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

trunks in Batchian. 5. An undescribed species of Arachnobas, a curious genus of weevils peculiar to the Moluccas ...

CHAPTER XXVIII. MACASSAR TO THE ARU ISLANDS IN A NATIVE PRAU. (DECEMBER, 1856.) IT was the beginning of December, ...

The trade to these islands has existed from very early times, and it is from them that Birds of Paradi ...

which projected out two or three feet on each side, and to which extent the deck overhung the sides of ...

The crew consisted of about thirty men, natives of Macassar and the adjacent coasts and islands. They wer ...

He was to fulfil the important office of cook and housekeeper, for I could not get any regular servants to ...

returning from Bali to the island of Goram overtook us. The nakoda (captain) was known to our owner. T ...

with as little restraint upon their actions, and there is scarcely any of that noise and excitement w ...

lateral rudders are not more than three or four feet above the surface of the water, whi ...

shifted round to go on the other tack without first hauling down the jibs, and the booms of the fore and ...

screw-pines and arborescent Liliaceae of strange forms, mingled with shrubs and creepers; while the higher slopes ...

CHAPTER XXIX. THE KE ISLANDS. (JANUARY 1857) THE native boats that had come to meet us were three or ...

first spoken, except a few compliments, and only after some time, and very cautiously, world ...

and surmounted by a dense and varied growth of timber. Canoes and boats of various sizes were drawn up on t ...

number of hard globular palm-fruits in its crop, each more than an inch in diameter. A little ...

come to excel in what seems a very difficult art. Their small canoes are beautifully formed, broad ...

edges of the planks, very strong and elastic, but having nothing but the adhesion of these pins to prevent ...

found elsewhere than on this little island. It is one of the Buprestidae, and has been named Cyphogastra ...

the parrot tribe, and the large green nutmeg-pigeon, whose voice is either a loud and deep boom, like two ...

collections during our four days' stay at Ke were as follow:—Birds, 13 species; insects, 194 species; and ...