Although The Few Months I At Various Times Spent In Amboyna Were
Not Altogether Very Profitable To Me In The
Way of collections,
it will always remain as a bright spot in the review of my
Eastern travels, since it
Was there that I first made the
acquaintance of those glorious birds and insects which render
the Moluccas classic ground in the eyes of the naturalist, and
characterise its fauna as one of the most remarkable and
beautiful upon the globe. On the 20th of February I finally
quitted Amboyna for Ceram and Waigiou, leaving Charles Allen to
go by a Government boat to Wahai on the north coast of Ceram, and
thence to the unexplored island of Mysol.
End of V1 The Malay Archipelago by Alfred R. Wallace
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