My life : a record of events and opinions - Wallace-online.org
My life : a record of events and opinions - Wallace-online.org My life : a record of events and opinions - Wallace-online.org
174 MY LIFEsand-grouse, and sand-larks were occasionally seen.We frequently saw the mirage, like distant trees andwater. Near the middle station the pasha has ahunting-lodge—a perfect palace. The Indian andAustralian mails, about six hundred boxes, as wellas all the parcels, goods, and passengers' luggage,were brought by endless trains of camels, which wepassed on the way. At the eating-places I took a littlestroll, gathering some of the curious highly odoriferousplants that grew here and there in the hollows, whichI dried in my pocket-books, and I also found a fewland-shells. We enjoyed the ride exceedingly, andreached Suez about midnight. It is a miserablelittle town, and the bazaar is small, dark, and dirty.There is said to be no water within ten miles. Thenext afternoon we went on board our ship, a splendidvessel with large and comfortable cabins, and everythingvery superior to the Etixine. Adieu."I have given this description of my journey fromAlexandria to Suez, over the route established byLieutenant Waghorn, which was superseded a fewyears later by the railway, and afterwards by thecanal, because few persons now living will rememberit, or know that it ever existed. Of the rest of ourjourney I have no record. We stayed a day atdesolate, volcanic Aden, and thence sailed across toGalle, with its groves of cocoa-nut palms, and crowdsof natives offering for sale the precious stones of thecountry ; thence across to Pulo Penang, with itspicturesque mountain, its spice-trees, and its waterfall,and on down the Straits of Malacca, with its richlywooded shores, to our destination, Singapore, where Iwas to begin the eight years of wandering throughoutthe Malay Archipelago, which constituted the centraland controlling incident of my life.
CHAPTER XIITHE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO(1854-1858)My wanderings and adventures in the far East havebeen recorded in my book " The Malay Archipelago."I will therefore give here but a brief outline with a fewextracts from my letters and references to subjects ofspecial interest.I remained at Singapore for several monthscollecting insects and birds in the forests around.In a letter home Igive a short account of my dailylife at this time :— " I will tell you how my day isnow occupied. Get up at half-past five, bath, andcoffee.Sit down to arrange and put away my insectsof the day before, and set them in a safe place to dry.Charles mends our insect-nets, fillsour pin-cushions,and gets ready for the day. Breakfast at eight ; outto the jungle at nine. We have to walk about aquarter mile up a steep hill to reach it, and arrivedripping with perspiration. Then we wander aboutin the delightful shade along paths made by theChinese wood-cutters till two or three in the afternoon,generally returning with fifty or sixty beetles, somevery rare or beautiful, and perhaps a few butterflies.Change clothes and sit down to kill and pin insects,Charles doing the flies, wasps, and bugs ; I do nottrust him yet with beetles. Dinner at four, then at
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CHAPTER XIITHE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO(1854-1858)<strong>My</strong> w<strong>and</strong>erings <strong>and</strong> adventures in the far East havebeen <strong>record</strong>ed in my book " The Malay Archipelago."I will therefore give here but a brief outline with a fewextracts from my letters <strong>and</strong> references to subjects <strong>of</strong>special interest.I remained at Singapore for several monthscollecting insects <strong>and</strong> birds in the forests around.In a letter home Igive a short account <strong>of</strong> my daily<strong>life</strong> at this time :— " I will tell you how my day isnow occupied. Get up at half-past five, bath, <strong>and</strong>c<strong>of</strong>fee.Sit down to arrange <strong>and</strong> put away my insects<strong>of</strong> the day before, <strong>and</strong> set them in a safe place to dry.Charles mends our insect-nets, fillsour pin-cushions,<strong>and</strong> gets ready for the day. Breakfast at eight ; outto the jungle at nine. We have to walk about aquarter mile up a steep hill to reach it, <strong>and</strong> arrivedripping with perspiration. Then we w<strong>and</strong>er aboutin the delightful shade along paths made by theChinese wood-cutters till two or three in the afternoon,generally returning with fifty or sixty beetles, somevery rare or beautiful, <strong>and</strong> perhaps a few butterflies.Change clothes <strong>and</strong> sit down to kill <strong>and</strong> pin insects,Charles doing the flies, wasps, <strong>and</strong> bugs ; I do nottrust him yet with beetles. Dinner at four, then at
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