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INDEX. 



Abipones, 140, 146, 290, etc. 



Adobe, 99. 



Jiolian flutes, living, 177. 



Africa, Beast-Fables of, 10-2, 355; 



Stone Age in, 219-22. 

 Alnajah of Ethiopia, 216. 

 Alphabets and Syllabaria, 101-5 : Fin- 

 ger-alphabet, 17. 

 America, connexion of its civilization 



with that of the Old World, 206, 275, 



331-60. 

 American chroniclers, 250. 

 Andaman Islanders, 160. 

 Archimedes, his burning mirrors, 248. 

 Architecture, evidence of progress in, 



166. 

 Ark, 323. 



Arrow-heads, stone, 208, 210, 221. 

 Articulation of deaf-mutes, 70-5. 

 Arts, transmission of, 167, etc., 365. 

 Aiyan race, then* use of metal, 212 ; 



their fire apparatus, 241, 254. 

 Astrology, 132. 

 Aubiu, M., on phonetic characters of 



Mexicans, 94-6. 

 AustraHans, 141, 144, 176, 200, 261, 



280, 363, etc. 

 Axes, stone, 199. 



Bakalahari, 184. 



Baking in hollow trees, ant-hills, pits, 

 260. 



Balsam of Judeea, 217. 



Bamboo, fire produced from, 237. 



Barbecue, 261. 



Basques, 297. 



Beast-Fables in Europe and Africa, 

 10-2, 355 ; Lion and Mouse, 342. 



Bee-hunting, Australian method of, 176. 



Bellows for u-on-smelting, 167. 



Bewitching, by images, 118-20, 125 ; 

 by earth-cutting, 120 ; by names, 

 124-6 ; by locks of hair, parings of 

 naUs, leavings of food, etc. 127-30 ; 

 by symbolic charms, 130, 133 ; by 

 ' wishing,' 133 ; by the evil eye, 134. 



Bible, tales derived from, 329-31. 



Bird-trap, rudimentary, 169. 



Blast-pump for iron-smelting, in East 

 and Madagascar, 167-9, 366. 



Boats, remains of, on mountains, etc., 

 320-4. 



Boats and rafts, 162. 



Boiling, 261-9 ; with hot stones, 262-7; 

 vessels for, 267-9. 



Bolas, 176. 



Bone-caves, 196, 312 ; stone imple- 

 ments of, 196. 



Bones burnt for fuel, 183. 



Boomerang, 175, 1816, 363. 



Bread-fruit paste, 179. 



Bridge of Dead, 349-52. 



Bronze Age in America, 205 ; in Asia, 

 206. 



Bucaneers, 261. 



Bucaning, 260. 



Burial in canoes, etc., 352. 



Burning-lens, 247. 



Burning-mirror, 248-51. 



Bushmen, 184. 



Calculation by stones, 163. 



Calendars of N. A. Indians, 91 ; of 

 Mexicans, 92, 332. 



CaUban, 245. 



Celts, stone, 198-201. 



Central America, ruined cities of, 181, 

 205. 



Charms, 130. 



Cherokees, their syllabarium, 104. 



Chinampas, 171. 



China, aboriginal tribes of, 207, 294. 



Chinese, their clan-names, 278; their 

 phonetic writing, 99-101. 



Chocolate, 177. 



Christy, Mr. H., his exploration of bone- 

 caves of Perigord, 196 ; finding stone- 

 implements in North Africa, 221. 



Churn worked with cord, 240. 



Circumcision : — with stone knives 

 among Jews, 214-8 ; Eabbinical law 

 as to instrument, 215 ; among Alna- 

 jah in Ethiopia, 216 ; ia Fiji islands, 

 216 ; in Australia, 218. 



