Category: Travel Writing
ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at Ternate, the fourth of a row of fine conical volcanic islands which shirt the west coast of the large and almost unknown island of Gilolo. The largest and most perfectly conical mountain is Tidore, which is over four tho...
I LEFT Amboyna for my first visit to Ceram at three o'clock in the morning of October 29th, after having been delayed several days by the boat's crew, who could not be got toget...
13. CHAPTER XXXI. THE ARU ISLANDS.--JOURNEY AND RESIDENCE IN THE INTERIOR.MY boat was at length ready, and having obtained two men besides my own servants, after an enormous amount of talk and trouble, we left Dobbo on the morning of March 13th, for t...
5. CHAPTER XXIV. BATCHIAN.I LANDED opposite the house kept for the use of the Resident of Ternate, and was met by a respectable middle-aged Malay, who told me he was Secretary to the Sultan, and would re...
20. CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE BIRDS OF PARADISE.AS many of my journeys were made with the express object of obtaining specimens of the Birds of Paradise, and learning something of their habits and distribution; and being (as...
16. CHAPTER XXXIV. NEW GUINEA.--DOREY.AFTER my return from Gilolo to Ternate, in March 1858, I made arrangements for my long-wished-for voyage to the mainland of New Guinea, where I anticipated that my collections w...
22. CHAPTER XL. THE RACES OF MAN IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.PROPOSE to conclude this account of my Eastern travels, with a short statement of my views as to the races of man which inhabit the various parts of the Archipelago, their chief...
12. CHAPTER XXX. THE ARU ISLANDS--RESIDENCE IN DOBBOOn the 8th of January, 1857, I landed at Dobbo, the trading settlement of the Bugis and Chinese, who annually visit the Aru Islands. It is situated on the small island of Wamma,...
9. CHAPTER XXVIII. MACASSAR TO THE ARU ISLANDS IN A NATIVE PRAU.IT was the beginning of December, and the rainy season at Macassar had just set in. For nearly three months had beheld the sun rise daily above the palm-groves, mount to the zen...
17. CHAPTER XXXV. VOYAGE FROM CERAM TO WAIGIOU.IN my twenty-fifth chapter I have described my arrival at Wahai, on my way to Mysol and Waigiou, islands which belong to the Papuan district, and the account of which naturally...
11. did. If they came on board a vessel (after asking permission), not aword would be at first spoken, except a few compliments, and only after some time, and very cautiously, world any approach be made to business. One would speak at a time, with a...
18. CHAPTER XXXVI. WAIGIOU.THE village of Muka, on the south coast of Waigiou, consists of a number of poor huts, partly in the water and partly on shore, and scattered irregularly over a space of about h...
19. CHAPTER XXXVII. VOYAGE FROM WAIGIOU TO TERNATE.I HAD left the old pilot at Waigiou to take care of my house and to get the prau into sailing order--to caulk her bottom, and to look after the upper works, thatch, and ringing....
14. CHAPTER XXXII. THE ARU ISLANDS.--SECOND RESIDENCE AT DOBBO.DOBBO was full to overflowing, and I was obliged to occupy the court-house where the Commissioners hold their sittings. They had now left the island, and I found the situation a...
8. CHAPTER XXVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MOLUCCAS.THE Moluccas consist of three large islands, Gilolo, Ceram, and Bouru, the two former being each about two hundred miles long; and a great number of smaller isles and islets, th...
7. CHAPTER XXVI. BOURU.I HAD long wished to visit the large island of Bouru, which lies due west of Ceram, and of which scarcely anything appeared to be known to naturalists, except that it contained...
15. CHAPTER XXXIII. THE ARU ISLANDS--PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ASPECTS OFIN this chapter I propose to give a general sketch of the physical geography of the Aru Islands, and of their relation to the surrounding countries; and shall thus be able to in...
4. CHAPTER XXIII. TERNATE TO THE KAIOA ISLANDS AND BATCHIAN.ON returning to Ternate from Sahoe, I at once began making preparations for a journey to Batchian, an island which I had been constantly recommended to visit since I had arrived...
1. CHAPTER XXI. THE MOLUCCAS--TERNATE.ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at Ternate, the fourth of a row of fine conical volcanic islands which shirt the west coast of the large and almost unknown...
21. CHAPTER XXXIX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PAPUAN ISLANDS.NEW GUINEA, with the islands joined to it by a shallow sea, constitute the Papuan group, characterised by a very close resemblance in their peculiar forms of life. Having alread...
3. chapter I propose to give a sketch of the parts which I myself visited.My first stay was at Dodinga, situated at the head of a deep-bay exactly opposite Ternate, and a short distance up a little stream which penetrates a few miles inland. The villa...
10. CHAPTER XXIX. THE KE ISLANDS.They were long canoes, with the bow and stern rising up into a beak six or night feet high, decorated with shells and waving plumes of cassowaries hair. I now had my first view...
2. CHAPTER XXII. GILOLO.I MADE but few and comparatively short visits to this large and little known island, but obtained a considerable knowledge of its natural history by sending first my boy Ali, an...