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

fearful din the whole voyage. The rowers are men sent by the Sultan of Ternate. They get about threepence a day ...

CHAPTER XXV. CERAM, GORAM, AND THE MATABELLO ISLANDS. (OCTOBER 1859 To JUNE 1860.) I LEFT Amboyna for my ...

I rather regretted leaving, because my host was one of the most remarkable men and most entertaining compa ...

practically the rule is never transgressed. One fertile source of want, and one great incentive to idleness ...

populous village in the mountains. Towards the east and the extreme west are a few others, with which exceptions ...

skin what birds they could while I was away. Quitting the village, we first walked briskly f ...

tree ferns I had ever seen, the stem being scarcely thicker than my thumb, yet reaching a height ...

reached home quite lame. On our way back from Makariki, as on our way there, we had storm and rain at s ...

forbidden articles of food. The next morning, after much trouble, we got our cargoes loaded, and had a ...

in the mountains inland, I returned to sleep in the boat. Next morning we proceeded, changin ...

I was delayed at Kissa-laut just four weeks, although after the first three days I saw that it would ...

Eastern seas, and is the residence of many Bugis and Ceramese traders, and appears to have be ...

and a slight infusion of Papuan on a mixture of Malay and Bugis has produced a very good-looking set ...

dead coral above the water, which is here and there high enough to support a few low bushes. This was ...

them at the same age smoking cigars, which is very common even before they are weaned. Cocoa-nuts, sweet pot ...

but fruits are so scarce, except at particular seasons, that one soon learns to appreciate anything ...

all weathers. The land rises gradually to a moderate height, and numerous small streams descend on all sides. ...

coast of New Guinea from Oetanata to Salwatty, and the island of Waigiou and Mysol. They also extend the ...

well, and without them it would have been impossible for me to have finished my boat with half the ...

time while bargaining with the Papuans. The six men who survived were on board the prau ...