534 



INDEX. 



Eain, effects of, 174 

 Baku, combined house and boat, 1 83 ; 

 my, down Eawas and Musi, 252- 

 2tJ0; how managed, 253; pleasures' 

 of a joui-ney in, 255-257 ; dangers, 

 255 ; price of a, 258 



Sallus philippenais, 31 



Kanau district, chiefs of, 170 ; lake of, 

 176; temperature of lake of, 177; 

 Eanau tobacco, 170 



Eats, plnguo of, at Fatuuaba, 484 



Eawas region, dances of, 247; gold- 

 mines ill, 249; people of, 246; dig- 

 nified bearing of rhiefs of, 24G 



Eawas river, bird life along, 252; flora 

 on banks, 251 



Eed-liaired race in Timor, 46t 



Eegal succession in Timor, 458 



Eeiuwardt's plants from Timor, 497 



Eeligion of the Passumahers, 198 



Jtemijia virbia, moth at Fatuuaba, 

 423 



Bemusatia vivipara, 470 



Eeptiles and batrachians from Tiinor- 

 Liut, list of, 368 



Ehinoceros, in Sumatra, 158, 165 



Bhinocichla mitrata, 226 



Bhinococcyx curvirosiris, 50; javensis, 

 56 



Bhipidura rvfivenlris, 450 



Bhododendron magniftorum, 208 ; re- 

 tusum, in crateis, 114 ; tulnjlorum, 

 159 ; malmjanum, 159 



Bhyncliota, detcriptionof, from Sumatra, 

 277 



Bhytidocerus svbruficolUs, 252 



Eiang Peak, its geological structure, 

 185 



Eiee eidtivation in fiantam, 52 ; at Kot- 

 ta-djawa, Smnatra, 131, 132; utar 

 Kenali, 108 



Eice, loss on, from drought, in Java, 75 



Eice-field charm, 170 



Eidley, Mr. S. O., list of corals from 

 Keeling Islands by, 44-47, 496 



Eidley, Mr. H. N., description of new 

 plants by, 513 



Eiedel, Eesident of Amboina, his con- 

 duct towards us, 288 ; his action ne- 

 cessitates our leaving the Moluccas, 

 408; tliis repudiated by the Dutch 

 Government, 408; his plants from 

 Timor, 498 



Eiedle'a plants from Timor, 497 



Eitabel, camp in villaee of, 302 



Beads in Timor, 428, 43^, 433, 467 



Eoss, Sir J. C, 15 



Eoss, Mr. G. C, 13 



Eoss, J. C, founder of Keeling Colony, 

 15 



Bubua lineatut, 114, 208 



En^t river, vegetation along, 237, 238 ■; 



its bird life, 238 ; scenery along, 238 ; 

 gold in, 239 



Saddle and bridle of Timorese, 449 



Saluki, visit to, 461 



Salvador!, Count, on Platyloplms galeri- 



culatus, 67 ; on Burn birds, 409 

 Samljucus javanica, 220, 227 ; visited 



by Eumenes, 227 ; visited by Pieridai, 



227 ; racemosa, 226 

 Saparua, visit to, 299 

 Sauo, curious rocks at, 433; house- 

 cluster at, 435 

 Sautier's plants from Timor, 497 

 Sau:e berdundun, Passumah marriage 



service, 196 

 Sawah mountains, 101 

 Scarcity of flowers and fruits in trees m 



Java, 75 

 Scars burned on limbs by natives of 



Timor-laut to ward of small-pox, 



313 

 Scarus, 21 ; poisonous species of, 24 

 ScMzostacMum durio, 471 

 Schefier, Dr., 51, 103 

 Sciuropterug, 137 

 Sclater, Dr. P. L., on Philemon, 338 ; on 



birds of Timor-laut, 355 

 Sculptured figures in Passumah Lands, 



201,203; their origin, 202 

 Sea, depth of, at mouth of Palembang 



river, 260 

 Seals, native ideas about, 205 

 Seeds buried by crabs, 26 

 Sekawang, corolla^ of, 233 

 Seleucides ulbn, 280 

 Self-fertilisation in orchids, 85-07 

 Semangka river, journey along tlie, 102 ; 



falls of, 107 

 Semper, Prof., on coral reefs, 30, 37, 40 

 Sero, or fish maise, 289 

 Servants, difficulties with, at Fatunaba, 



423 

 Sesako, order of the, 140 

 Setaria, species of grass, 428 

 Slieep on Keeling Island, 31 

 Siamanga syndactyla, 70, 129 ; young 



tame, 150 ; its interesting habits ami 



death, 100 

 Sibia similUma, 226 

 Sibissie, Peak of, 12 

 Silicifled trees in Java, €3 

 Simotes forbesi, 337 

 Siphia banjumas in Java, 115 

 Slabung, bridge over the river, 178 

 Slaves in Timor-laut, 312 

 Smith, Christopher, his plants from 



Timor, 497 

 Snakes in Timor-laut, 337 " 

 Snipe in Keeling Islands, 34 



