INDEX. 
423 
Heat, decrement of, i. 51 
atmospheric, parts of the New 
World most exposed to, i. 378, 
380 
Heaths, arborescent, of Teneriffe, 
i. 63, 65 
existence of, ii. 86; zone 
of, i. 118 
Hercules, tower of, in Galicia, i. 10, 
14 
Hernan Cortez, discoveries of, iii. 
189; shipwreck of, iii. 190 
Perez de Quesada, iii. 47 
Herons, ii. 168, 201, 255 n 
Herrera, Alonzo de, expedition of, 
iii, 40, 42 
Hides, exportation of, ii. 110 
Hieroglyphic rock-marks, ii. 472 
Higuerote, bay of, i. 371; de- 
parture from, i. 374 
mountains, i. 480; ve- 
getation on the, i. 482 
Himalaya mountains, ii. 4; height 
of the, iii. 290 
History, natural, museum of, at 
Madrid, i. 7 
Hocco, or American pheasant, ii. 
154 
Homes of native Indians, i. 331, 
ii. 266, iii. 855 
Honda, ii. 315 
Hondius, map of America, by, iii. 
54; errors of, iii. 63, 64 
Honduras, iii. 58, 357 
Horizon, distant visibility of the, 
i. 433 
Horticulture, ii. 418 
Hortsmann, iii. 57 
Horses of the Llanos, ii. 110, con- 
tests of with electric eels, ii. 114 
Hospital at Caripe, i. 251 
Hot-.springs, i. 290w, 292, ii. 21, 
20, 38, iii. 104 
Huanta, iii. 301, 302 
Huiu-ocheri, iii. 301 
Huaytccas, iii. 297 
Hudson’s Bay, iii. 356 
Hunger, physiology of, ii. 196 n, 
500, 501 
Huten, Felipe de, expedition of, iii. 
49 
Huts of the natives, i. 309 
Huttonian theory, i. 457 
Hyalites, i. 30 
I. 
Iceland, introduction of Christian- 
ity into, ii. 39 
Ice-house, natural, of Peak of Tene- 
riffe, i. 68, i. 69 
Idapa, mouth of the, ii. 419 
Idioms, Anicrican, i. 315, 316, ii. 
223,293; grammatical system of, 
i. 325 
Iguana, nests of the, ii. 106 
Imposibic, mountain, i. 209; geo- 
logical conformation of the, i. 210, 
211 
Indians of the missions, compared 
with free tribes, i. 300 ; great 
age attained by, i. 493, 491; 
language of, ii. 241 
Indians, Hrst meeting with, i. 143; 
festivals of, i. 177; settlement of, 
on the salt lakes, i. 189; super- 
stitions of, i. 260; characteristic 
traits of, i. 194, 299, ii. 390; 
religions instruction of, i. 272; 
religious principles of, i. 296, ii. 
362; rencontre with, i. 280, 31 1, 
manners of, i. 293; food of, ii. 
389, 411, 495; tribes of, i. 295 
-297, ii. 241; apathy of, i. 300 ; 
physiology of, i, 308 ; colour of, 
- i. 336-340, 342, n; system of 
navigation practised by, i. 363; 
districts of the, i. 396 ; hire of, 
as beasts of burden, ii. 31 ; lan- 
guages of, i. 318-303, ii. 144 w ; 
intellectual development of, i. 
327, ii. 377; encampments of, ii. 
184, 200, 202, 422; intrepidity 
of, iii. 5; cannibalism of the, 
ii. 411-415 
Indians of Barcelona, iii. 106 
