Category: Travel Writing
My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for six years after my return; and I feel bound to give them full satisfaction on this point.
I ARRIVED at Sarawak on November 1st, 1854, and left it on January 25th, 1856. In the interval I resided at many different localities, and saw a good deal of the Dyak tribes as...
18. CHAPTER XVII. CELEBES.IT was after my residence at Timor-Coupang that I visited the northeastern extremity of Celebes, touching Banda, Amboyna, and Ternate on my way. I reached Menado on the 10th of...
8. CHAPTER VII. JAVA.I SPENT three months and a half in Java, from July 18th to October 31st, 1861, and shall briefly describe my own movements, and my observations of the people and the natural his...
6. CHAPTER V. BORNEO--JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR.As the wet season was approaching, I determined to return to Sarawak, sending all my collections with Charles Allen around by sea, while I myself proposed to go up to the source...
2. CHAPTER I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.From a look at a globe or a map of the Eastern hemisphere, we shall perceive between Asia and Australia a number of large and small islands forming a connected group distinct fr...
16. CHAPTER XV. CELEBES.I LEFT Lombock on the 30th of August, and reached Macassar in three days. It was with great satisfaction that I stepped on a shore which I had been vainly trying to reach since...
14. CHAPTER XIII. TIMOR.THE island of Timor is about three hundred miles long and sixty wide, and seems to form the termination of the great range of volcanic islands which begins with Sumatra more tha...
9. CHAPTER VIII. SUMATRA.The mail steamer from Batavia to Singapore took me to Muntok (or as on English maps, "Minto"), the chief town and port of Banca. Here I stayed a day or two, until I could obtain...
11. CHAPTER X. BALI AND LOMBOCK.THE islands of Bali and Lombock, situated at the eastern end of Java, are particularly interesting. They are the only islands of the whole Archipelago in which the Hindu religio...
19. CHAPTER XVIII. NATURAL HISTORY OF CELEBES.THE position of Celebes is the most central in the Archipelago. Immediately to the north are the Philippine islands; on the west is Borneo; on the east are the Molucca islands;...
12. CHAPTER XI. LOMBOCK: MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE.HAVING made a very fine and interesting collection of the birds of Labuan Tring, I took leave of my kind host, Inchi Daud, and returned to Ampanam to await an opportunity to rea...
17. CHAPTER XVI. CELEBES.I REACHED Macassar again on the 11th of July, and established myself in my old quarters at Mamajam, to sort, arrange, clean, and pack up my Aru collections. This occupied me a m...
21. CHAPTER XX. AMBOYNA.TWENTY hours from Banda brought us to Amboyna, the capital of the Moluccas, and one of the oldest European settlements in the East. The island consists of two peninsulas, so nea...
10. CHAPTER IX. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE INDO-MALAY ISLANDS.IN the first CHAPTER of this work I have stated generally the reasons which lead us to conclude that the large islands in the western portion of the Archipelago--Java, Sumatra,...
15. CHAPTER XIV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TIMOR GROUP.IF we look at a map of the Archipelago, nothing seems more unlikely than that the closely connected chain of islands from Java to Timor should differ materially in their natural...
4. CHAPTER III. MALACCA AND MOUNT OPHIR.BIRDS and most other kinds of animals being scarce at Singapore, I left it in July for Malacca, where I spent more than two months in the interior, and made an excursion to Moun...
13. CHAPTER XII. LOMBOCK: HOW THE RAJAH TOOK THE CENSUS.The Rajah of Lombock was a very wise man and he showed his wisdom greatly in the way he took the census. For my readers must know that the chief revenues of the Rajah were deriv...
7. CHAPTER VI. BORNEO--THE DYAKS.THE manners and customs of the aborigines of Borneo have been described in great detail, and with much fuller information than I possess, in the writings of Sir James Brooke, Me...
20. CHAPTER XIX. BANDA.THE Dutch mail steamer in which I travelled from Macassar to Banda and Amboyna was a roomy and comfortable vessel, although it would only go six miles an hour in the finest weat...
3. CHAPTER II. SINGAPORE.FEW places are more interesting to a traveller from Europe than the town and island of Singapore, furnishing, as it does, examples of a variety of Eastern races, and of many dif...
1. CHAPTER XX. AMBOYNA.My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for six years after my return; and I feel bound to give them full satisfaction on this point.