Island, how to determine whether it has ever
been connected with any continent. 491.
Islands of the Malay Archipelago, extent and
variety of, 13; divisible into two portions,
14; definition and boundaries of. 14; size
of several of the largest islands, 15.

J.

Jackass, laughing, of Australia, 166.
Jahi, a Borneo village, 75 (see Empugnan).
Japan, sketches of the plants of, 301.
Java, island of, 15, 16; forty-five volcanoes
in, 18; a forest country, 19; birds and in-
sects peculiar to, 23, 24; residence in, 105;
excellency of the Dutch system of govern-
ment, 105, 106; the culture system, 106,
107; the native chiefs and the people, 107;
increase of population, 108, 109: Java prob-
ably the finest tropical island in the world,
109; its history and civilization, 109; its
ancient Brahminical religion, and conver-
sion to Mohammedanism, 109 (see Soura-
baya); journey in the interior of, 110; ruins
in, 111, 115; a Javanese trial and chief, 119;
collections at Wonosalem and Djapannan,
119 (see Vegetation, and Glacial Period).
Javanese, the, 32.

Javanese vocabulary, 605.

Jesuits, French, among the Chinese, 34;
thoroughness of their work, 34; their great
success, 34; economy and self-denial, 34; a
missionary friend of the author, 35.
Jobie, large island of, 379, 508.

Johnson, Mr., his account of a mias, 74.
"Jong," legend of, in Aru, 464.

Jumaat, death of, 510.

Jungle, thorny, 168.

L.

Lahagi, a native of Ternate, 325.
Lahi, a native of Gilolo, 325.
Laiemu, village of, 365.

Language, curious jumble of, in Malacca, 38.
Languages of the races of man in the Malay
Archipelago, 601; vocabularies of, 603; list
of vocabularies collected, 605.
Langundi, village of, 346; ten days' residence
at, 348.

Lansats, fruit, in Sarawak, 94.

Lariki, Asilulu, and Wakasiho vocabularies,
606.

Latché, a pilot, 325.

Law or no law? 443.

breeds of poultry, 167.

Jungle-fowl in Java, 119.

K.

Kaióa Islands, 328; inhabitants of, 331; a
mixed race, 331; fruits and other products
of, 331; village of, 547.
Kaión Islands vocabulary, 606.
Kakas, village of, 265.

Kallinia paralekta, butterfly, 140.
Kanary-tree, 348.

Kasserota, village of. visit to, determined on,
345; difficulties of the journey to, 345 e
sq.

Kayan river, in Borneo, 82.
Ko Islands, 18, 20, 418, 419; landing at, 420;
natives of the, 420; habitations of the, 422;
explorations in the, 423; immense pigeons
of the, 423; trade and products of the, 424;
boat-building of the, 424-426; magnificent
forests of, 425; money unknown to, 426;
mode of bargaining, 426; collections at the,
499; inhabited by two kinds of people,
430; contrast of character between these
people and the Malays, 430; language of
the people, 480; mountainous character of
the, 431; map of, 446.

Ké Islands vocabulary, 475.

Lempias, village of, in Cel bes, 270 (see Li-
coupang).

Lemur, flying, in Sumatra, 145; nature of,

145.

Liang vocabulary, 606.

Licoupang, village of, in Celebes, 270 (see Ma-
leos).

Liliaceæ, in the forests of Ké, 428.

Linschott, his description of Malacca, 270
years ago, 37, 38; his account of the Durion
fruit, 85.

Lizards, immense variety in the Aru Islands,
437.

Lobo Raman, village of, 135.
Lomaptera, species of, 330.
Lomaptera papua, 429.

Lombock, island of, 16, 402; no forest in, 20;
resemblance to Australia, 25 (see Bali and
Birds), 162; collecting at, under difficulties,
169; manners and customs of the people,
173; excursion into the interior, 173; i ri-
gation, etc., 173-175; punishment of theft
and adultery, 182, 183; jealousy, 183 (see
Trade).

Longicorns, numerous species discovered, 48,
330, 337; specimens of, 406.
Lories, scarcity of, in Ceram, 364.
Lorius garrulus, 336.
Lorok, village of, 134.

Lycocorax of the Moluccas, 401.
Lycocorax morotensis, 324.

Lyell, Sir Charles, his explanation of the

ion, 55, 56; baby-like appearance of the
mias, 56; cutting its teeth, 57; death, 57;
a mias hunt, 57-59; capture of a very large
animal, 59; size and proportions of, 60;
skeleton in Derby Museum, 60; a mías at-
tacked by natives, 60; other captures, 61;
wounded mias making a nest in the trees,
62; its death and dried remains, 62, 63;
mode of walking over the tree tops, 63; cap-
ture of, at Semábang, the specimen now in
the British Museum, 64, 65; the mias throw-
ing down branches, 67; preparing the skins
and skeletons, 67; the author's last cap-
ture, 68; the orang district, Borneo and
Sumatra, 65; habits of, and nature of coun-
try inhabited by, 68, 69; singular method
of making its way through the forest, 69,
70; his nest for the night, 70; his time of
rising in the morning, 70; full-grown ani-
mals seldom seen in company, 70; food of,
70, 71; the mias rarely seen on the ground,
71; the only two animals it is attacked by,
the python and the crocodile, 71; his su-
periority to both, 71; size of the large mias,
72; various accounts of, 73, 74; in Suma-
tra, 144.

Microglossum aterrimum, 452.

Morty, island of, 16, 324, 401.
Mosquitoes, 470.

Moths, in Borneo, 95; plentifulness of, on the
mountains of Sarawak, 95; mode of seek-
ing them, 95; list of captures in different
kinds of weather, 96; observations on
modes of capture, 96, 97.
Motir, island of, 327.
Mountain plants, 346.

"Muck, running a," curious custom in Lom-
bock, 183, 184.

Muka, village of, 526; description of, 528; hut
erected at, 525; aurora borealis seen at,
530; the people live in abject poverty, 533;
under the rule of the Sultan of Tidore, 533;
destitute of the necessaris or comforts of
life, 533; the author half-starved while
there, 533; departure from, 534.
Muntok, the chief town of Banca, 132,
Museum, British, specimen of mias in, 65.
Museum, Derby, specimen of mias in, 53, 60,

65.

Mysol, map of, 517.
Mysol vocabulary, 607.

N.

Millepedes, 470.

Mimeta bouruensis, 404; Mimeta forsteni,
405.

Mimicry among birds, 403.

Minahasa, map of (see Menado), 254; natives
of, 269.

Mindanao, natives of, 397.

Missionaries, 498; traders at Mansinam, 498.
Modjo-kerto, a town in Java, 111; the village-
green, and tree, 111.

Modjo-pahit, ruins of the ancient city of, in
Java, 111; admirable brick-work in, 111;|
ancient bas-relief, 112; presented to the au-
thor, 111.

Mohammedan priest at Dobbo, 483.

M hammedans in Singapore, 32; of Ceram,
358; of the Ké Islands, 430.
Mohnike, Dr., in Amboyna, 298; his collec-
tion of beetles, etc., 300.
Molucca Sea, its aspects, 486.
Moluccan hornbill, 362.
Moluccas, the, 18; a forest country, 19, 312
et seq.; final departure from, 335; natural
history of the, 396 et seq.; consist of three
large islands, 396; their extent and geo-
graphical position, 396; mammalia, or
warm-blooded quadrupeds of the, 396 et
seq.; fauna of the, 400, 401; especially rich
in the parrot tribe, 401; most curious groups
of birds, 402 et seq.; the cassowary, 403;
cases of "mimicry," 403; insects of the,
405 et seq.; luxuriance and beauty of ani-
mal life in the forests, 407.
Monarcha chrysomela, 440.
Monarcha loricata, 395.
Monarcha telescopthalma, 440.
Monkeys, 26; a hare-lipped monkey, in com-

pany with a young orang-utan, 55; abun-
dance and variety of, on the banks of the
Simunjon river, in Sumatra, 143, 144.
Monsoon, south-east, in the Malay Archipel-
ago, 30; in the Banda Sea, 366,
Morella and Mamalla vocabularies, 606.

Naturalist, pleasures of the, 240, 241.
Nectarinea auriceps, 337.
Nectarinea proserpina, 395.

Negritos, a distinct race from the Malay, 593.
New Guinea or Papua, dangers of trading
with, 378; murders committed there, 579;
Moluccan fauna derived from, 400; voy-
age to, 496 et seq.; trading missionaries of,
48; harbor and village of Dorey, 499, 500;
the people of, 499, 500; coast and inland
Papuans, 502; curious insects of, 505; deer-
flies of, 506; Arfak and Jobie, 508; scarc-
ity of Paradise birds, 50; Humboldt Bay,
511; plague of flies, 514; map of the west
point of, 517; birds of, 5:1; with the islands
joined to it constitute the Papuan group,
576; perhaps the largest island on the
globe, 576; mammalia of, 577; birds of,
577; insects of, 579; the largest islands to
the east of, very little known, 581; fauna
of, 581; exhibits a common origin with
Australia, 581; plants of, 582 (see Papuan
Islands).

Neys, Mr., a native of Menado, 249.
Nicobar pigeon, its beauty, 350,
Nutmeg-trees, in Banda, 295; beauty of, 295;
the nutmeg trade, 295, 296; the spice mo-
nopoly, 296.

Nutmegs, procured from New Guinea, 315.

0.

Oceanic races, natural division of the, 592.
Oeassa, soap-springs of, 195; the inhabitants
of, 195.

Ondor, the chief village of Goram, 375,
Ophir, resolution to visit, 41; the voyage and
journey to, 41; the "Padang-batu," or
stone-field, 42; plants on, 43; the sum-
mit, 44; trees, foliage, and coffee for break-
fast on, 44; the great Argus pheasant of,
44.

Orang-kaya, the rich man, or chief of a Dyak
tribe,77; illness of the, 454.

Otters, 50.

volcanoes in, 18, 19; black woolly races of
the, 591.

Pacific, different races of the, 593, 594; geo-
graphical dividing line, 594.
Palembang, city of, 132, 133; boys, etc., of,
133; road from to Bencoolen, 134.
Palm sugar, 237; a beautiful palm, 276.
Pandanacea, on the Batchian coast, 347.
Pangerango and Gedeh mountains, trip to the
summit of, 125.

Panghu, 267; birds and insects in, 268.
Papandayang, volcano, eruption of, 17.
Papers lost, 45.

Papilio coon, butterfly, 123, 139.

Papilio gambrisius, 363.

Papilio memnon, 138.

Papilio ulysses, 336.

Papilio wallacei, 343.

Papilios, fine specimens of, 360.

Papua Kowiyee, bloodthirsty tribes of, 379.
Papuan belles, personal ornaments of the, 467,
469.

Papuan Islands, natural history of the, 576 et
seq.; mammalia of the, 577; birds of the,
579 et seq.; geology of the, 579; insects of,
579; large islands to the east of New Guin-
ea, 581; the fauna of, related to that of Aus-
tralia, 581; insects of, 582; plants of, 582.
Papuan race in Ceram, 370.

Papuans, the, 323; first view of, in their own
country, 420; wildness of the, 420; differ-
ent from the Malays, 421; contrast of char-
acter with the Malays, 430; reserved and
taciturn, 438; of the Malay Archipelago,
584; personal characteristics of the, 587;
their stature, 588; their moral and intel.
lectual characteristics, 588, 589; island of
New Guinea, Ké and Aru Islands, Mysol,
Salwatty, and Waigiou inhabited almost
exclusively by, 591; closely allied to the
negroes of Africa, 594; on the crania and
languages of the, 601.
Paradigalla carunculata, 571.

Paradise birds, manner of shooting, 446;
scarcity of, in New Guinea, 446.
Paradise pie of New Guinea, 571.
Paradisea, obtained in full plumage, 466.
Paradisea regia, 448.

Paradisea rubra at Waigiou, 529, 530; twen-
ty-four fine specimens brought away, 539.
Paradiseida (see Birds of Paradise'.
Parroquet, long-tailed, 134.

Parrots. 196; in Celebes, 279; of New Guin-
ea, 577.

Physical geography (see Archipelago).
Pieris, genus, 362.

Pig, wild, 26, 282.

Pigs, their power of swimming, 398.
Pigeons, fruit, 131; various, 166; several spe-

cies of, 196; of immense size, 423; of New
Guinea, 578.

Pin, a strange novelty to the natives, 393.
Pirates, on the Batchian coast, 447; Sir J.
Brooke's suppression of, on the coast of
Borneo, 347; on the coast of Aru, 440; at-
tack the praus and murder the crews, 441,

442.

Pitcher-plant, on Mount Ophir, 43; water in,
43; the plant in Borneo, 91, 148.
Pitta genus, 394.

Pitta celebensis, 394.

Pitta gigas, a beautiful bird of Gilolo, 321.
Plants, on Mount Ophir (Ferns and Pitcher-
plants, see both), 43; rhododendrons, 43;
zinziberaceous plants, 44 (see Durion and
Bamboo); on Pangerango mountain, 126–
129; geographical distribution of, 491,42 et
sq.; distribution of, in New Guinea, 582.
Plow, a native, 232; plowing, 232, 233.
Plumage of Birds of Paradise, changes of, 558
et seq.

Polynesia, an area of subsidence, 595.
Polynesian races, 593. 595; on the crania and
languages of the, 601.

Pomali, or "taboo," : 03.
Poppa, map of, 517; difficulties near the isl-
land of, 520 et seq.

Portuguese, in Singapore, from Malacca, 32;
in Malacea, 37, 38; bad government of, in
Timor, 205; expelled from Ternate by the
Dutch, 315; truly wonderful conquerors and
colonizers, 430.

Pottery, carved tool for making, 51.
Prau, native, of Macassar, 410; the crew, 411,
415; captain and owner of the, 416; dan-
gerous defects of the, 416; comforts of the,

Archipelago, the Malays and Papuans, 30,
584 et & q. (see Malays and Papuans); opin-
ions of Humboldt and Pritchard, 30; in-
digenous race in the island of Ceram, 590;
the Timorese, 590; the black woolly-haired
races of the Philippines, and the Malay pen-
insula, 591; general view as to their origin
and affinities, 592 et seq.; the black Poly-
nesian races, 593 et seq.; general reflections
on, 596 et seq.; on the crania and the lan-
guages of the, 601 et seq.

Raffles, Sir Stamford, his account of the ruins
of Java, 115.

Ratahan, vocabulary, 605.
Regent bird of Australia, 571,
Rhinoc ros, in Malacca, 45.

Rifle birds of Australia, 569, 570.
Robberies at Batchian, 338.

Rosenberg, Herr, 386; a German naturalist,
508.

Ross, Mr., an Englishman resident at Lom-
bock, 175.

Rotti vocabulary, 607.
Rowan mountains, 83.

Ruatan, a river of Ceram, 360; difficulty of
crossing, 361.

Rurúkan, village of, the highest in Minahasa,
253; coffee plantations, 255; hill vegeta-
tion, 255-257 (see Tondano); missionaries
in, 260.

Rusa hippelaphus of Java, 397.

S.

Sago district of East Ceram, 382.

Sago bread, mode of preparing the, 383; oven
for baking, 384.

Sago palm of Ceram, 382; washing of, 383;
conversion into food with little labor, 35.
Sago-trees, 365; of the Ke Islands, 424.
Sahoe, village of, 3.2; the inhabitants dis-
tinct from the Malay races, 323.

Sahoe vocabulary, 606.

Slayer Straits, 413.

Salayer vocabulary, 605.

Salibabo Islands, vocabulary of the, 605.
Salwatty, map of, 517; island of, 568.

Samábang, a trip to, 63; description of, 64;
a Dyak house, 64.

Sandal wood, in Timor, 20, 207.

Sanguir Island, 16.

Sanguir Islands vocabulary, 605.
Saparua vocabulary, 606.

Sapi-utan, the, 270, 271; description of, 282.
Sarawak, 46; the author entertained at, by
Sir James Brooke, 46; gold-fields and coal-
works, 46; the Sadong river and its tribu-
taries, 46; head of the river of, 83; arrival
at, fom the interior, 84; government of,
by Sir James Brooke, 102-104.
Sardinia and Corsica, natural productions
peculiar to, 2.

Sassak vocabulary, 605.

Sassaks, the aborigines of Lombock, 182.
Savu vocabulary, 607.
Scorpions, 470.

Screw pines on the Batchian coast, 347.
Sea, contrasts in depth of, 21, 26
Sea Gipsies, vocabulary of the, 607.
Seboran mountain, lower slopes of the, 82.
Semioptera of the Moluccas, 401.
Senankan, Malay village, 81.

Senna, Malay village, character of the people,
etc., 81, 83, 84.

Serpents, of immense size, 392.
Servants, the author deserted by his, 381.
Serwatty Islands, 16.

Sharks caught and cooked, 414.
Shells and fish, an unrivalled collection of,
307, 308.

Siau vocabulary, 605.

Sickness of the author and his men, 507, 510,
511.

Silinta, in Mysol, 517, 518.
Simia satyrus, 51.

Simunjon river, 46; coal-works, 47; a`van-
tages of, good locality for insect collecting,
48; a trip up the river, 63; narrowness of
the stream, 63; monkeys on the banks, 63;
arrival at Samábang, 64.

Singapore, sketch of the town and island, 3?;
inhabitants a mixed race, 32; commerce of,
33; Chinese in, 33; Jesuit missionaries,
34; character of the island, etc., 35; tigers
and tiger-pits, 35; vegetation and insects,
36.

Sodos, Malay village, 83.
Solomon Islands, 16.
Solor vocabulary, 607.

Sorong, in New Guinea, Mr. Allen's voyage
to, 572; difficulties encountered at, 573;
ruggedness of the country, 574.

Sourabaya, the chief town of East Java, 110.
Spaniards, truly wonderful conquerors and
colonizers, 430.

Species, geographical distribution of, 491, 492.
Spice, monopoly of the Dutch (see Nutmeg).
Spice trade of the Moluccas, 315; enormous
profits of the, 315.

Spice-trees, district of the, 315.

Spiders, 470; immense variety of, in the Aru
Islands, 437.

Springs, hot, of Celebes, 266.

Squirrels, 26; in Borneo, 50; tame ones in
the village of Palembang, 163.

St. John's, Mr., account of a mias, 73.
Sugar-palm (with plate), 238; drink made
from, 239.

Sult fiber., 418.

Sula Islands, 394; vocabulary of the, 605.
Sumatra, in the line of the volcanic belt, 16;
volcanoes in, 18; a forest country, 19; the
orang confined to, and to Borneo, 68; pleas-
ants in, 117; villages of, 135, 136.
Sumbawa, island of, 16; no forest in, 20.

T.

Tabókan, a Malay village, 76; assembling of
men and boys to look at the author, 76;
dress, etc., of, 76; portrait of a Dyak youth,
77; a visit from the "Orang-kaya," or
rich man of the tribe, 77; sports of, 77, 78
(see I orótoi).