The Gardens of the Sun; Or, A Naturalist's Journal on the Mountains and in the Forests and Swamps of Borneo and the Sulu ArchipelagoJ. Murray, 1880 - 364 Seiten |
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... very peculiar and interesting . Every village of any pretensions has its " Orang Kaya , " or head man , and his house is at the service of the passing stranger . In any Preface . ix matter of dispute he may be referred viii Preface .
... very peculiar and interesting . Every village of any pretensions has its " Orang Kaya , " or head man , and his house is at the service of the passing stranger . In any Preface . ix matter of dispute he may be referred viii Preface .
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... passed it , and look back , it forms a much more picturesque object than when seen directly opposite ; and in front of the nearly perpendi- cular cliffs is a curious cone - shaped rock , and through the narrow passage between this and ...
... passed it , and look back , it forms a much more picturesque object than when seen directly opposite ; and in front of the nearly perpendi- cular cliffs is a curious cone - shaped rock , and through the narrow passage between this and ...
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... passing glimpse of Galita and Malta on our way . Both were once little more than barren rocks ; indeed , Galita is so still ; but Malta has been improved by cultivation , and now yields much of the early vege- table produce brought to ...
... passing glimpse of Galita and Malta on our way . Both were once little more than barren rocks ; indeed , Galita is so still ; but Malta has been improved by cultivation , and now yields much of the early vege- table produce brought to ...
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... passing through the flat desert , a distance of about eighty - seven miles . The completion of this under- taking , apart from facilitating European and Eastern commerce , has also , if local report speaks truly , benefited the climate ...
... passing through the flat desert , a distance of about eighty - seven miles . The completion of this under- taking , apart from facilitating European and Eastern commerce , has also , if local report speaks truly , benefited the climate ...
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... passed the bodies of dead camels , on which wolfish - looking dogs or vultures regale themselves . Flocks of ... passing Arab are singularly like those made in frozen snow . At one of the stations an old Arab offered a basket of very ...
... passed the bodies of dead camels , on which wolfish - looking dogs or vultures regale themselves . Flocks of ... passing Arab are singularly like those made in frozen snow . At one of the stations an old Arab offered a basket of very ...
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Asplenium Baker bamboo bananas beautiful birds boat Bornean Borneo brought Brunei buffalo Burbidge Chinese cloth clusters coast cocoa-nut colour common cooking cool cultivated dark delicious dinner durian Dusun edible epiphytal European Everett feet ferns fire fish flavour flowers forest fowl fresh fruit gardens green hill Hook Indra island Jahore journey jungle Kadyans kaladi Kiau Kina Balu Koung Kurow Labuan land langsat leaves luxuriant Malays mango mangosteen Meimbong miles morning mountain Muruts native nearly Nepenthes NEPENTHES BICALCARATA night o'clock obtained orange orchids palm Pitcher Plant pitchers plants plentiful Polypodium pomoloes ponies pretty pulp rain rambutan rattan reached rice river rocks Sandakan Sarawak sarong seeds seen Selaginella Singapore soon species specimens stream Sultan Sulu Sulu Archipelago sweet Tampassuk tobacco trading traveller trees tribes Trichomanes tropical tuan variety vegetation Veitch village walk wild women yellow
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