Herbs:
and shrubs used medicinally.
Hills:
inhabitants of, subject to goitres.
Hippopotamus.
History:
of Malayan kings.
Of Achinese.
Hollanders:
their first visit to Sumatra.
Holloway, (Mr. Giles).
Horse-racing:
practised by the Battas.
Horses:
small breed of.
Occasionally used in war.
Eaten as food by the Battas.
Hot springs.
Houses:
description of.
Human flesh:
eaten by the Battas.
Iang de per-tuan:
title of sovereignty.
Ibrahim (otherwise, Saleh-eddin shah):
king of Achin, his origin.
Enmity to the Portuguese.
Transactions of his reign, and death.
Iju:
a peculiar vegetable substance used for cordage.
Ilhas d’Ouro:
attempts of the Portuguese to discover them.
Import-trade.
Incest.
Indalas:
one of the Malayan names of Sumatra.
Indigo:
Broad-leafed or tarum akar.
Indragiri:
river of.
Has its source in a lake of the Menangkabau country.
Indrapura:
kingdom of.
Inhabitants:
general distinctions of.
Inheritance:
rules of.
Ink:
manufacture of.
Insanity.
Insects:
Various kinds of, enumerated.
Instruments:
musical.
Interest:
of money.
Investiture.
Ipu:
river of.
Sungei-ipu (a different river).
Iron:
Ore smelted.
Manufactures of.
Mines.
Iskander Muda (Paduka Sri):
king of Achin, receives a letter from king James the
first, by Captain
Best, and gives permission for establishing an English
factory.
Conquers Johor.
Attacks Malacca with a great fleet.
Receives an embassy from France.
Again attacks Malacca.
His death.
Wealth and power.
Islands:
near the western coast, account of.
Ivory.
Jack:
fruit.
Jaggri:
imperfect sort of sugar from a species of palm.
Jambi:
river of.
Colonies settled on branches of it, for collecting
gold.
Has its source in the Limun country.
Town of.
Jambu:
fruit.
James the first:
king, writes a letter to the king of Achin.
Jeinal:
sultan of Pase, his history.
Johor:
kingdom of.
Kampar:
river of.
King of, negotiates with Alboquerque.
Kampongs:
or fortified villages.
Kananga:
flowering tree.
Kapini:
island of.
Kasumba:
name of, given to the carthamus and the bixa.
Kataun:
or Cattown, river of.
Kima:
or gigantic cockle.
Koran.
Korinchi:
country.
Mr. Campbell’s visit to it.
Situation of lake.
Inhabitants and buildings.
Food, articles of commerce, gold.
Account of lepers.
Peculiar plants.
Character of the natives.