INDEX. 
i'il 
Slaves of Curaana, i. 175 
of Venezuela, i. 398 
of Victoria, i. 399 
fugitive, capture of, iii. 221, 
279» 
Slave dealers, ii. 388, 427 ; routes 
of the, ii. 478 
food, iii. 249 
labour, i. 505, iii. 25G, 259 ; 
price of, iii. 265 
Slave laws, iii. 274, 279, 280 » 
English, iii. 277 n 
Spanish, iii. 280 n. 281 
Slave market, at Cumana, i. 175, 
176 
trade, i. 200, iii. 243, 274, 
277; commercial establishments 
to facilitate the, i. 170; causes 
which led to the abolition of, i. 
201,397 
Benzoni, on the, 1 . 170 
Spanish, iii. 243 
Slavery, statistics of, i. 398, iii. 271 , 
273, 284 
Snakes, antidote to the venom of, 
ii. 364 
Soap berry, i. 289 
Society, zones of, i. 39.3; three ages 
of, i. 394 ; effects of earllniuakes 
upon, i, 453, 473, iii. 403 n 
Sodomoni river, ii. 450 
Soils, auriferous, iii. 07 
Solano, expedilions of, ii, o3a ; re- 
sidence of, ii. 429 
Sombrero-palm, ii. 32 
Sounds, analogy of, i. 310 ; propa- 
gation of, i. 438, ii. 204, 20.); 
rapid transmission of, i. 459 ; re- 
semblance of, ii. 304 
nocturnal propagation of, 
ii. 264,205 
subterr.anean, ii. 226 
South Sea Islands, i. 122 
Spain, journey through, i. 6, 8; 
possessions of, in America, i. 
397, iii. 1. 121 
Spaniards, first settlement of, i. 
180 descend, ants of, i. 414 
Speier, George von, iii. 43 
Springs of Europe and America, i. 
208 ; temperature of, ib. 
of warm water, i. 37, 63; 
origin of, i. 193, ii. 4.53, iii. 105 
of hot water, i. 193, 290, 
ii. 38, iii. 104 
of bitumen, iii. 397 
of Caracas, i. 3'JO 
of Caripe, i. 251 
of 5Iariara, ii. 21; medi- 
cinal properties of, ii. 26 
of mineral tar, see“ Petro- 
leum ” 
of Mount Impossible, i. 
211 
of Quetepe, i. 207, 208 
sulphureous, i. 285, ii. 23, 
24, iii. 105 
Stabroek, iii. 6 
Stalactites, i. 263 
Stars, constellations of, i. 134, 135; 
radiance of, i. 350 
falling,!. 28, 70, 352; mag- 
nitude otj ii. 423 
States, American, iii. 129 
Slone, of the. eye, i. 197 
butter, ii. 502 
Stones, Amazon, ii. 395; locality 
of, ii. 402 
painted, locality of, ii. 473 
worship of, ii. 398 
St. Juan de la Rambla, malmsey 
wine of, 1. 57, 60 
St. Michael, i. 448 
St. Thomas de la Guiana, i. 401, 
iii. 1 
Strata, inclination of, iii, 368; 
maxima of, iii. 374; enumeration 
of, iii. 378 ; parallelism of, iii. 375 
calcareous, iii. 37 1 
primitive, iii. 372, 378 n. 
of Siena Parime, iii. 309 
secondary, iii. 378 n. 
tertiary, iii. 372, 379 n, 399 
transition, iii. 378n. 
Stylites, sect of, iii. 8 
Styptic, natural, ii. 508 -- 
Suapure river, ii. 200 
Succession, laws of, iii. 89 «. 
