INDEX 



377 



Graves, forlorn, 197, 205, 225. 



Guapore, the, 183. 



Guarany, 43, 44. 



Guiana, 337. 



Gy-Parana, the, 129, 130; descent of 

 the, 153; boat, men, and provisions 

 lost ascending the, 154; 241, 263, 

 264, 338. 



Hammocks, Appendix B, 353, 357. 



Harper, Frank, 4, 5, 161; specimens 

 and unnecessary baggage returned 

 to New York in care of, 166. 



Haseman, John D., 172, Appendix 

 A, 347, 348; theories of, 349, 350, 



351- 



Headball, 192, 193, 198. 



Head-nets, 21^, 227. 



Herford, Oliver, nonsense rhymes of, 

 192. 



Hoehne, the botanist, 167. 



Honey, 257. 



Honey-creeper, 231. 



Horses, 67, 74; curious relations of 

 tapirs and, 143. 



Houses, native, 214, 238, 239. 



Huatsui, camp at, 207. 



Hudson, Mr., author of "Naturalist 

 on the Plata," 28, 33, 84; Appen- 

 dix A, 344. 



Huguen, Marcelino, 30. 



Humboldt, 345. 



Hunters, native, 75; one christened 

 "Nips," 76; curious ignorance re- 

 garding habits of animals of native 

 and other, 84; riding costume of, 

 144; lackof sense of direction of, 175. 



Huxley, 348, 352. 



Ibis, turtles' nests plundered by, 99. 



Iguanas, 222. 



Indians, 47, 48; civilization of tribes 

 of, 50; fishing village of, loi; gov- 

 ernmental treatment of the, 152; 

 wages paid the, 188; Colonel Ron- 

 don's treatment of, 188; telegraph- 

 line patrolled by, 188; dog killed by, 

 272, 273; 279. 



Indian mounds, loi. 



Insects, 39, 40; man's worst animal 

 foes, 40, 41; a menace to wilderness 

 travel, 53, d"], 98; perpetuation of 

 species of, 116, 117; atrocious suf- 

 fering caused by, 147, 170, 171; 

 many queer, 178; 187, 206, 207; 

 torments from, 226; danger from 

 wild animals less than from, 226, 

 227; 253, 256, 261, 266, 274, 298; 

 festering wounds caused by bites of, 

 302; 321. See Mosquitoes, Flies, 

 Wasps, Ants. 



"Instituto serum-therapico," 13, 14. 



Irala, the Spanish explorer, 58. 



Itacoatiara, 311. 



Jabiru storks, 49, 64, 67, 90, 91; Fiala 

 takes a moving picture of, 107; 151. 



Jacanas, 72. 



Jacare-tinga. See Caymans. 



Jacu, a, 256, 258. 



Jacyparana, the, 264. 



Jaguar, 26, 31, 32, 53; hunt for, 77-82; 

 cattle preyed on by, 83; spears and 

 rifles used in hunting, 102; unsuc- 

 cessful hunt for, 113, 114; melanism 

 common among, 123; trees refuge 

 of, 137; kills bullock, 334. 



Jaguarundi, 122, 123. 



Jararaca, 1 1, 12, 20, 21, 22; mussu- 

 rama fights, 23, 24, 25; man bitten 

 by» 53; 133; stories of, 222. 



Jesuits, missions of the, 43. 



Joao, Kermit's helmsman, 268, 269, 

 283. 



Johnston, Sir Harry, 40. 



Juina, the, 223. 



Julio, 244, 290; story of tragedy caused 

 by, 302-308. 



Jungle, man strayed in, 158. 



Juruena, the, 129, 130, 182, 203, 211; 

 arrival at, 214; 338. 



Kipling, poems of, 198. 



Lambert, Doctor Alexander, 253. 

 Lamps, Appendix B, 36. 



