climate of, 242
, peat of, 287

Fat, quantity eaten, 117
Fear, an acquired instinct, 399
Februa, 33

Fennel, run wild, 119

Ferguson, Dr., on miasma, 366
Fern-trees, 244, 448
Fernando Noronha, 11, 374
Fields of dead coral, 460
Fire, art of making, 194, 409
Fish, eating coral, 464

of Galapagos, 390

emitting harsh sound, 136
Flamingoes, 66
Fleas, 346

Floods after droughts, 134

clear after snow, 319

Flora of the Galapagos, 374, 392,
395

of Keeling island, 454

of St. Helena, 487

Fungus, edible, 236
Furnarius, 95

511

Geology of Cordillera, 319, 332
of Patagonia, 170, 181
of St. Jago, 6

of St. Paul, 8
of B. Blanca, 81
of Pampas, 129
of Brazil, 12
Georgia, climate of, 248
Geospiza, 379, 395

Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river-bed,
358

Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera, 323
Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, 224,

245

in Cordillera, 324
in lat. 46° 40', 246

Glow-worms, 30

Goats, destructive to vegetation at St.
Helena, 489

bones of, 168

Goître, 314

Gold-washing, 266

Good Success Bay, 204

Gossamer spider, 159

islands, 381

Frozen soil, 88, 248

Fruit-trees, southern limit of, 243
Fucus giganteus, 239

Fuegians, 204 to 234

379

, on birds of Galapagos,