuberous root, cultivated by the 

 Lidians in the high table-lauds of 

 Peru and Bolivia, 26 

 Macaul)a palm trees, encased by parasitic 



fig trees, 123 

 Macaw (Macrocercus macao), 415 

 Mace, 230 



Mackintosh, Mr., his India-rubber manu- 

 factures, 218 

 Macrocercus macao, 415 

 Madagascar, traveller-tree of (Ravenala spe- 



ciosa), 175 

 Madeira river, a tributary of the Amazons, 

 46 



— — its own tributaries, 46 



— gigantic dragon trees of, 105 



— the sugar-cane introduced into, 184 

 Magot, the, of the rock of Gibraltar, 527 

 Mahogany tree (Swietenia mahagoni), of 



British Honduras and Balize, 113 



— of Africa (Khaya Senegalensis), 1 13 

 Maimon monkey, 527 



Mainas, on the Amazons, house-ants in, 



277 

 Maize, cultivation of, 159, 162 



— imported from America by Columbus, 



160 



— its present cultivation in the eastern 



hemisphere, 160 



— its magnificent growth, 160 



— its enormous productiveness, 161 



— production of, in the United States in 



1853, 161, note. 



Maize, the least subject to disease of all the 

 cereals, 162 



— the harvest of, 163 



— its wide zone of cultivation, 163 



— Dr. Franklin on the various uses of the 



plant and grain, 164 



— beer, or chicha, 165 



— nutrition of, 166 



Makis, or murel, of Madagascar, 529 

 Makololo, spotted spider of, 292 



— poisonous spider of, 296 



Malabar, annual fall of rain on the coast 



of, 6 

 Malacca, peninsula of, its climate, 5 

 Malaria of the Mexican tierra caliente, 87 

 Mammee tree (Mammsea Americana), 26'i 

 Mammillariae, the, 118 

 Mamore river, a tributary of the Madeira, 



46 

 Manaar, in Ceylon, baobab trees at, 104 

 Manakins (Pipra), the, 366 

 Manciiester, trade of, 209 

 Mandrill, the, 528 

 Mango (Mangifera indica), fruit of the, 181 



— varieties grown at Kew Gardens, 181 

 Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), 180 



— its delicious fruit, 181 



Mangrove tree (Rhizopliora gymnorrhiza, K. 

 Mangle), 94 



of the delta of the Amazons, 51 



its peculiarities of growth and adap- 

 tation to its site, 94 



— — its importance in furthering the 



growth of land, 95 



— — animal life in the mangrove forests, 



95 

 Manilla hemp, or Avaca, 175 

 Mar. is pentadactyla, 500 

 Mantis, or soothsayer, its habits, 268, 269 

 Mantis religiosa, 269 

 Marajo Island, size of the, 47 

 Maranon river. See Amazons. 

 Marantha arundinacea, arrowroot made from 



the, 177, 178 

 Margay, or tiger-cat, 491 

 Marimonda, the (Ateles Belzebub), 536 

 Marine glue, 219 



Marsh forests of the torrid zone, 98 

 Marsh-tortoises of America and the Indian 



Archipelago, 342 

 Martha, Saint, red dye wood so called, 241 

 Mauritia palm, 15, 18, 21, 22 

 its importance to the South Ame- 

 rican Indian, 21 

 Mauritius, tornado in, 1 1 



— the coffee tree introduced into, 190 

 Maynas, in Peru, mosquitoes of, 247 

 Medanos, or sand- hillocks, of the coast of 



Peru, 38 

 Megalasara Indica, 382 

 Megapodius tumulus, 381 



— Duperreyii, 381 

 Megasomina Hercules, 266 



