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

Our road lay over a mountain ridge about 4,000 feet above the sea, and then descended about 500 fee ...

on bark and rotten wood, were finer than I have seen them elsewhere. The beautiful Longicorns ...

quantity of vegetable soil, and also of loose sands and clays, resting on steep slopes, hill-tops and t ...

overwhelm us. On the other hand was the spectacle of a number of men, women, and children running in and o ...

me a village some distance beyond the lake, near which was a large forest, where he thought I should fi ...

inclined to think that these native teachers, having acquired facility of speaking and an endless supply ...

of action that is allowed to men were allowed to them. Under the best aspect of education, children are s ...

tribe called Banteks, of a much less tractable disposition, who have hitherto resisted all effort ...

the work of ten centuries into one; but at all events it takes nature as a guide, and is therefore, more ...

good collecting ground. In the morning after breakfast I started off, but found I had four miles to walk ...

for whitewash, it was still so hot close to the surface that the hand could hardly bear to be held in c ...

sunshine in the morning, and I took advantage of these to explore the roads and paths, the rocks and ravi ...

striking illustration of the low state of civilization of these people, until quite recently, is to be fo ...

very interesting. Among these were the rare forest Kingfisher (Cittura cyanotis), a small new spec ...

white sand. ...

It is in this loose, hot, black sand that those singular birds, the "Maleos" deposit their eggs. In ...

birds come to deposit the eggs in a proper situation (often ten or fifteen miles) it seems extraordinary t ...

It has generally been the custom of writers on Natural History to take the habits and instincts of animals as ...

of Indians finding their way through trackless forests to definite points; they may never have passed straight ...

CHAPTER XVIII. NATURAL HISTORY OF CELEBES. THE position of Celebes is the most central in the Archipelago. Immedia ...