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

)08 INDEX.Maykor, map of, 338 ; river of, 370Megacliile pluto, 265Megamendong mountaiu, road over,86 ; a residence on, 86 ; collectionson, and in the neighbourhoodof, 86-93Megapodidfe, the, a small familyof birds, peculiar to Australia,and to surrounding islands, 120Megapodii of the Moluccas, 304Megapodius, the mound-maker bird,249]\Iegapodius wallaeei, a new speciesof bird, 305]\Ielaleuca cajuputi, 294Menado, in Celebes, 185, 299 ;prettiness of, 185 ; in the districtMinahasa,185;pure race, &c.,of, 185, 186 ; the inhabitants recentlysavages, 186, 187 ; inducedto cultivate the coffee-plant, 186 ;pretty villages of, 187 ; a nativehouse, 187, 188 (sec Rm-ukan)Menado vocabulary, 465ilenyerry, a Malay village, 55Mesman, Mr., a Dutch gentlemanin Celebes, 162 ; his farm andpremises, 1 74 ; Macassar farming,173, 174 ; brother of, 175 ;plantationand country life, 175, 176 ;hospitality of, 177, 178Mesmon Islands, 392 ; sketch mapof the, 411Mias, native name for the Orangutan,and so called in this work,31 ; the author's first introductionto, 31 ; the first shot by him,31 ; strength of a wounded mias,31 ; a mias pelting its enemiesfrom the tree-tops, 31 ; the firstcapture of a full-grown mias, afemale (now in the Derby Museum),with plate, 31, 32 ; captureof an infant mias, 32, 33 ; its infantineattraction to a beard, 32its nursing-cradle,;washing, andplaythings, 33 ; a substitute fora mother, 33, 34 ; sjioon-meat,34 ; a hare-lip monkey for a companion,34, 35 ; baby-like appearanceof the mias, 35 ; cutting itsteeth, 35 ; death, 35 ; a mias hunt,36, 37 ; capture of a very largeanimal, 37 ; size and proportionsof, 37 ; skeleton in Derby Museum,38 ; a mias attacked bynatives, 38 ; other captures, 38,39 ; wounded mias making a nestin the trees, 39 ; its death anddried remains, 39, 40 ; mode ofwalking over the tree-tops, 40 ;capture of, at Semabang, the specimennow in the British Museum,40, 41 ; the mias throwing downbranches, 42, 43 ;preparing theskins andskeletons, 43 ; theauthor'slast capture, 43, 44 ; the orang district,Borneo and Sumatra, 44 ;habits of, and nature of countryinhabited by, 44, 45 ; singularmethod of making its way throughthe forest, 45, 46 ; his nest forthe night, 45 ; his time of risingin the morning, 45 ;full-gi'ownanimals seldom seen in company,46 ; food of, 46 ; the mias rarelyseen on the gi'ound, 46 ; the onlytwo animals it is attacked by,the pji;hon and the crocodile, 46,47; his superiority to both, 46, 47 ;size of the large mias, 47 ; variousaccounts of, 47-49 ; in Sumatra,103Microglossum aterrimum, 343^Microscope, astonishment of the nativeson viewing objects throughthe, 264]\Iillepedes, 357Mimeta bouruensis, 306 ; Mimetaforsteni, 306Mimicry among birds, 305Minahasa, map of [see Menado), 189 ;natives of, 201Mindanao, natives of, 300Missionaries, 377 ; traders at Mansinam,377, 378Modjo-kerto, a town in Java, 77 ;the vUlage-green, and tree, 77Modjo-pahit, ruins of the ancientcity of, in Java, 77 ;admirablebrickwork in, 77 ; ancient basrelief,77 ;presented to theauthor, 77, 78Mohnike, Dr., in Amboyna, 224 ;his collection of beetles, kc,226^lolucca Sea, its aspects, 369Moluccau hornbill, 273