item: #1 of 7 id: 15348 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata date: None words: 111712 flesch: 83 summary: Mr.---- Mr.---- I beg pardon, may I-- My name is Van der Kemp, said the hermit quietly. He saw that Van der Kemp, returning to the other end of the cave, sat down beside the lamp, the blaze of which fell full on his fine calm countenance. keywords: 16mo; 8vo; air; boat; book; canoe; captain; cave; children; close; course; crown; crown 8vo; dat; day; deck; der; der kemp; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; girl; good; got; hand; head; hermit; home; illustrations; island; kemp; know; krakatoa; left; life; long; look; man; massa; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; moses; mrs; negro; new; nigel; night; people; place; point; poor; professor; rakata; rev; round; roy; sea; short; son; story; tale; tell; thought; time; tone; tree; van; van der; volcano; water; way; winnie; work; young; youth; zee cache: 15348.txt plain text: 15348.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 23371 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago date: None words: 97105 flesch: 78 summary: Leaving this village immediately after the slaying of the tiger, the party continued to journey almost by forced marches, for not only was Nigel Roy very anxious to keep tryst with his father, and to settle the question of Kathleen's identity by bringing father and daughter together, but Van der Kemp himself, strange to say, was filled with intense and unaccountable anxiety to get back to his island-home. After eating for some time in silence, and having tried to draw out his host without success, Nigel changed his tactics and said-- You were so kind as to speak of me as your guest, Mr--Mr--I beg pardon, may I-- My name is Van der Kemp, said the hermit quietly. keywords: air; boat; canoe; captain; cave; close; course; dark; dat; day; deck; der; der kemp; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; girl; good; got; hand; head; hermit; island; kemp; know; krakatoa; left; life; look; man; massa; men; miles; mind; moment; moses; negro; nigel; night; party; place; point; poor; professor; round; roy; sea; short; son; tell; thought; tiger; time; tree; van; van der; volcano; water; way; winnie; youth; zee cache: 23371.txt plain text: 23371.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 2530 author: Wallace, Alfred Russel title: The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature date: None words: 114424 flesch: 63 summary: Besides these, there are numbers of Javanese sailors and domestic servants, as well as traders from Celebes, Bali, and many other islands of the Archipelago. In Borneo, Celebes, and many other islands, the larvae of bees and wasps are eaten, either alive as pulled out of the cells, or fried like the dragonflies. keywords: animal; archipelago; australia; bamboo; birds; black; borneo; case; celebes; chapter; character; chief; close; coffee; country; day; days; dutch; dyaks; european; fact; feet; fine; forest; form; fruit; general; good; government; ground; group; half; head; house; inches; insects; islands; java; leaves; life; lombock; malay; man; men; mias; miles; morning; mountain; native; new; night; number; people; place; plants; productions; rajah; rice; river; rock; sea; species; specimens; sumatra; time; timor; town; trees; vegetation; village; volcanic; water; way; white; work; years cache: 2530.txt plain text: 2530.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 2539 author: Wallace, Alfred Russel title: The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature date: None words: 111563 flesch: 65 summary: This barrier is equally effectual in the case of many other birds which live only in the depths of the forest, as the kinghunters (Dacelo gaudichaudi), the fly-catching wrens (Todopsis), the great crown pigeon (Goura coronata), and the small wood doves (Ptilonopus perlatus, P. aurantiifrons, and P. coronulatus). They brought me numbers of small birds in exchange for beads or tobacco, but mauled them terribly, notwithstanding my repeated instructions. keywords: amboyna; aru; birds; black; boat; brown; ceram; chief; close; coast; colour; coral; country; day; days; east; end; evening; far; feathers; feet; fine; forest; form; gilolo; good; green; guinea; half; head; high; house; insects; islands; little; malay; man; men; miles; moluccas; morning; natives; new; night; north; number; papuan; paradise; people; place; plumage; point; race; red; return; round; sago; saw; sea; shore; south; species; stay; tail; ternate; time; trees; village; voyage; water; way; west; white; wind; work; years cache: 2539.txt plain text: 2539.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 26844 author: Marryat, Frank title: Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery date: None words: 74731 flesch: 69 summary: It is not quite so easy a task as may be imagined to reform so many millions of people: for it must be remembered that it is not only at Borneo that we shall have to act, but that we must destroy the power of the sultan of Sooloo, and other tribes who frequent other islands, and who follow the same profession. After fixing the positions of several small islands in the Mendoro Sea, we steered for Samboangan, a Spanish penal colony, situated at the southern extremity of Mindanao. keywords: appearance; bay; board; boats; borneo; brooke; captain; chinese; coast; country; day; days; dyaks; english; evening; fire; good; guns; head; hong; house; illustration; island; kong; left; little; man; manilla; men; miles; morning; natives; night; officers; party; people; pirates; place; prahus; rajah; return; river; round; ship; shore; sincapore; sooloo; sultan; thing; time; town; vessels; village; war; water; way cache: 26844.txt plain text: 26844.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 27422 author: Richings, Emily title: Through the Malay Archipelago date: None words: 53510 flesch: 51 summary: Every variety of _battek_, basket-work, mats, and quaint silver or brass ware, is brought by native peddlers to the broad verandahs of the hotel, the patient and gentle people content to spend long hours on the marble steps, dozing between their scanty bargains, or crimsoning their months with the stimulating morsel of betel-nut, said to allay the hunger, thirst, and exhaustion of the steaming tropics. The green and vermilion panelled _sarongs_ of Solo are renowned for their elaborate designs, and the painting of _battek_, or cotton cloth, remains a flourishing industry of the ancient capital. keywords: air; archipelago; bamboo; beauty; blue; brown; campong; central; character; children; chinese; coast; colour; creed; dark; day; days; deep; dutch; eastern; english; european; faith; feet; flowers; foliage; forest; form; fruit; garden; gold; golden; green; heart; hills; hindu; houses; island; java; javanese; jungle; leaves; life; light; malay; mountain; native; nature; nutmeg; orange; palm; past; peaks; place; purple; race; red; remains; rice; river; road; round; sacred; scarlet; sea; shore; stone; sun; temple; time; trees; tropical; vegetation; volcanic; water; white; wild; work; world; yellow cache: 27422.txt plain text: 27422.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 38253 author: None title: A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century date: None words: 85403 flesch: 71 summary: And in the said Benamatapa, which is a very large town, the king is used to make his longest residence; and it is thence that the merchants bring to Sofala the gold which they sell to the Moors without weighing it, for coloured stuffs and beads of Cambay, which are much used and valued amongst them; and the people of this city of Benamatapa say that this gold comes from still further off towards the Cape of Good Hope, from another kingdom subject to this king of Benamatapa, who is a great lord, and holds many other kings as his subjects, and many other lands, which extend far inland, both towards the Cape of Good Hope and towards Mozambich. The Moors call him the great King of the Habeshys: he is Christian, and lord of many extensive countries and numerous people, with whom he makes subject many great kings. keywords: account; arms; bramans; calicut; cambay; cape; captain; carats; children; china; christians; city; cloths; coast; colour; copper; cotton; country; day; days; die; east; elephants; fine; fortress; gentiles; gold; good; half; honour; houses; india; indians; inhabitants; interior; island; jewels; kinds; king; kingdom; leagues; lisbon; long; lord; malabar; malaca; manner; men; merchandise; merchants; money; moorish; moors; nairs; narsinga; order; ormuz; ortelius; parts; pay; pearls; people; pepper; persia; persons; place; portugal; portuguese; property; provisions; quantity; que; ramusio; relations; rice; river; round; rubies; sea; sect; set; ships; silk; silver; south; spices; stone; stuffs; things; time; town; trade; trees; waist; war; water; way; white; wives; women; wood; work; worth; year cache: 38253.txt plain text: 38253.txt