The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan ... - Wallace Online

;INDEX. 503tion system, 196 ; female laboiir,197 ; their influence establishedin the Malay seas, 237 ; theirpraiseworthy efforts to improvethe Amboynese of the MalayArchipelago, 271Dutch mail steamer, life on board,76Dyak house, 41 ; Dyak mode ofclimbing a tree, 42, 43 ; Dyakdogs, 43 ; Dyak accounts of themias, 45, 46 (see Tabokan) ; agi'iculture,&c., 52-54 ; the houses,bridges, &c., 58-61 ; the characterof the race in its relations tokindred ones, 67, 68 ;higher inmental capacity than the Malays,68 ; amusements of the young, 68 ;moral character, 68 ; the HillDyaks never go to sea, 68 ;headhunting,68 ; truthfulness of, 68 ;honesty, temperance, &c., 69 ;checks of population, 69, 70 ;hardwork of the women, 70 ; and idlenessof the men, 70 benefits;arising from the government ofSir James Brooke, 71, 72collection of, in Borneo, 62 ;treefern, plate of, 64 ; collection of,65 ; immense number and varietyof, 89 ;elegant one discovered atCeram, 273Fire produced by friction, 249Fishes, tame, at Gunong Sari, 132(sec Shells)Flies, at Dorey, tormented by, 390,391Flores, island of, 4 ; no forest in, 7Flowers (see Vegetation, and Plants),in Borneo, 61, 62Flying-fish, 316Football at Dobbo, 362Forest desert at Cerani, 273, 274Forest trees (with plate), 62-64forest "instinct," 206; of immensesize, 261, 262Forests, unexplored, 241, 242 ; ofCeram, 273Frog, tree, or flying, in Borneo(with plate), 29, 30Fruits of the Malay Archipelagotasteless and uneatable, 282, 283Fruit-trees at Ternate, 236FunneU, Sir WiUiam, his account ofAmboyna in the year 1705, 224E.G.Earl, Mr. George Windsor, his paperGall vocabiilary, 466and pamphlet on the "PhysicalGalapagos islands, peculiar productionsof, 8Geography of South-Eastern Asiaand Australia," 7Galela men, 249 ; from Gilolo, 254Earthquakes at Ternate, 238Galela vocabulary, 466Eclectus gi-andis, 249Gamelang, a native band, 79Elephants in Malacca, 26Gani men, their knowledge of theElephomia, of New Guinea, difterentspecies, 383, 384coast, 415, 416Gani vocabulary, 466Empugnan, a Malay village, 50Gani-diluar, village of, 414 ; repairs(see Tabokan)and provisions obtained there,Entomological specimens, 248414, 415Erythrina, 365Gaper, blue-billed, 22Eucalypti, common;green, 22tree of Timor, 7Garo, an attendant boy, 244Eiurystomus azureus, 253Geach, Mr., an English miningengineer at Delli, 144 ; his dishearteningreport respecting thesupposed copper mines, 147, 148Geofl'royus cyanicollis, 253Fauna, of the Moluccas, 302 et seq. ;Geological contrasts, 4 ; discoveriesof the Papuan group, 444, 445 and teachings with respect toFerns, rare, on Iklount Ophir, 23 ;changes in the distribution of