INDEX 



565 



TUR 



WAX 



Turtles, barbarous treatment of, at Feejee 



and Ceylon, 347, 348 

 — food of, 349 



Tusseli-worm (Bombyx mylitta), silk fila- 

 ments of the, 259 



TjALAN, island of, singular roots of a 

 I tree on the, 125 



Ucayale river, a tributary of the Amazons, 

 45 



Umbrella ants, 276 



Umbrellas of ostrich feathers, 405 



Unaus, the, 496 



Uran, or wild man of the woods, 520 



Urceola elastica, caoutchouc of the, 217, 

 220 



Uropeltis Philippinus, 310 



Ursus malayanus, its fondness for cocoa- 

 nuts, 134 



Urticeae, dendritic, of tropical forests, 80 



Urubu, the, of America, 390 



— his habits, 391 



I tah, influence of the heated plains of, in 

 deflecting the trade- winds, 10 



YAMPIRES, 507, 509 

 V Vanikoro, geckoes of, 329 

 Vanilla (Vanilla aromatica^, 201 



— cultivation of, in Mexico and Java, 201 

 Vargas, Sanchez, his fate, 58 

 Vegetable life in the savannahs of South 



America in the dry season, 16 



in the rainy season, 18 



vegetni ion of the Puna or high table- 

 lands of Peru, 25 



vegetation of the sand-coast of Peru, 



36 



of the banks of the Amazons, 50, 56 



of the Kalahari, 62 



of the oases of the Sahara, 70 



of the primitive forests of the tropics, 



78 



of the Mexican plateaus, 87, 88 



of the slopes of the Sikkim moun- 

 tains, 90 



of the mangrove forests, 94 



giant trees and characteristic forms 



of tropical vegetation, 101 



gigantic vegetation of tropical Ame- 

 rica, 112 



singular formation of the trunks and 



roots of trees, 124, 125 



thorns and spines of tropical plants, 



126 



palms, 128 



chief nutritive plants of the torrid 



zone, 154 



— — fruit trees of the tropics, 179 

 vegetable life ofthe Galapagos Islands, 



339 



Vejuco de huaco (Mikania Huaco), an anti- 

 dote against snake-bites, 314 



Velella, the, 309 



Venado, a species of deer, of the sand-coast 

 of Peru, 40 



Venezuela, the llanos of, 14 



— cultivation of coffee in, 192 



Veta, a disease caused by the rarefaction of 

 the air in the high table-lands of Peru and 

 Bolivia, 24 



Victoria regia, the, 123 



Vicuna, its solitary habits, 29 



— value of its wool, 29 



— its appearance, 29 



— Indian mode of hunting if, 30 



— mode of preparing its flesh, 31 



— its enemies, 32 



Viper, small brown (Echidna ocellata), of 

 Peru, its fatal bite, 315 



— the horned (Cerastes) of the Egyptian 



jugglers, 319 



— idolum, divine honours paid to the, 319 

 Virginia, bull-frog of, 338 



Viscachas, the, of Peru, 32 



— of the Pampas, 32 



Viviagua ant of the West Indies, its ravages 



in the coffee plantations, 275 

 " Voet-gangers," or pedestrians, the larva? of 



locusts so called, 255 

 Vomito, or malaria, of the tierra caliente of 



Mexico, 87 

 Vulcanisation of India-rubber, 218 

 Vultures, white, their destruction of ostrich 

 eggs, 402 



— of the sand-coast of Peru, 40 



— of America, 390 



— king of the, 390 



— of the Old World, 393 



WALKING-LEAF insect, 268 

 Walking-stick insect, 268 



of Van Diemen's Land, 269 



Wanderoos of Ceylon (Presbytes cephalo- 



pterus), 525 

 Water, Bechuana mode of drawing, in the 

 desert, 66 



— temperature at which it boils in the 



Puna, 25 

 Water-boa (Eunectes murinus), 320 

 Water-lizards (Hydrosauri), 334 



— — Mr. Adams's contest with one, 334 

 their habitat, 335 



worshipped at Bonny, 335 



Water-plants of the tropics, 123 

 Water-snakes, 327 



— buried during the dry season, in the 



savannahs, 16 



— their return to life in the rainy season, 



19 

 Wax obtained from the Carnauba palm, 148 



— and from the Ceroxylon andicola, 148 



