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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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s,on the west Kaisers Bay, and on the east Lampong Bay.As we steamed under the shade of these peaks, the sun wentdown tinging the crests on our left with gold, and those onour right with the richest purple. Before we dropped anchor off the little town the full moonhad come out; and one can scarcely say which was fairer, thesun-lit panorama of the days sail, or the moon-lit landscape,with the pale, soft light on the hills, whose slopes guidedthe eye clown to the white circle of the shore-line, on whichthe palm-trees, everywhere dotting its margin, had theircrowns transformed into flashing plumes of silver. Telok-betong is the chief town of the Lampong Residency,which forms the most southerly province of Sumatra. Be-sides the Resident and the chief administrative civil officers,the only other European inhabitants were the commandant, acouple of lieutenants, and a surgeon Dr. Machik, an enthusi-astic ichthyologist and conchologist, in charge of a native gar-10 s th* £m»*tf» Airicp^W/-
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/ N D I o c /-: SKETCH MAP SOUTH SUMATRA shewing the Authors route Home thus —■*—■ ENGLISH MILES ____ Ill,- hotut,i.tr\- &JU ofxh.- Ml ..... ■. 01 ■ - I d > ■ ■ indica vuri ■ 10S lonsitude EAstiroro Creenwch 104 Harper fe, Brothers NewYork: 126 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS rison of some 200 men. In addition to the true natives of thetown, there was a large campong of Chinese, a few Arabs, with aconsiderable fluctuating population of traders from Borneo andCelebes, and other islands of the Archipelago. The Bugineseor Celebes men are by far the most skilled navigators, and thegreatest traders of them all; Macassar praxis being famousthroughout the Eastern seas for their voyages made withoutcompass, yet rarely with mishap, from the eastern coasts ofNew Guinea to the Indian Ocean in the west, trading in theirnative-made cloths, in the lovely lories which they bring fromeast of their own shores, and in the native Macassar oil. Thetown was, therefore, before its destruc

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