AlfredRWallace
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I was in hopes we should get a sight of them; but we went on mile after mile through the gloomy jungle and saw nothing.
1:02 PM Aug 28th
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After crossing a second paddy-field we entered the jungle & our men assured us that tigers, elephants and rhinoceroses were all abundant.
1:00 PM Aug 28th
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3 miles after setting out for Ophir we stopped at a village for a woman to sift the rice as it was so full of husk as to be almost uneatable
7:02 AM Aug 28th
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We had to carry collecting apparatus, guns & ammunition and "cadjaris" (or large mats made of the leaves of a Pandanus) to thatch our hut.
2:22 PM Aug 27th
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We engaged an old man and four young ones to carry our baggage & took the smallest possible quantity of clothes and bedding to Mount Ophir.
12:04 PM Aug 27th
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Several fine species of squirrels are abundant here and they make much better eating than the bats.
12:01 PM Aug 27th
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I had the opportunity of tasting one but it was too tough for me to pronounce an unprejudiced opinion on its merits as an article of food.
2:18 PM Aug 26th
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These great-winged creatures are so totally different from anything we can behold in Europe and are much esteemed by all in Malacca for food
2:18 PM Aug 26th
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Huge bats called "flying foxes" come in the evenings to our fruit trees, looking more like aerial machines than any living creature.
2:13 PM Aug 26th
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I will stay here at the Government bungalow kindly arranged by Captain Ferrier just long enough to pack up my collections, then to Malacca
12:33 PM Aug 26th
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We are returned from Mount Ophir & there is much to relate.The effort was well repaid & I had my first sight of tropical mountain vegetation
12:27 PM Aug 26th
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For now, I am preparing to go further into the forest - to Mount Ophir.
3:58 AM Aug 14th
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Every observer of nature who sees the variety of living things must give some thought to the theory of progressive development of species.
3:58 AM Aug 14th
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Malacca's four barbets are dull, slow-moving birds, and in their actions much resemble the Toucans and Hornbills, not the woodpeckers.
5:54 AM Aug 10th
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Today I caught a butterfly of great beauty. It was sitting on the dung of some carnivorous mammal and I believe it may be a new species.
9:45 AM Aug 7th
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There are few industrious Chinese here so not many insects to be found beside butterflies, of which I am building a fine collection.
3:50 AM Aug 7th
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Reading @ 1809 diary: Fog. No Observation. Spoke a fishing Schooner from Grand Bank, bound to Plymouth. Read Chantreau’s travels.
3:49 AM Aug 7th
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Staying for the moment at the comfortable Government house at Ayer-Panas with plenty of room to dry and preserve our specimens
3:42 AM Aug 7th
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The first bird I shot here was Cymbirhynchus macrorynchus and I was both surprised and delighted at its extreme beauty
8:36 AM Aug 3rd
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Am feeling much better and will be back in the forest soon. I never took half enough quinine in America to cure me.
8:21 AM Aug 3rd
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- Name AlfredRusselWallace
- Location Malay Archipelago
- Bio Naturalist with tropical interests, traveller, entomologist, specimen collector, writer & FCD.
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