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INDEX 



WES 

 West Indies, introduction of the coffee-plant 

 into the, 191 



— present state of its culture, 192 



— Martinique, introduction of the coffee- 

 plant into, 191 



Widali, divine lionours paid to the viper in, 



319 

 Winds, the system of, and its importance, 4 



— trade-winds, and polar and equatorial 



air-currents, 4, 6, 10 



— effects of the Puna-winds in arresting 



decomposition, 25 



— origin of the sirocco of Italy and Fon-wind 



of the Alps, 73 

 Wine of the Agave Americana, 1 1 7 



— of the saguer or gomuti palm, 136 

 Wohler, Professor, of Gottingen, his analysis 



of coca, 206 

 Woodpecker, the ivory-billed, 83 



— orange-coloured (Brachypterus auran- 



tius), 382 

 Wood-pigeon, cries of the, 83 

 Wool, annual imports of, into England, 207 

 Woollen cloth, manufacture of, in former 



times in Flanders and England, 207 

 Wourali poison, 532 

 Wou-wou (Hylobates leuciscus), the, 522 



ZOU 



XAVARI river, a tributary of the Ama- 

 zons, 45 

 Xingu river, a tributary of the Amazons, 47 



YACKS, or grunting-oxen, 91 

 Yams (Dioscorea sativa and alata), 

 176 

 Yapura river, a tributary of the Amazons, 45 

 Yarriba country, cultivation of cotton in the, 



213 

 Yriartea exorrhiza, 152 

 — ventricosa, 152 

 Yuccas, the American, 116 



ZAMBESI river, hippopotami of the, 435 

 elephant-hunting on the, 485 



Zebra, Burchell's, or douw, 429- 



— always found near water, 65 



— the hippotigris of the ancients, 430 



— its piteous wailings, 431 



— its inaccessible retreats, 431 

 Zelgague, the, or skink, of the Sahara, 76 

 Zimb, or tsalt-salya of Abyssinia, 253 

 Zouga river, elephant -hunting on the, 456 



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