INDEX. 



443 



NoctilucsB at False Bay, 396 

 description of, 397 

 flasiiing of, 403 

 contractility of, 406 

 iN'octumal marine animals, 356 

 Kotoneotse, 59 

 Nudibranohs, 9, 51, 98, 125, 135, 



149, 195, 259 

 Nutmeg, 261 



tree, 262 

 disease, 263 



causes of, 264 

 recovery of trees, 265 



Ocypoda, 25 



Oliva erythrostoma, 50 



black variety of, 193 

 Ophiocoma, 219 

 Opium smoking, 283 



value and imports of, 284 



Chinese, 285 

 Opuntias, 419 

 Orang or Mias, 166 

 OrbitoHtes, 20, 126 

 Oryctes of cocoa-nut, 272 

 OsciUatoria, oceanic, 384 

 Osprey (H.M.S.) lost, 411 

 OstrEea canadensis, 78 



Padi bird, 44 



fields at Ta^kau, 42 

 Padina, 51, 198, 427 

 Pagoda, 140 



anchorage, 139 

 Pako, 319 

 Pabn island, 90 

 Paludinse, 42 

 Pappan island, 185, 196 

 Parang (Dyak), 226 

 Pasig river, 302 

 Patella oculus, 417 

 Pawnbrokers' warehouses. Canton, 



335 

 " Peail " river, 316, 382 

 Pekin memorial, 346 



school of languages, 346 j^ 

 Pelagia, projection of threads tM^, 



362 

 Pelagic animals, 351 

 Penang, 14, 261 

 Peuinjau, Mount, 235 



view from summit, 238 

 Pepper, 271 

 Peronia, 97 

 Pescadores islands, 46 

 Petrels, fork-tailed, 412 

 Petroleum in Formosa, 96 

 Labuan, 160 



Phasma, 161 

 Phosphorescence, 392 

 Photography, 52 

 Phyllidia, new species of, 219 

 PhyUosoma, 56 

 Physalia, 357—363 



stinging powers of, 364 

 fishes in threads of, 365 

 not luminous, 406 

 Pico, Azores, 428 

 Pidgin English, 21, 350 

 Pigs in China, 43, 217, 338 



Labuan, 165 

 Pi-hi-kun, Formosa, 44 

 Pill-making crab, 288 

 Pinnacle island, 118 

 Pipe gamboge, 270 

 Piracy on Chinese coast, 132 



in Borneo, 205 

 Pistia stratiotes, 302 

 Planaria, 218 . 

 Pneumodermia, 99 

 " Poh," game of, 280 

 Ponghou harbour, 46 

 Population of Manilla, 295 

 Porpita, 357 



Prahus of Sarawak river, 221 

 Pratas reef, 22 



island, 23 



flora, 24 



insects, 24 



sheUs, 25 



birds, 28 



seaweeds, 25 

 Proboscis monkey, 166 

 Provisions, cheapness of, at Makung, 



49 

 Pterosoma, 54 

 Pulo Brani, 244 

 Puntinqua's garden, 335 

 Pyiosoma, 401 

 Python, 172 



Queen's birthday, 69 



Eafflesia, 216 

 Railways in China, 348 

 Rain in Labuan, 198 



Sarawak, 215 



Arabia, 



Ascension, 422 

 Rainbow, horizontal, 385 

 Raleigh rock, 117 

 Rapi& on Tam-suy river, 80 



Sarawak river, 226, 232 

 Rats eaten in China, 339 

 Recruit island. 128 

 Red beetle of cocoa-nut, 272 



