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

After the "bitchara" was over and the old chiefs gone, I asked the young men to play or dance, or amuse ...

hour like some strange animal submitted for the first time to the gaze of an inquiring public. Brass r ...

that day seemed so painful that I was obliged to submit. I therefore walked out over the rice-fields, whic ...

ornamented with bead necklaces, shells, and brass wire. In the morning I waited some time, but the men that ...

scenery of the Himalayas, is so remarkable, that we are forcibly led to the conclusion that the ...

land, and thus give a more pleasing and civilized aspect to the country than where the people move abo ...

elm in its general character, but with a more smooth and scaly bark. The fruit is round or slightly oval, ...

persons walking or working under the trees. When a Durian strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful ...

is a delightful floor to walk upon barefooted, the rounded surfaces of the bamboo being very smooth and a ...

branch of a tree below. These bridges are traversed daily by men and women carrying heavy loads, so that ...

has a Bamboo sheath. His favourite pipe is a huge hubble-bubble, which he will construct in a few minutes ...

stalk. Specimens grown in our English hot-houses have produced flower-spires of equal length, and with a mu ...

crystalline basaltic rock, about a thousand feet high, and covered with luxuriant forest. There are three ...

occasion from half to two-thirds that number of distinct species. Some of them would settle on the ...

Date (1855) No. of Moths Remarks Dec. 13th ...

sure that if any party of naturalists ever make a yacht-voyage to explore the Malayan Archipelago, or ...

CHAPTER VI. BORNEO—THE DYAKS. THE manners and customs of the aborigines of Borneo have been described in great d ...

have passed beyond that first stage of savage life in which the struggle for existence absorbs all ...

increase of population, although there were plain indications of stationary or but slowly increasing numbers. ...

women, and the heavy weights they constantly carry. A Dyak woman generally spends the whole day in the field, ...