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

Equal justice was awarded to Malay, Chinaman, and Dyak. The remorseless pirates from the rivers farther east were ...

and his tenderness of heart. ...

CHAPTER VII. JAVA. I SPENT three months and a half in Java, from July 18th to October 31st, 1861, ...

European traders, however introduces two powerful inducements to exertion. Spirits or opium is a temptation to ...

such continued labour on the plantations that their rice crops have been materially diminished, an ...

estimated at 3,500,000. In 1850, when the cultivation system had been in operation eighteen year ...

from end to end; European and native rulers work harmoniously together; and life and property are as ...

continually held, and where the inhabitants meet together to lounge and chat. The day after my arrival, Mr. Ba ...

the Waidono; and when after a week's delay I arrived with my baggage and men at Modjo-agong, I found ...

the upper part will permit of its being seen, is very good, effect being given by an immense number a ...

imagined. About half a mile off is another temple, called Chandi Kali Bening, seventy- two feet square and s ...

state of society, what the amount of population, what the means of subsistence which rendered such gig ...

few mangled bones. The Waidono had got together about seven hundred men, and were in chase of the animal, which, ...

and sat down opposite them. Each spoke in turn, telling his own tale, and then I found that those wh ...

I went by coach to Buitenzorg, forty miles inland and about a thousand feet above the sea, celebrated ...

magnificent amphitheatres. Hundreds of square miles of country are thus terraced, and convey a strik ...

species, almost all of which are peculiar to the Javanese fauna. Large and handsome butterflie ...

great size, and the undergrowth consisting of fine herbaceous plants, tree-ferns, and shrubby vegetation. I was stru ...

composites also begin to give a European aspect to the wayside herbage. It is between 2,000 and 5,000 f ...

on or near the summit:— Two species of Violet, three of Ranunculus, three of Impatiens, eight or ten of Rubus ...