The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and NatureMacmillan and Company, 1877 - 669 pages |
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abundant Alfuros allied Amboyna animal appearance Archipelago Aru Islands Australia Bali bamboo Batchian beautiful beetles Birds of Paradise boat Borneo Bouru boys brought Bugis butterflies Celebes Ceram chief Chinese close coast coffee collections colour cultivated curious district Dutch Dyaks east European feathers feet high forest fruit genus Gilolo green ground Guinea head hills hundred inches inhabitants insects Java Javanese land leaves lofty Lombock luxuriant Macassar Malacca Malay Malay Archipelago Malay race Menado Mias miles Moluccas morning mountain Mysol native never night obtained Orang Papilio Papuan passed peculiar plants plumage Portuguese praus produce race Rajah reached resemble rice river rock Sarawak seems seen side Singapore skin species specimens stay stream Sula islands Sumatra tail Ternate Tidore Timor trade trees tropical vegetation village volcanic voyage Waigiou walk whole wind wings yellow
Popular passages
Page 569 - I have lived with communities of savages in South America and in the East, who have no laws or law courts but the public opinion of the village freely expressed. Each man scrupulously respects the rights of his fellow, and any infraction of those rights rarely or never takes place. In such a community, all are nearly equal.
Page 570 - It is not too much to say that the mass of our populations have not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it.
Page 440 - ... long plumes are raised up and expanded till they form two magnificent golden fans, striped with deep red at the base, and fading off into the pale brown tint of the finely divided and softly waving points. The whole bird is then overshadowed by them, the crouching body, yellow head, and emerald green throat forming but the foundation and setting to the golden glory which waves above.
Page 16 - Nowhere does the ancient doctrine — that differences or similarities in the various forms of life that inhabit different countries are due to corresponding physical differences or similarities in the countries themselves — meet with so direct and palpable a contradiction. Borneo and New Guinea, as alike physically as two distinct countries can be, are zoologically wide as the poles asunder ; while Australia, with its dry winds, its open plains, its stony deserts, and its temperate climate, yet...
Page 484 - If these people are not savages, where shall we find any? Yet they have all a decided love for the fine arts, and spend their leisure time in executing works whose good taste and elegance would often be admired in our schools of design!
Page 42 - When handled or nursed, it was very quiet and contented, but when laid down by itself would invariably cry ; and for the first few nights was very restless and noisy. I fitted up a little box for a cradle, with a soft mat for it to lie upon, which was changed and washed every day ; and I soon found it necessary to wash the little Mias as 'well. After I had done so a few times, it came to like the operation, and as soon as it was dirty would begin crying, and not leave off till I took it out and carried...
Page 57 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Page 189 - a prevalent custom is the pomali, exactly equivalent to the 'taboo' of the Pacific islanders, and equally respected. It is used on the commonest occasions, and a few palm leaves stuck outside a garden as a sign of the pomali will preserve its produce from thieves as effectually as the threatening notice of man-traps, spring guns, or a savage dog, would do with us.
Page 59 - MIAS. 59 the semi-erect attitude which the great length of his arms and the shortness of his legs cause him naturally to assume ; and the disproportion between these limbs is increased by his walking on his knuckles, not on the palm of the hand, as we should do.
Page 569 - ... community, all are nearly equal. There are none of those wide distinctions, of education and ignorance, wealth and poverty, master and servant, which are the product of our...