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

whatever with the Malay languages. Jan. 6th.-The small boats being finished, we sailed for Aru at 4 P ...

CHAPTER XXX. THE ARU ISLANDS— RESIDENCE IN DOBBO (JANUARY TO MARCH 1857.) On the 8th of January, 1857, I ...

of Dobbo. I had brought with me a cane chair, and a few light boards, which were soon rigged up into ...

stroke till I had taken it out of the net and was gazing, lost in admiration, at the velvet black and brillian ...

been rolled in mud and then thrown up the chimney; dried sharks' fins, mother- of-pearl shells, as well ...

Malacca, while, what is very singular and interesting, it recalled to my mind the half-forgotten impr ...

footsteps. After a windy night, that nasty-looking Chinese delicacy the sea-slug was sometimes thrown up on ...

geographical proximity one might suppose they ought to be. So far as I have yet seen, the Malay and Papu ...

Coquille. Feb. 18th.—Before leaving Macassar, I had written to the Governor of Amboyna requestin ...

since they have visited Aru, and by thus making their attacks at long and uncertain interva ...

corners, massive log pigsties are tenanted by growing porkers; for how can the Chinamen exist six months with ...

unarmed in the jungle, where I meet them continually; I sleep in a palm-leaf hut, which any one may ent ...

CHAPTER XXXI. THE ARU ISLANDS.— JOURNEY AND RESIDENCE IN THE INTERIOR. (MARCH TO MAY 1857.) MY boat was at length ...

shoot the Paradise birds. They lived at some distance in the jungle, and a man was sent to call them ...

lovely of the many lovely productions of nature. My transports of admiration and delight quite amused my Aru hosts ...

we were not only rewarded with another in equally perfect plumage, but I was enabled to see a little of ...

by a horny black plate, furrowed across and somewhat prehensile. The whole tongue has a considerable extens ...

Now and then they get wild pig or kangaroo, but too rarely to form anything like a regular part of the ...

do talk! Every evening there is a little Babel around me: but as I understand not a word of it, I g ...

by this time heard that the Dutch "Commissie" had really arrived, and therefore threatened that if my gu ...