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INDEX 
Beads, hill of, 158 
Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 230 
Beech-trees, 251, 292 
Beetles in brackish water, 22 
on a fungus, 32 
alive in sea, 168 
at St. Julian, 180 
dung-feeders, 520, 521 
Behring’s Straits, fossils of, 140 
Bell of Quillota, 270 
Benchuca, 352 
Berkeley Sound, 199, 214 
Rev. J., on Conferva:', 15 
on Cyttaria, 250 
Berquelo river, 158 
Bibron, M., 407, 411 
Bien te veo, 56 
Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 
405 
tameness of, 424 
Birgos latro, 492, 512 
Bizcacha, habits of, 73, 130, 273 
Blackheath, Australia, 466 
Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 171 
Blindness of tucutuco, 53 
Blue Mountains, 465 
Body, frozen, 93, 263 
Bolabola, barrier-reef, 498, 504 
Bolas, manner of using, 46, 117 
Bombs, volcanic, 524 
Bones of the guanaco collected in certain 
spots, 177 
fire made of, 205 
recent in Pampas, 142 
fossil, 86, 134, 137, 164, 182 
Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 407 
Boulders, 197, 262 
Bramador, El, 385 
Brazil, great area of granite, 12 
Brazilian whips, etc., 75 
Breaches in coral reefs, 5 02 
Breakwater of seaweed, 253 
Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous de¬ 
posit, 10 
Bridge of hide, 334 
of Incas, 357, 380, 394 
Bucldand, Dr., on fossils, 140 
Buenos Ayres, 127 
trading at, 111 
evening camp, 128 
bullock-waggons, 150 
Buffon on American Animals, 183 
Bug of Pampas, 352 
Buildings, Indian, 381 to 383, 394 
Bulimus on desert places, 371 
Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, 
91 
Burchell, Mr., on ostrich-eggs, 95 
on perforated stones, 285 
Butterflies, flocks of, 167 
Butterfly producing clicking sound, 34 
Button, Jemmy, 2x8, 233 
Byron’s account of fox of Falklands, 
204 
on an Indian killing his child, 228 
Cabbage balm, 26 
Cacti, 174, 278, 399 
Cactornis, 405, 424 
Cactus, Cereus Peruviana, 278 
Calasoma on wing out at sea, 168 
Calcareous casts of branches and roots of 
trees at King George’s Sound, 479 
incrustations on rocks of Ascension, 9 
Callao, 389, 391 
Calodera, 132 
Calomys bizcacha, 130 
Camarhynchus, 405, 424 
Camelidse, fossil animal allied to, 182 
Cancer salinus, 69 
Canis antarcticus, 204 
fulvipes, 287 
Cape Horn, 222, 223 
False Horn, 229, 243 
of Good Hope, 91 
Capybara, or carpincho, 40, 51, 182, 
307 
fossil allied to, 87 
Caracara, or Carrancha, 57 
Cardoon, beds of, 125, 157 
Carizal, 371 
Carmichael, Capt., 426 
Carrion-hawks, 59 > 126, 195 
Casarita, 99 
Cassava, 23 
Castro, Chiloe, 296, 315 
old church at, 291 
Casuchas, 358 
Catamaran, 18 
Cathartes, 60, 195 
Cats run wild, 123, 523 
good to eat, 123 
scratch trees, 144 
cruelty to mice, 209 
Cattle, effects of their grazing on the 
vegetation, 124 
killed by great droughts, 142, 156 
know each other, 155 
curious breed of, 155 
waste of, 158 
wild at the Falkland Islands, 200, 
203 
Caucahue, 295 
Cauquenes, hot springs of, 281 
