SOUTH-WEST ISLES, a group of islands, seven in number, dependent on the Banda Islands. Kissier is the chief, which lies to the south-west of them all. They are low, and surrounded by shoals and rocks, and are inhabited by a ferocious and perfidious race, resembling those of New Guinea, who seem to have sprung from the Papuas or aborigines of that country, and the Caffres of Africa. They produce sandal-wood. The Dutch had a commercial establishment here. Population 36,266.