Writer: Alfred Russell Wallace

E-Text created by Martin Adamson martin@grassmarket.freeserve.co.uk The Malay Archipelago by Alfred R. Wallace VOLUME II By ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE. CHAPTER XXI THE MOLUCCAS–TERNATE. ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at Ternate, the fourth of a row of fine conical volcanic islands which shirt the west coast of the large and

E-Text created by Martin Adamson martin@grassmarket.freeserve.co.uk THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO VOLUME I By ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE. The land of the orang-utan, and the bird or paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature. To CHARLES DARWIN, AUTHOR OF “THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES,” I dedicate this book, Not only as a token of personal