A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago: A Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883Harper & brothers, 1885 - 536 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Amboina anther Archipelago bamboo Batavia beautiful Bibiçuçu birds blue brachycephalic breadth broad Brown Brown's list calyce cauda cinchona close coast collection colour coral Coupang dark Decne deep Dilly district elytra elytron eyes Fatunaba feet female fertilised flowers Forbes forest fruit genus ground hair head height herbarium Horsf insects island Java kingdom Kosala Kubus Lampongs Larat leaves length less longis Luli Malay male Manufahi margin Maru maxillæ metallica Meyer mountain Myrmecodia narrow natives nearly neighbouring night nigris observed obtained orchids Padang Palembang plants pollen pollinia praus Rajah Rawas river region remiges rice river rostellum Saluki scarlet Sclater seen shade shore shrubs side skulls slopes Span species specimens spot stamens stigma stone subtus Sumatra surface tall Temm Tenimber Timor Timor-laut timorensis Timorese trees upper vegetation village wings yellow
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Seite 454 - The price of life or limb was paid, not by the wrong-doer to the man he wronged, but by the family or house of the wrong-doer to the family or house of the wronged. Order and law were thus made to rest in each little group of...
Seite 444 - ... continue as long as the hearth was cold. Moreover, he must drink only hot water during the time the army is absent; for every draught of cold water would damp the spirits of 1 RR Marett, "From Spell to Prayer,
Seite 308 - ... texture of the skin is by no means coarse ; often rather smooth and soft. In feature the forehead retreats slightly from the prominent superciliary ridges, as seen in profile. En face it, is somewhat flat. In the malar region, in some the cheek-bones are very prominent ; in others, again, they are as little observable. The brows are low, but not conspicuously hairy. The eyes are small and narrow, and in few a slight obliquity is observable.
Seite 130 - It is the habit of this bird to make "a large circus, some ten or twelve feet in diameter, in the forest, which it clears of every leaf and twig and branch, till the ground is perfectly swept and garnished. On the margin of this circus there is invariably a projecting branch or high-arched root, at a few feet elevation above the ground, on which the female bird takes its place, while in the ring the male — the male birds alone possess great decoration — shows off all its magnificence for the...