Index. 



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mcaijs of dispersal of natm'al productions, 

 22. 



M. 



Macassar, in the island of Celebes, 219 ; the 

 first I^utcli town visited by tlie author, '219 ; 

 description of the town, "219; an attempt to 

 collect at, 221; removes to (ioa (which set), 

 281) (sec Maros) ; the rainy season at, 408; 

 trade of, with the Am Islands, 40i» ; di- 

 partiire from, 409, 413; diary of the voy- 

 age, 413 I't se'i. ; re-arrival at, after the re- 

 turn from Am, 4S6. 



Macassar cargoes, value of, 4S5. 



Macassar vocubiilary, 606. 



Mace, procured from New Guine.n, ."15. 



Madagascar, island of, and Africa, marked 

 diflference between the productions of, 22, 

 2-5. 



Madeira beetles, 351. 



Magindano pirates, 347. 



Makariki, visit to, 360. 



Makian, island of, 16, 327 ; volcanic erup- 

 tions in, 17; volcano of, 327 ; visit to, B54; 

 coast of, 549. 



Malacca, and Mount Ophir. 37 ; description 

 of the town, etc., 37 ; description of, by Lin- 

 schott, 270 years ago, 37, 3S ; present posi- 

 tion of the trade of, 3S ; population, curious 

 character of, and of the language, 38, 39 ; 

 the works and birds of, 39, 40 ; elephants 

 in, 45. 



Malaiig, ruins of, iu Java, 116. 



Malay anchor, 546. 



Malay Archipelago, 312 ct xeq. ; the author's 

 views as to the races of man in the, 534 et 

 scq. ; two strongly contrasted races, the 

 Malays and the Papuans, 584 (see Malays 

 and Papuans) ; an indigenous race in the 

 island of Ceram, 590; tribes of the island 

 of Timor, 590 ; the black woolly-haired races 

 of the Philippines and the Malay Peninsul.i, 

 591; general views as to their origin and 

 affinities, 592, 593 ; the Polynesian races, 

 593, 594; on the crania and the races of 

 man in the, 600. 



Malay Peninsula, non-volcanic, 19. 



Malay race of Ternate, 317, 318. 



Malay vocabulary, 60-5. 



Malays, a peculiarly interesting race, found 

 only in the Malay Archipelago, 13 ; villages, 

 etc., destroyed by volcanoes, 17-19 ; in Sin- 

 gapore, 32 ; a Malay Govei-nor and house, 

 75 (see Gudong); Malay villages, 135 ; of 

 Batchian, 337 ; different from the Papuans, 

 421 ; contrast between the, 421 ; contrast 

 of character with the, 430; psychology of 

 the, 438, 4.39 ; widely separated from the 

 Papuans, 439 ; of the Malay Archipelago, 

 584 ; the most important of the races, 584; 

 their physical and mental characteristics, 

 584; different tribes, 584,585; the savage 

 Malays, 585 ; personal characteristics, 585; 

 impassive character of, 586 ; different ac- 

 counts of them, 5S7 ; on the crania and lan- 

 guages of the, 600. 



Malcos, singular birds, in Celebes, .370; de- 

 scription of the birds, 272; and eggs, 273; 

 their breeding-place, 272. 



Mammalia, or warm-blooded quadrupeds of 

 the Indo- Malay Islands, 155, 156; of the 



Timor group, 216 ; of Celebes, 282 ; of the 

 Moluccas, 396; of New Guinea, 577. 



Mangosteeu fruit (see Duriou), in Sarawak, 

 94, 14S. 



Manipa, island of, 394. 



Manowolko, the largest of the Goram group, 

 368 ; map of, 369 ; description of, 370 ; peo- 

 ple and races of, 370 ; return to, 375. 



Mansinani, island of, 497, 499. 



Manuel, a Portuguese bird-skinner, engaged 

 bv the author, 165; his pliilosophy, 170-172. 



Mafeli, island of, 326, 327. 



JIaros river, 236 ; falls of the river, 241 ; preci- 

 pices, 244; abseuceof flowers, 245; drought 

 followed by a deluge of rain, 247; effects 

 of, 247 (see Menado). 



Mar.-upials in tlie Malay Archipelago, 21 ; of 

 Celebes, 284 ; of the Papuan Islands, 577. 



Massaratty vocabulary, 606. 



Matabello Islands, 370, 371 ; dangers of the 

 voyage to, 371 ; trade of, 372 ; cocoa-nut 

 trees of, 372 ; villages of, 373 ; savage life 

 of, o73 ; palm-wine one of the few luxuries 

 of, 373 ; wild fruits of, 374 ; strange ideas of 

 the people respecting the Russian war, 374; 

 their extravagant notions of the Turks, 

 374, 375. 



Matabello vocabulary, 606. 



Mataram, capital of Lombock, 173. 



Mats and boxes of the Aru Islands, 469. 



Mausoleum, ancient, in Java, 114. 



" Max Havelaar," story of the Dutch auctions, 

 etc., in the coVnies, 107. 



Maykor, map of, 445; river of, 487, 488. 



Megachile pluto, 352. 



Megamendong mountain, road over, 123 ; a 

 residence on, 123 ; collections on, and in the 

 neighborhood of, 123, 124. 



Megapodidas. the, a small family of birds, pe- 

 culiiir to Australia, and to surrounding isl- 

 ands, 165. 



Megapodii of the Moluccas, 402. 



Megapodius, the Moimd-maker bird, 331. 



Megapodius wallacei, a new species of birds, 

 4(i2. 



Melaleuca cajuputi, 388. 



Menado, in Celebes, 249, 395; prettiness of, 

 241 ; in the distiict Minahasa, 249 ; pure 

 race, etc., of, 250; the inhabitants recently 

 savages, 250, 251 ; induced to cultivate the 

 coffee-plant, 251 ; pretty villages of, 252 ; 

 a native house, 252 (.•<ee Euriikan). 



Menado vocabulary, 605. 



Menyerry, a Malay village, 83. 



Mesman, Mr., a Dutch gentleman in Celebes, 

 219; his farm and premises, 233, 234; 

 Macassar farming, 234, 235 ; iDrother of, 

 236 ; plantation and country life, 237 ; hos- 

 pitality of, 238, 239. 



Mesmon Islands, 517 ; sketch map of the, 541. 



Mias, native name for the orang-utan, and so 

 called in this work, 51 ; the author's first 

 introduction to, 51 ; the first shot by him, 

 51 ; strength of a wounded mias, 52 ; a mias 

 pelting its enemies from the tree tops, 52; 

 the first capture of a full-gro\vn mias, a 

 female (now in the Derby JIuseum), with 

 plate, 53 ; capture of an infant mias, 53 ; it= 

 infantine attraction to a beard, 54 ; its 

 nursing-cradle, washing, and playthings, 

 54 ; a substitute for a mother, 54, 55 ; spoon- 

 meat, 55; a hare-lip monkey for a corapan- 



