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Index. 



ion, 55, 56; baby-like appearance of the 

 luias, 56 ; cutting its teeth, 5T ; death, 57 ; 

 a miaa liunt, 5T-59 ; capture of a very large 

 animal, 59 ; size and proportions of, 60 ; 

 skeleton in Derby Museum, 60 ; a mias 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 Semabang, the specimen now in 

 the British Museum, 64,65; tlie mias throw- 

 ing down brandies, 67 ; preparing the skins 

 and skeletons, 67 ; the author's last cap- 

 ture, 68; the orang district, Borneo and 

 Sumatra, 6S ; habits of, and nature of coun- 

 try inhabited by, 68, 60 ; singular method 

 of making its way through the forest, 69, 

 70 ; hia nest for the nigTit, 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. 



Microscope, astonishment of the native.=i on 

 viewing objects through the, 350. 



Millepedes, 470. 



Mimeta bouruensis, 404; Mimeta forsteni, 

 405. 



Mimicry among birds, 403. 



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

 of, 269. 



Mindanao, natives of, 897. 



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, 

 35S ; of tlie Ke 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, 395 ; 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. ; faunaof 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 etseq.; 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 Suniatra,143, 144. 

 Monsoon, south-east, in the Malay Archipel- 

 ago, 30 ; in the Banda Sea, 366. 

 Morelia and Mamalla vocabularies, 606. 



Morty, island of, 16, 324, 401. 



Mosquitoes, 470. 



Moths, in Borneo, 95 ; plentifulness of, on the 

 mouutains 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, 528; aurora borealis seen at. 

 530 ; the people live in abject poverty, 533 ; 

 under the rule of the Sultan of Tidore, 533 ; 

 destitute of the necessarits 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, 

 66. 



Mysol, map of, 517. 



Mysol vocabulai-y, 60T. 



N. 



Natural history of the Moluccas, 396 et seq. 



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, 

 4'>8 ; 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, 509 ; Humljoldt Bay, 

 511 ; plague of flies, 514 ; map of the west 

 point of, 517 ; birds of, 571 ; with theislands 

 joined to it constitute the Papuan group, 

 576 ; perhaps the lai'gest 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. 



O. 



Oceanic races, natural division of the, 502. 



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 cofifee for break- 

 fast on, 44; the great Argus pheasant of, 

 44. 



Orans;-kaya, the rich man, or chief of a Dyak 

 tribe, 77 ; illness of the, 454. 



