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.
Aurora borealis observed at Muka, 530. Australia, re-emblance to, of the Austro-Ma- layan division of the Archipelago, 25; great difference between the productions of, and those of Asia, 25.
Australians, on the crania and languages of the, 601, 602.
Austro-Malayan division of the Archipelago, 21 (see also Indo-Malayan); its close resem- blance to Australia, not to Asia, 25. Awaiya, village of, 358; arrival at, 363. Awaiya vocabulary, G06. Ayer-panas, life at, 40.
Babirúsa (pig-deer), the, 270, 282; skull of the, 283, 395; of Celebes found in Bouru, 397. Baboon monkeys at Batchian, 344; of the Moluccas, 396.
Baderoon, the author's servant, 412; his gam- bling propensities, 483.
Bali, island of, 16; no forest in, 20; difference between, and Lombock, 25 (see Birds in); | position of, and of Lombock, 160; the only islands of the Archipelago in which the Hindoo religion maintains itself, 160 (see Bileling); beauty of the district around, 161; cattle and birds, 161, .62; birds in, 162.
Ball, Mr., an Englishman, resident in Java, 111.
Bamboo, usefulness of, 65, 83; with plate of bridge, SS-91.
Banda, island of, 16; from Macassar to, 293; first impression of, 293; appearance of the town, 293; view of the volcano of, 203, 294; volcanic character of the island, 294; na- tiv s of, 2.07; birds and mammalia, 297; the trading locality for nutmeg, 316. Banda group, 418.
Baso, the author's servant, 412. Batanta, map of, 517.
Batavia, arrival at, 120; trade and hotels, 120.
Batchian, island of, 16; voy ge to, 325; vol- canoes of, 327; arrival at, 332; difficulties of obtaining accommodation, 333; the au- thor's cottage in the suburbs, 333, 334; interview with the Sultan, 334; road to the coal-mines, 335; virgin forest of, 335; dis- tinct races of, 337; robbery at. 338; wet season at, 339; music and dancing at, 340; dome-tic habits of, 340: eatable bats at,341: walk in the forest of, 341; objects of natu- ral history at, 342 et seq. its great variety of surface and of soil, 349; sketch map of, 541
Batchian vocabulary, 606.
Batrachostomus crinifrons, 352. Bats, eatable, 341.
Batu-merah vocabulary, 606. Batuassa, village of, 365.
Beard, cultivating a, 478.
Beck, Capt. Van der, 355, 357; his e-traordi- nary knowledge of languages, 357.
Bee-eater, Australian, 167, 280 Bee-hunters and bee-hunting. 207-209. Bees-wax in Timor, 207.
Beetles, 700 species collected in Singapore,
56; distinct (130) kinds of the Longicorns, 56; proper ground for collecting, 47; large i
number and new species of, collected at the Simunjon coal-works, 48, 300; a rare beetle, 309; numerous sp cies of, discover- ed, 329, 330, 337; capture of, 543; found at Bouru, 392; of the Moluccas, 406; the va- rious spec.es, 496; obtained for tobacco, 427; numerous species in New Guinea, 513; new species, 513. Belang vocabulary, 605. Belideus ariel, 344, 398. Bengalese in Singapore, 32.
Bernstein, Dr., 3-4; collector for the Leyden Museum, 344.
Bessir, village of, 526, 534; visit to, 534; wretched accommodation there, 534, 535; bargain with the men for catching Birds of Paradise, 535, 536; their method of snaring them, 537; scarcity of food there, 538; the country around very hilly and rugged, 53. Bileling, arrival at, from Singapore, 160; a Chinese house in, 160.
Bird of Paradise, new form of, 336; named "Wallace's Staudard Wing," 336.
Birds, in Bali and Lombock, 25; in Malacca, 39, 40; in Bali, 162; in Ampanam, 164; boys' bird-catching, 164; beautiful birds, 167, 168 (see Simla group, and Celebes), 268 (see Maleo); scarcity of, 34; insular forms of, 351; collections of, in Bouru, 395; number of species from the Molucca group of islands, 399, 400; number of, in Europe compared, 400; in India, 400; va- rius noi es of, 449; numerous varieties of, in the Aru Islands, 460 et seq.; dancing- pai ties of, called "Sacaleli," 466; those which live only in the depths of the for- est, 490; shot at Dorey, 502; collection of, obtained in Waigiou, 539; of New Guinea, 577; genera and species of, 57S.
Birds of Paradise, 13; range of, 27; their great beauty, 467; specimens of, obtained in the ir native forests, 486; at Waigiou, 53; diffi- culty of catching them, 529, 530; descrip- tion of, 530; bargains with the bird-catchers of Bessir for capturing them, 535; their success, 536; some of them kept in cages, but they did not live, 537; method of snar- ing them, 537; their history and habits, 552 et seq.; different names applied to, by different nations, 552; their structure and affinities, 553; the Great Bird of Paradise (the Paradises apoda of Linnæus), the largest species known, 553; changes of plumage, 554; native method of catching them, 555; mode of preserving them, 555; the Les-er Bird of Paradise (Paradisea pa- puana), 556; the true Paradise birds, 557; fed on cockroaches, 557; Paradisea rubra, 558; changes of plumage, 559; King Bird (Paradisea regia), its great beauty, 560; the Magnificent" (Paradisea speciosa), 561; the Diphillodes wilsoni, 563; the Su- perb Bird, 563; the Golden or Six-shafted bird (Parotia sexpennis), 564; the Stand- ard Wing, 565: the Epimachidæ, or Long- billed birds, 567; Twelve-wired bird (Par- adisea alba), 567; Seleucides alba, 568; the great Epimaque, or Long-tailed bird, 569; Scale-breasted bird, 519; Ptiloris alberti, P. Paradiseus, P. Victoriæ, 570; Paradise Oriole (Paradisea aurea), 571; list of all the Birds of Paradise yet known, with the
places they are believed to inhabit, 572; the countries they chiefly inhabit, 572; an ar- ticle of commerce, 573; Mr. Allen's voyage to Sorong, in New Guinea, in quest of, 573 e seq.; termination of the search for these beautiful birds, 575; difficulties of the un- dertaking, 575.
Bird-winged butterflies, 342, 434; their beau-
ty and brilliancy, 342; of the Moluccas, 405. Boat-building under difficulties, 377; of the Ké Islands, 425, 426.
Boats, difficulty in obtaining, 366, 367; de- scription of, 367.
Borneo, large enough for the whole of Great Britain to be set down in the centre of, and hidden, 15; the centre of the great curve of volcanoes, 19; a forest country, 19, 27; ar- rival at, 46 (see Sarawak); the orang-utan an inhabitant of, and of Sumatra, 68; journey in the interior, 75 (see Dyak); pheasants in, 117.
Borotoi, a Malay village, 78; assembling to look at the author, 79; appearance of the people, 79; assembling to see the author eat, 79; amusing the children, 79; depar- ture from to Budw (which se.). Botanical locality, 349.
Bouru Island, map of, 356; visit to, 387; dif- ficulties of the journey, 359; beetle found at, 392; ignorant simplicity of the natives, 393; of two distinct races, 394; collections in, 305; mountains of, 417; two distinct races there, 590.
Bouton vocabulary, 605. Boutong, island of, 414. Boutyne mountain, 413.
Brambanam, an ancient village of Java, 115. Bow and Bedé, Chinese gold-fields in Borneo, 46.
Bread-fruit, the tree, 203, 310; excellency of, 310.
Brenthidæ, 343; abundant in Aru, 482; their pugnacity, 482.
Brick-work, excellent, in an ancient city in Java, 111.
Brissi vocabulary, 607. Britain, New, 16.
Brooke, Sir James, at Sarawak, 46; butterfly named after, 48; his account of a mias, 73; the author a guest of, 94; character of his government, 102-104; his suppression of piracy, 347. Brush-turkeys, 25.
Budw, Malay village, 80; reception by the natives, native dances, 80; proceed to Se- nánkan (which se).
Bugis sailors, their peaceful character, 444; traders in the far East, 380, 351. Bugis vocabulary, 605.
Buitenzorg, near Batavia, botanical gardens of, 121 climate, etc., 121; village culture near, 122.
Bukit-tima, residence at, 34; character of the Jesuit host there, 35; mission-house, 35. Buprestidæ, of different species, 329, 330, 343. Buprestis family, 429. Buttercups, violets, who tleberries, etc., in Java, 128. Butterflies, collected in Singapore, 36, a new! species, 40; handsom specimens of, 48; the Ornithoptera brookeana. 48 (ce Moths); Calliper butterfly, 124, in Sumatra, 137-
143; a strange family of, 140-143; species of, in Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, 157; in Timor, 198; in Celebes, 223; a fine butter- fly, 225, 243; comparison of the productions of Celebes with those of other districts, 285- 291; in Amboyna, 300; of Batchian, 336; different species of, 337; bird-winged, 341, 342; scarcity of, 349; capture of, 362; dif- ficulties of capturing, 427; of the Ke Isl- lands, 428; capture of, at the Aru Islands, 434; locations where the author's most bean- tiful specimens were obtained, 539. Butterfly of the genus Pieris, 362.
Cajeli, harbor of, 387; the town of, 387; the Kajah of, 388; excursion from, 389; return to, 394.
Calliper butterfly, 124. Cajeli vocabulary, 606. Camarian vocabulary, 606. Carabidæ, 343.
Carnivorous animals of the Moluccas, 397. Carpophaga perspicillata 348; C. concinna, Cassowary of the Moluccas, 403. 376, 423; C. neglecta, 376. Cats, wild, 26.
Celebes, island of, 16; north, 16; a forest country, 19; resemblance to Australia, 25 (see Macassar); natural history of, 277-291; birds in, 277-282; mammalia, 282-285; na- tives of the, 394.
Census, taking a, in I ombock, 186; difficul ties in the way of, 187; the Kajah's strata- gem, 187, 188; his pilgrimage to the Gu- nong-Agong (the great fire-mountain), 188- 190; complete success of the stratagem, 191, 192. Centipedes, 470.
Ceram, visit to, 355 et seq.; maps of, 356, 369, 517; schools and schoolmasters of, 357; Christianity established in. 357; inhabit- ants of, 357, 358; trip to the interior, 360; forests of, 361; a forest desert, 362; jour- ney along the const, 663-365; a perfect desert in zoology, 367; the Alfuros of Pa- puan race the predominant type, 370; trade and natural productions of, 381; great sago district of, 382; voyage from, to Waigion, 56 e se difficulties of the voyage, 518 e seo, an indigenous race there, 590. Cerambyx found at Bouru, 392. Ceyx Cajeli, 395
Chafer, lo g-armed, 309.
Charmosyna placentis, a bird of Djilolo, 322, 336.
Chinese, in Singapore, 32; their bazar, 33; trades and occupations of, 33; Jesuits among, 34, 35.
Christians of Ceram, 358.
Civets, 26; civet cats of the Moluccas, 397. Cockatoos, 25; in Lombock, 165; of the Aru Islands, 450, 451; their habits, 451, 452. Cock-fighting at Dobbo, 477. Cockroaches, fed on by the Birds of Paradise, 557.
Cocoa-nut trees and cocoa-nuts of Batchian, 341 of Matabello, 372; luxury of, 373; of the Ké Islands, 424.
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,
Copper, supposed discovery of, in Timor, 200 Coral rocks surrounding Goram, 375; dan-Dorey, harbor and village of, 499; inhabit- gers of, 523.
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,
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.
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.
ficulties with the workmen of, 378; depart- ure from, 380; trade of, 381. Goram vocabulary, 606.
Fishes, tame, at Gunong Sari, 181, 182 (see Goram prau, its mode of sailing, 414.
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,
Bor-"Gubbong," the palm, 168.
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.
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,
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.
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