INDEX. 



425 



Cyperus, a species, 331. 

 esculentus, 382. 



articulatus, C. alopecurus, and C. 

 dives, 394. 



Cyprea monetas, a yellow variety, extrava- 

 gantly valued in former times at the Ha- 

 waiian Islands, 91. — Cowries, used for 

 money in the Thebaid, 20.5. — And at 

 Poona, in the Dekkan ; the species being 

 the C. annulus, 264. 



Cypress, see Cupressus. 



Cyprian verses, quoted, 384. 



Dactyloctenium, 365, 406. 

 Dahlia, 412. 



Dammara, the resin used for glazing pot- 

 tery at the Feejee Islands, 160. 

 Dampier's Straits, 142. 

 Danakil, or Denkali Tribes, 211. 

 Darfour, 201, 202. 

 Date palm, see PhcEnix. 

 Datisca cannabina, 405. 

 Datura fastuosa, 363, 405. 



metel, 343, 405. 



stramonium, 337. 

 Daucus carota, the carrot, 312, 327, 390. 

 Dayaks of Borneo, 125, 297. 

 Dean's Island, in the Coral Archipelago, 

 visited, 62. 



Defensive armour, used by the Klamet 

 Tribe of Northwest America, 40. — Used 

 in the Tarawan coral group, 67. — Used 

 by the Australians, 140. — Used by the 

 ancient Hindoos, 351. 



De Fuca, Straits of, visited, 23. 



Deghop, 350. 



Dekkan, or the Table-land of Southern 



India, 264. 

 Delaware Tribe, 43. 

 Delphinium ajacis, 382. 

 Demosthenes, quoted, 387. 

 Denkali, or Danakil Tribe, 211. 

 Denkawi language of Central Africa, 201. 

 Dentalium shells, used for ornament in 



Northwest America, 22, 26. 

 Desert Tribes, 14, 205, 298, 306. 

 Desmodium, 335. 



107 



Desmodium purpureum, 319, 326. 



DesmochiEta, 320, 328. 



De Soto, quoted, 397, 404. 



Dewlap, an appendage acquired by domestic 



animals, 301 . 

 Dianthus caryophyllus, the Carnation, 399. 

 Digitaria sanguinale, 318, 324, 330, 339, 



406. 



Digitaria ciliaris, 321, 330. 



Dioscorea alata, the yam, 83, 151, 321, 

 330.— Yams, in East Africa, 193, 342. 



Dioscorea pentaphylla, 317, 330. 

 bulbifera, 317, 330, 

 aculeata, 324, 330, 365. 

 sativa? 414. 



Dioscorides, plants mentioned by, 395. 



Diospyrus lotus, 409. 



Disappointment Islands, visited, 56. 



Diseases, of the natives of the Coral Islands, 

 57, 67.— Of the Taheitians, 72.— Of the 

 Samoans, 77. — Of the New Zealanders, 

 82.— At Tongataboo, 85.— Of the Ha- 

 waiians, 98. — Of the Californian Tribes, 

 109.— Of the East Indies, 133.— Of the 

 Feejeeans, 165. — Of Western Peru, 230. 



Diversity of physiognomy, at Cairo, 250. 



Diversity of races, at Cairo, Singapore, and 

 the other places visited, 250, 272, 274, 275. 



Dodona, Oracle of, 186. 



Dogs, of the Chinooks, 26. — Of the Tarawan 

 coral group, 67. — Dogs, perhaps absent 

 in Aboriginal New Zealand, 79. — Dogs, 

 at the Hawaiian Islands, 91, 94. — Not 

 seen among the Californian Tribes, 108. — 

 Known in the Monomoisy Country, 1 97, 

 337.— Known to the M'Kuafi, 2] 5.— Kept 

 by the Brinjarry, 269. — Figured on the 

 Egyptian monuments, 305, 324, 367. — 

 The only quadruped, aboriginally intro- 

 duced into America, 307, 308. — Dogs, 

 aboriginally introduced into the Poly- 

 nesian Groups, 313. — Figured on the 

 Indian monuments, 357. 



Dolichos lubia, 388. 



lablab, see Lablab. 



Domestic animals, a tendency in them to 

 become particoloured, 265, 301. 



