Moluccas

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 31

(The,) or SPICE ISLANDS, (mo-lūkkdz,) a cluster of islands belonging to Holland, lying in the Malay Archipelago bet. Papua and Celebes. The chief of them are Amboyna, Banda, Ceram, Tidor, and Terate. [s. 610]