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 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Asplenium Baker bamboo bananas beautiful birds boat Bornean Borneo breakfast brought Brunei buffalo Burbidge Chinese cloth clusters coast cocoa-nut collection colour common cook cool cultivated dark delicious dinner durian Dusun epiphytal Everett feet ferns fire fish flavour flowers forest fowl fresh fruit gardens green hill Indra island Istana Jahore journey jungle Kadyans kaladi Kiau Kina Balu Koung Kurow Labuan land langsat leaves Lindsaya luxuriant Malays mango mangosteen Meimbong miles morning mountain Muruts native nearly Nepenthes NEPENTHES BICALCARATA night o'clock obtained orange orchids palm pitchers plants plentiful Polypodium ponies pretty pulp rain rambutan rattan reached rice river rocks sagala Sandakan Sarawak sarong seeds seen Selaginella shot Singapore soon species specimens stream Sultan Sulu Sulu Archipelago Tampassuk tobacco trading trees tribes Trichomanes tropical tuan vegetation Veitch village Vols walk wild women yellow young
Pasajes populares
Página 17 - LEX SALICA; the Ten Texts with the Glosses and the Lex Emendata. Synoptically edited by JH HESSELS. With Notes on the Frankish Words in the Lex Salica by H.
Página 20 - British Quarterly Review. The two following Works are intended to furnish a complete account of the leading personages, the Institutions, Art, Social Life, Writings, and Controversies of the Christian Church from the time of the Apostles to the Age of Charlemagne. They commence at the period at which the ' ' Dictionary of the Bible " leaves off, and form a continuation of it.
Página 13 - The Convocation Prayer Book ; BEING THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, WITH ALTERED RUBRICS, SHOWING WHAT WOULD BE THE CONDITION OF THE BOOK IF AMENDED IN CONFORMITY WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONVOCATIONS OF CANTERBURY AND YORK IN 1879.
Página 13 - The Student's Hume. A HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE TREATY OF BERLIN, 1878. NEW EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND PARTLY RE-WRITTEN. By JS BREWER, MA Late of the Record Office, Professor of Modern History, King's College, London.
Página ix - Darwinian views, go to the forests of Borneo. Let him there watch from day to day this strangely human form in all its various phases of existence. Let him see it climb, walk, build its nest, eat and drink and fight like human ' roughs.' Let him see the female suckle her young and carry it astride her hip precisely as do the Coolie women of Hindostan. Let him witness their human-like emotions of affection, satisfaction, pain and childish rage — let him see all this and then he may feel how much...
Página 140 - O ! break it not, it loves but you. — Come then, and end this long delay. .Why keep you thus away ? The wind is cold, fast falls the rain, ; Yet weeping, chiding, I remain. — You come not still : you still delay.
Página 20 - A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects. and Doctrines. From the Time of the Apostles to the Age of Charlemagne.
Página 23 - The Admiralty Manual of Scientific Inquiry, prepared for the use of Officers, and Travellers in General. Map. Post 8vo, 35.
Página x - Let him see the female suckle her young and carry it astride her hip precisely as do the Coolie women of Hindostan. Let him witness their human-like emotions of affection, satisfaction, pain and childish rage — let him see all this and then he may feel how much more potent has been the lesson than all he has read in pages of abstract ratiocination.
Página 124 - I well remember a certain dark-leaved tree with scarlet flowers, that especially courted the attention of the sun-birds ; and about its blossoms they continually darted with eager and vivacious movements. With this tree they seemed particularly delighted, clinging to the slender twigs, and coquetting with...