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

At five the next morning we started again, and in an hour overtook four large praus containing the "Commi ...

chief man of the place made many excuses. First, he was afraid I would not like his house, and then was ...

through patches of second-growth forest to cane-fields, gardens, and scattered houses, beyond which again the da ...

occasionally, and thus have a tolerably good supply of meat to eat with their vegetables. The resul ...

Cuscus (C. maculatus), one of the curious marsupial animals of the Papuan region, and I was ...

nut for the prospective advantage of a crop twelve years hence. There is also the chance of the fruits ...

do—they all come to life again." After a little while, and a good deal of talking among themselves, he ...

natives then remove to houses near the sources of the small streams, where, in the shady depths of the fores ...

was quite a relief to my mind to get these, for I could hardly have torn myself away from Aru had I ...

unfeminine, and hard work, privations, and very early marriages soon destroy whatever of beauty or grace ...

above is attached a plume of feathers from a cock's tail. In other respects they scarcely differe ...

several half-starved wolfish-baking dogs. Instead of rats and mice there are curious little marsupial ...

devouring a portion of my mosquito curtain! April 28th.—Last evening we had a grand consultation, which had ...

some Bugis traders had brought some children of their lost people; so they went to Dobbo to see about ...

travellers, penetrating to Wanumbai, world h hardly believe that a poor English naturalist, who had res ...

naturalist when he is so fortunate as to discover a district hitherto unexplored, and where every day ...

CHAPTER XXXII. THE ARU ISLANDS.— SECOND RESIDENCE AT DOBBO. (MAY AND JUNE 1857.) DOBBO was full to overflowin ...

sunshine, with sometimes a pretty little kangaroo, caught in the Aru forests, but already tame and graceful ...

the combatants. This man had succeeded, by assiduous cultivation, in raising a pair of moustaches which were ...

enormous capital, and intense competition force the produce of our looms and workshops, would be not a whit ...