INDEX. 



511 



ties of taking a house, 197; 

 traders of, 200, 201 ; articles for 

 exchange, 202; town of, 213; 

 merchaiiiiise of, 213, 214 ; man- 

 ners and customs, 214; various 

 races of, 214, 215; absence of 

 laws, 215 ; the genius of com- 

 merce at work, ih. ; dejiarture 

 from, 218 ; map of, 219 ; trading 

 at, 244, 245 ; second residence at, 

 267 ; its improved and animated 

 appearance, 268 et seq.; cock- 

 fighting and football at, 269; 

 cheapness of European articles of 

 commerce, 271, 272; intempe- 

 rance of the natives, 272; the 

 author's recovery from a long 

 illness, 275; mortality at, 278; 

 funeral ceremonies at, ib. ; active 

 preparations for leaving, 279 ; 

 extensive trade carried on at, 

 281. 



Dodinga, village of, ii. 14; Portu- 

 guese fort at, 15. 



Dogs, their voracity, ii. 259, 260. 



Doleschall, Dr., in Amboyna, i.458 ; 

 his collection of flies and butter- 

 flies, 461. 



Dorey, harbour and village of, ii. 

 304, 305; inhabitants of, 305, 

 306 ; house-building at, 307, 308 ; 

 bird-.shootingat, 309; the country 

 round about, 311 ; the author's 

 protracted sickness at, 316, 317 ; 

 rudimental art among the people, 

 324; beetles and butterflies of, 

 326 ; numerous species of beetles 

 at, 326, 327 ; exjiectations of dis- 

 appointed, 328; dejiarture from, 

 329. 



Dorey vocabulary, ii. 475. 



Doves at Malacca, i. 44. 



Drusilla catojjs, ii. 199. 



Duivenboden, Mr., known as the 

 King of Ternate, ii. 2 ; his cha- 

 racter, ib. 



Durian and Mangusteen fruit, i. 83 ; 

 and Durian, 116, 117 ; the Durian 

 tree, 117 ; richness and excellency 

 of, 118 ; dangerous when it falls 

 from the trees, 119, 217. 



Dutch, in Malacca, i. 42 ; in Java, 



148; excellency of their colonial 

 government {see Java) ; paternal 

 despotism, 398-400 ; the cultiva- 

 tion system, 401 ; female labour, 

 403; their influence established 

 in the Malay seas, ii. 7; their 

 praiseworthy efforts to improve 

 the Amboynese of the I\Ialay 

 Archipelago, 80. 



Dutch mail steamer, life on board, 

 i. 447. 



Dyak house, i. 8-3, 84; Dyak mode 

 of climbing a tree, 85, 86 ; Dyak 

 dogs, 88 ; Dyak accounts of "the 

 Mias, 94, 95 {see Tabokan) ; agri- 

 culture, &c. 109, 111; houses, 

 bridges, &c. 121-124; the cha- 

 racter of the race in its relations 

 to kindred ones, 137 ; higher in 

 mental capacity than the Malaj's, 

 138; amusements of the young, 

 ib. ; moral character, 139 ; the 

 Nile Dyaks never go to sea, ib. ; 

 head-hunting, ib. ; truthfulness of, 

 139, 140; honesty, temperance, 

 &c., ib. ; checks of population, 

 141, 142; hard work of the 

 women, 143 ; and idleness of the 

 men, ib. ; benefits arising from 

 the government of Sir James 

 Brooke, 144-146. 



E. 



Earl, Mr. George Windsor, his paper 

 and pamphlet on the "Physical 

 Geography of South-Eastern Asia 

 and Australia," i. 13, 14. 



Earthquakes at Ternate, ii. 9, 10. 



Eclectus grandis, ii. 32 



Elephants in Malacca, i. 52. 



Elephomia, of New Guinea, difl'er- 

 ent species, ii. 313-315. 



Empugnan, a Malav village, i. 

 102\see Tabokan), 103. 



Entomological specimens, ii. 32. 



Erythina, ii. 277. 



Eucalypti, common tree of Timor, 

 i. 12. 



Eurystomus azureus, ii. 42. 



