536 
Shad, 704. 
Shaddock, 636. 
Shade-coral, 505. 
Shade trees; Ornamental trees, 643. 
Shakespeare, 538. 
Sharks, 523, 700. 
Hole, 438. 
Oil, 521, 528. 
Shearwater, 456, 662, 674, 679. 
notes of, 670. 
Sheep and goats, destructive to vegeta- 
tion, 591. 
Shelly Bay, 435. 
Shelly, Mr. Henry, 435. 
Shiner, 828. 
Ship, Blessing, 452. 
Edwin, 624. 
James, 514. 
Joseph, 518. 
Leander, 686. 
Sea Venture, 439. 
Starre, 452. 
Warwick, wrecked, 460. 
Shipbuilding and commerce, 608. 
Ship-channel, 487. 
Shipley, A. G., 811. 
Shipment of a cargo of cedar, 600, 601. 
Shipworm, 442. 
Shipwreck of the Bonaventura, 534. 
historical, 5338. 
of the Sea Venture, 537. 
Shore Cliffs, Natural Arches, Pinnacles, 
472. 
Sicyos angulatus, 575. 
Siderastrea radians, 484, 485. 
Silk, Castor Oil, Olive Oil, etc., 523. 
Cotton-tree, 643. 
Spider, 829. 
Worms, 5238, 625, 641. 
Silver Witch, 828. 
Silvanus Surinamensis, 788. 
Silvery Sphinx, 768. 
Singing Birds; Tree Sparrow, Goldfinch, 
Wheat-ear, Starling, etc., 722. 
Sinks, 466. 
Siphonostoma citrifolii, 802. 
Sisyrinchium Bermudianum, 572, 574. 
Sitodrepa panicea, 793. 
Sitophilus granarius, 528, 784. 
oryze, 785. 
A. EH. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
948 
Sitotroga cerealella, 779. 
Sketch of the Discovery and Early 
History, 582, 538. 
Skin-beetles, 792. 
Skipping-beetles, 794. 
Skylark, European, 724. 
Slater, 844. : 
Slavery : Negroes, Indians, Whites, 560- 
566, 866. 
Slaves allowed legal marriage, 564. 
apprenticed to trades, 562. 
banished when freed, 560. 
baptised sometimes, 564, 565. 
children divided, 569. 
conspiracies of, 1656, 16738, 1761, 
563, 564, 866. 
denied religious privileges, 564. 
emancipation of, 566, 570. 
executed in 1763, value of, 866. 
fine for killing, 310, 563. 
Indian, 565. 
killing not a felony, 563. 
laws to restrain, 563. 
number of in 1834, when freed, 566. 
sold away from theislands, 562, 566. 
too numerous, 562. 
white, 566-568. 
Slaves to the Company, 447, 561, 568, 
566, 875. 
Slender Snails, 732. 
Slicker, 828. 
Slipper Plant, 657. 
Slugs, 591, 734. 
Small pox, epidemics of, 516. 
vaccination for, 516. 
Small Shot, 575. 
Smilax aspera=S. sagitteefolia, 661. 
Oriental, 661. 
Smith, Capt. John, 448, 458, 459, 545, 
546, 554, 656, 672, 677, 678, 679, 
707, 708, 715. 
History quoted, 4538, 455, 458, 459, 
491, 496, 513, 517, 546, 672. 
- on cahow, 672. 673. 
on egg-birds, 661, 666, 673. 
on famine of 1615, 672. 
on fishes, 708, 704. 
on introduced plants, 624, 625, 627, 
631. 
on medicinal plants, 580. 
