This series contains the five parts of an exercise book in Capell’s hand, containing material from the Lesser Sunda Islands, Timor and Halmahera. It contains grammatical notes, comparative vocabulary lists, and sentences of local languages including Makasai, Bunak, Basa, Vaikenu, Isam, Tololiku, Galila, Lôda, Tobila, Madole, Tabani, Waioli, Ibu, Ternate, and Tidore.

The Nusa Tenggara, or Lesser Sunda Islands, are a group of islands in the middle-south part of the Malay Archipelago. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Sunda_Islands
See also http://www.indo.com/indonesia/lesser.html

Timor is an island at the south of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesia province of East Nusa Tenggara with the surface of 11,883 sq mi (30,777 km²). The name is a variant of timur, Malay for "east"; it is so called because it is at the east end of a chain of islands.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timor

Halmahera (also Jilolo or Gilolo) is the largest island in the Maluku Islands. It is part of the North Maluku province of Indonesia. Halmahera has a land area of 17,780 km² (6,865 sq mi) and a population in 1995 of 162,728. About sixty percent of its inhabitants are Muslim, and about forty percent are Christian.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halmahera

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