INDEX. 



417 



Apium graveolens, 383. 



dulce, the celery, 311, 411. 

 Apocynum, or California flax, 108. 

 Apple, see Pyrus malus. 

 Apricot, see Prunus Armeniaca. 

 Arabian Race, '2'Zb. 



Seas, 291. 



Arab colonists, at Sooloo, 128, 244. — At 

 Singapore, 180, 239, 244.— At the Co- 

 moro Islands and Madagascar, 191. — ■ 

 Arabs, sometimes visit the Monomoisy 

 Lake, 194. — Arabs, of the Mediterranean, 

 245.— Of the Hedjaz, 251 .—Oi" Southern 

 Arabia, 251. — Of Socotra, 257. — Of 

 Northwestern India, 257. — Arab visiters 

 at Zanzibar, 255. — Arab residents in 

 Hindoostan, 257. — Geographical position 

 of the Arab tribes, 306, 402. 



Arachis, the pea-nut, cultivated in the Mo- 

 nomoisy Country, 196, 343. — In Hin- 

 doostan, 361.— In Egypt, 403. 



Aramanga, in the New Hebrides, natives 

 of, 170. 



Aratika, in the Coral Archipelago, 62. 



Araucanians, have no communication with 

 South Patagonia, 17. 



Arbutus procera, the bark used by the na- 

 tives of Southwestern Oregon, 40. 



Arbutus tomcntosa, the berries eaten in 

 North California, 110. 



Architecture, of the Chinese, 48. — Of the 

 East Indians, 119, 127.— Of the Fee- 

 jeeans, 150, 154. — Of the Eastern Hin- 

 doos, 178. — Of the Arabian Jews, 237. 

 — Of Armenian emigrants, 238. — Archi- 

 tecture at Mocha, 258. — Among the So- 

 mali, 209. — Of the Ancient Hindoos, 

 349, 355, 356.— The Gothic style, 402. 



Areca, the betel palm, 342, 365. 



Arenaria rubra, 408. 



Aretffius, quoted, 388, 400. 



Argcmone Mexicana, 334, 344, 360. 



Argus pheasant, 304. 



Aristophanes, plants mentioned by, 386. 



Aristotle, quoled, 387, 338. 



Armenians, 23H. 



Armeniaca, sec Prunus. 



105 



Armour, worn by the Klamet Tribe of 



Southwestern Oregon, 40. 

 Arnotto, see Bixa. 

 Artemisia dracunculus, 407. 



arborescens, 407. 



Judaica, 407. 



species of, in Interior Oregon, 38. 

 absinthium, 389. 

 abrotanum, 389. 

 Artichoke, see Cynara. 

 Artocarpus incisa, the bread-fruit, 317, 329, 

 364. — Grows only in certain districts, at 

 the Hawaiian Islands, 88, 95. — Consti- 

 tutes the chief support of the Marquesas 

 Islanders, 100. 

 Artocarpus integrifolia, the jack-tree, 341, 

 364. 



Arts, some in Oregon, that seem to have 

 been derived from California, 25. — Seat 

 of the arts, on the Indus, 258, 357. — 

 Origin of the Polynesian arts, 279, 284, 



Arum esculentum, see Colocasia. 

 Rumphii, 322, 330. 



Arundo donax, the reed, 368. 



Asaua Islands, in the Feejee Group, 157. 



Ascension, or Banabe, in the Caroline 

 Group, 67, 115. 



Ascetics, among the Ancient Hindoos, 

 350. 



Asclepias Curassavica, 363. 



procera, 413. 



fruticosa, 413. 

 Ash, see Fraxinus. 

 Asp, or Cobra, 351, 357. 

 Asparagus, 365, 390. 

 Aspen, see Populus tremula. 

 Assyrians, 239. 



Astrology, the aboriginal profession of, at 

 the Hawaiian Islands, 93. 



Astronomical knowledge, of the Taheitians, 

 69, 72.— Of the New Zealanders, 81. — 

 Of the Hawaiians, 93, 289. — Among the 

 Hindoos, 268. — Of the Feejeeans, 284. 



Athcna-us, quoted, 387, 390, 391. 



Atri|)lex, 390. 



Aubergine, or Egg-plant, see Solanum me- 

 longena, 311. 



