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

proof of the distinctness of the Malayan and Papuan races, and the separation of the geographical areas they ...

few eatable birds we could shoot, with an occasional cuscus, or eastern opossum, the only quadruped, except pig ...

then found that, by bending double and carefully creeping in, I could sit on my chair with my head j ...

Some few were brought me the same day they were caught, and I had an opportunity ...

wants of the inhabitants, and were almost always dug up or gathered before they were ripe. It was very ...

as Sospita statira and Taxila pulchra, the gorgeous blue Amblypodia hercules, and many others. On the skirts of ...

CHAPTER XXXVII. VOYAGE FROM WAIGIOU TO TERNATE. (SEPTEMBER 29 To NOVEMBER 5, 1860.) I HAD left the old pilot a ...

unsuccessful attempts, we were forced to cut our rattan cable and leave it behind us. We had now only one a ...

drifting. On the morning of the 7th we were however, a good way up the coast, and we now thought our only c ...

impossible for us to enter. Not liking the idea of again returning, I determined on trying to anchor, and succe ...

These anchors when well made, hold exceedingly arm, and, owing to the expense of iron, are sti ...

to the mainland of Gilolo by the advice of our Gani men, who knew the coast well. Just as we got across ...

bad weather ever since we started, not having had a single day of fair wind, was very remarkable. My men ...

termination of the squall entirely to his own prayers, saying with a laugh, "Yes, that's the way we always do ...

my chapter on the natural history of that island. His next journey was to Flores and Solor, where he obtained s ...

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE BIRDS OF PARADISE. AS many of my journeys were made with the express objec ...

New Guinea, and generally more or less imperfect. These are now all known in the Malay Archipelago as "Bur ...

These splendid ornaments are entirely confined to the male sex, while the female is really a ...

foot of the tree, and when the birds come at sunrise, and a sufficient number have assembled, and have ...

East. The Paradisea papuana has a comparatively wide range, being the common species on the mainland of New Gui ...