My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 367
... Ternate in April , 1859 , after spending nearly six months in Batchian , where I had made fairly good though not very large collections , including a new and very peculiar bird of paradise and a grand new butterfly of the largest size ...
... Ternate in April , 1859 , after spending nearly six months in Batchian , where I had made fairly good though not very large collections , including a new and very peculiar bird of paradise and a grand new butterfly of the largest size ...
Page 369
... Ternate by the Dutch mail steamer on May 1 , 1859 , calling at Amboyna and spending two days at Banda , where I visited the celebrated nutmeg plantations , reaching Coupang , at the west end of Timor , on the 13th . The country round ...
... Ternate by the Dutch mail steamer on May 1 , 1859 , calling at Amboyna and spending two days at Banda , where I visited the celebrated nutmeg plantations , reaching Coupang , at the west end of Timor , on the 13th . The country round ...
Page 370
... Ternate was again most tedious and unfortunate , occupying thirty - eight days , whereas with reasonably favourable weather it should not have required more than ten or twelve . Taking my whole voyage in this canoe from Goram to Waigiou ...
... Ternate was again most tedious and unfortunate , occupying thirty - eight days , whereas with reasonably favourable weather it should not have required more than ten or twelve . Taking my whole voyage in this canoe from Goram to Waigiou ...
Page 371
... Ternate , occupying in all seventy - eight days ( or only twelve days short of three months ) , all in what was supposed to be the favourable season , we had not one single day of fair wind . We were always close braced up , always ...
... Ternate , occupying in all seventy - eight days ( or only twelve days short of three months ) , all in what was supposed to be the favourable season , we had not one single day of fair wind . We were always close braced up , always ...
Page 373
... Ternate to Timor , January 2 , 1861 . " I have come home safe to Ternate and left it again . For two months I was stupefied with my year's letters , accounts , papers , magazines , and books , in addition to the manipula- tion ...
... Ternate to Timor , January 2 , 1861 . " I have come home safe to Ternate and left it again . For two months I was stupefied with my year's letters , accounts , papers , magazines , and books , in addition to the manipula- tion ...
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