The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 _ The Land - Alfred Russel Wallace

time. Getting tired, I asked to be shown the house that was prepared for me, but the only reply I could ...

impression; and that very afternoon, as if to test my promise to buy even miserable little snail- ...

but a large part of their time is passed in idleness. Not a single person in the village could speak mo ...

perpendicular to such a degree as to make me think it might someday possibly go over altogether. It is ...

surface. By the beginning of December the regular wet season had set in. Westerly winds and driving rains sometimes ...

and fed with cut grass. Others had to cut grass for their master's horses at Macassar—not ...

CHAPTER XVI. CELEBES. (MACASSAR, JULY TO NOVEMBER, 1857.) I REACHED Macassar again on the 11th of July, ...

few miles' distance precipitous hills appeared, backed by the lofty central range of the peninsula. Towards these ...

supplied plenty of milk from which he made his own butter; he grew his own rice and coffee, and had duck ...

prize I had been seeking after for weeks. The great hornbills of Celebes (Buceros cassidix) would often com ...

country. I therefore determined to pay a visit to the falls of the Maros river, situated at the point w ...

where this rift had begun the main path turns up to the left in a sort of gully, and reaches a ...

Ferns, Pandanaceae, shrubs, creepers, and even forest trees, are mingled in an evergreen network, through the i ...

in any one region. Many of them are very rare, others extremely local, while a considerable number inhabi ...

stone through which light could be seen in every direction. From these mountains to the sea extends a p ...

into my net while beating among dead leaves for insects, and made me rather cautious about inserting m ...

CHAPTER XVII. CELEBES. (MENADO, JUNE TO SEPTEMBER, 1859.) IT was after my residence at Timor-Coupang that ...

coasts where the purity of their blood has been destroyed by the intermixture of other races, they appro ...

engaged in clearing and planting; a fixed price was established at which all coffee brought to the government ...

noble palms and tree ferns, wooded hills and volcanic peaks, everywhere meet the eye. I had heard much ...