INDEX. 



437 



Slaves of Cumana, i. 175 



of Venezuela, i. 398 



of Victoria, i. 399 



fugitive, capture of, iii. 221, 



279 

 Slave dealers, ii. 388, 427; routes 



of the, ii. 478 



food, iii. 249 



labour, i. 505, iii. 256, 259 ; 



price of, iii. 265 



Slave laws, iii. 274, 279, 260 n 



English, iii. 277 n 



Spanish, iii. 280 n. 281 



Slave market, at Cumana, i. 175, 



176 



trade, i. 200, iii. 243, 274, 



277; commercial establishments 

 to facilitate the, i. 176; causes 

 which led to the abolition of, i. 

 201, 397 



Benzoni, on the, i. 176 



Spanish, iii. 243 



Slavery, statistics of, i. 398, iii. 271, 



273, 284 



Snakes, antidote to the venom of, 

 ii. 364 



Soap-berry, i. 289 



Society, zones of, i. 393; three ages 

 of, i. 394; effects of earthquakes 

 upon, i. 453, 473, iii. 403 n 



Sodomoni river, ii. 456 



Soils, auriferous, iii. 67 



Solano, expeditions of, ii. 335 ; re- 

 sidence of, ii. 429 



Sombrero-palm, ii. 32 



Sounds, analogy of, i. 316 ; propa- 

 gation of, i. 438, ii. 264, 265; 

 rapid transmission of, i. 459 ; re- 

 semblance of, ii. 304 



- nocturnal propagation of, 

 ii. 264, 265 



- subterranean, ii. 226 

 South Sea Islands, i. 122 



Spain, journey through, i. 6, 8; 



possessions of, in America, i. 



397, iii. 1, 121 

 Spaniards, first settlement of, i. 



180 descendants of, i. 414 

 Speier, George von, iii. 43 



Springs of Europe and America, i. 

 208 ; temperature of, ib. 



of warm water, i. 37, 63; 



origin of, i. 198, ii. 458, iii. 105 

 of hot water, i. 198, 290, 



ii. 38, iii. 104 



of bitumen, iii. 397 



of Caracas, i. 390 



of Caripe, i. 251 



of Mariara, ii. 21; medi- 



cinal properties of, ii. 26 



of mineral tar, see " Petro- 



leum 



211 



of Mount Impossible, i. 



of Quetepe, i. 207, 208 



sulphureous, i. 285, ii. 23, 



24, iii. 105 



Stabroek, iii. 6 

 Stalactites, i. 268 



Stars, constellations of, i. 134, 135; 

 radiance of, i. 350 



falling, i. 28, 70,. 352; mag- 



nitude of, ii. 423 



States, American, iii. 129 

 Stone, of the eye, i. 197 



butter, ii. 502 



Stones, Amazon, ii. 395; locality 



of, ii. 462 



painted, locality of, ii. 475 



worship of, ii. 398 



St. Juan de la Rambla, malmsey 



wine of, i. 57, 60 

 St. Michael, i. 448 

 St. Thomas de la Guiana, i. 401, 



iii.1 

 Strata, inclination of, iii. 3f8; 



maxima of, iii. 374; enumeration 



of, iii. 378 ; parallelism of, iii. 375 



calcareous, iii. 371 



primitive, iii. 372, 378 n. 



of Sierra Parime, iii. 3C9 



secondary, iii. 378 n. 



tertiary, iii. 372, 379 n, 399 



transition, iii. 378 n. 



Stylites, sect of, iii. 8 

 Styptic, natural, ii. 508 

 Suapure river, ii. 200 

 Succession, laws of, iii. 89 M. 



