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INDEX. 



Serapio, quoted, 401, 403, 409. 



Serle Island, in the Coral Archipelago, 



visited, 54. 

 Seroor, or Gorputi, in the Dcki^an, 265. 

 Sesamum, 343, 363, 385. 

 Sesbania ^Egyptiaca, 361, 405. 

 Setaria, 365. 



viridis, 406. 

 verticillata, 406. 

 Seychelles, 304. 

 Shaddock, see Citrus decuniana. 

 Shark-hooks, made of wood, at certain 



coral islands, 66. 

 Shark-teeth saws, of the Tarawan coral 



group, 67. 



Sharks, at an uninhabited coral island, 55. 



Shasty Tribe, of Western Oi-egon, 110. 



Sheep, known in the Monomoisy Country, 

 197, 337. — The Somali variety, 208, 

 217. — Sheep, known to the M'Kuafi, 215. 

 — Sheep of the Dekkan, 265. — A pecu- 

 liar variety, figured on the most ancient 

 Egyptian monuments, 305, 367. — Sheep, 

 introduced into Oregon, 310. — Into the 

 Polynesian Islands, 333. — Figured on the 

 Indian monuments, 351, 354, 357. 



Shortsightedness, at the Tarawan coral 

 group, 67. — At the Feejee Islands, 166. 



Shoshonee, or Snake Tribe, 112. 



Siamese, 135, 283. 



Sicily, visited, 271. 



Sicyos angulata, 326, 332, 336. 



Sida, 319, 325. 



a double-flowered variety, 315, 325. 

 abutilon, 409. 

 mutica, 408. 

 spinosa, 408, 



Sikhs, 240. 



Sikirwashi, of East Africa, 216. 

 Sikligur, 270. 



Silk-worms, introduced into the Hawaiian 

 Islands, 98. — Into the Mediterranean 

 Countries, 400. 



Siegesbeckia Orientalis, 320, 327, 332. 



Simpson, T. Beckford, his account of Plea- 

 sant Island, quoted, 68. 



Sinapis, mustard, 386. 



Sindians, 240, 257, 259. 



Singapore, visited, 130, 134, 173, 176, 



180, 202, 203, 221, 235, 238, 240.— 



Diversity of races at, 274. 

 Sioux Tribe, 43. 

 Siser of Varro, 399. 

 Slum sisarum, the skirret, 399. 

 Siva, worship of, 268, 271, 355. 

 Skin lodges, seen in Interior Oregon, 34. 

 Skirret, see Sium sisarum. 

 Slavery, among the Chinooks, 28. — Among 



the Muslims, 185,190, 192,199,204,260, 

 Slings, used by the Fuegians, 19. — By the 



ancient Peruvians, 22. — Not used by the 



New Zealanders, 80. 

 Smallage, see Apium. 



Smoking, practised, as shown by Davis and 

 Squier, by the ancient inhabitants of the 

 valley of the Ohio, 44. 



Snake, or Shoshonee Tribe, 112, 



Snowy Mountains of Northern Oregon, 29, 

 31, 33, 38. 



Soahili, a Muslim nation of East Africa, 



186. — Their language, the medium of 

 commercial intercourse along the coast, 



187, 278. — Their trading excursions into 

 the Interior, 191, 193, 195. 



Socotra, natives of, 257. 

 Soil and territorial surface, of three prin- 

 cipal kinds, 13. 

 Soils, their different qualities, distinguished 



by Polynesians, 84. 

 Solanum, 324, 328, 337, 363. 

 pseudocapsicum, 405, 

 repandum, 320, 328. 

 aviculare, 328, 332. 

 dulcamara, 393. 

 tuberosum, see Potato, 

 nigrum, 308, 309, 316, 324, 328, 



337, 393. 

 melongena, the egg plant, 311, 343, 



347, 363, 403. 

 lycopersicum, the tomato, see Lyco- 

 persicum. 



Solomon Islands, or New Georgia, 172. 

 Somali, 206, 208.— Writers and learned 

 men, among them, 211. 



