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Forest-sounds.

Combustibility of water. (I think he must mean aqua fortis.)

The milk-sea. (I have never heard of it. It seems to be something in the vicinity of Banda.)

Seers and prophets.

Electricity as a motive power, without soft iron.

Ebb and flood of civilization.

Epidemic corruption in political households.

Privileged Trading Companies. (This contains one or two things that I require for my book.)

Etymology as an auxiliary to ethnological studies.

The bird’s-nest cliffs on Java's south coast.

The place where day commences. (I don’t understand this.)

Personal conceptions as a measure of responsibility in the moral world. (Absurd! He says everyone must be his own judge. Where would that lead us?)

Courtesy to women.

Verse-structure of the Hebrews.

The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester.

The fasting population of the island Rotti near Timor. (Living must be cheap there.)

Cannibalism of the Battahs, and head-hunting among the Alfurs.

Mistrust in public morality. (He wants, I believe, to abolish locksmiths. I am against this.)

“Justice” and “law.”

Béranger as a philosopher. (This again I don’t understand.)

The dislike of the Javanese which is found among the Malays.

The worthlessness of the teaching in so-called universities.

The loveless spirit of our ancestors, as apparent from their conceptions of God. (Again an impious piece of writing!)

The inter-relation of our senses. (It is true that when I saw him I smelt rose-oil.)