Cotton-wool the fleece of the “Scythian Lamb,” 63 Ctesias writes of the “trees that bear wool,” 46 Danielovich, Demetrius, describes the “Vegetable Lamb” to Von Herberstein, 12 Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, lines by, on the “Barometz,” 35 De la Croix, Dr., Latin lines by, on the Barometz, 36 Deusingius, Antonius, disbelieves the animal-plant monstrosity, 15 Dicksonia barometz a tree-fern, 40 „ „ toy dogs made from rhizomes of, by the Chinese, 41 „ „ does not grow in Tartary or Scythia, 44 Duret, Claude, describes the “Barometz,” 3 „ „ avows his entire belief in the rumour, 16 East India Company incorporated, 92 Egypt, the route from India to Europe planned by Alexander, 68, 93, 95 „ conquest of, by the Saracens, 7 „ the country of flax, 75, 79 „ the high road to India to be guarded, 96 Egyptian maritime traffic with the East lasted 1000 years, 74 Egyptians, the ancient, unacquainted with cotton, 75 „ till the 17th century importers not growers of cotton, 77 Ferns, models of dogs made of, by the Chinese, 27, 28, 34, 39, 44 „ their economic value, 40, 41 Flemish weavers settle in Manchester, 90 General belief in the “Vegetable Lamb,” 2 Hebrew, ancient, version of the fable, 6 Herberstein, Sigismund von, describes the “Vegetable Lamb,” 11 Herodotus writes of trees bearing for their fruit fleeces of wool, 46 Hippalus notices the monsoons, 73 India, use of cotton in, mentioned by Herodotus, 46 „ „ „ „ Ctesias, 46 „ „ „ „ Nearchus, 46 „ „ „ „ Aristobulus, 47 „ „ „ „ Strabo, 47 „ the Indo-Scythia of the ancients, 57 „ cotton indigenous to, 64 „ trade with opened by Alexander viâ Egypt, 68 „ „ viâ the Euphrates and Tigris, 71 „ „ restored to Egypt by the Venetians, 82 „ the Cape route to, discovered by Vasco da Gama, 83, 88 Indo-Scythia, identical with Scinde and the Punjab, 57 Japanese artificial mermaids compared with Chinese toy-dogs, 42, 54 Jadua, or Jeduah, the, 7 Kircher, Athanasius, declares the Barometz to be a plant, 21 Kaempfer, Dr. Engelbrecht, searches ineffectually for the Vegetable Lamb, 23 „ „ „ suggests that the fable refers to Astrachan lamb skins, 23 Lamb, the “Scythian,” why so called, 56 „ „ „ see “Barometz.” „ „ “Tartarian,” why so called, 59 „ „ „ see “Barometz.” „ „ Vegetable, its fleece cotton wool, 60 „ „ „ see “Barometz.” Lesseps, De, constructs the Suez Canal, 94 Liceti, Fortunio, says the “Vegetable Lamb” was “as white as snow,” 11 Loureiro, Juan de, describes the making of artificial dogs from ferns, 44