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

Celebes for nearly ten months, and my assistant, Mr. Allen, spent two months in the Sula islands. The Dutch ...

world which many of them seem to indicate. These points are of so much interest and importance th ...

surrounding countries. The only Thrush, Geocichla erythronota, is most nearly allied to a species peculiar t ...

Australia, India, or Africa. Other cases of similar remote affinities between the productions of distant countries ...

skin on each side of the snout, curving backwards to near the eyes, and in old animals often reaching ...

other hand, however, we have to consider that the dispersion and migration of insects is much more e ...

worked out. I will therefore refer to one only, which I have myself recently studied—the Cetoniadae or ...

corresponding sets in all the surrounding countries; and it is so well marked, that without looking at the details ...

Indo-Malay islands as well as in the Moluccas; and which thus seem to be unable, from some ...

the curious Quadrumana forming the family of the Lemurs. These have their metropolis in Madagascar, but are ...

CHAPTER XIX. BANDA. (DECEMBER 1857, MAY 1859, APRIL 1861.) THE Dutch mail steamer in which I travelled f ...

clothed with vegetation to the summit of the hills. Going on shore, I walked up a pretty path which leads ...

larger island has coral rock to a height of three or four hundred feet, while above is lava and basalt ...

monopolise it. No injury is done thereby to anyone, but a great benefit is conferred upon ...

the Dutch, who carried out a much more justifiable, less hurtful, and more profitable system ...

CHAPTER XX. AMBOYNA. (DECEMBER 1857, OCTOBER 1859, FEBRUARY 1860.) TWENTY hours from Banda brought us to ...

families. Several of the people were dug out again, but most of them dead, and many had their legs or ...

difficulty obtained a boat and men to take me across the water—for the Amboynese are dreadfully ...

entomologist can appreciate the delight with which I hunted about for hours in the hot sunshine, among the b ...

do anything, we called some of the labourers in the plantation, and soon had half a dozen men in consultatio ...