Java

He claimed on the strength of a romantic story to be the heir of a great English house.

He had played a part in a revolt in Java, had languished in Dutch fetters, and had risen to be a trusted agent of Brigham Young, the Utah President.

It was in this character of a Mormon emissary that he first came to the islands of Hawaii, where he collected a large sum of money for the Church of the Latter-day Saints.

At a given moment he dropped his saintship and appeared as a Christian and the owner of a part of the island of Lanai.

He claimed on the strength of a romantic story to be the heir of a great English house.

He had played a part in a revolt in Java, had languished in Dutch fetters, and had risen to be a trusted agent of Brigham Young, the Utah President.

It was in this character of a Mormon emissary that he first came to the islands of Hawaii, where he collected a large sum of money for the Church of the Latter-day Saints.

At a given moment he dropped his saintship and appeared as a Christian and the owner of a part of the island of Lanai.

Sumatra as large as Great Britain.

Java larger than Portugal.

Sulawesi equal to Austria and Hungary.

The Philippines as large as Romania.

The second and most important group consists of the Malays, also copper-colored or brown of complexion, with straight black hair and the slanting eyes and short nose of the Chinese.

Intelligent and artistic, some of them civilized to the point of having a written language and of building beautiful temples.

The Malays predominate in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Philippines, in short, in the Malay Archipelago, as well as on the Malay Peninsula, which is more a part of the archipelago than of Asia.

The third group consists of various black or chocolate-colored peoples, for the most part primitive savages, among them the Aborigines of Australia, the Papuans of New Guinea, Papua, the Solomon Islands and Fiji, and the Negritos, or small Negroes, scattered throughout the Philippines and other Malaysian islands.

And it is biogeographically part of Sundaland, which was Peninsular...

Southeast Asia, plus Borneo, Sumatra, and Java.

So it both has a lot of cool birds that are shared with that general region, but also quite a few endemics.

Did you know, Ken, that Indonesia has just got a little bit bigger? I didn't know that.

Finish Kochoas.

You

finished? I've only heard Javan, so you know that.

Ah, heard Javan.

Chapter six.

Concerning the great island of Java.

When you sail from Chamba fifteen hundred miles in a course between south and south-east you come to a great island called Java; and the experienced mariners of those islands, who know the matter well, say that it is the greatest island in the world, and has a compass of more than three thousand miles.

It is subject to a great king, and tributary to no one else in the world.

The people are idolaters.

All kinds of spicery are to be found there, and all other necessaries of life.

Chapter 9.

Concerning the island of Java the Less.

The were-tiger is not confined to the Khans.

It is met with in Malaysia, in the gorgeous tropical forests of Java and Sumatra, where it is feared more than anything on earth by the gentle and intelligent natives, and if rumor be true, in the great lone mountains and dense jungles and along the hot, unhealthy riverbanks of New Guinea.

In Arawak, it gives place to the were-jaguar, in Ashango land and many parts of West Africa, to the were-leopard.

Of course, there are cases of charlatanism in lycanthropy, as in medicine, politics, palmistry, and in every other science.

He claimed on the strength of a romantic story to be the heir of a great English house.

He had played a part in a revolt in Java, had languished in Dutch fetters, and had risen to be a trusted agent of Brigham Young, the Utah President.

It was in this character of a Mormon emissary that he first came to the islands of Hawaii, where he collected a large sum of money for the Church of the Latter-day Saints.

At a given moment he dropped his saintship and appeared as a Christian and the owner of a part of the island of Lanai.