INDEX. 543 and Arabs ignorant of the geography and topography of the Ar- chipelago, 324' Gilding — Indian islanders ignorant of thisart^ i. 192 Ginger, extensively cultivated, i. 515 Glassware — article of importation, iii. 514 Glugo, its culture, i. 443 Goats — ludicrous combats between them and wild hogs practised in Java, i. 1 1 6 Gold, in its native state, abounds in the Archipelago, i. 183 — know- ledge of working it, a native art,ib. — its application to trinkets and filagree work, ib. — ornaments worn by the Indian islanders, 212 — measures, 274 — where found, iii. 470 — quality, 471 — mining oper- ations, 472 — expences and profits of a gold mine, 477 — analysis of gold dust, 478 — skill of the natives in assaying, 480 — quan- tity extracted, 481 — table exhibiting the quantity imported into Calcutta, 483 — total produce of the Archipelago compared with that of the whole world, 484 — general remarks on the gold trade, 487 Gomuti-palin — its culture, i. 397 — its principal products, 398 — cordage obtained from an article of commerce, iii. 424 Government— forms of it various among the Inilian islanders, iii. 3 — despotism increases with civilization, 4 — rudest form of, 5 — formation of villages, 6 — shepherd state of society unknown, 8— elective and federal forms of, 9 — absolute forms of, 15 — illustra- tions of the Iiibior)' of, from an examination of language, 21 — oscillation between federal and absolute forms of, 23 Gourd — its culture, i. 434 Gout, unheard of among the Indian islanders, i. 34 Guava — its culture, i. 429 Gunpowder — high priced and unskilfully manufactured in the Ar- chipelago, i. 201 — one of the most highly prized of European imports, 202 — the art of making it, not native, ib. Hair — description of that of the brown iribes, i. 20— of the negro tribes, 24 — mode of wearing and ornamenting it, 212 Hazard, games of — favourites of the Indian islanders, i. 1 1 1 — the most common, ib. Hinduism — See Religion History of the Archipelago — it divisions, ii. 284 — paucity of great events and remarkable characters, 286 — remarkable native charac- ters, 287 — character of Asiatic settlers, 288 — remarkable Euro- pean characters, 289 — causes inimical to the display of talent among the Dutch colonists, 291 — general remarks on the inter- course of Europeans with the Indian islanders, 391 — chronologi- cal table of the principal events of, 481 of Java — recentness and character of Javanese historical com- positions, ii. 293 — their chronologies mostly fabrications, 297-- ancient inscriptions, 298 — Hindu states, 299 — introduction of Mahomedanism, 304— Javanese liistory of its propagation, 308—;
