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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise ...

 By Alfred Russel Wallace

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By Alfred Russel Wallace
Published 1902
Macmillan
Natural history
515 pages
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Sep 5, 2007
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... however, Archipelago makes an excellent accompaniment to a book like Quammen's Song of the Dodo (or, I imagine, to Wallace's The Malay Archipelago, ...
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Sorong - Page 438
Allen arrived at Sorong, and explained his intention of going to seek Birds of Paradise in the interior, innumerable objections were raised. ...
more pages: 429 437 439 497 500
Tondano - Page 188
It is placed on a small level spot, from which there is an abrupt wooded descent down to the beautiful lake of Tondano, with volcanic mountains beyond ...
more pages: 200
Mataram - Page 139
And three days afterwards the Rajah summoned the priests and the princes and the chief men of Mataram, to hear what ...
more pages: 126 129 132 138 140
Tidore - Page 245
so we crept along shore to below the town, and waited till the turn of the tide should enable us to cross over to the coast of Tidore. ...
more pages: 234 236 238 243 246 284
Sumbawa - Page 447
The Bugis are the inhabitants of the greater parts of Celel>es, and there seems to be an allied people in Sumbawa. ...
more pages: 4 119 122
Singapore - Page 26
The meagreness and brevity of the sketch I have here given of my visit to Singapore and the Malay Peninsula is due to my having trusted chiefly to ...
more pages: 16 18 67 93 115 135 175 215 419 423
De Haan - Page 100
in the same section with Memnon), that they completely deceived the Dutch entomologist De Haan, and he accordingly classed them as the same species ! ...
Kediri - Page 81
In the eastern part of Java, at Kediri and in Malang, there are equally abundant traces of antiquity, but the buildings them-selves have been mostly ...
Taxila - Page 409
It WHS in such places as those that I obtained many of my most beautiful small butterflies, such as Sospita statira and Taxila pulchra, the gorgeous ...
London - Page 269
Petersburg, and to other parts of Europe, including a few weeks in London, and had then come out to the East, where he had l>een for some years ...
more pages: 17 231 285 349 457
Malang - Page 81
In the eastern part of Java, at Kediri and in Malang, there are equally abundant traces of antiquity, but the buildings them-selves have been mostly ...
Bombay - Page 423
On my way home I stayed a week at Bombay, to break the journey, and to lay in a fresh stock of bananas for my birds. ...
Parad - Page 357
Two skins of the large Parad ¡sea, which were quite dry and ready to pack away, were incautiously left on my table for the night, wrapped up in paper. ...
Sumba - Page 419
On his return thence to Soura- Itfiya in Java, he was to have gone to the entirely unknown Sumba or Sand;«l-wood Island. ...
Calcutta - Page 185
Neys, a native of Menado, but who was educated at Calcutta, and to whom Dutch, English, and Malay were equally mother-tongues. ...
Paris - Page 183
in boring a well a thousand feet deep in hope of getting a supply of water like that obtained by the Artesian wells in the London and Paris basins. ...
Nagasaki - Page 226
The doctor made the voyage to Jeddo by land from Nagasaki, and is well acquaint«! with the character, manners, and customs of the people of Japan, ...
Greenwich - Page 94
Greenwich. The stream is, however, much narrowed by the houses which project into it upon piles, and within these, again, ...
Roma - Page 219
Turning off towards Banda we passed Pulo-Cambing, Wetter, and Roma, all of which are desolate and barren volcanic islands, almost as uninviting as ...
Maykor - Page 508
Maykor, map of, 338 ; river of, 370 Mcgachile pluto, 265 Megamemlong mountain, road over, 86 ; a residence on, 86 ; collec- tions on, and in tin1, ...
Venice - Page 277
Kwammer and Keffing, Ixitli thickly inhabited, came in sight of the little town of Kilwaru, which appears to rise out of the sea like a rustic Venice. ...
Kelo - Page 469
Kelo. Tuinoma. Men. Nefan. Gigi. Aran. Aran. Kaprendi ... Natal. Icnial. Man Weo. lina ...Máan. Wewelli. Ewel Délah ...
Philadelphia - Page 428
Cassin from a native skin in the rich museum of Philadelphia. The same bird was after-wards named "Diphyllodes respublica " by Prince Buonaparte, ...