The Tropical World Aspects of man and nature in the equatorial regions of the globe.

Causes of the Inferiority of Negro Civilisation--Natural Capabilities of the Negro--Geographical Formation of Africa--Its Political Condition--Physical Conformation of the Negro...

The Universal Dominion of Insects--Mosquitoes--Stinging Flies-- _Œstrus Hominis_--The Chegoe or Jigger--The _Filaria Medinensis_-- The Bête-Rouge--Blood-sucking Ticks--Garapatas...

The Toucan--Its Quarrelsome Character--The Humming-birds--Their wide Range over the New World--Their Habits--Their Enemies-- Their Courage--The Cotingas--The Campanero--The Tang...

General Remarks--The Baobab--Used as a Vegetable Cistern-- Arborescent Euphorbias--The Dracæna of Orotava--The Sycamore-- The Banyan--The sacred Bo-Tree of Anarajapoora--The Tea...

The Forest Life of the Simiæ--Excellent Climbers, Bad Pedestrians-- Similitude and Difference between the Human Race and the Ape-- The Chimpanzee--Chim in Paris--The Gorilla--Th...

The Lion--Conflicts with Travellers on Mount Atlas--The Lion and the Hottentot--A Lion taken in--Narrow Escapes of Andersson and Dr. Livingstone--Lion-Hunting by the Arabs of th...

The Course of the Amazons and its Tributaries--The Strait of Obydos-- Tide Waves on the Amazons--The Black-water rivers--The Rio Negro-- The Bay of the Thousand Isles--The Poror...

The wild Forest Tribes--Their Physical Conformation and Moral Characteristics--Their Powers of Endurance not inferior to those of other Races--Their stoical indifference--Their...

First Impression of a Tropical Forest--Exaggerated Fears-- Comparative rareness of Venomous Snakes--Their Habits and External Characters--Anecdote of the Prince of Neu Wied--The...

The Camel--Its Paramount Importance in the great Tropical Sandwastes-- Its Organisation admirably adapted to its mode of Life--Beauty of the Giraffe--Its Wide Range of Vision--P...

The Deserts of Arabia--Sedentary Arabs and Bedouins--Physical Characteristics of the Bedouins--Remarkable acuteness of their Senses--Their Manners--Their intense Patriotism and...

Love of Solitude, and Pusillanimity--Miraculous Escape of an English Officer--Sagacity of the Elephant in ascending Hills-- Organisation of the Stomach--The Elephant’s Trunk--Us...

The Cocoa-nut Tree--Its hundred Uses--Cocoa-nut Oil--Coir-- Porcupine Wood--Enemies of the Cocoa Palm--The Sago Palm--The Saguer--The Gumatty--The Areca Palm--The Palmyra Palm--...

The Papuans--Their Physical and Moral Characteristics--Their Artistic Tastes--Their Dwellings--Their Primitive Political Institutions-- Their Weapons and Mode of Fighting--The P...

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Gradual increase of Insect Life on advancing towards the Line--The Hercules Beetle--The Goliath--The Inca Beetle--The Walking-leaf, and Walking-stick Insects--The Soothsayer--Lu...

Progress of the Sugar Cane throughout the Tropical Zone--The Tahitian Sugar Cane--The enemies of the Sugar Cane--The Sugar-harvest--The Coffee Tree--Its cultivation and enemies-...

Physical Conformation of the Malays--Betel Chewing--Their Moral Character--Limited Intelligence of the Malays--Their Maritime Tastes--Piracy--Gambling--Cock-fighting--Running A-...

Physical Conformation of the Australians--Their Low State of Civilisation--Their Superstitions--Their Wars--Singing and Dancing--The Corribory--Division of the Nation into Great...

Its uncertain Limits--Caravan Routes--Ephemeral Streams--Oases-- Inundations--Luxuriant Vegetation of the Oases contrasted with the surrounding Desert--Harsh contrasts of Light...

The Galapagos--The Elephantine Tortoise--The Marsh-Tortoises-- Mantega--River-Tortoises--Marine-Turtles--On the Brazilian Coast-- Their Numerous Enemies--The Island of Ascension...

Rice--Various Aspect of the Rice-fields at different Seasons--The Rice-Bird--Maize--First imported from America by Columbus--Its enormous Productiveness--Its wide zone of Cultiv...

Their Habits--The Gavial and the Tiger--Mode of Seizing their Prey-- Their Voice--Their Preference of Human Flesh--Alligator against Alligator--Wonderful Tenacity of Life--Tende...

Their Multitude within the Tropics--The Geckoes--Anatomy of their Feet--The Anolis--Their Love of Fight--The Chameleon--Its wonderful Changes of Colour--Its Habits--Peculiaritie...

Striking Contrast with the Llanos--Northern Character of their Climate--The Chuñu--The Surumpe--The Veta: its Influence upon Man, Horses, Mules, and Cats--The Vegetation of the...

Causes by which it is produced--Abundance and Distribution of Rain within the Tropics--The Trade Winds--The Belt of Calms--Tropical Rains--The Monsoons--Tornados--Cyclones--Typh...

Their peculiar Charms and Terrors--Disappointments and Difficulties of the Botanist--The Bush-ropes--Variety of Trees and Plants--Trees with Buttresses--Numberless parasites--Ch...

Their Aspect in the Dry Season--Vegetable Sources--Land Spouts-- Effects of the Mirage--A Savannah on Fire--Opening of the Rainy Season--Miraculous Changes--Exuberance of Animal...

Brutality of the Rhinoceros--The Borelo--The Keitloa--The Monoho-- The Kobaaba--Difference of Food and Disposition between the Black and the White Rhinoceros--Incarnation of Ugl...

Under the Plantagenets and the Tudors, wool formed the chief export of England. The pastoral races that inhabited the British Isles, unskilled in weaving, suffered the more indu...

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The Condor--His Marvellous Flight--His Cowardice--Various Modes of Capturing Condors--Ancient Fables circulated about them--Comparison of the Condor with the Albatross--The Carr...

Reasons why Droughts are prevalent in South Africa--Vegetation admirably suited to the Character of the Country--Number of Tuberous Roots--The Caffre Water-Melon--The Mesembryan...

Size of the Ostrich--Its astonishing Swiftness--Ostrich Hunting-- Stratagem of the Ostrich for protecting its Young--Points of Resemblance with the Camel--Its Voracity--Ostrich...

Day after day the glacier of the north protrudes its mass farther and farther into the sea, until finally, rent by the tides, and with a crash louder than that of the avalanche,...

The Cinnamon Gardens of Ceylon--Immense profits of the Dutch--Decline of the Trade--Neglected state of the Gardens--Nutmegs and Cloves-- Cruel monopoly of the Dutch--A Spice Fir...

Their Peculiar Manner of Climbing--Points of Resemblance with Monkeys--Their Social Habits--Their Connubial Felicity-- Inseparables--Talent for Mimicry--Wonderful Powers of Spee...

‘Behold now Behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox; his bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron; he lieth under the shady trees,...

Its desolate Character--The Mule is here the ‘Ship of the Desert.’--A Shipwreck and its Consequences--Sand-Spouts--Medanos--Summer and Winter--The Garuas--The Lomas--Change prod...

The great Ant-bear is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary denizens of the wilds of South America, for that a powerful animal, measuring above six feet from the snout to th...

The prodigious height attained in the torrid zone, not only by single mountains, but by vast tracts of land, and the diminution of temperature which is the necessary consequence...

When the sun has disappeared below the horizon, and night falls on the landscape, which a little while ago was bathed in light, then from hollow trees, and creviced rocks, and r...

Miserable Aspect of the Sloth--His Beautiful Organisation for his Peculiar Mode of Life--His Rapid Movements in the Trees--His Means of Defence--His Tenacity of Life--Fable abou...

Causes of the Inferiority of Negro Civilisation--Natural Capabilities of the Negro--Geographical Formation of Africa-- Its Political Condition--Physical Conformation of the Negr...

The wild Forest Tribes--Their Physical Conformation and Moral Characteristics--Their Powers of Endurance not inferior to those of other Races--Their stoical indifference--Their...

General Remarks--The Baobab--Used as a Vegetable Cistern-- Arborescent Euphorbias--The Dracæna of Orotava--The Sycamore-- The Banyan--The sacred Bo-Tree of Anarajapoora--The Tea...

The Lion--Conflicts with Travellers on Mount Atlas--The Lion and the Hottentat--A Lion taken in--Narrow Escapes of Andersson and Dr. Livingstone--Lion-Hunting by the Arabs of th...

The Cocoa-nut Tree--Its hundred Uses--Cocoa-nut Oil--Coir-- Porcupine Wood--Enemies of the Cocoa Palm--The Sago Palm-- The Saguer--The Gumatty--The Areca Palm--The Palmyra Palm-...

The Toucan--Its Quarrelsome Character--The Humming-birds--Their wide Range over the New World--Their Habits--Their Enemies-- Their Courage--The Cotingas--The Campanero--The Tang...

The Course of the Amazons and its Tributaries--The Strait of Obydos--Tide Waves on the Amazons--The Black-water rivers-- The Rio Negro--The Bay of the Thousand Isles--The Pororo...

First Impressions of a Tropical Forest--Exaggerated Fears-- Comparative rareness of Venomous Snakes--Their Habits and External Characters--Anecdote of the Prince of Neu Wied--Th...

The Forest Life of the Simiæ--Excellent Climbers, Bad Pedestrians--Similitude and Difference between the Human Race and the Ape--The Chimpanzee--Chim in Paris--The Gorilla-- The...

Reasons why Droughts are prevalent in South Africa--Vegetation admirably suited to the Character of the Country--Number of Tuberous Roots--The Caffre Water-Melon--The Mesembryan...

The Deserts of Arabia--Sedentary Arabs and Bedouins--Physical Characteristics of the Bedouins--Remarkable acuteness of their Senses--Their Manners--Their intense Patriotism and...

Their peculiar Charms and Terrors--Disappointments and Difficulties of the Botanist--The Bush-ropes--Variety of Trees and Plants--Trees with Buttresses--Numberless parasites-- C...

The Camel--Its Paramount Importance in the great Tropical Sandwastes--Its Organisation admirably adapted to its mode of Life--Beauty of the Giraffe--Its Wide Range of Vision-- P...

Love of Solitude, and Pusillanimity--Miraculous Escape of an English Officer--Sagacity of the Elephant in ascending Hills-- Organisation of the Stomach--The Elephant’s Trunk--Us...

Its uncertain Limits--Caravan Routes--Ephemeral Streams--Oases-- Inundations--Luxuriant Vegetation of the Oases contrasted with the surrounding Desert--Harsh contrasts of Light...

Striking Contrast with the Llanos--Northern Character of their Climate--The Chuñu--The Surumpe--The Veta: its Influence upon Man, Horses, Mules, and Cats--The Vegetation of the...

Their Habits--The Gavial and the Tiger--Mode of Seizing their Prey--Their Voice--Their Preference of Human Flesh--Alligator against Alligator--Wonderful Tenacity of Life--Tender...

Rice--Various Aspect of the Rice-fields at different Seasons--The Rice-Bird--Maize--First imported from America by Columbus--Its enormous Productiveness--Its wide zone of Cultiv...

The Condor--His Marvellous Flight--His Cowardice--Various Modes of Capturing Condors--Ancient Fables circulated about them--Comparison of the Condor with the Albatross--The Carr...

Brutality of the Rhinoceros--The Borelo--The Keitloa--The Monoho--The Kobaaba--Difference of Food and Disposition between the Black and the White Rhinoceros--Incarnation of Ugli...

Their Multitude within the Tropics--The Geckoes--Anatomy of their Feet--The Anolis--Their Love of Fight--The Chameleon-- Its wonderful Changes of Colour--Its Habits--Peculiariti...

The Universal Dominion of Insects--Mosquitoes--Stinging Flies--_Œstrus Hominis_--The Chegoe or Jigger--The _Filaria Medinensis_--The Bête-Rouge--Blood-sucking Ticks--Garapatas--...

The Galapagos--The Elephantine Tortoise--The Marsh-Tortoises-- Mantega--River-Tortoises--Marine-Turtles--On the Brazilian Coast--Their Numerous Enemies--The Island of Ascension-...

Physical Conformation of the Australians--Their Low State of Civilisation--Their Superstitions--Their Wars--Singing and Dancing--The Corrobory--Division of the Nation into Great...

Gradual increase of Insect life on advancing towards the Line-- The Hercules Beetle--The Goliath--The Inca Beetle--The Walking-leaf and Walking-stick Insects--The Soothsayer-- L...

The Papuans--Their Physical and Moral Characteristics--Their Artistic Tastes--Their Dwellings--Their Primitive Political Institutions--Their Weapons and Mode of Fighting--The Po...

Progress of the Sugar Cane throughout the Tropical Zone--The Tahitian Sugar Cane--The enemies of the Sugar Cane--The Sugar-Harvest--The Coffee Tree--Its cultivation and enemies-...

Their Aspect in the Dry Season--Vegetable Sources--Sand Spouts-- Effects of the Mirage--A Savannah on Fire--Opening of the Rainy Season--Miraculous Changes--Exuberance of Animal...

The Cinnamon Gardens of Ceylon--Immense profits of the Dutch-- Decline of the Trade--Neglected state of the Gardens--Nutmegs and Cloves--Cruel monopoly of the Dutch--A Spice Fir...

Their Peculiar Manner of Climbing--Points of Resemblance with Monkeys--Their Social habits--Their Connubial Felicity-- Inseparables--Talent for Mimicry--Wonderful Powers of Spee...

Size of the Ostrich--Its astonishing Swiftness--Ostrich Hunting-- Stratagem of the Ostrich for protecting its Young--Points of Resemblance with the Camel--Its Voracity--Ostrich...

Causes by which it is produced--Abundance and Distribution of Rain within the Tropics--The Trade Winds--The Belt of Calms-- Tropical Rains--The Monsoons--Tornados--Cyclones--Typ...

Its desolate Character--The Mule is here the ‘Ship of the Desert.’--A Shipwreck and its Consequences--Sand-Spouts-- Medanos--Summer and Winter--The Garuas--The Lomas--Change pro...

Behemoth--Its Diminishing Number and Contracting Empire--Its Ugliness--A Rogue Hippopotamus or Solitaire--Dangerous Meeting--Intelligence and Memory of the Hippopotamus--Methods...

Miserable Aspect of the Sloth--His Beautiful Organisation for his Peculiar Mode of Life--His Rapid Movements in the Trees--His Means of Defence--His Tenacity of Life--Fable abou...

Physical Conformation of the Malays--Betel Chewing--Their Moral Character--Limited Intelligence of the Malays--Their Maritime Tastes--Piracy--Gambling--Cock-fighting--Running A-...

The Great Ant-Bear--His Way of Licking up Termites--His Formidable Weapons--A Perfect Forest Vagabond--His Peculiar Manner of Walking--The Smaller Ant-Eaters--The Manides-- The...