INDEX 



A. 



Abrou, Antonio d', sent to search for the 

 Spice Islands, 23; is the first to 

 reach the Bandas, 215 ;_ pillars of 

 discovery erected hy, 256. 



Achin, country, people, and trade, 448 ; 

 English appear at, 449. 



Alfiira, name whence derived and its 

 .si 'nification, 203, and note ; bloody 

 laws of, in Ccrani, 205 ; of Kaibobo, 

 207; drunken revels of, 209, 210; 

 of Buru, their customs and belief, 

 271-273, of the Minahassa, 365. 



Amahai, bay of, descril>ed, 202 ; viUage 



of, ib. , . , o 



Aniboina, residence of Ruraphius, 13 ; 

 island and citv described, 130-132 ; 

 famous for its shells, 133 ; life of for- 

 eigners at, 211; trade of, 249. 



Amnk, defined, 383. 



Ariak gadbi, or virgin children, 497, 507. 



Ama. 'dcprcssicornif, an antelope, 325. 



Ants, abundance of and trouble caused 

 1)V, 288, 289. 



Arniy, headquarters of Javanese, 43 ; 

 Dutch, in Sumatra, 456. 



Arrack, how made, 68. 



Arricns, governor of t!ie Moluccas, 213 ; 

 kind invitation given the author, ih. ; 

 visits Banda, 213 et neq. 



Aru Island-!, account of, 244. 



Assilulu, visit to the village of, 149- 

 161. 



Ayar Bangis, port of, 453. 



B. 



B.iba, island of, describe!, 127. 



Babirusa, skulls of, 150; distribution 

 of, ill. ; young one seen at Kayeli, 

 292; author hunts for, on Limbi, 

 325; (Uie commits suicide, 331. 



Bachian, island of, described, 299 ; 

 great python killed on, 334; fauna 

 of, 380. 

 Baju, a, described, 34. 

 Bali, described, 93 ; fauna of, ih. ; sep- 

 aration from Java, 93, 94 ; fauna of, 

 94 ; rehgion of, 95, 96. 

 Bali, a town hall, 477. 

 Bamboo, used by the Malays, 86. 

 Banana, tree and fruit described, 84, 

 85; native name for, 159; different 

 kinds, ib. 

 Banca, description and geology of, 534 ; 



income of, 535. 

 Banda, author arrives at, 128, and re- 

 visits, 214; description of the group, 

 214, 215; early inhabitants of, 216; 

 religion of, ib. ; natives of, extermi- 

 nated by the Dutch, 217; convicts 

 banished to, 217, 218; the group 

 onlv walls of a crater, 224 ; compared 

 with that of the Tenger Mountains, 

 ib. ; nutmeg parks on, 227 ; residency 

 of, 242. 

 Banteng, the Bo^ sondaicits, 72. 

 Bantiks, a people near Menado, 343. 

 Barros, Jao de, history of, 97, no'e : 

 his description of Celebes, 97; de- 

 scribes the many languages spokei in 

 the Moluccas, 163; his description 

 of the Bandas, 215,216. 

 Barus, a port in Sumatra, 442.^ 

 Batavia, purpose of going to, 13 ; foun 



dation'of, 24 ; police of, 383. 

 Batta, grave of a, 417 ; Lands, a descrip- 

 tion of, 423 ; are cannibals, 424 ; re- 

 ferred t.) hv Marco Polo, 425 ; by Sir 

 Stamford Kafilos, ib. ; draw the au- 

 thor's carriage, 426, 427; author 

 visits a village of, 410; houses of, 

 ib. ; cat a man, 442 ; missionaries 

 among, 443 ; Madame Tfoitfer among, 

 444 ; kill two American missionaries. 



