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INDEX. 



Chrysanthemum Indicum, 363. 

 segetum, 397. 



Cicer arietinum, or chick-pea, 380, 361. 



Cicero, quoted, 382. 



Cimmerian darkness, 298. 



Cingalese, 136. 



Cinnamon, 178, 356, 378. 



Circumcision, among the Feejeeans and 

 Polynesians, 150. — Among the East 

 African Tribes, 192, 193, 212, 214, 

 216. 



Cissus quadrangularis, 361. 



rotundifolia, 409. 

 Citrullus, the water-melon, 336, 347, 362, 

 369, 370. 



Citrus aurantium, the orange, 335, 341, 

 346, 403. — Local at the Hawaiian Islands, 

 88. — This fruit, not eaten by the Banians 

 of Cutch, 260. 

 Citrus Sinensis, the Mandarin Orange, 266, 

 344, 360. 

 torosa, 321, 325. 



decumana, the shaddock, 323, 325, 



344, 361. 

 the lemon, 335, 346, 403. 

 limonum, the lime, 335, 346, 403. 

 Medica, the sweet lemon, 346, 392. 

 Civilization, traditions respecting its origin 

 in America, 113. — Four natural centres 

 of Civilization, 301. 

 Civita Vecchia, 271. 

 Classet, visited, 25. 

 Cleome jjentaphylla, 334, 412. 



spinosa, 334. 

 Clermont Tonnerre, a coral island, visited, 

 54. 



Climate of the Southern Hemisphere, 18, — 

 Of Interior Oregon, 31, 33, 34. — Of New 

 Zealand, 79. — Of the Hawaiian Islands, 

 88, 94, 95.— Of North California, 103.— 

 Of New Mexico, 112.— O.'Austraha, 140. 

 —Of Western Peru, 230.— Of the Peru- 

 vian Andes, 231. — Of the Valley of the 

 Nile ; the only portion of the Tropics 

 known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, 

 248, 249. — Climate of Southern Arabia, 

 210,253. — Of Western Hindoostan, 261, 



264, 265, 267. — Great variety of climate, 

 in Tropical America, 303. — Climate of 

 the Equatorial Countries, 304. 



Clothing in Tropical Climates, remarks on 

 the subject, 69. 



Cloves, 178, 304, 345, 400. 



Clubs, of the New Zealanders, 80. — The 

 club, is the favourite weapon of the Tonga 

 Islanders, 83. — And of the Feejeeans, 

 149. — Clubs, used by the Nubians of the 

 Desert, 206.— By the Mussai, 217.— By 

 (he ancient Hindoos, 351, 354. 



Cnicus benedictus, 407. 



Coasts, three kinds of, 13. 



Cobra, or asp, 351, 353, 357. 



Coca, the leaves used by the natives of the 

 Peruvian Andes, 21. 



Cocculus Indicus, 400. 



Cochin, in Southern Hindoostan, 290. 



Cochin-Chinese, 134. 



Cochineal, 308. 



Cochlearia, 409, 413. 



Cock-tighting, at the Tarawan coral group, 

 67. — At Taheiti, 70. — In the East Indies, 

 119. 



Cocoa palm, 314, 324, 329, 338, 342, 348, 

 365, 403. — Absent from unvisited islands, 

 55. — Is the principal useful plant of the 

 coral islands, 60. — Neglected at the Ha- 

 waiian Islands, 95. — Extensively culti- 

 vated in Luzon, 121. — Cultivated at the 

 Murray Islands, in Torres Straits, 142. 

 — On the coast of East Africa, 192. — 

 And in the West Indies, 309. 



Codia;'um varicgatum, 322, 329, 364. 



Coffee, 337, 362, 403.— Wild in the Mono- 

 moisy country, 196. 



Coix lachryma, 323, 324, 331, 401. 



Colaris, 124. 



Colchicum, 398. 



Colocasia antiquorum, 395. 



Colocasia esculenta, 60, 314, 824, 330, 339, 

 342, 365, 395.— In New Zealand, 79.— 

 Constitutes the chief article of food, at the 

 Hawaiian Islands, 90. — Terraces for cul- 

 tivating taro, at the Feejee Islands, 153, 

 158. 



