The Malay Archipelago - Volume 2 - A Narrative Of Travel By Alfred Russel Wallace.






























































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We had arrived at Dorey about the end of the wet season, when the
whole country was soaked with moisture - Page 280
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We Had Arrived At Dorey About The End Of The Wet Season, When The Whole Country Was Soaked With Moisture The Native Paths Were So Neglected As To Be Often Mere Tunnels Closed Over With Vegetation, And In Such Places There Was Always A Fearful Accumulation Of Mud.

To the naked Papuan this is no obstruction. He wades through it, and the next watercourse makes him clean again; but to myself, wearing boots and trousers, it was a most disagreeable thing to have to go up to my knees in a mud-hole every morning.

The man I brought with me to cut wood fell ill soon after we arrived, or I would have set him to clear fresh paths in the worst places. For the first ten days it generally rained every afternoon and all night r but by going out every hour of fine weather, I managed to get on tolerably with my collections of birds and insects, finding most of those collected by Lesson during his visit in the Coquille, as well as many new ones. It appears, however, that Dorey is not the place for Birds of Paradise, none of the natives being accustomed to preserve them. Those sold here are all brought from Amberbaki, about a hundred miles west, where the Doreyans go to trade.

The islands in the bay, with the low lands near the coast, seem to have been formed by recently raised coral reef's, and are much strewn with masses of coral but little altered.

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