1Captain Stokes’s ‘Discoveries in Australia.’

2‘Narrative of Missionary Enterprise in the South Sea Islands,’ p. 390.

3Though frequently confounded, even by the Peruvian Creoles, the western chain, running parallel with the coast of the Pacific, is properly the Cordillera, while the eastern chain, which generally runs in the same direction as the former, has always been named the Andes by the Indian natives.

4It is only in the Old World that the reindeer has ever been domesticated.

5For a more detailed account of the Peruvian Guano Islands, see ‘The Sea and its Living Wonders.’ Second Edition, pp. 144, 147.

6‘The Sea and its Living Wonders.’ Second Edition, p. 41.

7Ibid, p. 40.

8‘The Sea and its Living Wonders,’ p. 195.

9‘The Subterranean World.’ Second Edition, p. 306.

10Whoever has read RÜckert’s wonderful translation of ‘The Makamas of Hariri’ will be able to form some opinion of the richness of the Arabic and at the same time admire the exuberant treasures of the German tongue.

11D’Escayrac, ‘Le DÉsert et le Soudan.’

12Forbes’s ‘Oriental Memoirs.’

13Tennent’s ‘Ceylon,’ vol. ii. pp. 614, 618.

14‘Wanderings,’ p. 5.

15‘Himalayan Journals,’ vol. i. p. 146.

16See Chapter III.

17Tennent’s ‘Ceylon,’ vol. ii. p. 523.

18The northern part of the new continent had been visited and colonized centuries before by the mariners of Iceland. For an account of this discovery, see ‘The Sea and its Living Wonders,’ second edition, p. 362.

19Tennant’s ‘Ceylon,’ vol. ii. p. 234.

20‘The Sea and its Living Wonders,’ ch. xx.

21‘Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes,’ London 1848, vol. i. p. 214.

22Kirby and Spence’s ‘Introduction to Entomology;’ Swainson’s ‘Habits and Instincts of Animals.’

23Junghuhn, ‘Die BattalÄnder.’ Berlin, 1847.

24‘Jamaica Almanac,’ 1843.

25Spix and Martius, ‘Reisen in Brasilien.’

26Sir E. Tennent’s ‘Ceylon,’ vol. i. p. 193.

27At the time of Mr. Darwin’s visit an attempt, since given up, had been made to colonise the islands, which are once more only tenanted by casual adventurers, and may be well called uninhabited.

28For more ample details on the Marine Chelonians, see chap. ix. of ‘The Sea and its Living Wonders.’

29Forbes’ ‘Oriental Memories,’ vol. i. p. 357.

30‘Discoveries in Australia.’

31‘Reiseskizzen aus Nord-Öst-Afrika.’

32Baker’s ‘Eight Years’ Wanderings in Ceylon,’ vol i. p. 167.

33‘The Sea and its Living Wonders,’ p. 139.

34A. Adams. ‘Notes of the Natural History of the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang.’

35‘The Sea and its Living Wonders,’ p. 119.

36Words of the ‘Koran.’

37Sir James Emerson Tennent: ‘Ceylon,’ vol. ii. p. 288. Fourth Edition.

38Tennent’s ‘Ceylon,’ vol. ii. pp. 336–340.

39‘The Sea and its Living Wonders,’ p. 154.

40Quarterly Review, 1855, p. 22.

41Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, 1819.

42Sir Bartle Frere’s mission gives us reason to hope that better days are in store for the unfortunate East Africans.