INDEX. 



535 



Sohale, IMount (in Timor), ascent of, 



474:; flora of, 475: summit sacred, 



475; view from, 4TG 

 Solorese in Cupang (Timor), 2S5 : their 



dress, 285 ; arti^iic taste among, 285 

 Songs, harvest, in Timor, 454 - > 

 Soporific poAvder, recipe for native, 245 

 Sowing of the seed in Timor, ceremonies 



attending, 455 



Spanoglie's plants fiora Timor, 497 



Spaihoqlottis pJicafcty fertilisation of, 

 89-91 



Spectre of the Brockon, 213 



Spider, alluringly coloured, C3 



Spider-eater, 233 



Spring.-^, hot, at Kaba, 225 



Stanley's, Captain Owen, account of 



Timor-lant, 301, 302 

 Sterciilm fret Ida, 334 

 Stone implements in Java, 07 

 Stone, oath over a, 191) 



Sturnopador lalla^ liabits of, 55 ; melan- 

 , optemSj habits of, 55 

 Stijrax suhpaniculahim^ 207 

 Sugar, losri on, from drouglit, iu Java, 75 

 Sukau, village of, 175 



Suku, or division of village in Sumatra, 



143 : ' 

 Siila piscati'ix, habits of, 32 

 Sumatra, disposition of hill and p'ain 



in, 126 



Sunda Straits, 4 ; snnsets in the, 12 



Sundanei?e people, 52 ; language, 53; aa 

 naturalists, 54 



Superi>tit!ons,atPaso, 290: about Dem- 

 po, 213 J in Burn, 405 ; in Timor-laut, 

 as to hair, 309; as to purtino: witli rela- 

 tive's cranium, 309; in Java about 

 wild dogs; 11*) ; about krisses, 117; 

 about trees, 137 



Surabaj'a, cull at, 488 



Suringar, Prof, 8 



Surulangun, stay at, 240; meet Kubus 



at, 240 

 Suf/a albtgularis, 209 

 Swan gi or e\il ^p'wiU, belief in, in Timor, 



42y, 438; in Burn, 405 

 Sijiunitheiuian iu rice fields, 170 



Tahat (fresli'Water ponds near Mount 



Dcmpo), 214 

 Tahfdn (dance) in Timor, 451 

 Tarlujpetes minor, habits of, 32 

 Tagetes palida, 4.ii0 

 Tandjong-Ning, village of, 221; -rca 



forest rcir, 222 ; lodc a man by a t'^^er 

 near, 222 



Tangalunga in Timor-laut, 312 

 Tatooing in Timor-laut, 313 

 Tea from Anaphah's, 210 

 Teal in Keeling Islands, 34 





Tebbing-Tingi;i, towu of, 221 ' 

 Teiiula, Mount, 430 . 

 Telok-betoug, town in Sumatra, 125, 

 IGl 



Tenai'u hitniensis, description of, 411, 

 39G . 



Tengamus, ascent of Mount, 139, 157; 

 flora of, 158 



Tenfi:ah-tengah, call at, 292 



Tenimber Islaudi (see Timor-laut) 



Terms laratensi^, 325 



Terpsyphone a^nls, 



Terraced lulls at Kosala, 97 



Terratas, stay at, 157 



Ternstroemace^, 228 



Tetranthera citrata, 78, 228 



Teysmannia altlfrons, 10 



Tevsraann, Mr., 9; his plants from 

 Timor, 498 



Thieves' calendar?, 244 



Theatrical performance, embryo. 194 



Theories as to coral reefs, 3G 



Thomas, Mr. O., on a new bat from Java, 

 71,118 ... 



TJiomisus decipiens, C3 . . 



TiL^ereatingDurian fruit., 240; attacked 

 by a, 128; loseaman ly'a,222 ; tiger- 

 trap, 223 ; percislence of, after quarry^ 

 223; "wilineas of, 223; superstitions 

 ■ about, 224 ; haired o^ 224 



Tilu, Mount, in Java, 108 



Timoiese the, their dyes, 4G3 ; great 



. drunkards, 437, 464; vendettaamong, 

 4G4 ; character of the, 419, 424, 429 ; 

 food of tnc, 438; burial ami death 

 ritea among, 437; arms of, 4G3 ; 



■ dress of, 4U2 ; ornaments of, 4G2; 

 carvings by, 4G4 ; their sacred in- 

 fititutiou of the Luli, 442 



Timor, East, territorial divisions of, 

 425; diiilects of, 425 ; dcscrplion of 

 country, 432, 433; dialects spoken 

 in, 490 ; law in, how exercised, 473 ; 

 dtath and burial rites in, 435 



Timor-liut, start for, 298; first im- 

 pressions of, 303; its flatness, 33-'; 

 want of hills and streams, 332 ; de- 

 rivation of name, 331; dangers in 

 304, 327; hardships in, 338; pTeasurei 

 in, 339 ; isolation when in. 339 ; its 

 fauna, 33G; reptiles in, 337; floral 

 features of, 303, 334; natural pro- 

 ducts of, 30G ; friendliness of natives, 

 305; manmh qaarl dlwure it}, 330 

 Timor-laut islandeis, artistic ability of, 



317 ; appreciate bright colours, 317 ; 

 dwell" 



of, 31S; great drunkards, 

 328 ; burial rites and places of, 322 ; 

 ttature, colour of skin, 310; facial and 

 cranial characters of, 310, 311, 310 ; 

 mond characters of, 313, 314, 310* 



