INDEX 



Acton, Lord, 2 



Albinos, no 



Alcohol, 68 



Amberno River, 24 



Amboina, 14, 257 ; communication 

 with, 209 ; inhabitants of, 17 ; mar- 

 ket at, 17 



Amboncse coolies, 50 



Ambonese, dress of, 17 ; names of, 17 



Aiiwki 1 85 



Arafura Sea, 19, 35 



Arfak Mountains, 23 



Arrows, 151 



Aru Islands, 19 



Atap, method of making, 60 



Atuka River, 248 



Atjeh, 92 



B 



Balfour, H., 203 



Bali, 259 



Bamboo, throwing lime from, 219 



Banana, 17, 88 



Banda, 16, 19, 257 



Batavia, 3 ; washing in, 9 



Bees, stingless honey-, 76 



Beetles, as food, 124 ; larva of, 156 



Beri-beri, 66, 193 



Bird of Paradise, 74, 142, 159, 178, 



227, 261 

 Birds, collection of, 241 

 Boat-builders, 225 

 Boni, 14 



Bonnets of widows, 1 1 5 

 Borneo, 21 



Boro-Boder, il 



Botanic station at Merauke, 224 



Bougainville, de, 31 



Bows, 151 



Bridge, building a, 235 



British New Guinea, 22 



British Ornithologists' Union, I 



Brush Turkey, 76 



Buddhist Temples, 1 1 



Buitenzorg garden, 10 



Buleling, 258 



Butonese, 170 



Butterflies, 16 



Camp, health of, 58; repairing, 188 



Cannibalism, 127 



Canoes, 219 ; building of, 53 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 53 ; method of paddling, 36 : 

 the price of, 55 



Carstensz, Mt., 23, 44, 181, 212 



Carstensz, Jan, 28, 221 



Cape York, 28, 32 



Carteret, Philip, 31 



Cassowaries, 200, 214 



Cassowary, 125, 241 



Casuarina trees, 42 



Cat's cradle, 147 



Celebes, 14 



Celebes Trading Company, 20 



Ceram, 14 



Ceremonies, 131 



Charles Louis Mountains, 23, 35, 44 



Chief, 128 



Children, games of, 117 



Chinese, 17, 223, 225 



Christians at Amboina, 17 



