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

lanced, and doctored with ointments and poultices for several weeks, till I was almost driven to despair,—fo ...

Dorey was not a good locality. It is quite probable, however, that at a station a few miles in the in ...

vast forests of New Guinea, as these form the great natural feature which distinguishes t ...

my small stock of medicines, but they lingered on for some weeks, till on June 26th poor Jumaat die ...

people are, in other matters, utterly wanting in all sense of order, comfort, or decency. Yet such is t ...

During the latter part of my stay in New Guinea the weather was very wet, my only shooter was ill, ...

voyage to New Guinea had realized none of my expectations. Instead of being far better than the Aru Islands, ...

and Batchian have already been narrated, and if; now only remains for me to give an account of my residence ...

CHAPTER XXXV. VOYAGE FROM CERAM TO WAIGIOU. (JUNE AND JULY 1860.) IN my twenty-fifth chapter I have descr ...

north-west. Thence we might await a favourable wind to reach Waigamma, on the north side of the island, a ...

he would conclude either that our boat had foundered, or that my crew had murdered me and run ...

counteract the wind and current, and our frantic cries to the men were not heard till we had got a long wa ...

a turtle-shell still greasy, and some cut wood, the leaves of which were still green, showi ...

In the evening a good-sized prau appeared in sight, making apparently for the island where our men were left ...

under a small island and stayed for the night, and I shot a large fruit-pigeon new to me, which I have ...

not discover it amid the dense forest vegetation which everywhere covers these islands to the water's edge. A ...

but this time they had succeeded and brought with them my two lost men, in tolerable health, though t ...

CHAPTER XXXVI. WAIGIOU. (JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1860.) THE village of Muka, on the south coast of Waigiou, consist ...

and leaks streaming in upon us as bad as ever. There was no more sleep for us that night, and the next ...

in many respects more remarkable and more beautiful. The head, back, and shoulders are clothed wit ...