INDEX 



313 



Navigation, impediments to (Ama- 

 zon Valley), 22 



Nederlandsche Handel Maatschap- 

 Pj. 230, 253 



Negapatam, 197, 199, 200 



Negombo, 130 



Negri Sembilan, 169, 170, 174, 176, 

 178, 179, 180, 219, 222 



Negro, River, 10 



Negroes (Amazon Valley), 13, 52, 



54 



Nile, compared with Amazon, 17 

 North Hummock Company, 220 

 Northway, System of pricking sug- 

 gested by, 69-71 

 Nova Scotia Estate, 219, 222 



Obidos, 10, ii, 47 



Oil engines (Ceylon factories), 137 



Opium, duty on (Malay Peninsula), 



176 



Orviedo y Valle, I 

 Overhead tapping, 32, 67, 68, 



124 



Pack animals, use of, 31, 99 



Padang, 229, 234, 235 



Pahang, 169, 174, 178, 179, 180 



Para, 5, 9, 10, n, 12, 14, 16, 18, 

 22, 23, 24, 37, 48, 53, 54, 56, 

 60, 73, 93, 97, 98, 102, 104, 105, 

 106, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113, 

 1 14, 1 16, 120, 125 ; harbour dues. 

 107 



Parahyba, 14, 52, 122 



Parasites, 40 



Paris Academy, expedition sent by, 

 in 1734, 2 



Pant Buntar, 180 



Pary, River, 7 



Pasir Oetjing, 262, 265, 285, 301 



Pasir Waringen, 285 



Passberg system (vacuum dryers), 

 137, 194, 275 



Passerean, 261, 263, 264 



Pataling Company, 182, 220 



Pauhiny, River, 47 



Pegoh Estate, 219, 222 



Pekan, 179, 180 



Pe/ks, 92, 93 95 96, 102 



Penang, 169, 170, 171* 1 7*> *74, 



176, 190, 194. 197, 200, 224, 



229, 245 

 Penang Sugar Estates Company, 



213 

 Peradenyia Station (Ceylon), 116, 



129, 132, 133, 142, 158 

 Perak, 169, 174, 177, 178, 179, 



1 8O, 222 



Perak Company, 22O 



Perkins patent (machines), 193 



Perlis, 174 



Peru, 5, 6, 14, 27, 34, 37 



Peruvians, 13 



Fetch, Mr., Ceylon Government 



mycologist, 44 



Pfleiderer patent (machines), 193 

 Pineapples, 213 

 Planters' Labour Association (Malay 



Peninsula), 171 



Planting, cost of, on new planta- 

 tions (Ceylon), 135 

 (Malay Peninsula), 188 

 (Sumatra), 241 

 (Java), 269 



Poisson, M. Eugene, 301 

 Population (Amazon Valley), 13 



(Malay Peninsula), 207 

 Port charges (Amazon Valley), 101 

 Port office (capatasia), 106, 107 

 Port Swettenham, 194, 197, 200, 



224 

 Porto Velho, 9, 10, II, 12, 23, 32, 



33, 36, 47. 98 m 

 Portuguese immigrants (Amazon 



Valley), 14, 52, 54 

 Postal facilities (Amazon Valley), 



24 



P. P. K. Company, 220 



Preangar district (Java), 44, 261, 



285 



Presses, rubber, 194 

 Preta (black variety of Hevea Bra- 



siliensis), 3, 120, 265, 300, 301, 



302, 303, 304 

 Pricking, 69 ; objection to, 69 ; 



economical, 70 ; labour-saving, 70 ; 



possible difficulties, 71 

 Priestly, 2 

 Province Wellesley, 169, 172, 174, 



211, 212, 219 



Purds, River, 6, 12, 22, 27, 30, 32, 



