INDEX. 



375 



lens, 247 ; buiTiing-mirror, 248-51 ; 

 lucifer matches, 251 ; wooden fric- 

 tion-apparatus, kept up to modern 

 times, 252 ; evidence of early use of, 

 in diiferent countries, 252-9. 



Flamen Dialis, 136. 



Flint and steel, 247. 



floating gardens, etc., 171. 



Food superstitions, 131. 



Footmarks, in Mexican picture-writings, 

 182. 



Footprints, mythic, 115-7. 



Fork, eating-, 173-5. 



Fossil bones, shells, etc., myths of ob- 

 servation connected with, 308-21. 



Fountain of Youth, 352-5. 



Fuegians, 162, 245, 259, 261, 264, etc. 



Q-auchos, 240. 



Gesture-language, 14-82 : — of deaf-and- 

 dumb, 16-33 ; nature of, 15, etc. 

 arbitrary signs, 22 ; epithets, 23 

 absence of grammatical categories. 

 24, 62 ; grammar and syntax, 25-32 

 g. 1. of savage tribes, 34-40 ; syntax, 

 39 ; g. 1. of Cistercian monks, 40-2 

 the Pantomime, 42-4 ; g. 1. as an ac 

 companiment to speech, 44, etc. 

 common to mankind, 53 ; evidence 

 of mental similarity, 54 ; compared 

 with speech, 58-64 ; its dualism 

 compared with that of speech, 59-62 ; 

 prep)Ositions, 61 ; theory that g. 1. 

 was the original utterance of man, 64. 



Gesture-signs, 37, 45-53 ; translated in 

 language, 37 ; nodding and shaking 

 head, 38 ; kissing hand, 38 ; sign of 

 benediction, 38 ; beckoning, etc., 45, 

 52 ; snapping fingers, 45 ; grasping 

 and shaking hands, 45-7 ; crouching, 

 bowing, kneeling, etc., 47 ; gestures 

 of prayer, 48 ; uncovering head, feet, 

 and body, 48-51 ; rubbing noses, 

 etc., 51 ; signs of contempt, etc., 52 ; 

 against evil eye, 53. 



Giants, 314^9. 



Glass, legend of invention of, 151 ; sub- 

 stituted for stone in making knives, 

 etc., 218. 



Gold work of Mexico, 205. 



Gourds, etc., plastered with clay, 270. 



Griffins, 310-2. 



Grinding and polishing stone imple- 

 ments, 198-201, 369. 



Guanches, 228. 



Guano, 177. 



Hair, bewitching by locks of, etc., 

 127-9. 



Hammers, stone, 191-3, 199, 224. 



Hammock, 175. 



Harpocrates, 41. 



Heads, preserved, of New Zealand, 

 264. 



Hebrides, inhabitants of, 268. 



Heyse, on thought and speech, 68. 



Horns, used to point weapons, etc., 

 221. 



Hot stones, baking with, 260 ; boiling 

 with, 262-7. 



Hottentots, 10-2, 219. 



Humboldt, A. v., on connexion of Mexi- 

 cans with Asia, 92, 206, 331 ; on 

 human degeneration, 186 ; on Mexi- 

 can elephant-like head, 304. 



Husband, name of, not mentioned by 

 wife, 141. 



Ichthyophagi, 209. 



Ideas, association of, with images and 

 words, 107-49. 



Idiots, use of gesture-language in edu- 

 cation of, 79. 



Idols, 110-3. 



Images, etc., 107-23. 



Incubi and Succubi, 7. 



India, stone implements in, 212 ; fire- 

 making, 238, 254 ; marriage, 47, 

 277. 



Indians of N. America : gesture-lan- 

 guage, 35-40; picture-writing, 83-93. 



IncUviduals, not held to be physically 

 separate by lower races, 292. 



Inventors and civilizers, legends of, 

 150-4, 208, 230, 252, 299, etc. 



Iron, meteoric, used by Esquimaux, 

 204. 



Irrigation, decUne in art of, 183. 



Jack and the Beanstalk, 340-9. 

 Japan, stone implements in, 210. 

 Jews, their use of stone knives, 213-8. 

 Jonah, 337. 



Joshua, stones knives in tomb of, 214. 

 Jupiter Lapis, 226. 



Kafirs, 141, 147, etc. 



Kamchadals, 207, 238, 264, 275, 319, 

 etc. 



Kang-hi, his Encyclopaedia, 208, 309, ' 

 321. 



Kava or Ava, 179. 



Kettles, of bark, paunch, hide, split 

 bamboo, potstone, etc., 267-9. 



Khorsabad, obsidian flake-knives vmder 

 temple of, 210. 



Kings' and chiefs' names not men- 

 tioned, 142-4. 



