INDEX. 



507 



Oath of secrecy, the Mulcers', 163 



Objects of the trip, 2 



Obscene image at a shrine, C5 



Ocypode ceratophthalraus, 248 



Old Man, the {ste Baby Orang-utan), 381, 



417 

 Omen birds, 426, 432 

 Omens in general, 432 

 Ootacamutid, 94, 96 

 Ophiocephalus, 386 

 Ophiophagus elaps, 330, 331 

 Ophthalmia among the Dyaks, 473 

 Orang-utan, attitude of, when sleeping, 

 393, 400 



when drinking, 367 



eyes of, 401 



fierceness of a captive, 300, 368, 373, 

 377 



fighting qualities, 371, 402 



food. 402 



food in captivity, 300, 382 



freedom of lower limbs, 401 



fruitless hunting for, 351-353 



general appearance of, 363, 399, 401 



geographical distribution, 348, 399 



hair, 400 



inability to stand erect, 407 



inability to swim, 419 



incidents in hunting, 360-363, 375, 

 393 



individual peculiarities, 407 



infant {see Baby orang-utan) 367-368, 

 376, :381, 383. 403, 419, 428 



largest, the, 375-376 



Malay name for the, 350 



man compared with an, 375 



maximum size attained by, 404-406 



measurements. 375, 406 



mode of progression, 404 



nests, 360, 362, 403, 414 



*' number forty-three," 440 



place in nature, 399, 407 



price of a living, 298 



scarcity of, 350 



seven specimens in two days, 369 



size at birth, 403 



skin, 400 



skinnmg and skeletonizing, 366-369, 

 374 



solitary habits, 402 



viciousness of newly captured, 368, 372, 

 377 



Whampoa's, Mr., 299 

 Orchids, 397 



Ornaments, personal, of Hill Dyaks, 450- 

 451, 485 



of Muruts, 457 



of Sea Dyaks, 462 

 Osphromenus gourami, 386 

 Ossen, Mahommed, 287 

 Ostrich eggs at Aden, 20 

 Otog^'ps calvus, 34, 41 1 5 

 Otter, 310 

 Outfit for a collector, 491 



Padang Lake, 363-364, 393-394 



Pakatans, 448, 449 



Paku, 478 



Palfeornis torquatiis, 62 



Palms, cocoa, 272, 280, 285, 286 



nipa, 337, 440 



palmvra, 129, 280 

 Pandanus candelabrum, 360, 303, 364, 4Ca 



411 

 Papayah. 315 

 Paradoxurus musanga, 70 

 Parong, common, 463 



latok. 451 

 Parsee, author swindled by a, 20 



dress and appearance, 24 

 Passerita, 387 

 Panadura, 284 

 Pankalan, 481, 493 

 Paulaul of the Todas, 100 

 Paumben Passage, 236, 251-252 

 Pangah, the, 405, 452, 485 

 Peacocks, 62 

 Peepul tree, 82 



Peg tops among the Hill Dyaks, 471 , 473 

 Pelecanus rufescens, 307 

 Pengolin, 268-269 

 Peninjau, village of, 485 

 Peons, usefulness of, 66 

 Pera Vera, 156. 186 

 Perelaer, Mr., 448 

 Perim Island, 19 



Periophthalmus Schlosserii, 308-309, 386 

 Permit to kill elephants, application for, 

 196 



grant of a, 127, 197 

 Peti, 421 



Dyak killed by a, 422 

 Petrified forest, excursion to, 10 



character of. 12 

 Pettah, or native quarter of Colombo, 240 

 Peneus, 248 



Penrissen mountains, 337 • 

 " Physical Geography of the Sea," 430 

 Physical scale of the Dyak tribes. 458 

 Figs, Dyak traps to kill, 421 



wild, in Sarawak, 173, 395 

 Pike-head, the, 386 



Pilfering by a Dyak, solitary case of, 457 

 Pilot service at Calcutta, 89 

 Pineapples, 315 



Piracv, suppression of, 343, 344 

 Plandok, 328, 380 

 Plantain, 315 

 Platanista Gangetica. 64 

 Platalea leucorodia, 75 

 Plotus melanoghaster, 267 

 Plovers, 307 

 Point de Galle, 286 



native dealers at. 287-288 

 Poisoned arrows, 447 

 Polyandry among the Todas, 101 

 PoljTiemus, 386 

 Polypterus, 13 

 Pompeii, 7 



