INDEX 
ards of his future, 239-241; and 
altruism, 272; ultimate fate of 
the race, 272, 273; his existence 
on other spheres, 272, 273. 
Mango, 124, 134. 
Maui, 129; a visit to, 133-149; shape 
of, 147. 
Mauna Kea, 148, 155. 
Mauna Loa, 143, 148, 155. 
Merced River, 71, 80. See 
Yosemite. 
Mercury, the planet, 269. 
Millerite excitement, 267. 
Mina, 132, 143. 7 
Mind, human and animal, 202. - 
Mirror Lake, 73. 
Mississippi River, mineral matter 
earried by, 169. 
Molokai, 121, 148. ? 
Monophyletic hypothesis, the, 231. 
Monroe, Miss Harriet, 47. 
Montana, an over-thrust in, 172. 
Mosquitoes, in the Hawaiian Is- 
lands, 140. 
Mt. Hillers, 173. 
Mt. Tamalpais, 172. 
Mt. Tantalus, Oahu, 123, 128. 
Mountains, short-lived, 93-96; 
walks in the Hawaiian, 125-130; 
a trip to Haleakala, 133-146; 
robbing the clouds, 147; a trip to 
Kilauea, 149-155. 
Mules, at the Grand Cafion, 66, 67. 
Murder, among animals, 256. 
also 
Natural selecti 
natural. 
Nature, as an inventor and experi- 
menter, 34, 35; in the tropics, 126; 
vast time taken by the processes 
of, 199; the ‘‘gospel’’ of, 243-273; 
and God, 246; teaches more than 
she preaches, 247; knowledge and 
enjoyment of, 249-251; reason in, 
259-262; progresses by trial and 
error, 261, 262; intercourse with, 
264, 265; largeness of, 266; merci- 
less justice of, 271, 272. 
Nature-study, 249, 250. 
Needles, the, Maui, 129. 
Negro, unchanged physically from 
ancient times, 190. —- 
Nevada Falls, 74. 
North Dome, 73. | 
Oahu, first sight of, 121; seen from 
Haleakala, 148, 144; erosion on, 
147, 
Oaks, a peculiarity in, 78, 79. 
Ohelo berries, 151. 
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 217, 218, 
230; quoted, 237. 
Over-thrusts, 171, 172. 
Paia, 148. 
Palzontologist, the, a detective of 
the rocks, 214. 
Palentology. See Evolution. 
Pali, Hawaiian Islands, 129. 
Palisades, the, 174. 
Palola Valley, a walk up, 125- 
128. 
Papaya, 124, 
Parunuweap Cafion, 62. 
Penhallow, Mr., sugar plantation 
of, 134. 
Petrified Forests, the, 43, 44, 76. 
Pheasant, in the Hawaiian Islands, 
137. 
Pineapple, plantation, 
canning-plant, 145. 
Punch Bowl, Oahu, 123. 
144, 145; 
Quartz, 108. 
Raven, northern (Corvus corax prin- 
cipalis), 230. 
Religion, on the wane, 195; forms 
change but the sentiment persists, 
246. 
Rice-bird, of the Hawaiian Islands, 
27. 
Robin, western (Planesticus migra- 
tortus propinquus), 71, 78. 
Rocks, old and young, 96; gene- 
alogy of the sedimentary, 98-110; 
amount of Archean, 98-101; 
chemistry in the growth of, 105— 
108; depths of the layers of sedi- 
mentary, 107; soil made from, 
167, 168; robbed by the waters, 
169; formation of the sediment~ 
ary, 169, 170; over-thrusts in 
the, 171, 172, 
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