INDEX 



Tiang Laju, Mount, 155 



Tigers in Singapore, 86 



Tiles, bamboo, 128 



Timber of Shorea falcata, 84 



Tinder for production of fire, 236 



Tj aping, meaning of word, 149 {see also 



under Orang-utan and Mayas) 

 Toad, Ko-go, 283 

 Tobacco, Dyak, 174 

 Togak, Mount, 176 



Tolypothrix distorter., 192 ; T. flexuosa, 192 

 Tombs, Kayan, 268 

 Tomistoma Schlegelii, 188 

 Toxodes jaculatov, 139 

 Trachycomus ochrocephalus, 388 

 Tragulus, 38 ; T. napu, 30 

 Trapa natans, 259 

 Traps, for wild boar, 61 

 Treacher, Mr. W., H., on the native 



name of Borneo, 254 

 Trees, height of, 34, 88, 108, 330 ; 



fruit, 129, 131 ; mutually support 



each other, 7 ; age of , no ; covered 



by water, 184 

 Tree-trunks, flowering, 8, 233, 401 

 Treron vernans, 53 

 Trial by water, 177 ; Dyak, 338 

 Trigonocephalies V/agleri, 155 

 Trinchese, Prof, on orang fcetus, 206 

 Trogon, 328 



Trousers an ancient form of dress, 23 

 Trusan Province, 374 

 Trusans, or estuary channels, 80 

 Tuan-ku, meaning of word, 10 ; Tuan-ku 



Yassim, n, 195 

 Tuan Muda (present Rajah of Sarawak), 



4, 108 ; Rafjiesia dedicated to, 



104 ; excursion to Poe with, 98 ; 



expedition against Kayans, 313 

 Tuba (poison for fish), 240, 279 

 Tubao river, 267, 290, 295 

 Tubers of hospitating plants, 404 ; 



colossal, of Dioscorea, 131 

 Tummusong, Kayan chief, 269 

 Tunei village, 296 

 Turtles, 98, 224, 227 

 Tutop, Mount, 176 



Ukit tribe, 317, 363 

 Umbut, or " cabbage " of palms, 69 

 Umpanang river, 181, 183, 189 

 Uncavia Gambir, 67, 374 

 Undup, 42, 341 ; river, 139 

 Unggan village, 141 

 Unona flagellaris, 333, 390, 403 

 " Untut," or elephantiasis, 241 

 Upas tree and poison, 158, 252, 278, 309, 

 346 



Urari poison, 279 

 Urnularia oblongifolia, 262 

 Urostigmas, crowded with birds, 12, 394 

 Utan, meaninc; of word, 3 1 

 Utricularia exoleta, 192 



Vallombrosa, 84, 87, 106, et seq. ; left 



alone at, 1 18, 369 

 Van Schelle, discovers Melabu volcano, 



372 

 Vanda Lowii, 125, 247 ; V. suavis, 180 

 Variability of species, 210 ; checked by 



the force of heredity, 212, 213 

 Variation not due to adaptation, 211 ; 



how occasioned, 210, 211 

 Vegetation of the estuaries, 80 ; of the 



Upper Sarawak, 123, 124 ; of the 



seashore, 94 ; of Poe, 99, 100 ; 



on Lessong, 344 ; special areas of, 



408 et seq. 

 Venetian beads, 263 

 Vicia faba, 403 

 Vinciguerra, Dr., on Bornean fish, 182, 



240 

 Viverra (V. tangalunga), 30 

 Volcanic islands always fertile, 368 

 Volcano, Melabu, 372 ; volcanoes in 



Borneo, 372 



Wa, Mount, 126, 130 



Wa-wa monkey, 30 



Wallace, on facial adiposities of orang, 

 195 ; on orang throwing fruit, 204 ; 

 his visit to the Sadong, 137 ; to 

 Pininjau, 57 ; on flowering tree- 

 trunks, 402 



Water, black, 182 et seq. ; trial by, 177 



Waterfall of Mount Gading, 104 



Waterparting, Central Bornean, 362 ; 

 Batang-Lupar and Pontianak, 172 



Whitehead, G., his exploration of 

 Kina Balu, 249 



Woods, Tenison, on coal formation, 185 



Winds, Cave of the, 132 



Wine, palm, 48 



Wings, of seeds as navigating organs, 92 



Wood, of Shorea falcata, 84 ; fossil, 124 



" Woodlands," 85 



Wymann, on the foot of the human 

 embryo, 207 



Zanardini, on Bornean algae. 227 

 Zannetti, on skull of a Buketan. 263 

 Zebu hump, analogous to steatoparesis, 



197 

 Zingiberacea, root of, used to rub skin, 



328 ; remarkable, 160 



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