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Index 



Wasp, orioles' nests surrounded 

 by, 102; dangerous sting of 

 red, 118; spiders preyed on by, 

 121; maribundi, 137, ISO, 251; 

 ants plunder nests of, 168 



Weapons, Indian, 209, 245 



Weasel, tayra, 99 



Weather, 60, 65, 96, 112, 160, 

 170, 306 



Wilderness, party enters the, 

 209; difficulties of travel in, 

 215; etiquette of the, 240; first 

 stage of conquest of the, 334; 

 geographical and zoological 

 work still to be done in the. 

 Appendix A, 358 



Wolf, red, 11, 127 

 Woods, 235 

 Wrens, ant, 167, 168 



Xingu, 189, 347 



Zahm, Father, 1, 2, 5; children 

 baptized by, 57; 132; Colonel 

 Roosevelt reminded of his 

 wish to shoot tapir and jaguar 

 by, 144; 162, 186, 205; returns 

 to Tapirapoan, 207 



Zoologist, work of field, in 

 South America, Appendix A, 

 353, 358 



