Travels in the East Indian ArchipelagoAppleton, 1869 - 553 sider |
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Amboina appeared Arabs archipelago bamboo Banda Barizan Batavia Battas beautiful beneath birds boat Borneo Celebes Ceram Chinese cloves coast cocoa-nut controleur coolies coral crater deep distance Dutch east eastern eight eruption Europeans five forest Fort de Kock four fruit Gilolo guilders half head heavy hills hundred feet inches India interior island Java Javanese kampong Kema lake low land Macassar Malay Menado Mérapi miles Mohammedan Moluccas monsoon Mount Mount Klabat Mount Sago mountains Musi natives nearly neighboring northern once Padang Padang Panjang Palembang palms passed peak peninsula piculs plateau Portuguese praus prince Pulo quantity rajah reef region Resident rice rise road rocks round sand Saparua seen shells ships shore side soon species Spice Islands Strait stream Sumatra Surabaya Ternate thick thousand Tidore Timur trees tropical valley village visited volcano whole
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Side 356 - In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon. Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke. Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Side 356 - he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke...
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Side 99 - About 7 PM on the 10th of April, three distinct columns of flame burst near the top of the 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 Sang'ir appeared like a body of liquid fire, extending itself in every direction.
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Side 212 - 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 68 - ... above the streams of hot water and flowing mud, while most of the stones and ashes and sand that were thrown out passed completely over them, and destroyed many villages that were farther removed from the centre of this great eruption. The thundering was first heard at half-past one o'clock. At four the extreme violence of the eruption was past; at five the sky began to grow clear once more, and the same sun that at noon had shed his life-giving light over this rich landscape, at evening was...
Side 100 - 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...
Side 99 - Sang'ir 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 matter, obscured it...