Travels in the East Indian ArchipelagoAppleton, 1869 - 553 sider |
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Side 55 - O'er ten square leagues his far diverging heads ; Or in one trunk entwists his tangled form, Looks o'er the clouds, and hisses in the storm: Steeped in fell poison, as his sharp teeth part, A thousand tongues in quick vibration dart ; Snatch the proud eagle towering o'er the heath, Or pounce the lion as he stalks beneath ; Or strew, as marshall'd hosts contend in vain With human skeletons the whiten'd plain.
Side 180 - ... condiment themselves. One more tree must be mentioned, the Pinang or Betel-nut Palm, which Dr. Roxburgh calls the most' beautiful palm in India, and which is held in high estimation both by Malays and Papuans. The nut, which resembles a nutmeg, ' is chewed with a green leaf of the siri, Piper betel, which is raised only for this purpose, and such great quantities of it are consumed in this way that large plantations are seen in Java solely devoted to its culture. The mode of preparing this morsel...
Side 109 - Tomboro Mountain, all of them apparently within the verge of the crater ; and, after ascending separately to a very great height, their tops united in the air in a troubled, confused manner. In a short time the whole mountain next Sangir appeared like a body of liquid fire, extending itself- in every direction. The fire and columns of flame continued to rage with unabated fury until the darkness, caused by the quantity of falling...
Side 222 - In this condition it is probably by far the most beautiful fruit in the whole vegetable kingdom. It is now picked by means of a small basket fastened to the end of a long bamboo. The outer part being removed, the mace is carefully taken off and dried on large, shallow bamboo baskets in the son.
Side 91 - ... substance of the consistency of thick cream, and having an odor of putrid animal matter, so strong that a single fruit is enough to infect the air in a large house. In the season for this fruit the whole atmosphere in the native villages is filled with this detestable odor. The taste of this soft, salvy, half-clotted substance is well described by Mr. Crawford as like
Side 110 - Sumbaya, its effects were much more violent, tearing up by the roots the largest trees, and carrying them into the air, together with men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within its influence. [This will account for the immense number of floating trees seen at sea.] The sea rose nearly twelve feet higher than it had ever been known to do before, and completely spoiled the only small spots of rice land in Sang'ir, sweeping away houses and everything within its reach.
Side 109 - Lombok, about ninety miles distant, forty-four tJunigand persons perished in the famine that followed. Dr. Junghuhn thinks that, within a circle described by a radius of two hundred and ten miles, the average depth of the ashes was at least two feet ; this mountain therefore must have ejected several times its own mass, and yet no subsidence has been noticed in the adjoining area, and the only change that has been observed is that during the eruption Tomboro lost two-thirds of its previous height.