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Title: A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg), 1851-1932
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ave already forgotten ourvexation in the keen satisfaction of being really on our wayEastward to the islands where we hope to find so many newforms of life. Our enforced sojourn in the town was not altogetherwithout pleasure. Amboina is one of the most salubriousof towns, and is charmingly laid out in arbour-like streets—very enjoyable in the evenings—which lead to the beach andto the grassy hills on the outskirts along the shores; while,being the head-quarters of a regiment of troops, music wasdiscoursed twice a week on the plain in front of the Fort;and, having then no European acquaintances, we had leisureto look on at phases of Chinese, Arab, and native life, Avhich,standing in the dark, gazing into lamp-lit churches, dwellings,shops, and gambling-houses, Ave could unnoticed interest our-S3lves in. On the day after the arrival of the JaA*a mail thatbrought us the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. Darwin, I Naturalists Wanderings in Qie Eastern Arclupela^o To face Page 4>
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Harper «tSro tiers New York. IN TIMOR LAUT. 299 I was delighted to be hailed by Dr. Julius Machik, an oldfriend of mine in the Lampongs of Sumatra, who posted to thecharge of the Military Hospital, had come with his family toreside here. His house was forthwith our constant rendezvous,and as he was a keen entomologist and ichthyologist, the restof the time till our departure passed most pleasantly. July iith and Gth were spent in touching at Saparua, one ofthe Ceram group, and in lying for a day in our favourite portof Banda. Having steamed slowly during the next nightwe anchored in the morning of the 7th at Gessir, a merehorseshoe-shaped, eocoanut-fringed coral atoll, picturesquelyshowing its surface above the sea at the east end of Ceram.Once one of the most dreaded nests, and the secure hiding-place of pirates in these seas, it is now one of the busiest andmost curious marts in the extreme East—a rich ethnologicalgallery, crowded with representatives and the handiwork ofevery ra

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