INDEX 



383 



Wallace, 336. 



Wasp, orioles' nests surrounded by, 99; 

 dangerous sting of red, 114; spiders 

 preyed, on by, 117; maribundi, 133, 

 146, 245; ants plunder nests of, 163. 



Weapons, Indian, 204, 239. 



Weasel, tayra, 96. 



Weather, 58, 62, 93, 109, 155, 164. 



Wilderness, party enters the, 204; 

 difficulties of travel in, 210; eti- 

 quette of the, 234; first stage of con- 

 quest of the, 325; geographical and 

 zoological work still to be done in 

 the. Appendix A, 346. 



Wolf, red, 122. 

 Woods, 230. 

 Wrens, ant, 162. 



Xingu, 183, 337. 



Zahm, Father, I, 2, 5; children bap- 

 tized by, 55; 128; Colonel Roosevelt 

 reminded of his wish to shoot tapir 

 and jaguar by, 140; 157, 180, 199; 

 returns to Tapirapoan, 202. 



Zoologist, work of field, in South 

 America, Appendix A, 343, 346. 



