INDEX. 



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Megapodius, the mouiul-iiiakerbird, 

 ii. 33. 



Megapodius wallacei, a new species 

 of birds, ii. 148. 



Melaleuca cajuputi, ii. 126. 



Menado, in Celebes, i. 378 ; ii. 137 ; 

 prettiness of, i. 379 ; in the dis- 

 trict Minahasa, ib. ; pure race, &e. , 

 of, ih.; the inhabitants recently 

 savages, 380, 381 ; induced to 

 cultivate the coffee-plant, 381 ; 

 pretty villages of, 383 ; a native 

 house, 384 {sec Kuriikan). 



Menado vocabulaiy, ii. 473. 



Menyevry, a Malay village, i. 113. 



Mesman, Mr., a Dutch gentleman 

 in Celebes, i. 332; his farm and 



, premises, 355 ; Macassar farmiug, 

 355-357 ; brother of, 359 ; planta- 

 tion and country life, 360 ; hospi- 

 tality of, 362, 363. 



Mesmon Islands, ii. 332 ; sketch 

 map of the, 369. 



Mias, native name for the Orang- 

 utan, and so called in this work, i. 

 62 ; the author's first introduction 

 to, ib. ; the first shot by him, ih. ; 

 strength of a wounded mias, 63; 

 a mias pelting its enemies from 

 the tree tops, tb. ; the first capture 

 of a full-grown mias, a female 

 (now in the Derby Museum), with 

 plate, 64; capture of an infant 

 mias, 65 ; its infantine attraction 

 to a beard, ib. ; its nursing-cradle, 

 washing, and playthings, 65-67 ; 

 a substitute for a mother, 67, 68 ; 

 spoon-meat, 68 ; a hare-lip mon- 

 key for a companion, 69, 70 ; baby- 

 like appearance of the mias, 70 ; 

 cutting its teeth, 71 ; death, ib. ; 

 a mias hxmt, 72-74 ; capture of a 

 very large animal, 75 ; size and 

 proiiortions of, 76 ; skeleton in 

 Derby Museum, ib. ; a mias at- 

 tacked by natives, 77 ; other cap- 

 tures, 78 ; wounded mias making 

 a nest in the trees, 79 ; its death 

 and dried remains, 79, 80 ; mode 

 of walking over the tree tops, 81 ; 

 capture of, at Semabang, the spe- 

 cimen now in the British Museum, 



84 ; the mias throwing down 

 branches, 87 ; preparing the skins 

 and skeletons, 88, 89 ; the author's 

 last capture, 89 ; the oraug dis- 

 trict, Borneo and Sumatra, ib. ; 

 habits of, and nature of country 

 inhabited by, 90, 91 ; singular 

 method of making its way through 

 the forest, 91, 92 ; his nest for 

 the night, 92 ; his time of rising 

 in the morning, 93 ; full-grown 

 animals seldom seen in company, 

 ib. ; food of, ih. ; the mias rarely 

 seen on the ground, 94 ; the only 

 two animals it is attacked by, 

 the python and the crocodile, 95 ; 

 his superiority to both, ib. ; size 

 of the large mias, 96, 97 ; Various 

 accounts of, 97-100; in Sumatra, 

 209. 



Microglossum atenimum, ii. 229. 



Microscope, astonishment of the na- 

 tives on viewing objects through 

 the, ii, 64. 



Millepedes, ii. 258. 



Mimeta bouniensis, ii. 151 ; Mi- 

 meta forsteni, 152. 



Mimicry among birds, ii. 150. 



Minahasa, maj) of (see Menado), i. 

 386; natives of, 411. 



Mindanao, natives of, ii. 140. 



Missionaries, ii. 302 ; traders at 

 Mansinam, 303. 



Modjokerto, a town in Java, i. 157 ; 

 the village-green, and tree, 158.- 



Modjo-pahit, ruins of the ancient 

 city of, in Java, i. 158 ; admirable 

 brickwork in, ib. ; ancient bas- 

 relief, *159 ; presented to the 

 author, 160. 



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

 his collection of beetles, &c. 

 461. 



Molucca Sea, its aspects, ii. 283. 



Moluccan hornbill, ii. 85. 



Moluccas, the, i. 9 ; a forest coun- 

 try, 11, ii. 1 et seq. ; final depar- 

 ture from, 137; natural history 

 of the, 138 et seq.; consist of 

 three large islands, 138 ; their 

 extent and geographical position, 

 ib. ; mammalia, or warm-blooded 



