INDEX. 



423 



Colocasla macrorhiza, 60, 315, 330. — A 

 safeguard against famine, 91, 151. 



Colocasia grandifolia, 365. 



Colours, those used by the Chinooks, 26. 



Colubrina Asiatica, 319, 325. ' 



Columba ; a species of pigeon, kept in cap- 

 tivity at a Polynesian spirit-house, 66. 



Columba, the domestic pigeon, 186, 267, 

 333, 348, 358, 373. 



Columbia River, 31, 37. 



Columella, quoted, 393, 395. 



Commelina, 318, 330, 339. 



Colville, in Interior Oregon, 33, 310. 



Commerce, Aboriginal, among the Chinooks, 

 25. — At Taheiti, 72. — None among the 

 Australians, 139. — Aboriginal commerce 

 at Tongataboo, 289. 



Comoro Islands, population of, 190. — Co- 

 moro men, make trading excursions into 

 the interior of Africa, 191, 193.— The 

 languages, at the Comoro Islands, 279. 



CompositcE, of the Andes of Peru, 300. 



Concan, 264. 



Conferva, an esculent species, at the Ha- 

 waiian Islands, 94. 



Congo tribe, of Western Africa, 200. 



Convolvulus batatas, the sweet potato, in 

 New Zealand, and in the other islands of 

 the Pacific, 79, 316, 327.— Cultivated 

 without soil, in some parts of the Ha- 

 waiian Islands, 97. — Rare at the Feejee 

 Islands, 150. — Cultivated in the Mono- 

 moisy country, 196, 341. — In Aboriginal 

 America, 309. — In Western Africa, 309. 

 —In Yemen, 347.— In India, 363.— In 

 Egypt, 411. 



Convolvulus sepium, 328, 332, 409. 

 arvensis, 363, 396. 

 scammonia, 393. 

 Cairius, 406. 



Conyza, 320, 327. 

 odora, 407. 



Cooking, among the Polynesians, 69, 151. 

 — Among the Californian Tribes, 103, 

 109. — Among the Feejecans, 151. — 

 Among the Galla, 213. 



Copal, 199. 



Copper, obtained by the natives of East 



Africa, 199. 

 Copts, 185, 250, 



Coral islands, account of them, 53. — A 

 mode of procuring water at, 66. — Fire, 

 not seen at certain islands, 66. — Tonga- 

 taboo, is a coi'al island, 83. — Elevated 

 coral islands, Metia, and Vatu-lele, 63, 

 157. — European residents, 65, 68, 232, 

 273. 



Coral shores, yield more food to man, than 



the ordinary sea coast, 286. 

 Corchorus olitorius, 403. 

 Cordia crenata, 399. 



myxa, 374. 



sebestena, 314, 327. 

 Coreopsis tinctoria, 362. 

 Coriander, 389. 

 Cornel, see Cornus. 



Cornucopias, figured on the Indian monu- 

 ments, 355. 



Cornus, the berries, eaten by the tribes of 

 Interior Oregon, 37. 



Cornus mascula, and C. sanguinea, 381. 



Corylus avcllana, the filbert, 386. 



Costume, of the women of Interior Oregon, 

 31_0fthe Kalapuya Tribe, 39.— Of 

 the Eastern Paumotuans, 54. — Of the 

 natives of Pleasant Island, 68. — Of the 

 Samoans, 73. — Of the New Zealanders, 

 81. — Of the Californian women, 108. — 

 Two styles of costume, in Aboriginal 

 America, 113. — Costume of the Fee- 

 jeeans, 148.— Of the M'Kuafi, 215.— 

 Of Chili and Peru, 230.— Of the Parsees, 

 242.— Of Oriental women, 243.— Of the 

 modern Greeks, 246. — Of various nations 

 of antiquity, figured on the Egyptian 

 monuments, 249. — Costume of the Arabs, 

 251, 252, 255. — And of the inhabitants 

 of the Dekkan, 265. — Costume of the 

 Brinjarry, 269. — Of the ancient Hindoos, 

 351, 352, 354, 356. 



Cotton, 334, 346, 360, 385.— Among an- 

 cient Peruvian relics, 21, 308. — A tradi- 

 tion respecting the culture of cotton in 

 Mexico, 113. — Introduction of cotton into 



