4 CONTENTS 

 CHAPTER XVII 



JAGE 



Galapagos Archipelago — The whole Group Volcanic — Number of Craters 

 — Leafless Bushes — Colony at Charles Island — James Island — Salt- 

 lake in Crater — Natural History of the Group — Ornithology, curi- 

 ous Finches — Reptiles— Great Tortoises, habits of— Marine Lizard, 

 feeds on Sea-weed — Terrestrial Lizard, burrowing habits, herbiv- 

 orous — Importance of Reptiles in the Archipelago — Fish, Shells, 

 Insects — Botany — American Type of Organization — Differences in 

 the Species or Races on different Islands — Tameness of the Birds 

 — Fear of Man, an acquired Instinct 39., 



CHAPTER XVIII 



Pass through the Low Archipelago — Tahiti — Aspect — Vegetation on 

 the Mountains — View of Eimeo — Excursion into the Interior — 

 Profound Ravines — Succession of Waterfalls — Number of wild 

 useful Plants — Temperance of the Inhabitants — Their moral state 

 — Parliament convened — New Zealand — Bay of Islands — Hippahs — 

 Excursion to Waimate — Missionary Establishment — English Weeds 

 now run wild — Waiomio — Funeral of a New Zealand Woman — 

 Sail for Australia 425 



CHAPTER XIX 



Sydney — Excursion to Bathurst — Aspect of the Woods — Party of 

 Natives — Gradual extinction of the Aborigines — Infection gener- 

 ated by associated Men in health — Blue Mountains — View of the 

 grand gulf-like Valleys — Their origin and formation— Bathurst, 

 general civility of the Lower Orders — State of Society — Van 

 Diemen's Land — Hobart Town — Aborigines all banished — Mount 

 Wellington — King George's Sound — Cheerless Aspect of the Coun- 

 try — Bald Head, calcareous casts of branches 01 Trees — Party of 

 Natives — Leave Australia 4SS 



CHAPTER XX 



Keeling Island — Singular appearance — Scanty Flora — Transport of 

 Seeds — Birds and Insects — Ebbing and flowing Springs — Fields 

 of dead Coral — Stone transported in the roots of Trees — Great 

 Crab — Stinging Corals — Coral-eating Fish — Coral Formations — 

 Lagoon Islands, or Atolls — Depth at which reef-building Corals 

 can live — Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands — Sub- 

 sidence of their foundations— Barrier Reefs — Fringing Reefs — 

 Conversion of Fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, and into Atolls 

 — Evidence of changes in Level — Breaches in Barrier Reefs — 

 Maldiva Atolls; their peculiar structure— Dead _and_ submerged 

 Reefs — Areas of subsidence and elevation — Distribution of Vol- 

 canoes — Subsidence slow, and vast in amount 477 



CHAPTER XXI 



Mauritius, beautiful appearance of — Great crateriform ring of Moun- 

 tains — Hindoos — St. Helena — History of the changes in the Vege- 

 tation — Cause of the extinction of Land-shells — Ascension — Varia- 

 tion in the imported Rats — Volcanic Bombs — Beds of Infusoria 

 — Bahia — Brazil— Splendour of Tropical Scenery — Pernambuco — 

 Singular Reef — Slavery — Return to England — Retrospect on our 

 Voyage 509 



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