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---- ---- mode of cooking it, 171

---- ---- mountain taro (Caladium cristatum), 171

Tarsii, their habitat, 516

Tarsius bancanus, 517

Tarush (Cervus antisiensis), an animal peculiar to the Puna, 27

Teak tree, or Indian oak (Tectona grandis), 128

---- ---- its excellent timber, 128

Tectona grandis, or Indian oak, 128

Teffe river, a tributary of the Amazons, 37

Teju, or monitory lizard (Tejus monitor), of South America, 315

---- food of, 315

Termites, or white ants, 241

---- their devastations, 241

---- their services and uses, 242

---- their communities and astonishing buildings, 242

---- the termites of the West Coast of Africa, 242

---- formation of a termite colony, 244

---- wonderful fecundity of the queen, 244

---- courage and obstinacy of the termite soldier, 245

---- foes of the termites, 246

---- East Indian mode of emptying a termite-hill, 246

---- their wars with the black ants, 247

---- termites used as food, 247

---- marching termites, 247, 248

---- mysteries of termite life, 248

Termes atrox and bellicosus, their clay-built citadels or domes, 242

Termes destructor arborum, their dwellings in trees, 242

Texas, influence of the heated plains of, in deflecting the
trade-winds, 8

Thierry de Meronville, his attempts to introduce cochineal into San
Domingo, 251

Tierra caliente, the, of Mexico, 80

---- templada, 81

---- fria, 82

Tiger, the time for his bloodthirsty excursions, 453

---- his chief seats, 453

---- tiger-hunting, 453, 455

---- his companionship with the peacock, 454

---- destroyed by the gavial of the Ganges, 333

---- his mode of attack, 455

---- his destruction of the tortoise, 457

---- beetle of South Africa, 205

Toads of the tropics, 310

---- the Pipa Surinamensis, 318

---- the Bahia toad, 319

---- the Surinam toad, 318

---- the giant toad, 320

---- the musical toad of Guinea, 320

Toddy-bird of Ceylon (Artamus fuscus), 152, 367

Toddy made from the cocoa-nut palm, 148

---- and from the palmyra palm, 152

---- and from the date palm, 155

Tomependa, rafts on the Amazons river first appear at, 36

Tornados, 9

Toropishu (Cephalopterus ornatus), 355

Tortoises of the tropics, 321

---- the gigantic land-tortoise (Testudo indica, elephantina), 321

---- their fondness for water, 322

---- their locomotion, 323

---- Mr. Darwin’s ride on one, 324

---- tortoises not indigenous in Australia, 324

---- marsh (Emydæ), of America and the Indian Archipelago, 324

---- river, 325

---- attacked by wild dogs and tigers, 457

Toucans (Ramphastidæ), 345, 346

---- their quarrelsome habits, 345

---- their nests, 129

---- anecdote of the arrogance of one, 345

Trade-winds, the, 4, 5

---- their limits in the Northern Atlantic, 4

---- ---- and in the Pacific, 4

Trap-door spiders, 215

Traveller tree of Madagascar (Ravenala speciosa), uses of the, 169

Tree-snakes, 293

Troglodytes audax of Peru, 234

Troopials (Icterus Xanthornus) of Guiana, 352

---- the variegated tropical (Oriolus varius), 352

Trunk-fish, the, 272

Tsalt-salya, or zimb, of Abyssinia, 230

Tsetsé-fly of South Africa (Glossina morsitans), 229

---- its destruction to cattle and horses, 229, 230

---- range of its pestiferous influence, 229

---- action of the poison, 230

Tucanos, tattooing of the, 74

Tunguragua river, 36

Tunqui bird (Rupicola Peruviana), 355

Tunuhy, the Sierra, rise of the Rio Negro in, 37

Tupinambaranas, Island of, 37

Tumeric or Indian saffron, 242

Turkey of Honduras (Meleagrisocellata), 360

---- the brush or tallegalla, 372

Turkey-buzzards, 378

Turtles of the tropics, 326

---- colossal, of the Brazilian coast, 326

---- foes of the turtle tribe, 327

---- of the island of Ascension, 328

---- mode of taking them at Ascension, the Bahamas, and at Keeling
Island, 328, 329

---- green turtle, 329

---- barbarous treatment of, at Feejee and Ceylon, 329, 330

---- food of, 331

Tusseh-worm (Bombyx mylitta), silk filaments of the, 249

Ualan, island of, singular roots of the Lum tree on the, 143

Uaupes Indians, 73

---- ---- their tattooing, 74

Ucayale river, a tributary of the Amazons, 37

Unaus, the, 496

Uran or Mias, or wild man of the woods, 502

---- how they are caught by Dyaks, 503

Urari, or wourali, poison, 67, 68

Urceola elastica, caoutchouc of the, 191

Uropeltis Philippinus, 292

Ursus malayanus, its fondness for cocoa-nuts, 149

Utah, influence of the heated plains of, in deflecting the
trade-winds, 8

Vampires, 492

Vanilla (Vanilla aromatica), growth and uses of, 184

Vanilla, cultivation of, in Mexico and Java, 184

---- a rare and costly spice, 184

Vargas, Sanchez, his fate, 51

Vejuco de huaco (Mikania Huaco), an antidote against snake-bites, 295

Velella, the, 274

Venado, a species of deer, of the sand-coast of Peru, 34

Veta, a disease caused by the rarefaction of the air in the high
table-lands of Peru and Bolivia, 21, 22

---- effect of, in arresting putrefaction, 22

Veys, their recently invented alphabet, 519

Victoria Regia, discovery of the, 137

Vicuña, its solitary habits, 25

---- value of its wool, 25

---- its appearance, 25

---- Indian mode of hunting it, 26

---- mode of preparing its flesh, 26

---- its enemies, 27

Viper, small brown (Echidna ocellata), of Peru, its fatal bite, 297

Viscachas, the, of Peru, 27

---- of the Pampas, 27

Vomito, the, 81

Vultures, Carrion, of the Peruvian sand-coast, 35, 379

---- of America, 378, 379

---- king of the (Sarcoramphus papa), 379

---- of the Old World, 381

---- sociable, 381

Wading-birds, tropical, 360

Walking-leaf insect, 208

Walking-stick insect, 208

Wanderoos of Ceylon (Presbytes cephalopterus), 496, 505

Water-lizards (Hydrosauri), 316

---- ---- Mr. Adams’ contest with one, 316

---- ---- their habitat, 317

---- ---- worshipped at Bonny, 317

Water-plants of the tropics, 137

Water-snakes, 301, 309

Wax obtained from the Carnauba palm, 158

Wax obtained from the Ceroxylon andicola, 159

Weaving-birds, African, 364

---- their nests, 365

West Indies, invalids from Europe residing in the, 178

Winds, the system of, and its importance, 4, 5

---- trade-winds, and polar and equatorial air-currents, 4, 5

---- constant east-winds of Paraguay, 5

---- deflections from the ordinary course of the trade-winds, 8

Wine of the Agave Americana, 132

---- of the gomuti palm, 150

Woodpecker, 60

---- orange-coloured of Ceylon (Brachypterus aurantius), 374

Wood-nymph, a humming-bird of Brazil, 347

Wourali, or urari, poison, 67, 68

Wou-wou (Hylobates leuciscus), the 503

Xavari river, a tributary of the Amazons, 37

Xingu river, a tributary of the Amazons, 38

Yacu-mama of the Amazons, 45

Yams (Dioscorea sativa and alata), 170

Yapura river, a tributary of the Amazons, 37

Yaruras Indians, 70

Yriartea exorrhiza, 161

---- ventricosa, 161

Zancudo, bite of the, 233

---- on the Magdalen river, 224

Zebra, Burchell’s, or douw, 415

---- its piteous wailings, 416

---- its inaccessible retreats, 416

Zelgague, the, or skink, of the Sahara, 102

Zimb, or tsalt-salya of Abyssinia, 230

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