Download or read book Travels in the East Indian Archipelago (Classic Reprint) written by Albert S. Bickmore and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in the East Indian Archipelago The object of my voyage to Amboina was simply to re-collect the shells figured in Rumphius's "Rariteit Kamer," and the idea of writing a volume of travels was not seriously entertained until I arrived at Batavia, and, instead of being forbidden by the Dutch Government to proceed to the Spice Islands, as some of my warmest friends feared, I was honored by His Excellency, the Governor-General of "the Netherlands India," with the order given on page 40. Having fully accomplished that object, I availed myself of the unexampled facilities to travel afforded me in every part of the archipelago, and all except the first six chapters describe the regions thus visited. The narrative given has been taken almost entirely from my journal, which was kept day by day with scrupulous care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.