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";INDEX. 511Pelah, bad account of, 295 ;journeyto, 296Penrissen mountain, at the headof the Sarawak river, 55Peters, Mr., of Awaiya, 270Phalsenopsis grandiflora, 324Pheasant, great Argus, country of,25Pheasants, in Sumatra and Borneo,82Philippine Islands, 4 ; active andextinct volcanoes in, 5, 6 ; blackwoolly races of the, 452Phosphoric light, rushing streamsof, 313Physical geography (sec Archipelago)Pieris, genus, 273Pig, Tvild, 11, 211Pigs, their power of swimming,301Pigeons, fruit, 92 ; various, 120,121 ; several species of, 144 ; ofimmense size, 320 ; of NewGuinea, 441Pin, a strange novelty to the natives,297Pirates, on the Batchian coast, 261 ;Sir J. Brooke's suppression of, onthe coast of Borneo, 261 ; on thecoast of Aru, 333 ; attack thepraus and murder the crews, 333,334Pitcher plant, on Mount Ophir, 24 ;water in, 24 ; the plant in Borneo,61, 107Pitta, genus, 298Pitta celebensis, 299Pitta gigas, a beautiful bird ofGilolo, 241Plants, on Mount Ophir {see Ferns,and Pitcher plant), 24, 25rhododendrons, 25 ; zingiberaceousplants, 25 (see Durian, andBamboo) ; on Pangerango mountain,88-91 ;geographical disti'ibutionof, 90 et seq. ; distributionof, in New Guinea, 445Plough, a native, 172, 173 ;ploughing,172, 173Plumage of Birds of Paradise,changes of, 425 ct seq.Pohiiesia, an area of subsidence,455Polynesian races, 452 et seq. ; onthe crania and languages of the,i59 et seq.Pomali, or "taboo," 149Poppa, map of, 392 ; difficulties nearthe island of, 394 ct seq.Portuguese, in Singapore, fromMalacca, 16 ; in Malacca, 20 ; badgovernment of, in Timor, 152 ;expelled from Ternate by theDutch, 237 ; truly wonderfulconquerors and colonizers, 325Pottery, carved tool for making,388, 389Prau, native, of Macassar, 310, 311 ;the crew, 311-314 ; captain andowner of the, 315 ; dangerousdefects of the, 315 ; comforts ofthe, 326Primida imperialis in Java, 90Productions, natural, contrasts of,in the Malay Archipelago, 8 ;peculiarities of position in certainlocalities, 8, 9 ; natural meansof dispersal of, 9, 10 ; a supposedcase of natural disjiersal, 13 ; anexact parallel in the Malay Archipelago,14Ptilonopus pulchellus, 402Ptilonopus superbas, and P. iogaster,259Ptiloris alberti, of North Aixstralia,436Pumbuckle chief, in Lombock, 127K.Races, contrasts of, 15 ; two distinct,in the Archipelago, the Malaysand Papuans, 15, 446 et seq. (seeMalays, and Papuans) ; opinionsof Humboldt and Pritcliard, 15 ;indigenous race in the island ofCeram, 451 ; the Timorese, 451 ;the black woolly-haired racesof the Philippines and the Malaypeninsula, 452 ;general viewas to their origin and affinities,452 et seq. ; the black Polynesianraces, 453 et seq. ;generalreflections on, 455 et seq. ; on thecrania and the langtiages of the,459 ct seq.