The Eastern Archipelago: A Description of the Scenery, Animal and Vegetable Life, People, and Physical Wonders of the Islands of the Eastern SeasT. Nelson and sons, 1880 - 576 Seiten |
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The Eastern Archipelago: A Description of the Scenery, Animal and Vegetable ... William Henry Davenport Adams Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO A DESCRIPT W. H. Davenport (William Henry Da Adams Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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abundant Amboyna animal appearance arms Aru Islands ascend Australia bamboo Banda Banda Neira Batchian beautiful Bickmore BIRD OF PARADISE body Borneo Bouru branches bright Celebes Ceram character cloth cloves coast cocoa-nut colour coral coral reefs crater curious deep Dutch Dyaks east Eastern Archipelago European feathers feet foliage forest frequently fruit Gilolo green ground Guinea hair hand head height houses hundred inches Indian inhabitants insects interior Java Javanese land leaves length lofty Lombok lower Macassar Malay Malay Archipelago miles Moluccas Mount Klabat mountains narrow natives naturalist numerous ornament palms Papuan Paradise Bird peculiar Philippines plumage prahus rajah ratan reefs remarkable resemblance rice rich rises river Sarawak says shells shore side species Strait sultan Sumatra Sumbawa summit tail Ternate Tidore Timor traveller trees trepang tribes tropical trunk valleys vegetation village volcanic voyage Wallace wings woods yellow
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Seite 547 - SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name.
Seite 535 - The grey trunks, and, as gamesome infants' eyes, With gentle meanings, and most innocent wiles, Fold their beams round the hearts of those that love, These twine their tendrils with the wedded boughs Uniting their close union ; the woven leaves...
Seite 548 - Thro' his dim water-world ? 4. Slight, to be crush'd with a tap Of my finger-nail on the sand, Small, but a work divine, Frail, but of force to withstand, Year upon year, the shock Of cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine Athwart the ledges of rock, Here on the Breton strand...
Seite 171 - Government to judge what means, if any, they will place at my disposal. My intention, my wish, is to extirpate piracy by attacking and breaking up the pirate towns — not only pirates direct, but pirates indirect. Here again the Government must judge. I wish to correct the native character, to gain and hold an influence in Borneo Proper. To introduce gradually a better system of government. To open the interior. To encourage the poorer natives.
Seite 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...
Seite 321 - Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught writh young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to...
Seite 491 - The Malay is of short stature, brownskinned, straight-haired, beardless, and smooth-bodied. The Papuan is taller, is black-skinned, frizzly-haired, bearded, and hairy-bodied. The former is broad-faced, has a small nose and flat eyebrows; the latter is long-faced, has a large and prominent nose, and projecting eyebrows. The Malay is bashful, cold, undemonstrative, and quiet; the Papuan is bold, impetuous, excitable, and noisy.
Seite 351 - ... woolly as the perfect Papuan type, but always crisp, waved, and rough, such as often occurs among the true Papuans, but never among the Malays. Their colour alone is often exactly that of the Malay, or even lighter. Of course...
Seite 244 - Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun's awake...
Seite 357 - ... the feathers on the lower part are elongated on each side, so as to form a two-pointed gorget, which can be folded beneath the wings, or partially erected and spread out in the same way as the side plumes of most of the birds of paradise. The four long white plumes which give the bird its altogether unique character spring from little tubercles close to the upper edge of the shoulder or bend of the wing ; they are narrow, gently curved, and equally webbed on both sides, of a pure creamy-white...