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

;INDEX. 507Mahometan priest at DoLbo, 366Mahometans in Singapore, 16 ; ofCeram, 270 ; of the Ive Islands,325Makariki, visit to, 272Makian, island of, 4, 246 ; volcaniceruptions in, 4 ; volcano of, 321 ;visits to, 320, 417 ; coast of, 320Malacca, and Mount Ophir, 19description of the town, &c., 19 ;description of, by Linschott, 270years ago, 20 ;present positionof the trade of, 20 ;jjopulation,curious character of, and of thelanguage, 21 ; the works andbirds of, 21 ; elephants in, 26Malang, ruins of, in Java, 81Malay anchor, 415Malay Archipelago, physical geography,products, &c., 1 et scq. ;the author's views as to the racesof man in the, 446 ct scq. ; twostrongly contrasted races, theMalays and the Papuans, 446 {secMalays and Papuans) ; an indigenousrace in the island ofCeram, 451 ; tribes of the islandof Timor, 451 ; the black woollyliairedraces of the Philippines andthe Malay peninsula, 452 ;generalview as to their origin and affinities,452, 453 ; the Polynesianraces, 453 ; on the crania and theraces of man in the, 459, 460Malay peninsula, non-volcanic, 6Jlalay race of Ternate, 238, 239ilalay vocabulary, 464Malays, a peculiarly interesting race,found only in the Malay Archipelago,1, 2 ; villages, kc, destroyedby volcanoes, 4, 5 ; inSingapore, 16 ; a Malay Governorand house, 49 (see Gudong) ;Malay villages, 96 ; of Batchian,254 ; diiferent from the Papuans,318 ; contrast between the, 319 ;contrast of character with the,325 ;psychology of the, 332widely separated from the Papuans,332 ; of the Malay Archipelago,446 ; the most importantof the races, 446 ; their physicaland mental characteristics, 446;different tribes, 446, 447 ; the savageMalays, 447 ;personal characteristics,447 ; impassive characterof, 447 ; different accounts ofthem, 448 ; on the crania andlanguages of the, 459, 460Maleos, singular birds, in Celebes,202 ; description of the birds, 203 ;and eggs, 203, 204; their breedingplace,203, 204Mammalia, or warm-blooded quadrupedsof the Indo-Malay Islands,112, 113 ; of the Timor gi-oup, 160 ;of Celebes, 211 of the Moluccas,;299 ; of New Guinea, 441Mangusteen fruit (see Durian), inSarawak, 65, 107Manipa, island of, 298Manowolko, the largest of the Goramgi'oup, 278 ; map of, 279 ; descriptionof, 278 ;people andraces of, 278, 280 ; return to, 283Mansinam, island of, 377, 378Slanuel, a Portuguese bird-skinner,engaged by the author, 119 ; hisphilosophy, 123-125March, island of, 245Maros river, 175 ; falls of the river,179 ;precipices, 181 ; absence offlowers, 182 ; drought followed bya deluge of rain, 183 ; effects of,184 (see Menado)Marsupials in the ]\Ialay Archipelago,7 ; of Celebes, 213 ; of theMoluccas, 301 ; of the PapuanIslands, 441Massaratty vocabidary, 465Matabello Islands, 280 ; dangersof the voyage to, 281 ; trade of,281 ; cocoa-nut trees of, 281 ; villagesof, 282 ; savage life of,282 ; palm-wine one of the fewluxuries of, 282 ; wild fruits of,282, 283 ; strange ideas of thepeople respecting the Russian war,283 ; their extravagant notions ofthe Turks, 283Matabello vocabulary, 467Mataram, capital of Lonibock, 156Mats and boxes of the Aru Islands,356Mausoleimi, ancient, in Java, 79Max Havclaar, sXoi'y of the Dutchauctions, &c., in the colonies,74