The races of man : and their geographical distribution / by Charles Pickering.

  • Charles Pickering
Date:
1849
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The races of man : and their geographical distribution / by Charles Pickering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

    459/486 page 425
    Cyperus, a species, 331. esculentus, 382. articulatus, C. alopecurus, and C. dives, 394. Cyprea monetas, a yellow variety, extrava- gantly valued in former times at the Ha- waiian Islands, 91.—Cowries, used for money in the Thebaid, 205.—And at Poona, in the Dekkan; the species being the C. annulus, 264. Cypress, see Cupressus. Cyprian verses, quoted, 384. Dactyloctenium, 365, 406. Dahlia, 412. Dammara, the resin used for glazing pot- tery at the Feejee Islands, 160. Dampier’s Straits, 142. Danakil, or Denkali Tribes, 211. Darfour, 201, 202. Date palm, see Phoenix. Datisca cannabina, 405. Datura fastuosa, 363, 405. metel, 343, 405. stramonium, 337. Daucus carota, the carrot, 312, 327, 390. Dayaks of Borneo, 125, 297. Dean’s Island, in the Coral Archipelago, visited, 62. Defensive armour, used by the Klamet Tribe of Northwest America, 40.—Used in the Tarawan coral group, 67.—Used by the Australians, 140.—Used by the ancient Hindoos, 351. De Fuca, Straits of, visited, 23. Deghop, 350. Dekkan, or the Table-land of Southern India, 264. Delaware Tribe, 43. Delphinium ajacis, 382. Demosthenes, quoted, 387. Denkali, or Danakil Tribe, 211. Denkawi language of Central Africa, 201. Dentalium shells, used for ornament in Northwest America, 22, 26. Desert Tribes, 14, 205, 298, 306. Desmodium, 335. Desmodium purpureum, 319, 326. Desmochueta, 320, 328. De Soto, quoted, 397, 404. Dewlap, an appendage acquired by domestic animals, 30]. Dianthus caryophyllus, the Carnation, 399. Digitaria sanguinale, 318, 324, 330, 339, 406. Digitaria ciliaris, 321, 330. Dioscorea alata, the yam, 83, 151, 321, 330.—Yams, in East Africa, 193, 342. Dioscorea pentaphylla, 317, 330. bulbifera, 317, 330, aculeata, 324, 330, 365. sativa? 414. Dioscorides, plants mentioned by, 395. Diospyrus lotus, 409. Disappointment Islands, visited, 56. Diseases, of the natives of the Coral Islands, 57, 67.—Of the Taheitians, 72.—Of the Samoans, 77.—Of the New Zealanders, 82.—At Tongataboo, 85.—Of the Ha- waiians, 98.—Of the Californian Tribes, 109.—Of the East Indies, 133.—Of the Feejeeans, 165.—Of Western Peru, 230. Diversity of physiognomy, at Cairo, 250. Diversity of races, at Cairo, Singapore, and the other places visited, 250,272,274,275. Dodona, Oracle of, 186. Dogs, of the Chinooks, 26.—Of the Tarawan coral group, 67.—Dogs, perhaps absent in Aboriginal New Zealand, 79.—Dogs, at the Hawaiian Islands, 91, 94.—Not seen among the Californian Tribes, 108.— Known in the Monomoisy Country, 197, 337.—Known to the M’Kuafi, 215.—Kept by the Brinjarry, 269.—Figured on the Egyptian monuments, 305, 324, 367.— The only quadruped, aboriginally intro- duced into America, 307, 308. Dogs, aboriginally introduced into the Poly- nesian Groups, 313.—Figured on the Indian monuments, 357. Dolichos lubia, 388. lablab, see Lablab. Domestic animals, a tendency in them to become particoloured, 265, 301. 107
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3