INDEX 



559 



PER 

 Peru, desolation of, 36, 37 



— sand-spouts and sand-hillocks of, 38 



— summer season in, 38 



— spring and the damp season, 38 



— extreme dryness of the soil in the northern 



coast districts, 39 



— animal world of the coast, 40 



— the Guano or Chincha Islands, 42 



— the chirimoya fruit of, 179 



— cockroach pests of, 258 



— the small brown viper of, 315 



— the condor of, 388 



— inunense consumption of coca in, 202 



— the Peruvian Indian's mode of chewing 



and preparing the coca acuUico, 203 



— divine honours paid to the shrub in, 



205 

 Peruvian stream, influence of the, on clim- 

 ate, 5 

 I'liasina dragon-fly, 267 

 Pl)a.smas, the herbivorous, 268 

 Plieasants, Khaidge, 92 

 Phocae of the Peruvian coasts, 42 

 Phoenix paludosa, on the islands of the 

 Sunderbunds, 98 



— dactylifera, or date palm, 142 

 Phoenicopterus ruber, 371 



— antiquornm, 371 

 Phosphorescence of the centipede, 301 

 Phylliums, the herbivorous, 268 

 Phyllosomas, 307 

 Phyllostomidae, the, 507 



Physalia, or " Portuguese man-of-war," 309 

 Phytelephas (Cabeza di Negro), hard white 



nuts of the, 149 

 Pia9ava palm (Attalia funifera), uses of the 



nuts and fibres of th.e, 149 

 Pigeons of the Peruvian sand-coast, 41 

 Pig-faced baboon, 528 

 Pimento, or allspice (Myrtus pimenta), 232 



— cultivation of the plant, 232 



Pimpla arachnitor, its mode of proceeding, 

 296 



Pine-apple (Bromelia ananas), its abund- 

 ance in Brazil, 117 



Pines, the screw, of the East Indian and 

 South Sea Isles, 118 



— their importance to the inhabitants of the 



Mulgrave Archipelago, 118 

 Pinson, Vincent Yanez, discovers the Ama- 

 zons river, 57 

 Pipa Surinamensis, 337 

 Pippul tree of India. See Bo tree. 

 Pipra, the, 366 

 Pique, or Jigger, of the West Indies (Pulex 



penetrans), 248 

 Piranga, voracity of the, 54 

 Pirijao palm (Gulielma speciosa), 149 

 Pisang, the, of the South Sea Islands,- 174 

 Pitcairn Island, storm and famine in, 1 1 



and the mutineers of the " Bounty," 



172 

 pitcher plant, 15 



PUN 



Pizarro, Gonzalo, his expedition from Quito 

 over the Andes, to the Maranon river, 57 



Plantain (Musa paradisiaca), its importance 

 as food, 154, 173 



Plants, tropical, 101, ei seq. 



— number of known, in the world, 102 

 Platalea Ajaja, 372 



Pliny, sugar spoken of by, 1 83 



Poi^son used by the Bushman of South 



Africa, 400 

 Polanarrua, climbing fig trees of, 122 

 Polyps, stone, or lithophytes, 309 

 Ponera clavata, excruciating pain caused by 



the bite of the, 273 

 Pongo de Manseriche, defile of, 44 

 Poonah, army of locusts, of a red species, 



at, 255 

 Porcupine, the, of the Sahara, 75 



— ant-eater, 503 



— wood, 132 



Porliera hygrometrica, the, of Brazil, 120 

 Pororocca, or spring-tide wave of the Ama- 

 zons, 47 

 " Portuguese man-of-war," 309 

 Potato, the sweet (Convolvulus batatas), 177 



— when introduced into Europe, 177 

 Porto Santo, gigantic dragon trees of, 105 

 Pothos family of epiphytes of the tropical 



forests, 123 



— beauty of the leases, 90 

 Power-loom, Cartwright's invention of the, 



208 

 Praong bamboo, of Sikkim, 115 

 Precheur insect, 269 

 Presbytes cephalopterus, 525 

 Prie Dieu, Le, insect, 269 

 Priodontes gigas, 501 

 Pristis, saw-snouted, 306 

 Proboscis monkey, the (Semnopithecus nasi- 



cus), 525 

 " Providence," voyage of Lieutenant Bligh in 



the, 169 

 Psittacus Amazonicus, 413 



— erithacus, 4 1 1 



— infuscatus, 409 



— passerinus, 410 



— pullarius, 410 

 Pterocarpus santalinus, 241 



Pteropi, or fox-bats, 507 • 



Pucaticse, house-ant, 277 

 Pulex penetrans of the West Indies, 248 

 Pulla, or palm oil, 145 

 Pulo Aij, nutmeg trees of, 228 

 Pulque, or Mexican agave wine, 117 

 Puma, or American lion, in the high table- 

 lands of tropical America, 33, 490 



— and on the Peruvian sand-coast, 40 

 Puna, or "Uninhabited" high table-landa 



of Peru and Bolivia, 23 



— their contrast with the Llanos, 23 



— violent changes in their temperature, 24 



— plagues of the Puna, 24 



— vegetable life of the, 25 



