Aru


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Historical Examples

In this very house there was a Macassar man, with an ARU wife and a family of mixed children.
The Malay Archipelago Alfred Russell Wallace

There was probably hardly a man in ARU who had not by this time heard of me.
The Malay Archipelago Alfred Russell Wallace

Thus M. brunii, which is of interest as the first Kangaroo seen by a European, is a native of the ARU islands.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia Frank Evers Beddard

My expedition to the ARU Islands had been eminently successful.
The Malay Archipelago Alfred Russell Wallace

They have a veto upon the appointment of the ARU matoah, or sovereign magistrate.
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man Robert Gordon Latham

In one of these the chief of ARU, the king’s eldest son, was killed.
The History of Sumatra William Marsden

The great emerald bird, so far as yet known, is only found in the ARU Islands.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 Various

He was an ARU trader, a man with a big stomach and a loud voice, and brave—very brave.
An Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad

He has been a trader to ARU for many years, and is well known to both Europeans and natives in this part of the world.
The Malay Archipelago Alfred Russell Wallace

At this place I obtained some light on the complicated mixture of races in ARU, which would utterly confound an ethnologist.
The Malay Archipelago Alfred Russell Wallace

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