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INDEX, 



Auguries and omens, in the modern East 

 Indies, 283. 



Aurungabad, a city in the Dekkan, 266. 



Australia, visited, 78. — Tlie European re- 

 sidents, 139, 233. — Character of the zoo- 

 logical productions of Australia, 303. 



Australian Race, 78, 137, 269. 



Australian woods, have some analogy in In- 

 terior Oregon, 33. 



Avena sativa, the oat, 311, 312, 389. 



Avei-hoa bilimbi, 361. 



Avicenna, quoted, 401, 402, 403. 



Azadirachta Indica, 361. 



Azederach, see Melia. 



Aztecas, 41, 113. 



Babylonian District, 239. 

 Babyrussa, 304. 



Bacasias, of the Andes of Peru, 300. 

 Balabac Passage, in the East Indies, 130. 

 Balanites, 373. 



Baldness, instances of, among the Somali, 



210. 

 Balm, 378. 



Balsamita vulgaris, 407. 



Bamboo, 318, 331, 359, 411.— At the Ta- 



rawan Coral Group, 67. — In Luzon, 121. 



— At the Murray Islands, in Torres 



Straits, 142. 

 Bamia, see Hibiscus esculentus. 

 Banabe, or Ascension, in the Caroline 



Group, 67, 115. 

 Banana, see Musa. 

 Banian Fig, see Ficus Indica. 

 Banians ofCutch, 177, 241, 259, 270. 

 Barabra of Egypt and Nubia, 204. 

 Bararata, or the Galla Country, 212. 

 Barbary Arabs, 239, 244, 245. 

 Barley, see Hordeum. 

 Barriers of races and nations, 298. 

 Barringtonia speciosa, 319, 326. 

 Basalt, blocks of, on a coral island, 64. 

 Basella tuberosa, 231, 301. 

 Bashee Islands, in the East Indies, 118. 

 Basilan, island of, in the Sooloo Sea, 126. 

 Battas of Sumatra, 293. 

 Beans, see Vicia, Phaseolus, and Dolichos. 



— Beans, cultivated in the Monomoisy 

 Country, 196. 



Bears, in California, 105, 107. 



Beasts of burden, unknown in the Mono- 

 moisy Country, 195. — Beasts of burden, 

 among the Brinjarry, 269. — In the vici- 

 nity ofBehring Straits, 307. 



Beaver, said to have been formerly nume- 

 rous in Interior Oregon, 35. 



Bedouins, of the vicinity of Mocha, 136, 

 252, 254.— Of the valley of the Eu- 

 phrates, 239. — Of Northwestern India, 

 240, 257.— Of Palestine, 251.— Bedouin 

 visiters, at Zanzibar, 255. — Bedouins of 

 Oman, or of the vicinity of Muscat, 256. 



Bees, 377. 



Beet, 311, 387. 



Behring Straits, the tribes around, 288, 307. 

 Bellinghausen Island, visited, 63. 

 Bclooches, 259. 

 Bengal Sea, 290. 



Benguela Tribe, of Western Africa, 200. 



Beni-Israel, 236. 



Berbers, or Lybinns, 250. 



Beta vulgaris, the beet, 311, 387. 



Betel, used at the Caroline Islands, 115. — 

 In the East Indies, 119. — In the New 

 Hebrides, and in the Nitendi Group, 289. 

 — In East Africa, 341. 



Bctula alba, 390. 



Bhilis, 269. 



Biche-le-mar, see Holothuria. 

 Bidens trifida, 312. 



odorata, 320, 327. 

 Bignonia stans, 363. 



catalpa, 410. 

 Bima, a river of Hindoostan, 265. 

 Birch, see Betula. 

 Birdlime, see Cordia myxa. 

 Birmcse, 135. 



Bishareen, of the Nubian Desert, 205, 206. 

 Bixa Oreliana, 335, 344, 360. 

 Blackfeet Tribe, inhabiting the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, 43. 



Blankets, of Northwest America, 26, 307. 



Blitum of the Romans, 386. 



Blue Mountains of Interior Oregon, 34. 



