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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... things inanimate , or his struggle for existence as it is known to us . At home we have man as in some sort the master of Nature , but in the Bornean forests Nature still reigns supreme . Here with us man wrests his suste- nance from ...
... things inanimate , or his struggle for existence as it is known to us . At home we have man as in some sort the master of Nature , but in the Bornean forests Nature still reigns supreme . Here with us man wrests his suste- nance from ...
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... thing in connection with this co - operative affair is that unless the young seedling plants are bitten in due course they are said by Beccari to die . I saw this plant daily for a long period , and often amused myself by attacking it ...
... thing in connection with this co - operative affair is that unless the young seedling plants are bitten in due course they are said by Beccari to die . I saw this plant daily for a long period , and often amused myself by attacking it ...
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... thing is regulated by a simple telegraphic and signalling system . Nearly all these stations have little gardens , but the prettiest of them all in this way is that at the old Arab town and ferry station of Kantara , through which many ...
... thing is regulated by a simple telegraphic and signalling system . Nearly all these stations have little gardens , but the prettiest of them all in this way is that at the old Arab town and ferry station of Kantara , through which many ...
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... thing of life , " and the strong pure breeze fans our cheeks and the cool spray comes in our faces like a shower of dew . Well might Ruskin give our English pastime of yachting the first place amongst recreations . Nothing can be more ...
... thing of life , " and the strong pure breeze fans our cheeks and the cool spray comes in our faces like a shower of dew . Well might Ruskin give our English pastime of yachting the first place amongst recreations . Nothing can be more ...
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... things there to interest you . Sale & Co.'s , and Katz's Stores , are also well worth a visit , and few of the Chinese shops will compare well with that of the late Hon . C. Whampoa , C.M.G. , who was a most influential trader in the ...
... things there to interest you . Sale & Co.'s , and Katz's Stores , are also well worth a visit , and few of the Chinese shops will compare well with that of the late Hon . C. Whampoa , C.M.G. , who was a most influential trader in the ...
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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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