I found all Alfred Russel Wallace’s writings online. Not only all the original works by Wallace are available there; the webmaster, Charles H. Smith, includes some summaries and comments that help understand the texts.

Wallace’s wrote that a traveller in the Malay Archipielago finds himself sailing for days or even for weeks along the shores of one of these great islands, often so great that the inhabitants believe it to be a boundless continent.
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