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Index. 



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. 



Copper, supposed discovery of, in Timor, 200. 



Coral rocks surrounding Coram, 375; dan- 

 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, 

 602. 



Cranioscopy has produced no certain results, 

 601. 



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. 



Curculionidfe, 343. 



Current, violence of the, 328. 



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 immense 

 forest-trees, 34T. 



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, 435 ; 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 frorq, 445 ; map of, 445 ; trading 

 at, 461 ; second residence at, 476 ; its im- 

 proved and animated appearance, 477 et 

 seq.; 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 ; funeral ceremonies at. 



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 hutterflies, 300. 



Dorey, harbor and village of, 499 ; inhabit- 

 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, 4l!3. 



Duivenboden, Mr., known as the king of Ter- 

 nate, 312; his character, 312. 



Durion and Mangosteen fiiiit, 64 ; and Duri- 

 on, 84, 85 ; the Durion, tree, 85 ; richness 

 and excellency of, 85, 86 ; 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 ; Dyak dogs, 67 ; Dyak accounts 

 of the mias, 71,72 (sec Tabokan); 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 Malay.=, 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. 



E. 



Earl, Mr. George Windsor, his paper and 

 pamphlet on tlie " Physical Geograpliy of 

 Soutli-eastern Asia and Australia," 20, 21. 



Earthquakes at Ternate, 317. 



Eclectus grandis, 331. 



Elephants in Malacca, 45. 



I'^lephomia, of New Guinea, different species, 

 505, 506. 



Empugnan, a Malay village (see Tabokan), 

 76. 



Entomological specimens, 330. 



Erythrina, 482. 



Eucalypti, common tree of Timor, 20, 



Eurystomus azureus, 337. 



Fauna, of the Moluccas, 400 et seq. ; of the 

 Papuan group, 581. 



Ferns, rare, on Mount Ophir,43 ; collection of, 

 in Borneo, 91 ; tree-fern, plate of, 93 ; col- 

 lection of, 95 ; immense number and variety 



