INDEX. 



551 



scribed, 81-83 ; oil, mode of mak- 

 ing, 83 ; kind eaten by Malays, 82, 

 83 ; importance of, 84 ; beaches lined 

 with trees of, 149; a portable foun- 

 tain, ib. ; abundance of, on the upper 

 Limatang, 523 ; rafts of, ib. 



Cocoa-trees at Amboina, 138; history 

 of, 138, 139. 



CofiFee, store-houses for, at Menado, 

 346 ; history of, 347-349 ; how 

 brought to Padang and when sold, 

 453 ; exports to the United States, 

 455, and A[)pendi.^ D. ; where large 

 quantities could be profitably raised, 

 504, 505. 



Coir, a rope made of gorauti fibres, 

 370. 



Controleur, duties of, 67 ; in Ceram 

 summons the head-hunters, 203. 



Cooking, Eastern mode of, 31. 



Coral, Meandrinas, or " brain corals," 

 285 ; ditterent kinds of, and appear- 

 ance beneath the sea, 285-287 ; 

 Fitngid<e,Gorffonias, raised reefs, 508. 



Cotton, raised by the natives on the 

 Limatang, 527. 



Crawfurd, Mr. John, cited, 96 ; in re- 

 gard to Mount Tomboro, 108. 



D. 



Damma, described, 126 ; hot springs in, 

 126, 127. 



Deer, author hunts, on Burn, 290-292 ; 

 their venison smoked and made into 

 dinding, 292 ; Axis mandata, 387 ; 

 hunted by tigers, 413. 



Diaz, Bartholomew, his discovery of 

 southern extremity of Africa, 22. 



Dilli, city of, 122 ; name whence de- 

 rived, 124. 



Diving, skilful, 103. 



Draco volaiix, described, 144. 



Dugoug found at Aru Islands, 244. 



Diikji, the, described, 90. 



Durian tree and fruit described, 91, 92. 



E. 



Earl, Mr., cited in regard to a plateau, 



95 ; people near Diili, 116. 

 Earthquake, experienced by the author 



at Amboina,l(;7-169; diseases cau.scd 



by several, 169, 170. 

 Elephants, native mode of killing, 495 ; 



author comes near a stray one, 513; 



distribution of, ib. 



Elizabeth, Queen ; her letter to the 



rajah of Achin, 449, note. 

 Eugene Sue, describes Rahden Saleh, 



38. 

 Exquisite, an Eastern, described, 42. 



Feest Kakian, a revel of the head-hunt- 

 ers, 210. 



Fever, Batavia, described, 39. 



Fishes ; large one caught at Limbi, 332 ; 

 Ophiocephalus siriatus, 354 ; Anahas 

 scandens, ib. ; Anguilla Elphinsionei, 

 ib. 



Fishing, boats used by Maliiys, 52 ; 

 Malay mode of, f'l9. 



Floris described. ^ ' ; cannibals of, ib. 



Flviiig-fish, 106'. ^an fly during a calm, 

 "l22. 



Forest, home ia a tropical, 261 ; na- 

 ture's highway through, 263. 



Fountain, "youth's radiant," quoted 

 from Moore, 297. 



Frinr/illa ori/zivora, the rice-bird, 80. 



G. 



Gallus bankiva, 60, 61 ; other species 

 of, 60. 



Galunggong, Mount; eruption of, 75, 

 76 ; compared with the Tenger Moun- 

 tains, 77. 



Gambang, of Java, 190. 



Gambling, Malay vice of, 61. 



Geology, of Timur, near Kupang, 119, 

 120 ;" of the Banda group, 241 ; of 

 Amboina, 247 ; of Burn, 263, 293 ; 

 of Bachian, 299 ; of the Minahassa, 

 376 ; of Gorontalo, 379 ; of Buton, 

 381 ; of a cliff at Tapanuli Bay, 441 ; 

 of the Padang plateau, 477 ; of the 

 clilTs of Bencoolcn Bay, 489, 490 ; of 

 the region near Tebing Tingi, 508 ; 

 of the region of the upper Limatang, 

 522 ; of Bnnca, 534. 



Gillibanta, passed, 187. 



Gilolo, west coast of, 310; Alfura of, 

 311 ; " the bloodhounds" of, ih. 



Goitre, prevalent in the interior of Su- 

 matra, 410 ; probable cause of, ib. 



Gold-mines in Celebes, 379 ; geological 

 age of, ib. ; mines in Sumatra, 404- 

 406; distribution of, 406; ornaments 

 of, 431, 432; mode of obtaining, 432. 



Gomnti palm, fibres of, 350 ; made 

 into a rope, 370 ; tuak or wine of, 371. 



Goram, situation of, 243. 



