The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / by Alfred Russell Wallace.

  • Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1877
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    Garo, an attendant boy, 318. Gcach, Mr., an English mining engineer at Delli, 188 ; his dis- heartening report respecting the supposed copper mines, 192, 194. Geotfroyus cyanicollis, 330. Geological contrasts, 3,4; discoveries and teachings with respect to changes in the distribution of land and water, and forms of life, 10, 11. Geology, lessons taught by, 577. Gilolo, island of, 4; mountainous coast of, 304, 305 ; physical aspect of, 305 ; visit to the island of, 311, 313; characteristics of the slaves, 311; volcanic appearances at, 317; map of, 538; island of, 539; earthquake on the coast of, ib. Glacial period, 119, 120. Goa, visit to the Rajah of, 214; the Rajah, ib.; a feast with bad coffee, 214; fever in the Rajah’s terri- tory, ib. ; collections in, 216, 217; an intrusion, 217; the Rajah at a cock-fight, 219; his daughters, ib. ; house-hunting, 220, 221; sickness at, 222; the village, ib.] and people, 223; the author a terror to men and beasts, 223; house-building, 224; preference for crooked timber, ib. Goldmann, Mr., son of the Governor of the Moluccas, 263, 264. Goram, islands of, 363 ; map of the, 364; return to, 370; coral rocks surrounding, ib.; geological specu- lations on, 371; the inhabitants a race of traders, ib.; their chief trade, ib.; poverty of the rajahs, 372; difficulties with the work- men of, 373; departure from, 375; trade of, 376. Goram prau, its mode of sailing, 409. Goram vocabulary, 607. Grammatophyllum, a gigantic or- chid, 139. Grasshopper, great-shielded, of New Guinea, 576, 578. “ Gubbong,” the palm, 159. Gudong, a Malay village, 64; con- duct of the women on seeing a European, 65 [see Jahi). Guebe, island of, 538, 539. Guinea, New, volcanic action, <fec. in, 7 ; a forest country, 8 ; resem- blance to Australia, &c. 13; to Borneo, 16. Gun-making, in Lombock, 168— 170. Gunong Prau, extensive ruins of, in Java, 106. Gunong Sari, excursion to, 172, 173. Gusti Gadioca, a chief of Lombock, 168; his feast, 170; and recep- tion, 171. H. Haan, De, Dutch entomologist, 130. Halcyon sauropliaga, 521. Har, village of, 417. Hart, Captain, an English resident at Delli, 188. Hawk-tribe, the, in Celebes, 272. Helix pyrostoma, 316. Henicophaps albifrons, 536. Hestia durvillei, 429. Himalayas, the, in miniature, in Borneo, 71, 72. Honey suckers, 14, 28. Hooker, Dr., his “Flora Indica,” 138. Hornbills, in Sumatra, 136, 137; in Celebes, 273. Hoy a, village of, 358. Humboldt Bay, 508 ; its inhabi- tants, ib. Huxley, Professor, on the crania of different races, 599. I. Indo-Malayan division of the Archi- pelago, 10; evidences of having once formed part of the Asiatic continent, 12, 13 [see the Austro- Malayan, the other division of the Archipelago); natural history of the Indo-Malay islands, 138-140; mammalia in, 140; monkey tribes, 140, 141; carnivora, 141; hoofed animals, ib.] birds, &c. 143, 144 [see Animals, distribution of). Insect pests, 467.