INDEX 



Banjok tribes, 317 



'' Banner " (basal buttresses of trees), 



88, 269, 385, 386 

 Bansi village, 141 

 Banteng, 37, 166, 311 

 Banting village, 41, 200, 342 

 Barclaya Motleyi, 259 

 Barram River, 288, 298, 363 ; Kinyas 



of, 3U ; 



Bat, fruit, 36 



" Batang," meaning of word, 40 ; 

 forest paths, 8 



Batang-Kayan, 303 ; Kayans of the, 

 362 



Batang-Lupar, 40, 137, et seq. ; water- 

 shed of, 186 



Batavia, orang at, 195 



Batr actios pertnum Borneense, 192 



Batu Lanko, 142 



Batu Puti, 304, 361 * 



Batu Tibang, 254, 304, 361 



Batu Ujong, 124 



Bau, 135 



Bauhinia Buvbidgei, 70 



Beads, Venetian, 263 



Beak, Hornbill, a Dyak ornament, 117, 



325 



Bear, Malay, 37, 106, 158, 159 



Beccarianthus pulcher, 284 



Beccarinia xiphostachya, 141 



" Bedang " (Dyak dress), 44 



Bee-eaters, 135 



Bees, 106 ; adventure with, 107 



Begonias on the Bellaga Hills, 298 



Belcher, Sir Edward, lands with Brooke 

 at Labuan, 246 



Bellaga river, 296, 297, 363 



Bellida or Blida, 53, 135 



Berok or Bruk monkey, 30 



Bezoar stone, 327 



Bidi, 135 



Bilian ataps, 79 



" Bilion " or Malay axe, 66 



Bilion, tribe of , 317 



Bintulu river, 256 et seq. ; fort, 286 



Binturong, 37 



Birds, colouring imitating butterflies, 

 118 ; protective colouring of, 12; 

 used for augury, 328 ; Bornean, 32, 

 120 ; dissemination of Ficus by, 

 394 ; tame, 32 ; of Kapuas lakes, 

 188 ; female brighter than male, 

 116; nocturnal, 159; plumage 

 coloured by food, 12 



Birds' nests, edible, 56, 57, 136, 228, 

 282, 374 



Bishop McDougall, 40 



Black water, 182 et seq. 



Blood-brotherhood ceremony, 27S 



Boats of the Kayans, 307 ; of the 

 Mellanaos, 257 ; of a Buketan, 289 ; 

 sampans, 222 



Boar, large, 39 



Boletus edulis, 113 



Bombok village, 56 



Bore on the Batang-Lupar, 40 



Borneo, former races of , 21, 366 ; 

 knowledge of the natives of its 

 interior, 303 ; recent explorations in, 

 361 ; its fertility due to rich humus, 

 368 ; the characteristics of northern, 

 254 ; origin of name of, 254 ; 

 scarcity of population, 368 ; im- 

 probably the home of Man's pre- 

 cursor, 207 ; its geography, 361 ; 

 is without Negritos, 364 ; its useful 

 water-ways, 304 ; Posewitz on, 



361 ; lengthy native journeys in, 



362 ; trade of, with China, 365 ; 

 Hindu and other antiquities in, 

 366 ; agriculture in, 367 ; gold 

 and other minerals of, 370 ; forest 

 products of, 374 



Borneo Company, The, 371, 377 

 Boro-Budor carvings, 23, 24, 265, 279 

 Bos sondaicus, 37, 166, 311 

 Bostrychia bryophila, 314; B. fidcrata, 



314 

 Bow and arrows unknown in Borneo, 



279 

 Brackenridqeas of the Kapuas Lakes, 187 

 Brain in Man, development of, 218 

 BventhidcB, food of Pityriasis, 116 

 Bridges, bamboo, 125, 127 

 British North Borneo Company, 360 

 Brooke, Sir Charles, 4, 360 

 Brooke, Sir James, sketch of life of, 355 



et seq. 

 Brookea dasyantha, 57 

 Brooketown, coal mines of, 372 

 Bvownlowia Beccarii, and B. Sara- 



wakensis, 80 

 Bvugmansia Lowii, 247, 389 

 Bruni city, 249, et seq. ; formerly a 



dependency of China, 253 ; its 



houses, 249 ; the Palace, 250 ; 



Sultan of, 250 ; decay of, 252, 253 ; 



gives its name to Borneo, 254 ; 



British Consulate at, 252 

 Buceros rhinoceros, 117, 325 

 Bugis in Borneo, 22 

 Buitenzorg, orang at, 195 ; camphor 



trees sent to, 305 

 Bukit Kananpei, 186 ; Bukit Lampei, 



186 ; Bukit Tundon, 191 

 Buketans, 263, et seq., 286, 317, 363 

 Bulbophyllum Odoardi, 400. ; B. Bec- 



carii, 400 

 Bulungan river Kayans, 362 

 Buntal, 120 



Buprestis, colours of, 76 

 Busso, 132, 135 

 Butan tribe, 317 

 Butterflies, 153 ; colouring imitating 



birds, 118 

 Buttresses of trees, 88, 269, 385, 386 



414 



