INDEX 



ACETIC acid, use of, for coagula- 

 tion, 86, 141, 193, 297 



Acheen, Sultan of, 228 



Acre, 12, 32, 34, 37, 79, 90, 98, 

 103, 106, 112 



Adam's Peak, 132 



Alianca (Amazon Valley), tapping 

 tests at, 84, 85 



Alutgama, 130 



Amazon delta, 27 ; estrada system, 



29 ; tapping, 29 ; prospective 

 output, 29 ; labour-supply, 



30 ; treatment of trees, 30 

 islands and lowlands of, 27 ; 



abundance of trees, 28 ; poor 

 quality of trees, 28 ; inhabi- 

 tants, 28 ; overhead tapping, 

 32, 67 ; yield, 78 

 highlands of, 28; plantations, 

 28 ; crops, 28 ; rubber seed- 

 lings, difficulties of, 29 

 Amazon, River, 6, 10, 47, 98 

 Amazon Steam Navigation Com- 

 pany, 98 

 Amazonas, 18, 20, 105, 106, 113, 



114 

 Amsterdam, cost of shipments to 



(Sumatra), 257 

 (Java), 287 

 Anaemia, 13 

 Andes, 36 



Anglo-Malay Company, 220, 222 

 Ant, white [termes], (Amazon Val- 

 ley), 40, 49 ; (Ceylon), 134 ; 

 (Malay Peninsula), 168 ; 

 (Sumatra), 237, 252 

 red (&codoma cephalotes], 40, 



49-50, 124 

 Antwerp, cost of shipments to 



(Malay Peninsula), 224 

 (Sumatra), 257 



20 305 



Anuradhapura, 132 

 Aquiry, River, 6 

 Arabs (Java), 276, 277 

 Araguaya, River, 6, 23, 102 

 Asahan, 228, 229, 231, 233, 234, 



235. 254 



Atmosphere, effect of, on bark ex- 

 cision (Amazon Valley), 80 

 (Ceylon), 142 

 " Avenue planting," 212 

 Aviadores, 59, 61, 100 

 Axioma (Amazon Valley), tapping 



tests at, 84 

 Ayer Panas Estate, 222 



Balls (pelles). See Pelles 

 Bandoeng, 261, 262, 265, 301 

 Bangoewani, 261, 262, 274, 285 

 Banjar, 261, 262, 285 

 Banjasari, 262, 284, 285 

 Banjoemas, 261, 262, 284, 285 

 Bantam, 261, 262, 285 

 Barbadoes, 14 

 Bariguda, 4 

 Bark disease (Amazon Valley), 40, 



4i 43- 8 

 (Ceylon), 134 

 (Java), 284 

 Bark, renewal of, 74, 142, 160, 



214 



Batak Rabit Estate, 222 

 Batavia, 261, 262, 286 

 Bates, " Naturalist on the Amazon," 



49 



Batoe-Bahra, 229, 234 

 Batoe La wan, 262, 285 

 Batu Caves Company, 220 

 Batu Gajah, 179, iSo 

 Baud, 262 

 Beans, 62, 63 

 Belawa, 229 



