KEIJAMA, a llindu raja whose name is im mortalized in Southey's Curse of Kellam& By penance, he acquired supernatural power. His son Arvalan attempted to force Kaliyal, daughter of Ladurlad, and her father slew him with a stake, on which Kehama cursed him, but father and daughter escaped to Mount Meru, where Yedillian, wife of Ladurlad, rejoined him.
KM. This group of ten islands adjoining the Aru Islands, is inhabited by the Arafura race, and the word Key, Kei, or Ki is prefixed to the names of all their villages. The Great Kei is about the size of Tanakeka, an island near Macassar. The men profess Muhammadanism, but eat hog's flesh. In the island of Dori, the Papuans are called Myfore. They are about 5 feet 3 inches high, few attain 5 feet 6 inches. They wear their crisped hair its full length, and generally uncared for, which gives them a wild, scared appearance. The men, not the women, wear a comb. Amongst the Arafura or Papuan of Ke, the women arc not secluded, the children are merry, noisy, and have the nigger grin, and amongst the men is a noisy confusion of tongues and excitement on every occasion. The Ki form the northern of the south easterly islands. The islands are covered with luxuriant forests, and produce maratigo and banyaro woods, well adapted for masts. They
are occupied by two races, and it is the Papuan who make cocoanut oil, build boats, and make wooden bowls. Their boats are from small planked canoes to prahus of 20 to 30 tons burden. They build the skin first, and afterwards fit in the knees and bends and ribs. Money is not used, but every transaction is in kind. The Papuan wears a waist cloth of cotton or bark. The other race are Mu hammadans who were driven out of Banda, and wear cotton clothing. They are probably a brown race, more allied to Malays, but their mixed descendants have great varieties of hair, colour, and features, graduating between the Malay and Papuan tribes. The Cyphogastra calepyga, a beautiful species of the Buprestidm, occurs here. The Carpophaga concinna occurs here, and in Banda, where it is called the nutmeg pigeon ; also the butterfly orchis, here Phalxnopsis grandiflora, and two large beetles, Therates labiata and Tri condyla aptera. T. labiata is ever on the watch, and from time to time emits an odour like otto of roses. T. the Malay Islands resembles a large ant more than an inch long, and is of a purple-black colour. It is wingless.—Bikuiere ; Wallace.