'Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views.' [‎94] (121/372)

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GENERAL INDEX.
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4 ; its rivers and roads, 5; its passes
and forts, 6-9.
Malabar, Descriptive and Geographi
cal Account of the Province of,
by Captains B. S. Ward and Con
nor, iv. 33*; its extent, civil divi
sions, and number of its population,
33 ; its rivers, forests, mountains, and
villages, 34, 35; its produce, imports
and exports, and meteorology, 36, 37;
its history and antiquities, and physi
cal features on the western coast, 37,
38; description of the various dis
tricts or talooks into which the pro
vince is divided—their extent, popu
lation, produce, trade, and physical
features, 39-117; KavoyTalook, 39-44;
Cheracul Talook, 45-48; Kotium Ta
look, 49-54 ; Kartanad Talook, 54-58 ;
Wynaud Talook, 58-69 ; Kuramban-
aud Talook, 69-74; Calicut Talook,
74-80 ; Shernaud Talook, 80-83 ; Er-
naud Talook, 83-90 ; Bettadanaud
Talook, 90-93 ; Wullavanaud Talook,
94-102; Neddunganaud Talook, 102-
106 ; Paulghaut Talook, 106-117 ; sta
tistical tables illustrating the memoir,
118-133.
Malabar hill ridge, Bombay, geology of
the, x. 170.
Malabar Province, India, xvii. 66, 73.
Malabar Sea, xv. 77.
Malacca, account of a meteor observed
at, ix. 19.
Malacca Straits, xv. 104, 109.
Malaw, Cape, India, xvi. 105, 106, 108,
111, 113.
Malay Archipelago, the, xv. 105.
Malcolm, Admiral Sir Charles, address
voted to, on his leaving India, i. 390 ;
ii. 74,75..
Malcolm, Sir John, his opinion on the
land revenues of Central India, iii. 27,
28.
Malcolmson, Dr, the late, xv. 8.
Maldiva Islands, Memoir on the Inha
bitants of the, by Lieut. J. A. Y oung,
I.N., and Mr W. Christopher, I.N.,
i. 54; number of the islands, their pe
culiar appearance and formation, 56;
description of Mal6, the chief island,
and residence of the sultan of the group,
56-58, 106, 108; the inhabitants,
their appearance, dress, and houses,
58, 59, 314; social habits, poligamy,
absence of prostitution, 59, 60; treat
ment and education of their children,
60; their indolence, industrial pur
suits, and love of out-door exercises
60, 61; articles of food, number of
meals, and hours of sleep, 61; their
use of fire-arms, and feats of strength
and skill at festivals, 62; account of
a barbarous religious observance, 62;
character of the natives to strangers
and to each other, 64-66, 108; their
dread of taking animal life, 314; their
freedom from crimes of a heinous kind
-—their sensuality and obscenity, 64;
their treatment of the dead and'mode
of burial, 63, 313; the sultan, his
family, and certain royal usages, 66,
67,69, 70; the climate—diseases, and
their mode of treatment — average
duration of life, 67, 68,106,107; three
peculiar kinds of inscriptions found on
tombstones, 68, 69 ; the language and
mode of reckoning, 69; their govern
ment, 69; account of a personage
styled the Fandiaharee, who is head of
the Church and chief magistrate—his
duties and deputies, 70, 71; their
viziers, and other high functionaries
of state, their mode of election, titles,
and duties, 71, 72; the present reign
ing family and their predecessors, 73,
74; their religious ceremonies, super
stitious observances, and peculiar cus
toms, 74, 77; their laws, mode of
administration, and different kinds of
punishments, 77, 78, 107; natural
productions, 78-81; singular method
of fishing, 79 ; their manufactures,
trade, and fiscal imposts, 82, 83-86.
Maldiva Islands, the, xv. 103, 107.
Male, an island of the Maldiva group,
and residence of the sultan, descrip
tion of, i. 56-58, 106-108.
Malesheekh, a village, Persia, xvii. 145.
Malikanee Bustee, India, notice of the
town of, ix. 55.
Malinda, account of the ruins of the
ancient town of, on the east coast of
Africa, vi. 72.
Mall, a village, India, ix. 85.
Malla, a tribe, India, ii. 59.
Mallet, Dr J. W., xvii. 288.
Mallet, Mr R, xvii. 288-290.
Mallia, a talooka or district of Muchoo
Kanta, India, vii. 64, 92.
Mallia, India, account of the taking of
the town of, by Colonel Walker, in
1809, vi. 155.
Malligaum, India, account of a meteor
observed at, ix. 214.
Malta, account of an earthquake at, xiii.