5 2 2 INDEX.
Singapore, sketch of the town and
island, i. 31; inhabitants a mixed
race, 81, 32; commerce of, 32;
Chinese in, 33, 34; Jesuit missionaries,
35; character of the
island, &c., 36; tigers and tiger-
pits, 36, 37; vegetation and insects,
37, 38.
Skulls (see Crania).
Slavery at Ternate, ii. 11; abolition
of, 13.
Sleeping shed, ii. 84.
Snake on board, ii. 71.
Snakes, after rain, in Maros, i. 376,
377; in Amboyna, 465, 466.
Soap-springs, in Oeassa, i. 291.
Social position of England, ii. 463;
its evils, ib. ; in a state of comparative
barbarism, 464.
Sodos, Malay village, i. 114.
Solomon Islands, i. 6.
Sol or vocabulary, ii. 475.
Sorong, in New Guinea, Mr. Allen’s
voyage to, ii. 420, 421; difficulties
encountered at, 422; ruggedness
of the country, 424.
Sourabaya, the chief town of East
Java, i. 156.
Spaniards, truly wonderful conquerors
and colonizers, ii. 192.
Species, geographical distribution
of, ii. 292, 293.
Spice, monopoly of the Dutch' (see
Nutmeg).
Spice trade of the Moluccas, ii. 6 ;
enormous profits of the, ib.
Spice trees, district of the, ii. 7.
Spiders, ii. 258 ; immense variety
of, in the Aru Islands, ii. 204.
Springs, hot, of Celebes, i. 405.
Squirrels, i. 22; in Borneo, 61; tame
ones in the village of Palem-
bang, 193.
St. John, Mr., account of a mias,
i. 97.
Sugar-palm (with plate), i. 361;
drink made from, 362.
Sula fiber., ii. 174.
Sula Islands, in 135; vocabulary of
the, 473.
Sumatra, in the line of the volcanic
belt, i. 6 ; volcanoes in, 9; a forest
country, 11; the orang confined
to, and to Borneo, 89; pheasants
in, 168; villages of, 195-197.
Sumbawa, island of, i. 6 ; no forest
in, 12.
T.
Tabokan, a Malay village, i. 103; assembling
of men and boys to look
at the author, ib. ; dress, &c. of,
103; portrait of a Dyak youth,
104; a visit from the “ Orang -
Kaya,” or rich man of the tribe,
104, 105; sports of, 105, 106 (see
Borotdi).
Tamilan, village of, ii. 87.
Tanakaki, island of, ii. 165.
Tanysiptera, the genus, ii. 242, 243.
Tanysiptera acis, ii. 137.
Tanysiptera doris, ii. 21.
Tanysiptera isis, ii. 42.
Teluti, village of, ii. 87, 88.
Teluti and Hoya vocabularies, ii.
475.
Teor, island of, ii. 99, 100, 173.
Teor vocabulary, ii. 475.
Ternate, island of, i. 6 ; arrival at,
ii. 1 ; mountains of, ib. ; town of,
ib. ; letter of introduction to Mr.
Duivenboden, known as the
' King of, 2; the author’s residence
at, 3, 4; mountain of, 4,
5 ; fruit-trees at, ib.; fort of, 5 ;
palace of the Sultan, ib. ; power
and magnificence of the ancient
sultans, 6 ; spice trade-of, 6, 8 ;
destruction of the spice trees of,
7; influence of the Dutch established
at, ib.; earthquakes at,
9, 10; the inhabitants are of
three well-marked races, 10, 1 1 ;
slavery at, abolished, 13; return
to, in a kora-kora, 69; arrival at,
: 72 ; poverty of, in articles used
by Europeans, 299 ; sketch map
of, 369; voyage to from Waigiou,
ib. ; difficulties of the voyage, 374,
375, 381 et seq.
Ternate vocabulary, ii. 474..
Teto vocabulary, ii. 475.
INDEX. 5 2 3
Therates labiata, ii. 191.
Thieving, trial and punishment for,
ii. 216.
Thrushes, fruit, i. 21, 22; leaf, 22;
ground, 245; beauty of, 246.
Tides, curious phenomena attending,
ii. 371, 3c2.
Tidore, island of, i. 6 ; volcanic
cone of, ii. 1 ; village of, 26;
Sultan of, 357.
Tidore vocabulary, ii. 474.
Tiger, in Singapore, i. 36, 37; traps
for, and dinners of, ib. ; in Malacca,
52; tiger-cats in Borneo,
61; a tiger-hunt, 168, 169.
Timor, volcano in, i. 9; no forest in,
11; common trees of, 12; extent,
&c. of, 288 (see Coupang and
Delli); mountains of, 304, 305;
value of the island, 308, 309;
races of, ii. 449, 450; races of the
islands west of, 450.
Timor group of islands, natural
history of, i. 316; birds in, 318-
322; fauna, 324, 325; mammalia,
326-329.
Timor vocabulary, ii. 475.
Tobacco, exchanged for insects,
ii. 187.
Tobo, village of, ii. 89, 90.
Todiramphus diops, ii. 54.
Tomboro, volcano of, i. 7; great
eruption of, ib.
Tomohon vocabulary, ii. 473.
Tomore, colony from, ii. 43; people
of East Celebes, 135.
Tomore vocabulary, ii. 473.
Tondano, village of, in Celebes, i.
349; waterfall at, 395, 396 ; from
Tondano to Kakos (which see).
Towers, Mr., an Englishman resident
in Menado, i. 378.
Trade, in Lombock, i. 274, 275 (see
Census); the magic that keeps all
at peace, ii. 215, 216; very considerable
at Dobbo, 281, 282.
Tree, large, at Modjokerto, in Java,
i. 156.
Tree ferns, of immense size, ii. 209.
Tree-kangaroos, ii. 319, 320.
Tricondyla aptera, ii. 191.
Tripang, produce of, ii. 114.
Trogons, i. 22, 24.
Tropidorhynchi of the Moluccas,
strong and active birds, ii. 152,
153.
Tropidorhynchus bouruensis, ii. 151;
T. subcomutus, 152.
Tropidorhynchus fuscicapillus, ii.
Tu2r1k •s, extravagant ideas of, entertained
by the Malay Arehipela-
gans, ii. 104.
IT.
Unto wan mountains, i. 114.
Uta, island ofj ii. 99, 100.
V.
Yaiqueno vocabulary, ii. 475.
Vanda lowii, the plant, in Borneo,
i. 128.
Vegetation, contrasts of, in the
Malay Archipelago, i. 11; European
in Java, 184,185; in Timor,
310, 311; in Celebes, 389, 390.
Villages of the Sumatran Malays,
i. 195 ; pretty villages in Celebes,
383,
Violets, &c. in Java, i. 184.
Viverra tangalunga, ii. 139.
Viyerra zebetha, ii. 55.
Vocabularies, list of, collected, ii.
472.
Volcanic and non-volcanic islands,
contrasts of, L 6 ; volcanic belt,
course and extent of, 6, 10, 24.
Volcanoes, i. 6-10; mud, 407; view
of the volcano at Bali, 450-452;
in Amboyna, 460, 461; of the
Malay Islands, ii. 27; elevation
and depression of the land arising
from, 30.
Vorkai river, ii. 286.
Vorkay, map of, ii. 219.
W.
Wahai, village of, ii. 91; arrival at,
123.
Wahai vocabulary, ii. 475.