INDEX 



567 



Nacco Islands, 198 



Naugamessi, 375 



Nanjan lake, 78 



Nanusa Islands, 302 



Nassau Islands, 199 



Natiina Islands, 273 



Navigators' Islands, 500 



Negara, 224, 273 



Negrito race, 8, 21, 47, 54, 70, 80, 



81, 82, 86, 95 

 Negros Island, 80 

 Nepenthes, 231 

 Neu Lauenburg {see Duke of York 



Islands) 

 Neil Mecklenburg {see New Ireland) 

 Neu Pommeru {see New Britain) 

 New Britain, 434 

 New Caledonia, 12, 455 



mountains of, 456 



history of, 456 



geology of, 457 



climate of, 458 



flora and fauna of, 458 



natives of, 459 



trade of, 462 



administration of, 462 



penal establishment in, 463 

 New Caledonian Company, 451 

 New Guinea, 376 



title of Dutch to, 317 



physical features of, 378 



mountains of, 379 



history of, 381, 419 



annexation of S.E. by England, 

 384, 419 



geology of, 385 



climate of, 388 



flora and fauna of, 390 



the Papuans of, 397 



political divisions of, 410 



the Dutch territory, 410, 438, 

 440 



the German territory, 412, 440 



the British territory, 418, 439, 

 440 



islands of, 424 

 "New Guinea Company," 413, 417, 



434 

 New Hanover, 432 

 New Hebrides, 449 

 New Ireland, 432 

 Ne\vsf)apers of the Philippines, 56 

 Ngenges, Mount, 354 



Ngoko language, 127 

 Nias Island, 197 

 Niauli-tree, 458 

 Nibong palm, 243 

 Nickel, 457, 458 

 Nila Island, 366 

 Nipa palm, 243 

 Nine, 507 

 Niukalofa, 499 

 Noordwijk, 148 

 Normanby Island, 437 

 Noumea, 465 

 Nufur language, 430 

 Papuans; 412, 430 

 Nuhu Roa,' 342 

 Nui Island, 508 

 Nukahiva, 523, 524 

 Nukulailai Island, 509 

 Nukuor Island, 547 

 Nusa-Heli, Mount, 309, 329 

 Nusa-Tello, 341 



Niitmeg, 300, 322, 334, 336, 339, 

 366 



Obi Islands, 326 



Obree, Mount, 385, 423 



Ofu Island, 504 



Oil-palm, 255 



Olele, 211 



Olosenga Island, 504 



Ombay, 363, 364 



passage, 363, 369 

 Ombiliu coal-fields, 208 

 Onin peninsula, 379, 411 

 Oparo, 519, 533 

 Ophir, Mount, 159 

 Opium-farming in Sarawak, 264 

 "Oraug Sirani," 315, 329 

 Orang-utan, wanting in Java, 119 



found in Sumatra, 181 



in Borneo, 232 

 Order of the Sacred Heart, 410 

 Ornitho2)tera loriamus, 313 

 Otaheite, 511 

 Otuiti, Mount, 532 

 Ovalau, 470 

 Ovuluvi ovum, 402, 445 

 Owen Stanley, Mount, ascended by 

 Sir W. Macgregor, 385, 422, 

 423 



range, 380, 383, 422 



plants of, 391 

 Owhyhee, 533 



