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

510 INDEX.Oeassa, soap-springs of, 143 ; theinhabitants of, 143Ondor, the chief village of Goram,283Ophir, resolution to visit, 22 ;thevoyage and journey to, 22, 23 ;the " Padang-batu," or stonefield,24 ;plants on, 24 ; the summit,25 ; trees, foliage, and coffeefor breakfast on, 25 ; the greatArgus pheasant of, 25Orang Sirani, the name of theChristian descendants of the Portuguese,239, 257Orang- Kaya, illness of the, 345Orang-Kaya, the rich man, or Chiefof a Dyak tribe, 51Orang-utan, 1 ; the gi-eat man-apeof Borneo, 30 {see Mias)Orcliids in flower, 27, 62Ornithoptera, butterflies, 1 j of theMoluccas, 307Ornithoptera brookeana, namedafter Sir James Brooke, 29Ornithoptera crcesus, 258Ornithoptera poseidon, its greatbeauty, 328Ossong, village of, 276Otters, 11, 30Otto and Gesler, Messrs., tradingmissionaries, 377, 378Owls, iu Celebes, 209Pacific, different races of the, 453,454 ;geographical dividing line,454Palembang, city of, 93, 94 ; boys,&c., of, 94 ; road from, to Bencoolen,95Palm sugar, 176 ; a beautiful palm,206Pandanacete, on tiie Batchian coast,261Pangerango and Gedeh mountains,trip to the summit of, 88Panghu, 200 ; birds and insects in,200Papandayang volcano, eruption of, 4Papers lost, 26Papilio coon, butterfly, 87, 99Papilio gambrisius, 273Papilio memnon, 98Papilio ulysses, 253Papilio wallacei, 259Papilios, fine specimens of, 271Papua Kowiyee, bloodthirsty tribesof, 286Papuan belles, personal ornamentsof the, 355Papuan islands, natural history ofthe, 440 ct scq. ; mammalia ofthe, 441 ; birds of the, 441 et scq. ;geology of the, 442 ; insects of,443 ; large island.-* to the east ofNew Guinea, 443 ; the fauna of,related to that of Australia,444 ; insects of, 445 ;plants of,445Papuan race in Ceram, 280Papuans, the, 214 ; first view of,in their own country, 317 ;wildnessof the, 317, 318 ; differentfrom the Malays, 318 ; contrast ofcliaracter with the Malays, 325 ;reserved and taciturn, 325 ; of theMalay Archipelago, 446;personalcharacteristics of the, 448 ;theirstature, 449 ; their moral andintellectual characteristics, 449island of New Guinea,;Ke andAru Islands, Mysol, Salwatty,and "Waigiou inhabited almostexclusively by, 452 ; closely alliedto the negroes of Africa, 454 ; onthe crania and languages of the,459 f< seq.ParadigaUa carunculata, 435Paradise birds, manner of shooting,337 ; scarcity of, in New Guinea,387Paradise pie of New Guinea, 435Paradisea, obtained in fuU plumage,354Paradisea regia, 339Paradisea rubra at Waigiou, 401,402 ; twenty-four fine specimensbrought away, 410Paradiseidae (sec Birds of Paradise)Parroquet, long-tailed, 95Parrots. 144 ; in Celebes, 209 ;ofNew Guinea, 441Peacock, the Java, 82Pearl shells, the chief staple of theAru trade, 370