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INDEX 



PUN 



Puna, animal life, 26 et seq. 



— chases in the times of tlie Incus, 32 



— beasts of prey of the, 33 



— birds of the, 33 



— flocks and herds of the Puna valleys, 34 



— the mountain valleys, 34, 35 



— the cacti of the, 120 



Purus river, a tributary of the Amazons, 45 

 Puynipet Island, cocoa-nut oil trade of, 130 

 Pythons, 319 



— their mode of attack, 319 



— their long fasts, 319 



QUAGGA, the, of South Africa, 428 

 Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), used as 

 food in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, 

 177 

 Quinquina trees, region of the, 80 

 Quito, perennial rainy season of, 9 



— the capital of Pizarro's government, 57 



— importance of the guadua bamboo of, 



114 

 Quiulla gull (Ljuus serranus), of tropical 

 America, 33 



T)ABBITS of the prickly shrubs of the 

 n, Sahara, 75 



Pain, abundance and distribution of, within 

 the torrid xone, 6 



— causes w^hich produce an abundance or 



want of, 6 



— annual fall of, on the coast of Malabar 



and in the West Indies, 6 



— heavy afternoon showers of the zone of 



calms, 8 



— zone of two distinct rainy seasons, 9 



— and of one rainy season, 9 



— immense quantity of, in the tropics, 10 



— rainy season in the savannahs of South 



America, 18 



— no rain in the northern coast-districts of 



Peru, 39 



— enormous fall of, in the equatorial plains 



of tlie New World, 49 



— reasons why so little rain falls in South 



Africa, 61 

 — "showers of liquid mud, 74 



— periodical rains of the Sahara, 77 

 Ranger-ants, 278 



— their venomous bite, 278 



Rarotonga Island, devastation of, by a tropi- 

 cal storm, 12 

 liat. its attacks on the cocoa-nut tree, 134 



— his destructive ravages in sugar planta- 



tions, 187 



— the Golunda, or coffee rat, 189, 197 

 Ratans, their immense length, 141 



— uses of, 141 



Rat-snake of Ceylon (Coryphodon Blumen- 

 bachii), domesticated, 323, 326 



— its agility in seizing its prey, 327 



RIV 

 Rattlesnakes, 315 



— their rattle, 316 



— different species, 316 



— their chief enemy, 316 



— divine honours paid to them, 319 

 Ravenala speciosa, or traveller-tree of Mada- 

 gascar, 175 



Rehoboth, larvae of locusts in myriads at, 255 

 Reptiles of the Peruvian sand-coast, 41 

 Rhamphastidae, 360 

 Rhea Americana, 406 



— Darwinii, 406 



Rhinoceros, the, always near water, 65 



— its brutality and stupidity, 440 



— different species of, 440, 441 



— food and dispositions of the black and 



white kinds, 441 



— their ugliness, 441 



— their size, 442 



— their acuteness of smell and hearing, 442 



— defective vision, 442 



— their friend the Buphaga Africana, 442 



— their paroxysms of rage, 4 43 



— their parental affection, 443 



— their nocturnal habits, 443 



— rhinoceros hunting and its perils, 444 



— the Indian rhinoceros, 447 



— the Sumatran kind, 447 



— the Javanese rhinoceros, 448 



— mode of killing it, 448 

 Rhinoceros Oswellis, 441 



— simus, 441 



Rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis), 266 

 Rhizophora gymnorrhiza and R. Maiigle, 94 

 Rhododendron nivale, great elevation at which 



it grows, 91 

 Rhododendrons, arborescent, of the slopes ol 

 Sikkim, 90 



— region of the Alpine, in the Sikkim 



mountains, 91 

 Rice (Oryza sativa), 152 



— original seat of its cultivation, 1 54 



— various aspects of the rice-fields at 



different seasons, 1 55 



— ladang, or mountain rice, 156 



— Malay ''sawah," or artificially irrigated 



rice-fields, 157 



— introduction of rice into South Carolina. 



157 



— great mortality of the negroes employed 



in cultivating it, 158 



— rice trade of Arracan and Pegu, 158 



— paddy, or uncleaned rice, 159 



— mountain rice, 179 



Rice, Colonel, his tiger-hunts, 477 

 Rice-bird, or Java sparrow (Loxia uryzi- 



vora), 155 

 Rivers of the tropics : — 



— Amazons, 44 et seq. 



— Apure, 19 



— Arachuna, 19 



— Aranca, 19 



— Barima, Upper, 114 



