548 INDEX. tlieir total ignorance of the treatment of surgical disortlers, 331 — plants afford in<^, 4(jl. Melon — its culture, i. 43 1 iVIetals — the Indian islanders longacquaintcd with the use of the na- tive metals, sol'U iron, and tin, i. 182 — taught the use of silver and copper by the Hindus, ib. — their art of working gold, 183 — silver, 184 — and iron, 18G — description of tools, ib. — scarcity of iron in the Archipelago, and its consequences, 188 — iron chief- ly used for military weapons, 189 — manufacture of the subordi- nate metals, I'Jl — tin and brass used as money, 280 ]Iilitary — weapons of the Indian islanders, i. 222 — forces, 229 — discipline, 235 — subsistence, 237 — warfare, 239 — treatment of the dead, wounded, and prisoners, 242 — use of the right of con- quest, 247 ^lirrors — Indian islanders ignorant of the manufacture of, i. 192 Molasses — price of in the Indian Islands, iii. 380 ]Money — articles used as, by the rude tribes, i. 280 — origin and de- scription of tin and brass coins, ib. — no silver coins anciently used, 281 — origin and description of gold coins, 282 — introduction of European coins, 283 — and paper currency, 284 Monsoons — navigation of the Indian islanders favoured by them, i. 309 — origin of the term, 3 1 6 Moral qualities — See Virtues, Weaknesses, Vices, and Domestic, Social, and PoUtical Relations Music — state of, i. 332 — description of musical instruments, 333 — of bauds or gamalans, 338 — character of Javanese music, 339 Narcotics — See Areca and Betel, Tobacco, and Opium Navigation — rude skill of the Indian islanders in, i. 307 — usually a coasting one, 308 — favoured by the monsoons assumes a bolder character, 309 — assistance sometimes derived from obser- vations of the heavenly bodies, and from the compass, 310 — con- jectures respecting the origin of the compass, ib. — division of the horizon by the Malays, 311 — Javanese, 315 — ^and minor tribes, 316 — origin of the term monsoon, ib. Navy — military, 230 Negro tribes of the Archipelago — their inferiority to the brown, i. 18 — geographical distribution, ib. — account of a negro, by Major IMacinnes, 23 — by Sir Everard Home, 24 — their resemblance, but inferiority, to the African negroes, ib. — their puny statures and feeble frames constitutional, 2o — Sonnerat's account of the ne- groes of New Guinea, 26 — conjectures respecting their origin, 27 Nibung — its culture and uses, i. 447 Nipah — its culture and uses, i. 448 Numbers — See Arithmetic Nutmeg — its description, o03 — distribution, 505 — history and name, 506 — culture, 507 — fecundity, 510 — an article of exporta- tion, iii. 394 — proportion of its different parts, 395 — disadvan- 4
