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.

  • Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
Date:
1869
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    451; general view as to their origin and affinities, 452 et seq.; the black Polynesian races, 454 et seq.; general reflections on, 459 et seq.; on the crania and the langirages of the, 465 ct seq. llaffies. Sir Stamford, his account of the mins of Java, i. 163. Ratahan vocabulary, ii, 473. Regent Bird of Australia, ii. 419. Rhinoceros, in Malacca, i. 52. Rifle birds of Australia, ii. 416, 417. Robberies at Batchian, ii. 45. Rosenberg, Herr, ii. 123; a German naturalist, 319. Ross, Mr., an Englishman resident at Lombock, i. 253. Rotti vocabulary, ii. 475. Rowan mountains, i. 114. Ruatan, a river of Ceram, ii. 82; difficulty of crossing, ib. Rurukan, village of, the highest in Minahasa, i. 385; coffee planta- tions, 387; hill vegetation, 388- 390 {see Tondano); missionaries in, 396. Rusa hippelaphus of Java, ii. 140. S. Sago district of East Ceram, ii. 116. Sago bread, mode of preparing the, ii. 118 ; oven for baking, 120. Sago palm of Ceram, ii. 116, 117; washing of, 119; conversion into food with little labour, 121. Sago trees, ii. 89; of the Ke Lslands, 183. Sahoe, village of, ii. 17, 18; the in- habitants distinct from the Malay races, 19. Sahoe vocabulary, ii. 47 4. Salayer Straits, ii. 166. Salayer vocabulary, ii. 473. Salibabo Islands, vocabulary of the, ii. 473. Salwatty, map of, ii. 332; island of, 414. Samabang, a tnp to, i. 81; descrip- tion of, 83; a Dyak house, ib. VOL. II. Sandal wood, in Timor, i. 12, 311. Sanguir Island, i. 6. Sanguir Islands vocabulary, ii. 473. Saparua vocabulary, ii. 474. Sapi-irtan, the, i. 412, 413; de.scrip- tion of, 433. Sarawak, i. 54; the author enter- tained at, by Sir James Brooke, ih. ‘, gold-fields and coal-works, 54, 55 ; the Sadong rivei- and its tributaries, 55 ; head of the river of, 113; arrival at, from the in- terior, 116; government of, by Sir James Brooke, 144-146. Sardinia and Corsica, natural pro- ductions peculiar to, i. 15. Sassak vocabulary, ii. 472. Sassaks, the, aborigines of Lom- bock, i. 270. Savu vocabulary, ii. 475. Scorpions, ii. 258. Screw pines on the Batchian coast, ii. 60. Sea, contrasts in depths of, i. 13, 23. Sea Gipsies, vocabulary of the, ii. 475. Seboran mountain, lower slopes of the, i. 112. Semioptera of the Moluccas, ii. 146. Senankan, Malay village, i. 111. Senna, Malay village, character of the people, &:c., i. 115, 116. Serpents, of immense size, ii. 132, 133. Servants, the author deserted liy his, ii. 115. Serwatty Islands, i. 6. Sharks caught and cooked, ii. 167. Shells and fish, an unrivalled col- lection of, i. 472, 473. Siau vocabulary, ii. 473. Sickness of the author and his men, ii. 317, 322, 323. Silinta, in Mysol, ii. 332, 333. Simia satyrus, i. 62. Simunjon river, i. 55; coal-works, 57; advantages of, good locality for insect collecting, ib.; a trip u]i the river, 81; narrowness of the stream, 82; monkeys on the banks, 76.; arrival at Samabang, ib. M M