The Malay Archipelago

A Travel Narrative

Alfred Russel Wallace

• Éditeur: Dover Publications
• Année: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780486780689
• Sujet: Sciences biologiques
• Sous-sujet: Biologie

Written by a famed 19th-century scientist who laid the groundwork for much of modern biology, this influential work remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel. Detailing his eight-year exploration of the Malay Archipelago, Wallace offers observations of the native people of the island groupings, the abundant and strange animals and insects, and more.

INDEX.

A.

Abel, Dr. Clarke, his account of a mias, 48

Acacia, in the Archipelago, 6

Acarus, bites of the, 274

Æschynanthus, climbing plants in Borneo, 62

African negroes, on the crania and languages of the, 459, 460

Ahtiago, village of, 276

Ahtiago and Tobo vocabularies, 466

Alcedo dea, 349

Alfuros, the true indigenes of Gilolo, 241, 243; of Papuan race, the predominant type in Ceram, 280

Ali, the author’s attendant boy, 240, 241, 244, 252; the author’s head man, 312

Allen, Charles, the author’s assistant, 36; sent with the collections to Sarawak, 49; finds employment, and leaves the author for four years, 156; rejoins the author, 232; news of, 240, 244, 288, 292, 394; letter received from, 417; his collections, 418; his difficulties, 419; his wanderings, 419; finally obtains employment in Singapore, 419; his voyage to Sorong, and his difficulties, 437 ct seq.

Akor vocabulary, 467

Amahay, bay of, 270; visit to, 274

Amberbaki, visit to, 385

Amblau vocabulary, 465

Amboyna, island of, 4; voyage to, from Banda, 223; map of, 224; the town of, 224; volcanoes in remote times, 224 (see Water, limpid); the author’s cottage in, 226 (see Interior); general character of the people, 229; habits and customs, 230, 231 (see Shells), 231-233; clove cultivation established at, 237; departure from, 267; map of, 268

Amboyna lory, 273

Ampanam, 117, 118; birds of, 118; cause of the tremendous surf at, 125

Anchors of the Malays, 414, 415

Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, 453

Animal life, luxuriance and beauty of, in the Moluccas, 308

Animals, distribution of, the key to facts in the past history of the earth, 111-115, 155-162; geographical distribution of, 372, 373

Anonaceous trees in Borneo, 62

Anthribidæ, species of, 248

Ants, noxious, 357; at Dorey, tormented by, 390, 391

Ape, the Siamang, 103

Arabs in Singapore, 16

Archipelago, Malay, physical geography of, 1; productions of, in some cases unknown elsewhere, 1 (see Islands); extent of, 2; natural division of, into two parts, 7 (see Austro-Malayan, and Natural productions); shallow waters of, 9-13 (see Races)

Architectural remains in Java, 77;

ruined temples, 79-81

Arfaks, of New Guinea, 381, 382, 386

Arjuna Mount, 76

Arndt, M., a German ...