CONTENTS. 



THE TROPICAL WORLD. 



THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. Indescribable Beauties Hunting the Orang Utan 

 Fights between the Mias and the Crocodile How the Mias Kills the Python 

 Man-Eating Tigers The Lombock Suicides The Pig-Deer of Celebes Adventure 

 with a Python Birds of Paradise Making Cakes of the Sago Palm The Papuan 

 People Their Remarkable Honesty Absence of all Religious Belief New Guinea, 

 the Unexplored A Primitive Clock Wonderful Gold Fields 9 25 



CHAPTER I. Buckle's observations on Brazil Opposite effects of the sun Ferocious 

 Beasts and deadly Diseases Ocean Vapors Electrical effects of Vapors Cause of 

 the Peculiar taste of Rain water The Great Equatorial Currents How they are Pro- 

 duced The Great Gulf Stream Its Direction and Effects on Climate What led 

 Columbus to Continue Westward Remarkable Effects of Ocean Currents on the 

 Coast of Alaska Great Air Currents How they are Produced Deluges in Brazil 

 The Change of Seasons Tornadoes, Whirlwinds, Cyclones and Water spouts The 

 Great Hurricane of 1866 Formation of Whirlwinds and Cyclones Two Theories as 

 to how Islands are formed Wonderful Coral Islands The Great Coral Sea 

 People, Animals, Birds and Vegetation 25 41 



CHAPTER II. The Great Plateau and its Wonders The Great Condor Ascending 

 the Wonderful Puna At an Altitude where fire is Quenched Insensibility Produced 

 by rarified Air Precautions to be taken in Ascending Great Mountains Water-fowls 

 in the Lagoons Close Proximity of Winter and Summer The Sacred Lake Titicaca 

 The Sacred Island A Beautiful Legend City of the Sun Civilization and wealth 

 of the Incas The Sacred Rock of Manco Capac Footprints of a God Fountain of 

 the Incas The Vale of Imperial Delights Wonderful Ruins of a Palace built by the 

 Deity 1200 Miles of Roadway built of large square stones A Wonderful Ancient 

 Postal Service Wonders of Mexico and Central America Ancient Paintings, and 

 Exquisite Statuary Is our present Civilization Equal to that of Ancient Peru Does 

 Civilization Rise and Fall like the Tides of the Sea Proofs that it does The Won- 

 derful Amazon River Its Length, Depth, and Characteristics Great Tidal Waves 



Reptiles in its waters Ferocious Beasts and their Peculiarities 41 54 



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