Going Back to Ternate

On the 29th we left Dorey, and expected a quick voyage home, as it was the time of year when we ought to have had steady southerly and easterly winds. Instead of these, however, we had calms and westerly breezes, and it was seventeen days before we reached Ternate, a distance of five hundred miles only, which, with average winds, could have been done in five days. It was a great treat to me to find myself back again in my comfortable house, enjoying milk to my tea and coffee, fresh bread and butter, and fowl and fish daily for dinner. This New Guinea voyage had used us all up, and I determined to stay and recruit before I commenced any fresh expeditions. My succeeding journeys to Gilolo and Batchian have already been narrated, and if; now only remains for me to give an account of my residence in Waigiou, the last Papuan territory I visited in search of Birds of Paradise. by Alfred Russel Wallace

Expedition in New Guinea

In 1858 a great British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace conducted an expedition to Dorey bay (now Manokwari town of West Papua) in New Guinea in search of paradise birds.   The following stories were translated into Bahasa Indonesia from Chapter XXXIV of his book entitled The Malay Archipelago

1. Sailing to New Guinea

2. Meeting with Two Evangelists Otto and Geisler

3. Dorey Village

4. Building a House in Dorey Bay of New Guinea

5. Visiting Arfak Tribe Behind the Table Mountain

6. Hunting and Studying Insects

7. Tree Kangaroo

8. Paradise Birds are Getting Fewer

9. Felling Ill

10. Dorey People are Great Artists

11. Small Insects Coleoptera

12. Ants and Flies

13. Going Back to Ternate