The Cruise Of The Marchesa To Kamschatka New Guinea With Notices Of Formosa Liu Kiu And Various Islands Of The Malay Archipelago Volume 1

Author : F. H. H. Guillemard
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ISBN 13 : 9781332589999
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka New Guinea written by F. H. H. Guillemard and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka New Guinea: With Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago With regard to the Marc/zesa's cruise in the Eastern Archi pelago I had to contend with the fact that, in many places, that master naturalist, Mr. A. R. Wallace, had preceded us. Nothing could be more fortunate for a traveller, nothing more disadvantageous to an author. The Malay Archipelago may still be used as the guide-book for those beautiful islands, for they have been almost untouched by the great changes which Europe has witnessed during the last quarter century, and I have but little to add to or take from the descriptions of one far more fitted to treat of them than myself. Our stay in the Sulu Islands extended over a period of about six weeks. Mr. Burbidge's examination of the ora of the group,1 together with our collections of its fauna, show that the archipelago is not zoographically separable from the Philip pines. Westwards of the island of Tawi-tawi the narrow Sibutu channel forms a boundary-line from greatly-differing Borneo, which is almost as striking as that shown by Mr Wallace to exist between Bali and Lombok. From the Malay and Papuan regions the Marc/tam returned with a large collection of objects of Natural History. Of these the greater portion were obtained in the large islands of North west New Guinea. One of our chief objects was to become acquainted with the Birds of Paradise in their native forests, and in this we were entirely successful, obtaining no less than seventeen different species. The collection of birds numbered about 3000 specimens, which I have described in a series of papers in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1 88 5. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."