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INDEX. 



Semioptera wallacci, 244. 



Setonda Island, 144. 



Settlements in Sulu Archipelago, Spanish, 



46, 72, 81. 

 Siassi Island, 72. 



Sibutu Passage the zoographic boundary- 

 line of Borneo and Sulu, 79. 

 Sigaliud Eiver, 90. 

 Silaui, cultivation at, 90. 

 Sircnia, visit of, to Cagaj-an Sulu, 4. 

 Skin - disease prevalent in New Guinea, 



312. 

 Smallpox epidemic in Cagayau Sulu, 16 ; 



at Gorontalo, 210. 

 Spaniards establish themselves in Sulu, 



46 ; constant struggles -with the Sulus, 



81 ; attempt suzeraintj' of Cagayan 



Sulu, 4. 

 Spear of Sultana of Sulu, 31. 

 Spermoude Arcliipelago, 163. 

 Spice Islands, 216. 

 Spider, bird-eating, 105 ; bird caught in 



web of, 104. 

 Spirits of the Papuans — Faknik, 301 ; 



Manuen, 279 ; Narvoii, 312. 

 Sport in Xorth Borneo, 101. 

 Sultan of Brunei, 129. 

 Sultan of Sulu, 27 ; territory of, 29 ; wives 



of, 39 ; photographing the, 55 ; death 



of, 39. 

 Sultan of Sumbawa, 142 ; palace of, ibid. 

 Sulu Archipelago, fauna and flora of, 78 ; 



identical with the Philippines, 79. 

 Sulu Island, 23 ; scenery of, 33 ; Spanish 



settlement on, 46 ; rainfall, 52, 359 ; 



boats of, 53 ; products of, 61 ; tobacco 



cultivation in, 63. 

 Sulu Sea, 2. 

 Sumbawa, 131, 133; pony -trade with 



Mauritius, 136 ; features of, 137 ; birds 



of, 149 ; population, 147 ; languages, 



148. 

 Sumbawa Bay, 133. 

 Sumbawa Town, visit to, 136 ; population, 



147. 

 Sun-birds, 17, 35, 226. 



Taal Yolcaxo, 2. 

 Tahirun, 228. 



Talisse Island, 185. 



Tamboi'a Volcano, 144, 145 ; eruption of, 

 146. 



Tanygnathus burbidgci, 41. 



Tanysiptcra, 236 ; T. obietisis, 237. 



Tarsier {Tarsiiis sjpcctrum), 183. 



Tataan, 74. 



Tattooing among the Papuans, 277. 



Tawi-tawi Island, 74. 



Ternate, 216, 355 ; tombs at, 217 ; volcano, 

 2] 8; history, 222; old Portuguese forts, 

 223 ; Sultan's palace, 225 ; naeteorologj', 

 226, 355 ; life in, 229. 



Tiangi, 46. 



Tobacco cultivation in Sulu, 63 ; in Sum- 

 bawa, 138. 



Tombs of the Sultans of Bima, 149. 



Toniohon, 170. 



Tondano, road to, 167; lake of, 172 ; tribes 

 in neighbourhood of, 176 ; waterfall 

 near, 177. 



Treaty, Sulu, 81. 



Tree, gigantic buttressed, 187 ; aerial- 

 rooted, 267. 



Trichoglossus orncdus, ISO. 



Tridacna gigas, 13. 



Triton Bay, Dutch settlement at, 249. 



Troj)idorhynchus timoriensis, 138. 



Tulian Lsland, 46. 



Tungku Jirewi, 140. 



Turnix 2}ov:clli, 151. 



Turnstone adopting arboreal habits, 18. 



Unhealthin'ess of Jolo, 52 ; of New 



Guinea, 273. 

 Usukan Bay, 112. 



Verbrandte Hoek, 198. 



" Yereendigde Oost-indische Compagnie," 



239. 

 Viverra tangalunga eating coffee, 175. 

 Volcano of Taal, 2 ; Tambora, 144 ; 



Klabat, 199 ; Ternate, 218 ; Banda, 332. 



Waigiou Island, 259 ; Alfuros of, 262 ; 



languages of, ibid.; recent connection 



with Batanta, 270. 

 Wallace's Standard-wing, 244. 

 Wallace Bay, 193. 



