Volume 2
The Malay archipelago : the land of the Orang-Utan, and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / Alfred Russel Wallace.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Date:
- 1869
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Malay archipelago : the land of the Orang-Utan, and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Megapodius, the mound-niaker bird, ii. 33. Megapodius wallacei, a new species of bird.s, ii. 148. ilelaleuca cajiiputi, ii. 126. Menado, in Celebes, i. 378 ; ii. 137 ; prettiness of, i. 379; in the dis- trict Minahasa, ib.; pure race, &c., of, ib.-, the inhabitants recently savages, 380, 381; induced to cultivate the coll'ce-plant, 381; pretty villages of, 383; a native house, 384 {see Kurukan). iMenado vocabulaiy, ii. 473. iMenyerry, a Malay village, i. 113. Mesmau, Mr., a Dutch gentleman in Celebes, i. 332; his fann and premises, 355; Macassar farming, 355-357 ; brother of, 359 ; })lanta- tion and country life, 360 ; hospi- tality of, 362, 363. ilesmon Islands, ii. 332; sketch map of the, 369. Mias, native name for the Orang- utan, and so called in this work, i. 62; the author’s first introduction to, ib.; the first shot by him, ib.; strength of a wounded mias, 63; a miaa pelting its enemies from the tree tops, ib.; the first capture of a full-grown mias, a female (now in the Derby Museum), with plate, 64; capture of an infant mias, 65 ; its infantine attraction to a beard, ib.; its nur.sing-cradle, washing, and playthings, 65-67; a substitute for a mother, 67, 68 ; spoon-meat, 68 ; a hare-lip mon- key for a companion, 69,70; baby- like appearance of the mias, 70 ; cutting its teeth, 71; deMh, ib.; a mias hunt, 72-74; capture of a very large animal, 75; size and proportions of, 76; skeleton in Derby Museum, ib.; a mias at- tacked by natives, 77 ; other cap- tures, 78; wounded mias making a nest in the trees, 79 ; its death and dried remains, 79, 80; mode of walking over the tree tops, 81 ? capture of, at Semabang, the spe- cimen now in the British Museum, 84; the mias thi’owing down branches, 87 ; preparing the skins and skeletons, 88,89 ; the author’s last cajiture, 89; the orang dis- trict, Borneo and Sumatra, ib.; habits of, and nature of country inhabited by, 90, 91 ; singular method of making its way through the forest, 91, 92: his nest for the night, 92; his time of rising in the morning, 93 ; full-grown animals seldom seen in company, ib.; food of, ib.; the mias rarely seen on the ground, 94 ; the only two animals it is attacked by, the python and the crocodile, 95 ; his superiority to both, ib.; size of the large mias, 96, 97; various accounts of, 97-100; in Sumatra, 209. Alicroglossum aterrimum, ii. 229. Microscope, astonishment of the na- tives on viewing objects through the, ii. 64. Millepedes, ii. 258. Mimeta bouruensis, ii. 151 ; Mi- meta for.steiii, 152. Mimicry among birds, ii. 150. Minahasa, map of (see Menado), i. 386 ; natives of, 411. Mindanao, natives of, ii. 140. Missionaries, ii. 302; traders at Mansinam, 303. Modjokerto, a town in Java, i. 157 ; the village-gi-een, and tree, 158. Modjo-pahit, ruins of the ancient city of, in Java, i. 158; admirable brickwork in, ib.; ancient bas- relief, 159; presented to the author, 160. hlohnike. Dr., in Amboyna, i. 458; his collection of beetles, &c. 461. Molucca Sea, its asjiects, ii. 283. Moluccan horn bill, ii. 85. Mo]ucca.s, the, i. 9 ; a forest coun- try, 11, ii. 1 seg'.; final depar- ture from, 137; natural history of the, 138 et seg.; consist of three large islands, 138; their extent and geographical positioji, ib.; mammalia, or warm-blooded](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29353567_0002_0537.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
