5i() INDEX. Karaton — cLscriplion of the structure callctlj i. 163 Kasuinba — its culture, i. 4G1 Kris — J. warlike weapon worn by the Indian islanders, i. 213 — its value and beauty a test of rank and wealth, ib. — one of their fa- vourite weapons, 223 — ti tter for assassination than war, 22 1. — reason of its universal adoption, ib. — used in action with the spear, 225 — example of the dexterous use of kris, ib. Lac insect — found in the Indian Islands, iii. 437 — lac confined to home consumption, ib. Langseh — its culture, i. 432 Language, Balinese — by whom spoken, ii, 69 — its character, 70 .Javanese — the most improved and copious of those of the Archipelago, ii. 3 — its alphabet, ib. — grammatical form, 5— copiousness, 7 — redundancy, 8 — ordinary and ceremonial dialects, 9 — analogy of sound to sense, 13 — its want of figurative expres- sions, ib. — derivation, 15 Madurese — by whom spoken, ii. 68 — its character, 69 Malayan — its alphabet, ii. 40 — grammatical form, 41 — known by what term, ib. — its general character, 42 — ceremonial dialect scanty, 43 — derivation and composition, ih. — origin, 57 — diffusion, ib. — currency as a lingua franca, ib. — general uniformity, 57 — where spoken in greatest purity, ib. -Sunda — ^by whom spoken, 66 — its alphabet, 67 — gramma- tical form, ib. — ceremonial dialect, 68 -of Celebes and the eastern countries — universally different from those of the western, ii. 59 — alphabet of Celebes, 60 — two great languages, the Bugis and Macassar, spoken in Celebes, ib. — character of both, ib. — influence of the Bugis language on those of the eastern countries, 63 — composition and derivation of these, ib. -of the Indian Islanders — their resemblance in sound, ii. 72 — in grammatical form, 73 — in idiom and genius, ib. — their written characters various, 74 — these cannot be traced to the Hindus, 76 — component parts of improved languages, 78 — radi- cal portion of each language distinct, 79 — languages numerous in each country in the direct ratio of their barbarity, ib. — an ab- original language with each tribe, 80 — a great Polynesian lan- guage existed, 8 1 — words of this language most numerous in cvd- tivated dialects, 82 — nature of this class of words, ib. — conjectures respecting the people of whom the Polynesian was the language, 84 — arguments in favour of .lava being their country, 96 — in- fluence of the Polynesian long prior to the Sanskrit, 94 — influ- ence of cognate languages on each other, 95 — Sanskrit words admitted into all the improved languages, 106 — Kawi, a recondite language, how formed, 110 — Sanskrit disseminated through the language of Java, 111 — introduction of Arabic, 114' — Telinga, 117 — Persian, llS-r-Chinese, ib. — -and European languages, 119.
