A.

Abel, Dr. Clarke, his account of a mias, 74.
Acacia, in the Archipelago, 20.
Acarus, bites of the, 363.

Eschynanthus, climber plants in Borneo, 92.
African negroes, on the crania and languages
of the, 601,

Ahtiago, village of, 365,

Ahtiago and Tobo vocabularies, 606.
Alcedo, Don, 461.

Alfuros, the true indigenes of Gilolo, 321, 323;
of Papuan race, the predominant type in
Ceram, 370.

Ali, the author's attendant boy, 320, 321, 328,
335; the author's head man, 412.
Allen, Charles, the author's assistant, 57; sent
with the collections to Sarawak, 75; finds
employment, and leaves the author for four
years, 211; rejoins the author, 309; news
of, 320, 324, 381, 386, 519; letters received
from, 548; his collections, 549; his difficul-
ties, 549; his wanderings, 551; finally ob-
tains employment in Singapore, 551; his
voyage to Sorong, and his difficulties, 572.
Allor vocabulary, 607.

Amahay, bay of, 358; visit to, 363.
Amberbaki, visit to, 507.
Amblau vocabulary, 606.

Amboyna, island of, 16; voyage to, from Ban-
da, 298; map of, 299; the town of, 296;
volcanoes in remote times, 209, 300 (see
Water, limpid); the author's cottage in,
302 (see Interior); general character of the
people, 306; habits and customs, 306 (see
Shells); clove cultivation established at,
316; departure from, 355; map of, 356.
Amboyna lory, 352.

Ampanam, 162, 164; birds of, 164; cause of
the tremendous surf at, 172.
Anchors of the Malays, 545, 546.

Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, 593.
Animal life, luxuriance and beauty of, in the
Moluces, 406, 407,

Animals, distribution of, the key to facts in

the past history of the earth, 154–159, 210–
218; geographical distribution of, 401, 492.
Anonaceous trees in Borneo, 92.
Anthribidæ, species of, 330.

Ants, noxious, 478; at Dorey, tormented by,
514.

Ape, the Siamang, 143.
Arabs in Singapore, 82.

Archipelago, Malay, physical geography of,
13; productions of, in some cases unknown

elsewhere, 13 (see Islands); extent of, 15,
16; natural division of, into two parts, 21
(see Austro-Malayan, and Natural Produc-
tions); shallow waters of, 23-28 (see Races).
Architectural remains in Java, 111; ruined
temples, 115.

Arfaks, of New Guinea, 502, 504, 508.
Arjuna, Mount, 110.

Arndt, M., a German resident in Coupang,
194.

Arrack, demand for, 462.

Art, rudimental love of, among barbarians,
512.

Aru Islands, 18; voyage to, from Macassar in
a native prau, 408 et seq.; diary of the voy.
age, 413 et seq.; arrival at the, 431; ex.
ploration of the forests of, 433; entomo-
logical captures, 433; traders of the, 464;
articles for disposal or exchange, 435; im-
mense variety of animal life, 437 et seq.;
pirates on the coast of, 440, 441; trade and
commerce of, 444; nominally under the
government of the Moluccas, 444; journey
and residence in the interior, 445 et seq.;
map of the, 446; birds of the, 446-452;
habits of the natives, 452, 453; their food,
452; arrack their chief luxury, 453; their
wretched habitations, 453; their mono'o-
nous existence, 453; mixture of races, 454;
their language, 454; men and boys expert
archers, 460; inquisitiveness of the inhab-
itants, 463 et seq.; dry and wet season,
464, 465; beauty of the human form, 467;
females of, 467; personal ornaments, 468;
movable utensils, 459; household ornaments
of the, 469; mats and boxes of, 469; do-
mestic animals, 469; noxious animals, cen-
tipedes, scorpions, etc., 470; legend respect-
ing the, 471; mysterious character of the
author, 473; second residence at Dobbo,
476; cheapness of European articles of
commerce, 478; intemperance of the na-
tives, 479; considerable trade of the, 485;
departure from, 455; the return voyage,
486; the dry and rainy seasons, 481; ex-
pedition to, eminently successful, 486; the
specimens of natural objects brought from,
486; sketch of its physical geography, 487
et seq.; the great island called Tanabusar,
487; number of small islands surrounding
the central mass, 487; evidence that they
once formed a part of New Guinea, 492;
its natural aspects and vegetable produc
tions, 492 et seq.

Aru Islands vocabulary, 607.

Cocytia d'Urvillei, a day-flying moth, 322,
433.

Coelogynes in flower, 91.
Comet of 1858, 326, 328.

Commerce, genius of, at the work of civili-
zation, 444; ethics of, 479.

483; active preparations for leaving, 483;
extensive trade carried on at, 485.

Dodinga, village of, 320; Portuguese fort at,
320.

Dogs, their voracity, 470.

Doleschall, Dr., in Amboyna, 298; his col-
lection of flies and butterflies, 300,

Coralline rock, 328, 329.

Coti, on the coast of Borneo, 551.

Coupang, arrival at, 175; a cold reception,

175; suspicions of the authorities, 176; and
conduct of the Pumbuckle, 176–178; inhab-
itants of, 194.

Crania of the race of man in the Malay Archi-
pelago, 601; the author's measurements of,

602.

Cranioscopy has produced no certain results,
61.

Crew, author deserted by the, 381.
Cuba and Yucatan, near proximity, yet wide-
ly different natural productions of, 22.
Cuckoos, in Malacca, 40; in Celebes, 280.
Culture, village of, near Batavia, 122.
Curculionidæ, 343.

Current, violence of the, 338.
Cuscus, prehensile - tailed, 26; ornatus, 344,
392; the genus, 398; maculatus, 461.
Cynogale bennetti, the, in Borneo, 50,
Cynopithecus nigrescens, 354, 396.

D.

Dammar, a resin, the production of immens
forest-trees, 347.

Dampier's Straits, 496.

Darwin, Mr., theory of the dispersal of nat
ural productions, 22, 130; his theory of
oceanic islands, 218.

Daud Inchi, an Amboynese Malay, 165.
Davis, Dr. J. B., his collections of human cra-
nia, 601.

Deer, 26; the only ruminant of the Moluccas,
397.

Deer-flies of New Guinea, 505, 506.
Delli, capital of Portuguese Timor, 197, 387;
character of, 197; hill cultivation, 200;
supposed copper mine, disheartening re-
sults of an exploration, 201-203; low ebb
of morality at, 206.

Divisions, two natural ones, of the Malay
Archipelago (see Austro-Malayan).
Djapannan, village of, at Java, 119.
Djilolo, village of, 321; forests and birds of.
321; formerly the residence of the Sultans
of Ternate, 322.

Dobbo, arrival at, 432; difficulties of taking a
house, 432; traders of, 434, 435; articles
for exchange, 45; town of, 442; merchan-
dise of, 442; manners and customs, 442;
various races of, 443; absence of laws, 443;
the genius of commerce at work, 443; de-
parture from, 445; map of, 445; trading
at, 461; second residence a, 476; it im-
proved and animated appearance, 477 et
se7.; cock-fighting and foot-ball at, 477;
cheapness of European articles of commerce,
478; intemperance of the natives, 479; the
author's recovery from a long illness, 481;
mortality at, 483; fune al ceremonies at,

ants of, 500; house-building at, 501; bird-
shooting at, 502; the country round about,
504; the author's protracted sickness at
506; rudimental art among the people, 511;
beetles and butterflies of, 512; numerous
species of beetles at, 513; expectations of,
disappointed, 514; departure from, 514.
Dorey vocabulary, 607.
Doves at Malacca, 40.
Drusilla catops, 433.

Duivenboden, Mr., known as the king of Ter-
nate, 312; his character, 312.

Durion and Mangosteen fruit. 64; and Duri-
on, 84, 85; the Durion, tree, 85; richness
and excellency of, 85, 85; dangerous when
it falls from the trees, 86, 149.

Dutch, in Malacca, 38; in Java, 105; excel-
lency of their colonial government (see
Java); paternal despotism, 261, 262; the
cultivation system, 263; female labor, 264;
their influence established in the Malay
seas, 315; their praiseworthy efforts to im-
prove the Amboynese of the Malay Archi-
pelago, 359.

Dutch mail-steamer, life on board, 292.
Dyak house, 64; Dyak mode of climbing a
tree, 65, 66; Duk dogs, 67; Dyak accounts
of the mias, 71, 72 (see Tabókan); agricul-
ture, etc., 80, 81; houses, bridges, etc., 87-
89; the character of the race in its relations
to kindred ones, 98; higher in mental ca-
pacity than the Malays, 98; amusements
of the young, 99; moral character, 99; the
Hill Dyaks never go to sea, 99; head-hunt-
ing, 99; truthfulness of, 99; honesty, tem-
perance, 99 checks of population, 100;
hard work of the women, 101; and idleness
of the men, 102; benefits arising from the
government of Sir James Brooke, 102-104.

of, 125; elegant one discovered at Ceram,
.362.

Fire produced by friction, 332.

Shells).

Flies, at Dorey, tormented by, 514.
Flores, island of, 16; no forest in, 20.
Flowers (see Vegetation and Plants), in
neo, 91, 92.

Flying-fish, 418.

Foot-ball at Dobbo, 477.

Forest desert at Ceram, 362.

Grammatophyllum, a gigantic orchid, 149.
Grasshopper, great shielded, of New Guinea,

580.

Forest-trees (with plate), 91-94; forest "in-
stinct," 275; of immense size, 347, 348.
Forests unexplored, 321; of Ceram, 361.
Frog, tree, or Flying, in Borneo (with plate),
49.

Fruits of the Malay Archipelago tasteless and
uneatable, 374.

Fruit-trees at Ternate, 314.

Funnell, Sir William, his account of Amboy-
na in the year 1705, 299, 300.

Gah vocabulary, 606.

G.

Galapagos Islands, peculiar productions of,
22.

Galela men, 331; from Gilolo, 337.
Galela vocabulary, 606.
Gamelang, a native band, 113.
Gani-diluar, village of, 545; repairs and pro-
visions obtained there, 545, 546.

Gani men, their knowledge of the coast, 547.
Gani vocabulary, 606.

Gaper, blue-billed, 39; green, 40.
Garo, an attendant boy, 825.
Geach, Mr., an English mining-engineer at
Delhi, 197; his disheartening report re-
specting the supposed copper-mines, 201-
203.

Geoffroyus cyanicollis, 336.

Geological contrasts, 16; discoveries and

teachings with respect to changes in the
distribution of land and water, and forms
of life, 21-23.

Geology, lessons taught by, 579.
Gilolo, island of, 16; mountainous coast of,
312; physical aspect of, 312; visit to the
island of, 318, 320; characteristics of the
slaves, 318; volcanic appearances at, 324;
map of, 541; island of, 542; earthquake on
the coast of, 543.

Glacial period, 129, 130.

Gon, visit to the Rajah of, 221; the Rajah,
221; a feast with bad coffee, 222; fever in
the Rajah's territory, 222; collections in,
223, 224; an intrusion, 225; the Rajah at a
cock-fight, 226; his daughters, 226, 227;
house-hunting, 227; sickness at, 229; the
village, 229; and people, 230; the author
a terror to men and beasts, 230; house-
building, 231; preference for crooked tim-
ber, 232.

Goldmann, Mr., son of the Governor of the
Moluccas, 271.

Goram, islands of, 368; map of the, 369; re.
turn to, 375; coral rocks surrounding, 375;
geological speculations on, 376; the inhab
itants a race of traders, 376: their chief
trade, 376; poverty of the Rajahs, 377; dif-

Gúdong, a Malay village, 75; conduct of the
women on seeing a European, 75 (see Jahi).
Guebe, island of, 542.

Guinea, New, volcanic action, etc., in, 19; a
forest country, 19; resemblance to Austra-
lia, etc., 25; to Borneo, 27.
Gun-making, in Lombock, 178–180.
Gunong Prau, extensive ruins of, in Java,

116.

Indo-Malayan division of the Archipelago, 21;
evidences of having once formed part of
the Asiatic continent, 23-25 (see the Aus-
tro-Malayan, the other division of the
Archipelago); natural history of the Indo-
Malay islands, 148-150; mammali in, 150;
monkey tribes, 150; carnivora, 151; hoof-
ed animals, 151; birds, etc., 152-154 (see
Animals, distribution of).
Insect pests, 470.

Insects at the Simunjon coal-works, 47, 48;
in Timor, 198, 199; ants, 225; successful
collection of, 239-241, 247, 268; in Celebes,
285; comparison of, with other districts,
286-291; in Amboyna, 302; collecting of,
329, 330; astonishment of the natives on
observing, 330; scarcity of, 345; great va-
riety of, 352; of the Moluccas, 405, 406;
beauty and numbers of, 406; bargaining for,
with tobacco, 426; irritation caused by,
465; the pests of the tropical forests, 465;
curious ones at Dorey, 504, 505; of New
Guinea, 512, 513, 579, 581, 582.
Instinct, failure of, 481.
Interior of the island of Amboyna, beauty of
scenery, etc., 302; evening occupation, 303;
specimens in, 304.

Ireland. New, 16.

Irrigation in Lombock, 174, 175.