On parting, besides a present in money. I gave him my two double-barrelled guns and
whatever ammunition I had, with a lot of surplus stores ... which made him quite rich. He
here, for the first time, adopted European clothes, which did not suit him nearly so well
as his native dress, and thus clad a friend took a very good photograph of him. I therefore
now present his likeness to my readers as that of the best native servant I ever had, and the
faithful companion of almost all my journeyings among the islands of the Far East.Ali had met a girl and married while they were
in Ternate and he returned to her there. Forty years
later the American naturalist Thomas Barbour
describes visiting Ternate and meeting a man who
introduced himself as ‘Ali Wallace’. By now an
old man, he reminisced of the times he spent in
the jungles with Wallace and of nursing him back
to health after an infected wound or an attack of
malaria.
In Singapore Wallace packed up his remaining
Photo of Ali taken in a Singapore, 1862
Wallace in Singapore before departing for
England, 1862184 Where Australia Collides with Asia
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