502 



INDEX. 



Fakir, 25 



Famine, the Madras, 90, 91, 177 



deaths during the, ISO 



end of the, LSI 



relief measures during the, 178, 180 

 Farman, Mr., 10. 11 

 Famham. Mr.. 22 



"Fast " men of civilized society, 471 

 Feasts, Dyak. 469-470 

 Feat, a foolish, 317 

 Felis Bengalensis, ; 28 



chaus, 62, 216 



marmorata, 328 

 Felis tigris. see Tiger 



distribution of, 252 



migration of, into Ceylon hindered, 

 252 

 Ferguson, Mr., of the Ceylon Observer, 



242 

 Fever, first attack of, 115 



on the Animallais, 120, 139, 150, 151, 

 174, 194, 236 



permanent cure of, 237 



treatment of, 150 

 Flcus Indica, 82 



religiosa, 82 

 Fiddle, Dvak, 429, 469 

 " Fight in the tree-tops," 375 

 Fighting qualities of the Indian bison, 

 189 



qualities of the orang-ntan, 371 



qualities of the saras crane. 60 

 Fire arms of Dyaks and Malays, 379 

 Fire-flies, 359 



Fire-fl}', the steam launch, 476, 477, 487 

 Fish, collecting at Jaffna, 255-258 



jumping, 308 



Sadong River, 3&5, 387 



JSelangore. 308 



the thread, 386 

 Fishing with the tuba plant, 3&1, 386 



for crocodiles, 304-1307, 348 

 Fish-market at Bombay, 23 

 Flowers in Bombay market, 23 

 Flving dragon, 420 



fox, 267 



lemur, 380, 412, 428, 478 



squirrel, 114 

 Food, necessity of appetizing, 272 



scarcity of, 150, 271 

 Forced trade, 342 

 Port, the, in Colombo, 237 



at Sarawak, 339 



native shops in, 240 

 Fossils, Egj-ptian, from Mokattem Hills, 

 13 



Egyptian, from the Pyramids, 14 



search for, in Bornean cave deposits, 

 477-478 

 Fraser, Mr., 36 

 Fruits of Sarawak, 402 



Selangore, 315, 317 

 Frogs, self -buried, 277 

 Funeral, a Hindoo, 66 



G 



Galeopithecus variegatus, 412, 429, 478 



volans, 380 

 Galle. Point de, 286 

 Oalle Face Esplanade, 237 

 Gallus Stanleyii, 279 

 Gambling, 315 

 Games of the Dyaks, 468 

 Gardening, curiosities of, 300 

 Gaur, see Indian bison, 188 

 Gava?us gaunis, see Hos gaurua 

 Gavial, abundance of. 51, 52 



Bornean species of, 348, 478 



colors of, 55 



habits of. 46, 47 



head of, 54 



difficulties of g. shooting, 48 



geographical distribution of the, 55 



native reverence for, 51 



not destructive of human life, 56 



shooting, 39, 41 . 42. 43, 46, 47, 49 



struggle with a wounded, 47 



teeth of, 57 



ticklishness of, 56 



voice of, 41, 56 



wariness of, 40 

 Gavialis Gangeticus, see Gavial 

 Gaj'a Bay, 334 

 Gazella Bennettii, 72 

 Geese, 75 



Geographical distribution of, black beat; 

 Indian, 146 



elephant, 218 



gavial, 55 



gazelle, 72 



orang-utan. 348, 399 



sasin antelope, 76 



tiger, 154, 2.52 



wild goat, 76 

 Gertrude, Sarawak schooner, 349 

 Gharry, 25 

 Ghee, 37 

 Gibbon, crj' of, 418 



difficult to shoot, 395, 41.5, 418 



hunting described, 415-416 



incidents in hunting, 418 



measurements of, 419 



mode of progression, 383, 415, 430 



money value of, 419 



paternal affection of, 418 



pet, 383 



place in nature, 399 

 GUI, Dr.Theo. N.,397 

 Goat, Neilgherry wild, 97, 172 

 Goby, 397 



Gold washing in Sarawak, 479 

 Gong, at Siraujan Government House, 350, 

 442 



Dyak alarm, 437 

 Gooiur tree, 82 



Gordon Cumming, largest tusk takea 

 by, 225 



mode of elephant-hunting, practised 

 by, 133 

 Gorilla, 399 



