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

look with some suspicion on the further extension of that system. It must be remembered too that our c ...

boring. They pushed at each other with their rostra, and clawed and thumped, apparently in the greatest rag ...

as crowded and as busy as beehives. Heaps of tripang were finally dried and packed up in sacks; mother-of-pe ...

the other boats take away perhaps about £3,000, worth, so that the whole exports may be estimated at £18, ...

In cloudy and dull weather it looks absolutely black, and when crested with foam has a stern and angry ...

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE ARU ISLANDS— PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ASPECTS OF NATURE. IN this chapter I propose to give a ge ...

very rocky country, penetrated by numerous small streams, in the high limestone cliffs bordering which ...

them; and the action of tides and currents during their elevation might form straits of irregular ...

genera, which are common to New Guinea and Aru, do not extend into Ceram, indicating with a force which e ...

representatives of all classes of animals, because many terrestrial mammals and some reptiles have the means ...

islands, I have wandered daily in the forests, and have passed along upwards of a hundred miles of co ...

of nature. The argument itself is a very poor one, since it might with equal justice be maint ...

CHAPTER XXXIV. NEW GUINEA.— DOREY. (MARCH TO JULY 1858.) AFTER my return from Gilolo to Ternate, in March ...

were a float belonging to a turtle-spear, carved to resemble a bird, and a very well made palm-le ...

from Europe, and of course are obliged to carry out the trade principle of buying cheap and selling dear, in o ...

crooked sticks, placed without any regularity, and looking as if they were tumbling down. Th ...

ground, by the side of the chief path from the village of Dorey to the provision- grounds and the forest. Withi ...

separate family. They were elevated at least fifteen feet above the ground, on a complete forest of po ...

ravines, and the rock itself is more compact and crystalline. It is therefore, probably old ...

with two small snags near their bifurcation, so as to resemble the horns of a stag. They are black, ...