Lexicographical Neighbors of Amboina
Literary usage of Amboina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea by Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Alfred Cort Haddon, Sidney Herbert Ray (1912)
"... attached as an outpost to the garrison of amboina and communications were
established with that place. For several months a steamer came from amboina P ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"It seems certain that the amboina proceedings took strong hold of English popular
opinion, and served to render general that ..."
3. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: With Notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1889)
"amboina, BANDA, AND THE ARU ISLANDS. LEAVING Misol and our hunters ... amboina slept,
and we did but get hot and impatient. ..."
4. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in by Robert Kerr (1824)
"SECTION X. Some Account of the Governments of amboina, Banda, Ma~ casser, ...
THE third government under the East India Company is that of amboina, ..."
5. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"amboina. TERN ATE. Appearance of the Aru Islands. Trees Transplanted by the ...
Saluting at amboina. Danger to the Eyes in Diving for Corals. Raised Reefs. ..."
6. Travels in the East Indian Archipelago by Albert Smith Bickmore (1869)
"Two months liad now passed since I arrived at amboina, and I liad not only collected
... though alone, and that, when she returned to amboina a second time, ..."
7. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"... struggle between freedom and absolutism—Affairs in the East—amboina taken by
Van der Eagen—Contest for possession of the Clove Islands—Commercial treaty ..."
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