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INDEX. 



Singapore, sketch of the town and 

 island, i. 31 ; inliabitants a mixed 

 race, 31, 32 ; commerce of, 32 ; 

 Chinese in, 33, 34; Jesuit mis- 

 sionaries, 35 ; character of the 

 island, &c., 36; tigers and tiger- 

 pits, 36, 37 ; vegetation and in- 

 sects, 37, 38. 



Skulls (see Crania). 



Slavery at Ternate, ii. 11; abolition 

 of, 13. 



Sleeping shed, ii. 84. 



Snake on board, ii; 71. 



Snakes, after rain, in Maros, i. 376, 

 377; in Amboyna, 465, 466. 



Soap-springs, in Oeassa, i. 291. 



Social position of England, ii. 463 ; 

 its evils, ib. ; in a state of com- 

 parative barbarism, 464. 



Sodos, Malay village, i. 114. 



Solomon Islands, i. 6. 



Solor vocabulaiy, ii. 475. 



Sorong, in New Guinea, Mr. Allen's 

 voyage to, ii. 420, 421 ; difficul- 

 ties encountered at, 422 ; nigged- 

 ness of the countiy, 424. 



Sourabaya, the chief town of East 

 Java, i. 156. 



Spaniards, truly wonderful con- 

 querors and colonizers, ii. 192. 



Species, geographical distribution 

 of, ii. 292, 293. 



Spice, monopoly of the Dutch [see 

 Nutmeg). 



Spice trade of the Moluccas, ii. 6 ; 

 enoiTOous profits of the, ih. 



Spice trees, district of the, ii. 7. 



Spiders, ii. 258 ; immense variety 

 of, in the Am Islands, ii. 204. 



Springs, hot, of Celebes, i. 405. 



Squirrels, i. 22 ; in Borneo, 61 ; tame 

 ones in the village of Palem- 

 bang, 193. 



St. John, Mr., account of a mias, 

 i. 97. 



Sugar-palm (with plate), i. 361 ; 

 drink made from, 362. 



Sula fiber., ii. 174. 



Sula Islands, ii. 135 ; vocabulary of 

 the, 473. 



Sumatra, in the line of the volcanic 

 belt, i. 6 ; volcanoes in, 9 ; a forest 



country, 11 ; the orang confined 

 to, and to Borneo, 89 ; pheasants 

 in, 168; villages of, 195-197. 

 Suuibawa, island of, i. 6 ; no forest 

 in, 12. 



Tabokan, a Malay village, i. 103 ; as- 

 sembling of men and boys to look 

 at the author, ib. ; dress, &c. of, 

 103 ; portrait of a Dyak youth, 

 104 ; a visit from the " Orang- 

 Kaya," or rich man of the tribe, 

 104, 105 ; .sports of, 105, 106 (sec 

 Borotoi). 



Tamilau, village of, ii. 87. 



Tanakaki, island of, ii. 165. 



Tanysiptera, the genus, ii. 242, 243. 



Tauysiptera acis, ii. 137. 



Tanysiptera doris, ii. 21. 



Tanysiptera isis, ii. 42. 



Teluti, village of, ii. 87, 88. 



Teluti and Hoya vocabularies, ii. 

 475. 



Teor, island of, ii. 99, 100, 173. 



Teor vocabulary, ii. 475. 



Ternate, island of, i. 6 ; arrival at, 

 ii. 1 ; mountains of, ib. ; town of, 

 ib. ; letter of introduction to Mr. 

 Duivenboden, known as the 

 King of, 2 ; the author's resi- 

 dence at, 3, 4; mountain of, 4, 

 5 ; fruit-trees at, ib.; fort of, 5 ; 

 jialace of the Sultan, ib. ; power 

 and magnificence of the ancient 

 sultans, 6 ; spice trade of, 6, 8 ; 

 destruction of the spice trees of, 

 7 ; influence of the Dutch estab- 

 lished at, ib.; earthquakes at, 

 9, 10 ; the inhabitauts are of 

 three well-marked races, 10, 11 ; 

 slavery at, abolished, 13; return 

 to, in a kora-kora, 69 ; arrival at, 

 72 ; poverty of, in articles used 

 by Europeans, 299 ; sketch map 

 of, 369; voyage to from Waigiou, 

 ib.; difiiculties of the voj'age, 374, 

 375, 381 et scq. 



Ternate vocabidary, ii. 474. 



Teto vocabulary, ii. 475. 



