Identifier: directoryfornavi00find (find matches)
Title: A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Findlay, Alexander George, 1812-1875
Subjects: Pilot guides Pilot guides Pilot guides
Publisher: London : R. H. Laurie
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE JAVA COAST. 151 on either side of it. Each has a distinct class of animal and vegetable life.Thus the elephant and tapir of Sumatra have no existence in Java. The wildhog and rhinoceros of Sumatra are of different species to those found in Java.The orang-outang is found in Sumatra, but not in Java. The birds are alsoquite different; many important families belong to each, without havingthem in common. These curious contrasts are also found to exi&t betweenthe islands further to the eastward. These remarkable facts in the distribu-tion of life on the earth have been much discussed by naturalists, especiallyby M. Temminck and Mr. A. R. Wallace. The strait derives its name from the western portion of Java, which ispeopled by the Sunda nation, who speak a different language, and are lessadvanced in civilization than the rest of the Javanese. In its widest sense, the Strait of Sunda embraces a very large area. Be-tween the western extremity of Java and the south-western end of Suma

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