INDEX 



563 



SQU 



fondness for coffee 



berries 



Squirrels, their 

 197 



— flyin.i,', 511 



Steer, the bhick-legged and white-coated, 



448 

 Storms, tropical, violence of, 1 1 



— tornados and cyclones, 1 1 



— on the Amazons river, 55 



— in the Sahara, 72 



— a hurricane in the primitive forest, 81 

 Strepsiceros capensis of South Africa, 65 

 Struthio camelus, 397, et seq. 

 Sucking-fish (Remora), used for turtle- 

 catching, 347 



Sucuriaba, or water-boa (Eunectes murinus), 



320 

 Sugar, or jaggery, of the palmyra palm, of 

 Ceylon, 139 



— commercial importance of sugar, 182 



— original home of the sugar-cane, 183 



— progress of its cultivation throughout 



the tropical zone, 183, 184 



— mentioned by several classical authors, 



183 



— transplanted from the Canary Islands to 



Hispaniola, 184 



— the Chinese species supplanted by the 



Tahitian kind, 184 



— description of the cane, 185 



— manufacture of sugar, 185 



— molasses, or uncrystallised sugar, 186 



— the enemies of the sugar-cane, 186 



— nutritive qualities of its juice, 187 

 Sugar-ants, ravages of the, 275 

 Sumatra, crocodiles of, 356 



— rhinoceros of, 447 



Sumpits, Malay, materials used for form- 

 ing the shafts of, 136 



Sun, unequal influence of the, on the sea 

 and land, 4, 5 



Sun-birds, or suimangas (Cinnyris), 375 



Sunderbunds, the Phoenix paludosa of the 

 islands of the, 98 



Sun-fi.sh, the, 307 



Superstition, an Indian, 53 



Surgeon-bird, 372 



Surinam toad, 337 



— tree-frog, 338 



Surumpe, or acute inflammation of the eyes 



in tlie Puna, 24 

 Swallow, the esculent (Colocalia esculenta), 

 305 



— mode of getting the nests, 306 

 Sweden, number of beetles found in, 265 

 Sword-fishes, 306 



Sword-tail fishes, 307 



Sycamore tree (Ficus sycomorus), gigantic 



specimens of the, in Africa, 105 

 Sylvia sutoria, 383 



TACCA PINNATIFIDA, arrowroot made 

 from the, 177, 178 



TER 

 sugar-cane of, 184 



Tahiti, 



Tailor-bird of Hindostan (Sylvia sutoria), 



383 

 Talegalla, or brush-tUrkey, 380 

 Talgaha tree the sacred, of the Brahminical 



Tamils of Ceylon, 137 

 Talpot, or talipot tree of Ceylon, uses to 



which it is applied, 140 

 Tamehameha, the Great, his royal mantle. 



375 

 Tamr dates, 1 43 

 'J angaras, the, 365 

 Tapajos river, a tributary of the Amazons, 



46, 47 

 Tapioca, from what prepared, 176 

 Tapir, the, of the tropical forests, 84 

 Tarantula spider of Sicilv, stories of its bite, 



296 

 Taro roots (Caladium esculentum) of the 

 Sandwich Islanders, 178 



its abundant growth, 178 



mode of cooking it, 178 



mountain taro (Caladium cristatum), 



179 

 Tarush, an animal peculiar to the Punas, 32 

 Teak tree, or Indian oak (Tectona grandis), 

 110 



its excellent timber, 110 



Tectona grandis, or Indian oak, 110 

 Teffe river, a tributary of the Amazons, 4 ' 

 Teju, or monitory lizard (Tejus monitoi^, 



of South America, 333 

 Temperature of a country, decrease of, in 



proportion to its elevation, 5 

 TeuerifTe, cochineal trade of, 261 

 Teoge river, hippopotamus hunting on the, 



436 

 Terebinthinaceas of tropical forests, 81 

 Termites, or white ants, 281 



— their devastations, 281 



— their introduction into Europe, 283 



— their sei-vices and uses, 283 



— their communities and astonishing build- 



ings, 283 



— formation of a termite colony, 285 



— wonderful fecundity of the queen, 285 



— courage and obstinacy of the termite 



soldier, 286 



— foes of the termites, 133, 287 



— their wars with the black ants, 288 



— termites used as food, 288 



— marching termites, 289 



— mysteries of termite life, 290 



— their deserted nests inhabited by the 



cobra di capello, 318 

 Termes bellicosus, their clay-built citadels 

 or domes, 284 



— destructor arborum, their dwellings in 



trees, 283 



— flavicoUis introduced from Northern 



Africa into Marseilles, 283 



— flavipes, introduced into Portugal and 



Vienna, 283 



