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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... traveller . Several of them fixed themselves on our legs , the first notice of their unwelcome presence being the oozing of our blood through our white trowsers . Their first bite is rarely felt ; and very often , as I afterwards found ...
... traveller . Several of them fixed themselves on our legs , the first notice of their unwelcome presence being the oozing of our blood through our white trowsers . Their first bite is rarely felt ; and very often , as I afterwards found ...
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... traveller , for his dark eyes sparkled with pleasure when I asked him of his voyage to Mecca . He complained very much of the insults , losses , and hardships , to which pilgrims were exposed , but his appetite was evidently as good as ...
... traveller , for his dark eyes sparkled with pleasure when I asked him of his voyage to Mecca . He complained very much of the insults , losses , and hardships , to which pilgrims were exposed , but his appetite was evidently as good as ...
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... traveller , and the biggest man in our party when all was well around a good camp fire ! At a pinch , when most wanted , he was perfectly useless - indeed , in the way . I am afraid I did not pity him as he stood shiver- ing in the cold ...
... traveller , and the biggest man in our party when all was well around a good camp fire ! At a pinch , when most wanted , he was perfectly useless - indeed , in the way . I am afraid I did not pity him as he stood shiver- ing in the cold ...
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... traveller . Large moths flutter about the ceilings , especially on cold wet nights , and insect life of many kinds is attracted to the lamplight . In every house there is a colony of lively little drab - coloured lizards . They run very ...
... traveller . Large moths flutter about the ceilings , especially on cold wet nights , and insect life of many kinds is attracted to the lamplight . In every house there is a colony of lively little drab - coloured lizards . They run very ...
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... traveller looking for flowers and birds , but graciously replied that I could go where I liked and he would tell his people to help me , adding , that the best way of reaching the highest mountain would be to come to his Istana and ...
... traveller looking for flowers and birds , but graciously replied that I could go where I liked and he would tell his people to help me , adding , that the best way of reaching the highest mountain would be to come to his Istana and ...
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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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