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

evidently been hanging to its mother when she first fell. Luckily it did not appear to have been wounded, ...

made a short ladder of three or four rounds, on which I put it to hang for a quarter of an hour at ...

without the least regard to its feelings. While I was feeding the Mias, the monkey would sit ...

little creature suffered greatly, but a small dose of castor-oil operated well, and cured it. A week ...

same noise but louder, and saw the leaves shaking as if caused by the motion of some heavy animal which moved ...

was luckily a small one, so when the axes came we soon had it cut through; but it was so held up ...

was useless to skin it. This I regretted much, as it was a very fine full-grown male. I cut off the h ...

compact mass of foliage, which entirely concealed him from our sight. He was evidently going to pass ...

comparatively little interest, I did not have the tree cut down to get it. At this time I had the misf ...

sure it would fall during the night, I returned to the place early the next morning, and found it on ...

for they immediately began making a quantity of pegs of the same kind, while I looked on with great ...

and her young ones. In preparing the skins and skeletons of these animals, I was much troubled by the Dy ...

As this was the last Mias I shot, and the last time I saw an adult living animal, I will give ...

It is a singular and very interesting sight to watch a Mias making his way leisurely through the ...

only the small seed of a large fruit, and they almost always waste and destroy more than they eat, ...

other groups of Mammalia diminish rapidly, and soon entirely disappear. When we consider, further, tha ...

specimen corresponding to these dimensions has yet reached England. In a letter from Sir James Brooke, ...

arrived at Sarawak from the Batang-Lupar, after two or three days' voyage, it was so swollen by decomposition a ...

CHAPTER V. BORNEO—JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR. (NOVEMBER 1855 TO JANUARY 1856.) As the wet season was app ...

had some difficulty in finding a dry spot to sleep on. Early in the morning we reached Empugnan, a small M ...