INDEX. 



419 



Boerhaavia procumbens, 320, 328, 364. 



Boerhaavias, of the Andes of Peru, 300. 



Bombax anfractuosum, 343, 360. 



Bombay, visited, 180, 184, 236, 240, 241. 

 Diversity of races, at, 275. 



Borago officinalis, 413. 



Borassus, a flabel late-leaved palm, 61, 66, 

 314, 329, 365.— Fans, made of, at Ton- 

 ga taboo, 86. 



Borneo, Idan of, 50, 125. — Dayaks, 125, 

 297.— Wild people of Borneo, 296, 



Bornou, 202. 



Boswellia, 378, 361. 



Bougainville Island, 168. 



Bows, used by the natives of Good-success 

 Bay, in Terra del Fuego, 19. — Used in 

 some instances, at the Samoa Islands, 77, 



79. — Not used by the New Zealanders, 



80. — Used by the Californian Tribes, 

 105, 109.— Used by the Shasty Tribe, 

 111 . — Used in the vicinity of Torres 

 Straits, 141. — Sometimes used by the 

 Feejeeans, 149. — Used in East Africa, 

 192, 211.— Used by the Bhills, and by 

 the ancient Hindoos, 269. 



Brama, representations of, 354. 



Braminical Caves, 353. 



Bramins, interview with one at Singapore, 

 177. — No true Bramins, in the East In- 

 dies, 178. — Two Bramins, apparently of 

 the Telingan Race, seen at Bombay, 180. 

 — Mahratta Bramins, 180, 262, 263, 265, 

 267, 270. 



Brass, highly valued by the tribes of East 



Africa, 195, 199. 

 Brassica rapa, the turnip, 334, 344, 393. 

 eruca, 394. 



oleracea, 384, 312 334. 



napus, 386. 



campestris, 386. 

 Brava, a town in East Africa, ] 87. 

 Brazil, aboriginals of, 16. 

 Bread-fruit, sec Artocarpus incisa. 

 Brinjarry, of Hindoostan, 143, 269. 

 Briza media, 339. 



Bromelia ananas, 330, .344, 365, 410. 

 Broussonetia, the paper-mulberry, 317, 329. 



Brugmansia, 414. 



Bruguiera, the fruit eaten at the Feejee 



Islands, 151. 

 Bryophyllum calycinum, 362. 

 Buckwheat, see Polygonum fagopyrum. 

 Budhism, noticed, 178. 

 Budhist Caves, 349. 



Buffalo, the American, unknown in Oregon, 

 except along the skirts of the Rocky 

 Mountains, 34. 



Buffalo, the East Indian, 120, 265, 351, 

 357, 402. 



Bugis of Celebes, 132, 178, 283, 290. 



Bullocks, at the Hawaiian Group, 95. — Their 

 introduction at the Feejee Islands, 160, 

 333. — Bullocks, known in the Mono- 

 moisy Country, 197, 337. — Among the 

 Galla and M'Kuafi, 212, 215.— The cow, 

 venerated by the Hindoos, ancient Egyp- 

 tians, and early Romans, 260, 271. — 

 The Indian bullock, 265, 269, 356, 371. 

 — Bullocks, figured on the Egyptian monu- 

 ments, 305, 307. — Introduced into North- 

 w^est America, 310. — Figured in the 

 Braminical Caves, 354, 358. 



Burdens, mode of carrying in Oregon, 30. 

 — Among the Polynesians and Ancient 

 Egyptians, 90. — In New Zealand and at 

 the Feejee Islands, 90. — Among the Ca- 

 lifornian Tribes, 102. — Among the East 

 Indians, 119. — Among the Feejeeans, 

 149. — Among the Mahratta Hindoos, 261. 



Burial, mode of, on the north branch of the 

 Columbia River, 32. — And further north, 

 with the Tahkali Tribe, 33. — Among the 

 Chinese, 45. — Among the Californian 

 Tribes, 104. — Among the VVakamba and 

 M'Kuafi of East Africa, 194, 215.— 

 Among the Parsees, 241, 242. 



Butirinus, a species kept in artificial ponds 

 at the Hawaiian Islands, 91. 



Cabbage, 384. 



Cabul, people of, 240, 356. — Antiquities of, 

 349. 



Cacalia sonchifolia, 362. 

 Klcinii, 413. 



