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

in their hands, dipped them in the gravy and swallowed them rapidly, with little pieces of meat and f ...

handsome ground thrush, Zoothera andromeda. The former belies its name by not frequenting water or feeding on f ...

fine the Rajah might impose, and finally refused to give her up unless he was forced to do so. This the Raja ...

man to the heart. He runs on, with bloody kris in his hand, stabbing at everyone he meets. "Amok! Amok!" ...

fitting conclusion to my sketch of these interesting islands, I will narrate an anecdote which I heard o ...

CHAPTER XII. LOMBOCK: HOW THE RAJAH TOOK THE CENSUS. The Rajah of Lombock was a very wise man and he sh ...

every village and every house, and count all the people; and if he ordered it to be done by the regular officers ...

banks of clear streams and in the neighbourhood of shady trees, where they built sheds and huts of bamboo ...

the night, the people had placed stakes along each side of the roads in front of the houses. These were s ...

palace and the chiefs to their villages, and the people to their houses, to tell their wives and children al ...

rain falls in Lombock. And soon after the krisses were made it was the time of the rice harvest, a ...

CHAPTER XIII. TIMOR. (COUPANG, 1857-1869. DELLI, 1861.) THE island of Timor is about three hundred miles long ...

infrequent and harmless that the chief houses are built of stone. The inhabitants of Coupang consist of Malays, C ...

picturesque beauty of the scene. The village consists of curious little houses very different from any I have ...

as many of the birds as I could, and found some which were very interesting. Among them were fiv ...

unfrequently proves fatal. To avoid this malaria, Captain Hart always slept at his plantation, on a sli ...

easier to walk than to cling to our ponies' backs; and thus we went up and down over bare hills who ...

wheat being grown at so moderate an elevation. The grain is of excellent quality, the bread made from ...

A day was then fixed to "open the mines." Captain Hart accompanied Mr. Geach as interpreter. The Governor, ...

would have been a losing concern. Gold also occurs, but very sparingly and of poor quality. A f ...