Indian graves, 154, 166, 169, 170
houses, 40
love of flowers, 279
names of towns, 293
Indians, brown, 364
Landslips, 86, 95
Las Lajas, 60
Lasso, 189
Laurentian rock, 259
Laziness of natives, 245
Lead, 89
Leaf-cutting ant, the, 127, 219, 225
destructive-
ness of, 73; method of eradicat-
ing, 77; growers of mushrooms,
79; nests of, 80, 81; food of
81; duties, &c., 82; reasoning
powers, 83
Leaf-hoppers, 226
ants attending, 227
wasps attending, 228
Leaf-insect, 8, 381
Legrand d'Aussy, 367
Lenca Indians, 155
Leo Amontli, 357
Leptalides, 385
Lettuces, 70
Leucopternus ghiesbreghti, 340
Lianas, 6, 33, 57
Libertad, 150
Mot-mots, tails of, 124
Mountain hens, 121
Mules, 48
bitten by spiders, 323
sagacity of, 189; thieves,
Murderers, punishment of in Ni-
caragua, 275
Muscovy ducks, 203
Muy-muy, 214
Mycetes palliatus, 35
Mygale, 323
NAHUATLS, 44, 155, 364, 365, 370,
Names of natural features of a
country important in an inquiry
as to the original inhabitants,
106; of places corrupted, 107
Nancito, 6, 156
Nandasme, 358
Nectarina, 228
Negroes, 63
Nelson, Lord, capture of Castillo,
Neoclytus Esopus (Bates), 315, n.
Nephila, 108, 317
Nequen, 360
"Old man's beard," 238
Omotépec, 43; island of, 362;
peaks, 147
Onions, 70
Oniscus, 115
Opossums, 23, 174
Orange tree, 4, 65, 68
Orchids, 6; on Peña Blanca, 142
Ore, extraction of, 92; reduction
of, 93; testing of, 89
Orinoco, carved rocks of, 53
Ornithorhynchos, 142
Oropendula, 290
Orthoptera, 381
PALACAGUINA, 249, 283
Palms, 4, 13,
Palosabre, 130
Papaws, 66
Papilio, 108, 299
Pará grass, 141, 308
Melastoma at, 224
Nests, of birds, 289; of wasps, 290
Neuwied, Prince Maximilian, on
nest of Tody, 291
Nicaragua, bird fauna of, 377;
civil war in, 342; conquest of
by Spaniards, 359; division of,
into three zones, 328; emigra-
tion to, 386, 387; insects of, 379
Nicaragua, name of chief, 359
Nicaraguan judges, 105
soldiers, 63
Nicaraguans, hospitality of, 275,
285; litigious, 105
龍
and Mexicans closely re-
lated, 362
Nicoya, Gulf of, 359
Night-jars, 174
Nispera, 92, 116
Nispral, 59
Nocturnal animals, 173
Parasites, 84; on wasps' nests, 134
Parasitical insects, 209
Parrot, green-leek,
Parrots, 6, 22, 158
Parsley, 70
Passiflora quadrangularis, 69
Passion-flower, 224
Patagonia, migrations of butter-
flies, 153
Paton, Mr., 5
Pavon, 60
Pávos, 121
Pavónes, 121
Peaches, 183
Pediculi, 210
Peas, 70
Peña Blanca, ascent of, 143; rocks
of, 146, 148; precipice of, 146
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