INDEX. 



423 



Heat, decrement of, i. 51 



atmospheric, parts of the New 



World most exposed to, i. 378, 

 386 



Heaths, arborescent, of Teneriffe, 

 i. 63, 65 



existence of, ii. 86 j zone 

 of, i. 118 



Hercules, tower of, inGalicia, i. 10, 

 14 



Hernan Cortez, discoveries of, iii. 

 189; shipwreck of, iii. 190 



Perez de Quesada, iii. 47 



Herons, ii. 168, 201, 255 n 



Herrera, Alonzo de, expedition of, 

 iii. 40, 42 



Hides, exportation of, ii. 110 



Hieroglyphic rock-marks, ii. 472 



Higuerote, bay of, i. 371; de- 

 parture from, i. 374 



mountains, i. 480; ve- 

 getation on the, i. 482 



Himalaya mountains, ii. 4; height 

 of the, iii. 290 



History, natural, museum of, at 

 Madrid, i. 7 



Hocco, or American pheasant, ii. 

 154 



Homes of native Indians, i. 331, 

 ii. 266, iii. 835 



Honda, ii. 315 



Hondius, map of America, by, iii. 

 54; errors of, iii. 63, 64 



Honduras, iii. 58, 357 



Horizon, distant visibility of the, 

 i. 433 



Horticulture, ii. 418 



Hortsmann, iii. 57 



Horses of the Llanos, ii. 110, con- 

 tests of with electric eels, ii. 114 



Hospital at Caripe, i. 251 



Hot-springs, i. 290 n, 292, ii. 21, 

 26, 38, iii. 104 



Huanta, iii. 301, 302 



Huarocheri, iii. 301 



Huaytecas, iii. 29 7 



Hudson's Bay, iii. 356 



Hunger, physiology of. ii. 196 n, 

 500, 501 



Huten, Felipe de, expedition of, iii. 



49 



Huts of the natives, i. 309 

 Huttonian theory, i. 457 

 Hyalites, i. 36 



I. 



Iceland, introduction of Christian- 

 ity into, ii. 39 



Ice-house, natural, of Peak of Tene- 

 riffe, i. 68, i. 69 



Idapa, mouth of the, ii. 419 



Idioms, American, i. 315, 316, ii, 

 223, 293; grammatical system of, 

 i. 325 



Iguana, nests of the, ii. 166 



Imposible, mountain, i. 209; geo- 

 logical conformation of the, i. 210, 

 211 



Indians of the missions, compared 

 with free tribes, i. 300 ; great 

 age attained by, i. 493, 494; 

 language of, ii. 241 



Indians, first meeting with, i. 143 ; 

 festivals of, i. 177; settlement of, 

 on the salt lakes, i. 189; super- 

 stitions of, i. 260; characteristic 

 traits of, i. 194, 299, ii. 390; 

 religious instruction of, i. 272; 

 religious principles of, i. 296, ii. 

 362; rencontre with, i. 280, 344, 

 manners of, i. 293; food of, ii. 

 389, 411, 495; tribes of, i. 295 

 -297, ii. 241; apathy of, i. 300; 

 physiology of, i, 308 ; colour of, 

 i. 336-340, 342, n; system of 

 navigation practised by, i. 363; 

 districts of the, i. 396 ; hire of, 

 as beasts of burden, ii. 31 ; lan- 

 guages of, i. 318-303, ii. 144 n ; 

 intellectual development of, i. 

 327, it. 377; encampments of, ii. 

 184, 200, 202, 422; intrepidity 

 of, iii. 5; cannibalism of the, 

 ii. 411-415 



Indians of Barcelona, iii. 106 



