420 
INDEX. 
Fevers, epidemic, in the region of 
Cariaco, i. 287 
Fig tree, i. 216, 490 
Fires, nocturnal, in the Llanos, i. 
210 
subterranean, i. 37 
Fish, caribe or cannibal, ii. IjGC, 
167 
electrical, ii. 113, 125; ac- 
tion of, ii. 122, 128 
of the Nile, ii. 131 
flying, formation of, i. 131 
flour, ii. 437, 454 
bread, ii. 455 » 
Fishes, respiration of, ii. 117 
Fishing, singular methods of, ii. 
115 
Florida, iii. 154 ; bees of, iii. 261 
Flour, of the United States, iii. 
260, 264 
stores of Caracas i. 389 
Forests, American, i. 215, 216, 
276, ii. 162; zone of, i. 393 ; 
effects of the dirninition of, ii, 8 
on the Caribbean Sea, i. 
240 
of Catuaro, i. 283 
of cedar, i. 144, 145, 
240 
of mahogany, i. 240 
of palm trees, ii. 31 
• of Pimichin, ii. 366 
of Punzera, i. 247 
of Venezuela, i. 283 
Formations, geologic, i. 31 
• volcanic, i. 457 
Forteventura, i. 30, 39 
Fortunate Islands, i. 45 
Fossil remains, discovery of, i. 
228, 269, iii. 113, study of, iii. 
399 
Francisco, Lozano, remarkable phy. 
Biological phenoTncnon of, i. 220 
of Pampeluna, i. 300 
Fray Ramon Bueno, residence of, 
ii. 494 ; remarks of, on the 
habits of the Ottomacs, ii. 496 
Fruits of Antimano, i. 47a 
of Araya, i. 292 
Fruits of Caracas, i. 409 
— of Macarao, i. 409 
Fucus, or sea-weed, banks of. in 
the Atlantic i. 33, 34, 129, 142 
Fuente de Sanchorquiz, i. 390 
G. 
Galicia, scenery of, i. 8 ; mines 
i, 10 ; plants of, ibid 
Galipano, mountain of, i. 412 
Gallitos, or rock manikin, ii. 210 
Gardens, botanical,’ of Orotava, 
58 
Garnets, iii. 383, 384, 386 
Garzes, or white herons, ii. 201 
Geognosy of America, iii. 285 
laws of, iii. 374 
Geology, queries in, i. 90 ; problem 
of, i. 105 ; basis of the study of, 
ii. 136, iii. 368, 399 
of America, ii. 91, 92 
of Aragua, ii. 7 1 
of the Canarv Islands, i. 
105, 461 Ii 
of Cumana, i. 151 
applied to mining and 
agriculture, iii. 404, 405 
of Mariara, ii . 22 
of Peak Tenerift'c, i. 97- 
99, 108 
of volcanoes, i. 91 
Geophagy, details of, ii. 498, 499 
Geography, errors in, i. 174, ii. 131, 
331, 426, 468, iii. 29, 37, 63 ; 
nature of. iii. 378 « 
by 51. Lesehenallit, ii. 
498 
of America, iii. 26-29 
of plants, i. 423 « 
Girolamo. Benzoni, account of the 
slave trade by, i, 176 ; voyage of, 
i. 397, 398 « 
Glass, volcanic, i, 36 
Glorieta de Cocuy, ii. 392 
Glue, natural, iii. 71 
I Gneiss, strata of, ii. 76 ; formatioT 
I of, iii. 379; strata of. iii. 382 
