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id: 15348
title: Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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  "Father," said the tall man to the short one, "I do like to hear the Nigel could not help laughing at the way she said this as he handed her "But--excuse me," said Nigel, "your man spoke of you as a hermit--a sort der Kemp laid down his paddle, and, looking round, asked Nigel if he "But you are not old," said Nigel, wishing to turn the hermit''s mind "Look out, Moses," said Van der Kemp. "We get along wonderfully fast, Van der Kemp," said Nigel, while resting "Look here, run that to the mast-head," said Van der Kemp, handing a red "You see, Nigel," said Van der Kemp that night, as the two friends paced "Will it come again soon?" asked Nigel, turning to Van der Kemp. "I have been told," said the hermit to Nigel, as they went down with "It seems to me," he said to Nigel and the hermit who stood close beside


id: 23371
title: Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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  "But--excuse me," said Nigel, "your man spoke of you as a hermit--a sort der Kemp laid down his paddle, and, looking round, asked Nigel if he hermit replied with a wave of the hand--Moses and Nigel with an "But you are not old," said Nigel, wishing to turn the hermit''s mind "Look out, Moses," said Van der Kemp. "We get along wonderfully fast, Van der Kemp," said Nigel, while resting "Look here, run that to the mast-head," said Van der Kemp, handing a red "You see, Nigel," said Van der Kemp that night, as the two friends paced "Will it come again soon?" asked Nigel, turning to Van der Kemp. "It cannot be far off the time now, I should think," said Van der Kemp. "I have been told," said the hermit to Nigel, as they went down with "It seems to me," he said to Nigel and the hermit who stood close beside


id: 27422
title: Through the Malay Archipelago
author: Richings, Emily
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  where vast forests of waving palms, blue chains of volcanic mountains, red-stemmed Banka palms cluster on the green islets of lake and river, Amherstia trees forming aisles of dark green foliage, brightened with A mountain road winds through rice-fields and tree-ferns towards fold of the palm-forest, bowed beneath the weight of green and yellow nuts a island gives place to the ancient Javanese territory, and Malay half-hidden in the green shadows of a great tamarind tree. red road beneath towering palms, skirts rice-fields and bamboo thickets green spaces and luxuriant trees, appears a typical Dutch town, variety of colour, blue and yellow, orange and green, red and violet." white, gold and green, orange and red, wave interlacing branches of The vivid green of one palm-clad shore burns in the gold of Little _campongs_ of palm-thatched huts stand on piles at the water''s gleams whitely against the green gloom of the vast palm-forest on


id: 26844
title: Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery
author: Marryat, Frank
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  town of Kuchin is built on the left-hand side of the river Sarawak going that could be obtained from the ship was brought up in the native boats, several piratical prahus, the look-out men in the European boats, gig left the ship to survey the island Ku-king-san, the nearest port of prahus in sight, full of men, and each armed with a long gun, pulling officers, left the ship with four days'' provisions to survey a portion men-of-war boats having been towed by the steamer, we arrived some time boat for some time, appearing to take a great interest in every thing One day, dining at the house lent us by the sultan, Mr. Brooke was talking with some of our party of a young Malay chief, who, boarded, the gun-boat returned to the island as wise as she came out.


id: 2530
author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
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  perceive between Asia and Australia a number of large and small islands islands the years of the great earthquakes form the chronological is placed the large island of Borneo, in which no sign of recent connected the great islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo with the allied species of Java, the wild cattle of Borneo and the kind long islands of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo resemble in their natural In the interior of the island the Chinese cut down forest trees in the landing-place to the hill a Dyak road had been formed, which consisted Near the landing-place we found a fine house, 250 feet long, raised high the houses by little aqueducts formed of large Bamboos split in half peculiar species of birds and mammals in such an island as Banca is a The number of land birds in the island of Celebes is 128, and from these

title:
  The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature


id: 2539
author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
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  beautiful little long-tailed bird, ornamented with green, red, and a good place for birds, and as possessing a large population both of a completely new form of the Bird of Paradise, differing most remarkably island), where some Malays and Galela men have a small village, and have our resting-place there was a little bush-covered island in the middle number of species of birds at present known from the various islands of the small number of birds yet shot more than half were known New Guinea One day I get under a tree where a number of the Great Paradise birds day I went out, I obtained 10 new species; so that although I collected only two days'' water on board, and the small, rocky, volcanic island After three days, my man brought me the first bird--a very fine The large islands to the east of New Guinea are very little known, but

title:
  The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature


id: 38253
title: A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
author: nan
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  time ago on account of the great trade in gold which they carry on country saw such great destruction of their people and ships, The King of Guzarat is a great lord, both in revenue and people, and This King possesses great cities in his kingdom, and especially the river, with a large town called Baticala,[167] of very great trade very large town, peopled by Moors and Gentiles, of the kingdom of said that many men come from all the other kingdoms to this king''s has a Moorish king, a great lord; and in former times this kingdom women relations of the kings and great lords come also to see the king lives, towards the south is a very good town called Cananor.] country-born Moors, and much shipping and a great trade of exporting The king and people of this kingdom are Gentiles. kingdom of Gentiles which has a king who resides in a very great and


