INDEX 



Ptilocercus Lowii, 248 



Pulo (=island), P. Burong, 137; P. 



Kaladi, 326; P. Sampadien, 223 

 Punai (Treron vernans), 53 

 Punan tribe, 264, 302, 309, 312 ; stated 



to be cannibals, 364 

 Pyroccelia opaca, 75 

 Pyrotrogon kasumba, 3 28 

 Python, Bornean, 33 ; length of, 34 



Quercus, on Gunong Poe, 99 ; on 



Gunong Wa, 128 

 Quop, palaeolithic implements found at, 



367 



Races, aboriginal of Borneo, 364 



Rafflesia Tuan-Mudce, 10 1 et seq., 388, 

 . 389 



Rain, in Sarawak, 379, 380 



Rajah Brooke, biography of, 355 et seq. 



Rajah Muda (Sir' Chas. Brooke), 355 

 376, 377 



Rambutan, 25, 130 



Rapids, of the Rejang, 312 ; of the 

 Sarawak, 123 ; of the Sakarrang, 

 338 ; of the Bellaga, 300 



Rassam fern, 147, 334 



Rays in fresh water, 314 



Rebellion, Chinese, 358 



Regatta at Kuching, 79, 355 



Regions, botanic, of Borneo, 408 



Reichenbach and the author's orchids 

 398 



Rejang River, 243, 301, 302 et seq. 

 317, 326 ; delta of, 323 ; floating 

 islands from, 259 ; course of, 

 361 ; extraordinary depth of , 304, 



Religions in Sarawak, 376 



Renanthera on Poe, 101 



Reptiles of Borneo, 33, et seq. 



Resin,' Dammar, 99, 258 



Rhacophorus Reinwardtii, 36 



Rhinoceros; in the Sarawak, 311 ; 

 fossil, 135 



Rhinoceros sumatrensis, 38 



Rhizophorce, 84 



Rhododendron Brookeanum, 397 ; R. 

 lapponicum, 397 ; R- salicifolium, 



85 

 Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, 247 

 Rhyncophorus ferrugineus, 27 

 Rhyncopyle elongata, 104 

 Rhytidoceriis obscurus, 77 

 Riam Ledong, 123, 124 

 Rice in Sarawak, 374, 131; wild, 229 

 Rice mill, 345 

 Ridley, N., on occurrence of orang in 



the Malay Peninsula, 205 

 Rivers, with periodical floods, 297 

 Roads, Dyak, 8, 349 

 Rollulns rouloul, 32 

 Roots, in the galleries of formicarian 



Rubiaceae, 405 ; buttress, or " ban- 



ner," 88, 269 ,384 ; fulcral, 384, 



395 

 Rotang, 8 ; R. fernang, 231, 233, 234 ; 



rotang kawat, 71 ; rotang tikus, 



•j 1 ; the valley of, 113 ; length of, 



114 

 Rotangs, 71,114 

 Ruins, Hindu, in Borneo, 366 



Saba, State of (British North Borneo), 



360 

 Sabayana, 52 

 Sacrifices, human, 364 

 Sadok, 335 

 Sadomak, 98 

 Sadong, coal on the, 372 ; source of the, 



130 ; province of, 374 

 Sago (see under Arenga), 233, 244,. 374, 

 409 ; making at Bintulu, 287 et 

 seq. ; Kadjattao, 307, et seq. ; as 

 substitute for biscuit, 303 ; its 

 good properties, 318 

 Sakarrang, Dyaks of the, 47 ; descent 



of the, 336 et seq. 

 Salak, 80, 84 

 Salt, 310 



Salvadori, on Bornean birds, 32, 120 

 Samangs, sumpitans of the, 280 

 Samarahan, 349 

 Samatan, 224 



Samattang village, 227 ; river, 228 

 Sambas, confines of, 56, 10 1 

 Sampan, Malay, 222 

 Sand-flies, 180, 335 

 Sandoricum Maingayi, 131 

 Santubong, 1, 259 ; plants and trees on, 



95 ; antiquities found on, 365 

 Sapinm Indicum, used to catch fish, 241 

 Sapotacece, flowering period of, 91 

 Saprophytes, 111, 388 

 Sarawak, 354 et seq. ; former territory 

 of, 242 ; extension of, 360 ; river, 

 2, 121 et seq., 132 et seq. ; Pro- 

 vince, 374 ; Rangers, 376 ; govern- 

 ment of, 376 ; products of, 374 ; 

 population of, 373 ; history of, 

 356, 365 ; area of, 361 ; native 

 tribes of, 363 ; antiquities of, 366, 

 $6j ; agriculture of, 367 ; minerals 

 of, 370 ; coal in, 371 ; capital of, 

 372 (see also under Kuching) ; 

 climate of, 372, 379 ; exports of, 374 

 Sargassum an gust i folium, 227 

 Sarong, 23 



Satang island, 96, 97 

 Saturnia pyri, 118 

 Sauraja angustifolia. 299. 392 

 Sauropatis Moris, 224 

 Schismatoglottis asperuta, 387 ; S. Bec- 



carii, 387 

 Scleria sedge, 348 

 Scortechini, Padre, 247 

 Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea, 80 



422 



