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

purchases, I stayed here two days, and sent two of my boxes of specimens by a Macassar prau to be f ...

Leaving Kilwaru early in the morning of June 1st, with a strong east wind we doubled the point of Ceram ...

lower part as a man's leg. They are very light, consisting entirely of a firm pith covered with ...

Boiled with water this forms a thick glutinous mass, with a rather astringent taste, and is eate ...

occupations at home, they wander about on petty trading or fishing expeditions to the neighbouring islands; ...

CHAPTER XXVI. BOURU. MAY AND JUNE 1861. I HAD long wished to visit the large island of Bouru, which lies ...

clothes-boxes, it was not much trouble for the owners to move into the house of some relatives, and thus o ...

dense clumps separated by water, so that nothing was to be gained by leaving the beaten track, and we were ...

brush and trees along the beach, and hills inland covered with high grass and cajuputi trees—my dread ...

fine beetles before I left. During the whole of my stay, however, insects never became plentiful. My clearin ...

Most of the people here had never seen a pin, and the better informed took a pride in teaching th ...

species are different, and none were yet known from Bourn. He and my other hunter continued to see it two or ...

CHAPTER XXVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MOLUCCAS. THE Moluccas consist of three large islands, Gilolo, Ceram, ...

have been introduced accidentally, for it is often made captive by the Malays, who procure civet from it, ...

species identical with those now abounding in the great Malay islands, or in Celebes. The four rem ...

comparatively unknown islands of the Moluccas as indicating a fauna of fully average richness in this depart ...

peculiar kingfisher, honeysucker, and starling; Ternate has a ground-thrush (Pitta) and a flycatche ...

I was so fortunate as to discover a new species (Megapodius wallacei), which inhibits Gilolo, Ternate, and Bo ...

would be as well protected as if it resembled a leaf; and this is what has been happily termed "mimicr ...

must derive some advantage from the imitation, and as they are certainly weak birds, with small feet ...