The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 _ The Land - Alfred Russel Wallace

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by Alfred R. Wallace Previous Volume CONTENTS CHAPTER XXI. THE MOLUCCAS—TERNATE. CHAPTER XXII. ...

CHAPTER XXIX. THE KE ISLANDS. CHAPTER XXX. THE ARU ISLANDS—RESIDENCE IN DOBBO CHAPTER XXXI. ...

CHAPTER XXI. THE MOLUCCAS— TERNATE. ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at Ternate, the four ...

years, as I found it very convenient to have a place to return to after my voyages to the various isla ...

open space to the peach, and beyond this the native town extends for about a mile to the north-east. About ...

unprincipled and barbarous, that the native population suffered grievously by this destruction of such ...

earthquake I ever felt in Ternate. The last great one was in February 1840, when almost every ...

kept waiting in the dark and cold for two hours. When at length they came they were scolded by their ...

CHAPTER XXII. GILOLO. (MARCH AND SEPTEMBER 1858.) I MADE but few and comparatively short visits to this larg ...

representatives of the Netherlands Government in the island. The village is occupied entirely ...

a road of about twelve miles overland, and this had been recommended to me as a good place for birds ...

waved, and rough, such as often occurs among the true Papuans, but never among the Malays. Their ...

from Gilolo at a somewhat remote epoch; while we learn from its natural history that an arm of the sea ...

CHAPTER XXIII. TERNATE TO THE KAIOA ISLANDS AND BATCHIAN. (OCTOBER 1858.) ON returning to Ternate from Sahoe, I ...

observed a bright light over one part of the edge, and soon after, what seemed a fire of remarkable ...

it. The coasts of these small islands are very different according to their geological formation. The v ...

resolved to stay a few days at the chief village, and see if their animal productions wer ...