[36] Subsequently I learned that two of them were still living when he reached France.
[37] From Valentyn and later writers we learn that eruptions have occurred in the following years: 1586, 1598, 1609, 1615, 1632, 1690, 1696, 1712, 1765, 1775, 1778, 1820, and 1824.
[38] Heavy earthquakes, without eruptions, have occurred in 1629, 1683, 1710, 1767, 1816, and 1852.
[39] In this case the facts that the water in the roads did not pour out into the sea, and that the “flood” did not come until half an hour after the shock had occurred, indicate that this wave had its origin elsewhere, and that there is no need of supposing, as in accounting for the great wave of 1852, that any part of the group was raised or depressed.
[40] Mr. Crawford thinks this is a corruption of burungdewata, which in Malay means “birds of God.”
[41] Vide Ramusio, vol. i., p. 376, in Crawford’s “Dictionary of the India Islands.”
[42] In the same length of time Mr. A. R. Wallace collected sixty-six species on this island.
[43] A similar cause produces the rainless district of Peru, but there the prevailing wind throughout the year, at least in the upper strata of the atmosphere, is from the southeast.
[44] This date is corroborated by Pigafetta, who wrote in 1521, and remarks in regard to this point: “Hardly fifty years have elapsed since the Moors (Arabs) conquered (converted) Malucco (the Moluccas), and dwelt there. Previously these islands were peopled with Gentiles (i. e., heathen) only.”
[45] Vide Pigafetta in Crawfurd’s “Dict. India Islands.”