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/mˈeɪleɪ ˌɑrkəpˈɛləgˌoʊ/ Listen

Malay Archipelago

noun

A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia. Synonyms: East India, East Indies.

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... Wallace, in his MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, gives an amusing account of a native who was superbly vain of an isolated tuft of hair on the one side of his chin, the only semblance of beard he possessed. A black boy on one of the inland stations ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

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... Spanish and Dutch were direct results and corollaries of the great search for the Spice Islands, which has formed the main subject of our inquiries. The discoveries were mostly made by ships fitted out in the Malay archipelago, if not from the Spice Islands themselves. But at the beginning of the eighteenth century new motives came into play in the search for new lands; by that time almost the whole coast-line of the world was roughly known. ...

— The Story of Geographical Discovery - How the World Became Known • Joseph Jacobs

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... day build boats large enough to carry half a dozen persons across the Nile, out of small pieces of acacia wood pinned together entirely with wooden bolts, and large vessels of similar construction are used by the islanders of the Malay archipelago. Nor is the occurrence of flint arrow heads and knives, in conjunction with other evidences of human life, conclusive proof as to the antiquity of the latter. Lyell informs us that some Oriental tribes still continue ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

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... man had appeared in the great Malay Archipelago before this elevation began. It is thought by some that he was in the Philippines in the later Tertiary, but there are no data as yet throwing ...

— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks

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... now been shown that many species of Utricularia and of two closely allied genera, inhabiting the most distant parts of the world—Europe, Africa, India, the Malay Archipelago, Australia, North and South America—are admirably adapted for capturing by two methods small aquatic or terrestrial animals, and that they absorb the ...

— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin

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