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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...age -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Grief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite ... ...nimals of impossible creation -- A fight with Patagonians and burning of their village - - How the natives cure the stomach ache 242- 251 CHAPTER XXII... ...ves -- A burning corncrib -- Disappointment following the capture of an Indian village -- A terrible storm -- In sight of Panama -- A foot race for th... ...stowed upon him, he was made post-captain, and appointed to the command of the Greenwich hospital. Six months afterwards he was chosen a member of the...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the ...

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...HER FAMIL Y CIRCLE. IN A CERTAIN QUIET and sequestered nook of the retired village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at ... ...he duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many per- sons are in the days of thei... ...ttle bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805, ... ...urs, much accustomed, one for the gentlemen of the shoulder-knot, who came from the houses of their employers hard by; an- other for some “gents who u... ...de-Cologne and hair-combs from the perfumer—some opera tickets, a treat to Greenwich, and a piece of real Genoa velvet for a bonnet (it had originally... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...irm is, I flatter my- self, a little more up in the market than some other people’s names.” “Do you mean to insult the name of Archibald Eglantine, si...

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...riend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...bout three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of la... ...nghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at ... ...if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him. As for any ... ...her particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book. RICHARD SYMPSON. A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN ... ...r, you were pleased to an swer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to in... ...stence than the inhabitants of Utopia. Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt,... ... prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious people to see me; so that the villages were al most emptied; and great neglect of tillage and house h... ..., in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning ... ...of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a grazing in a bowling green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, ...

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... pleasant bright things, the dessert and glasses and napery of the dinner we had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. ?He was mystifying!? I said, and then: ?How well he did it!? It isn?t quite the thing I should have expected him, of all people, to do well.?...

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...e had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. “He was mysti... ...ll he did it!… It isn’t quite the thing I should have expected him, of all people, to do well.” Afterwards, as I sat up in bed and sipped my morning t... ...alk at an abnormally early age, and he was so sane and “old-fashioned,” as people say, that he was permitted an amount of initiative that most childre... ...ld to this attraction. He insisted upon it as a curious thing that he knew from the very beginning—un- less memory has played him the queerest trick—t... ...quality and promise of heart’s desire. And there were many things and many people, some that still seem to stand out clearly and some that are a littl... ...d of me, and so march me home. Sobbing, conspicuous and frightened, I came from the en- chanted garden to the steps of my father’s house. “That is as ... ...long wakening streets, it was shouted down the frost-stilled ways of quiet villages; men who had read these things from the throbbing tape stood in ye... ...lined to persecute the ob- durate fearful. That night, at seven-fifteen by Greenwich time, the star would be at its nearest to Jupiter. Then the world... ..., showed with pitiless brilliance the wide and populous country; towns and villages with their pagodas and trees, roads, wide cultivated fields, milli...

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...land; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come i...

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... Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought hom... ...which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but a... ... have lived to see practised since. But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from ... ...l was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and ... ...rtality in the usual manner, thus – Plague, 2. Parishes infected, 1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the... ...ther house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, and the weekly bill... ...right; I do not buy provisions for them here. I row up to 97 Daniel Defoe Greenwich and buy fresh meat there, and sometimes I row down the river to W... ...er bestowed. I then asked the poor man if the distemper had not reached to Greenwich. He said it had not till about a fortnight be- fore; but that the... ...ose had done. He told me yes, all the way up from the point, right against Greenwich, to within the shore of Limehouse and Redriff, all the ships that...

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... elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But th...

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...e extremely to be called—“Scientists.” They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and ... ...ectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth. They were of course quite undistinguished l... ...ich I believe was the voice of Professor Redwood, and there was a sizzling from the lantern and another sound that kept me there, still out of curiosi... ...s not under- stand it either. But really you know many of these scientific people understand the meaning of their own papers quite well: it is simply ... ... it, because as a general rule I do not think it is at all interesting for people to tell each other about their dreams. By a singular coincidence Red... ...e from the weekly storm of cleaning she would not forego. And having known people addicted to drink, she re- garded his solicitude for distinction in ... ...black shadow at midday. It was a mile and a half from the end house of the village, and its loneliness was very doubtfully relieved by an ambiguous fa... ..., and spoke in a confidential manner, and one sad eye regarded the distant village, and one was bright and wicked. “Got to be meathured every blethed ... ...ting “Hi!” at him should stay his course. He came on down by Rochester and Greenwich towards an ever-thick- ening aggregation of houses, walking rathe...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...n. It is not undesignedly that I begin this subject with the Township. The village or township is the only association which is so perfectly natural t... ...ted by so many benefits. 111 Tocqueville Granting for an instant that the villages and counties of the United States would be more usefully governed ... ... of Washington, agrees very nearly with the 97th degree on the meridian of Greenwich. 787 Tocqueville Appendix C The languages which are spoken by th...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...radius, sir. The boy delivers telegrams directly to this door from Pardons village.” “One has to take a good deal on trust in this country,” he murmur... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...ding to business, wakes de- sire in a man; and the telegraph office at the village of Fri- ars Pardon, where they sold picture post-cards and pegtops,... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar... ....p. and weight. We fit and test free to 40 east of Greenwich Village L. & W. POWELL 196 Victoria ...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...re, of an eligible cottage without farm at- tached, in the pleasant little village of Llanblethian close by Cowbridge in Glamorganshire; of this he to... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ... ...g in comparison, the most im- portant seems to have been a Dr. Burney’s at Greenwich; a large day-schoo] and boarding-school, where Anthony and John g... ...rs, in the strangest, most peaceful way. I felt myself walking with you in Greenwich Park, and on the seashore at Sandgate; almost even I seemed a bab...

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...ion. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men?s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental r...

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.... They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit s... ...le memory. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home centred intere... ...d in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the d... ...ation as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, ... ...that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin y... ...one direction and the loungers in the other, while a number of better dressed people, who had watched the scuffle without taking part in it, crowded i... ...either side of us. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. “We are on... ...o of which ended in the policecourt, until at last he became the terror of the village, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of imm... ...even years that I was apprenticed to Venner & Matheson, the well known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, hav ing served my time, and having also come...

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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between p...

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...PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I DO NOT FIND IT EASY to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of hav- ing finished it, to refer ... ... pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I l... ...to the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I wer... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...civilities nothing has passed! You talk of admiration. What am I to do? If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? What am I ... ...dore Trunnion held that club with Mr. Pickle, in the parlour of our little village alehouse. The reader now understands, as well as I do, what I was w... ...ox and money; and, panting and crying, but never stopping, faced about for Greenwich, which I had under- stood was on the Dover Road: taking very litt... ...gave up the pursuit of the young man with the donkey-cart, and started for Greenwich. My scattered senses were soon collected as to that point, if I h...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... chiefly; over the oilcloth of which, assumed to be land, spread towns and villages and forts of wooden bricks; there are steep square hills (geologic... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...rming, sniffing, grimy offspring of this dingy new population to read. The villages of Beckington, which used to be three miles to the west, and Blame... ...with the fireworks at close quarters. We went in a river steamboat down to Greenwich, and fired by that made an excursion to Margate and back; we expl...

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...ry in the popular tales of all countries, so that it is probable that Apuleius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those legends of su...

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...ius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every countr... ...eeing Psyche’s charms, became enamoured of her, and re- solved to save her from his mother and make her his own. He therefore caused Zephyr to transpo... ...the wrath of Venus pursued her; Ceres and all the other deities chased her from their temples; even when she would have drowned herself, the river god... ...ho had been put out to nurse had no more manners than the calves and pigs. People were the more flattering to us because they expected soon to see my ... ...ced, after which the walk was continued to the farm-house, where the young people were made very welcome. Farmers were, as a rule, more rustic than th... ....” “O sir, I was heartily glad to escape and to get the children away. The people were becoming so rude and riotous that I was frightened. I never wou... ...sh you to read and explain it to her.” “Certainly, madam.” “She lives near Greenwich Park,” continued Lady Belamour, “and as I would not have the secr... ...harves and building yards of Deptford, and be- yond them rose the trees of Greenwich Park, while the river below exhibited a forest of masts. The boat... ...it for the tide to shoot the bridge.” “Then pray let us go out and walk in Greenwich Park,” exclaimed Aurelia, longing to escape from this den. “The s...

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...stocratic life.” But by “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He me... ...ur sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benham that easy de- clension to ... ...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...on; in a mighty writing and stowing away of these papers he found a relief from the unpleasant urgency to confess and ex- plain himself prematurely. S... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...nd assure him- self of his own comfort in the midst of his reading. Y oung people and unseasoned people, Benham argued, are apt to imagine that if fea... ...s, and then a great pale space of moonlight and the clumsy outlines of the village well. The clustering village itself slept in darkness beyond the ma... ...this was the encampment of newly-come invaders, were it not for the larger villages that are overgrown with thickets and altogether swallowed up again... ...of Hampton Court past the whole spectacle of London out to the shipping at Greenwich and the towed liners, the inces- sant tugs, the heaving portals o...

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...Excerpt: The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparatory Establishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before book--was a miserable loft in an unsavoury yard. Its atmos...

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...TIONAL CHARACTER THE SCHOOL AT WHICH young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book—the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparat... ...e good child’s book, the Adventures of Little Margery , who resided in the village cottage by the mill; severely reproved and morally squashed the mil... ... had written their own biographies in the same strain; it always appearing from the lessons of those very boast- ful persons, that you were to do good... ...y Hexam had risen in the jumble, taught in the jumble, and been re- ceived from the jumble into a better school. ‘So you want to go and see your siste... ...his, he was proud, moody, and sullen, desiring it to be forgotten. And few people knew of it. In some visits to the Jumble his attention had been attr... ...r ailing little creature has come to be what she is, surrounded by drunken people from her cradle—if she ever had one, Charley .’ ‘I don’t see what yo... ...one of the finders. He was mooning about, I suppose, taking liberties with people’s chins; but there he was, somehow. He brought the news home to my s... ...se, ‘take this lovely woman out to dinner.’ ‘Where shall we go, my dear?’ ‘Greenwich!’ said Bella, valiantly . ‘ And be sure you treat this lovely wom... .... If ever you tell of me, I’ll tell of you. I’ll tell Ma that you dined at Greenwich.’ ‘Well; seriously , my dear,’ observed R. W ., with some trepi- ...

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...ashes out of a man’s life into such receptacles. I would catch sight of it from time to time with a distinct feeling of satisfaction till, one day, I ... ...ing side by side, both encrusted with ink and completely undistinguishable from each other. It was very distressing, but being determined not to share... ...My next effort in short-story writing was a depar- ture—I mean a departure from the Malay Archi- pelago. Without premeditation, without sorrow, withou... ...after one short grasp, return to rest on a chased hilt. They were Karain’s people—a devoted following. Their movements hung on his lips; they read the... ...s followed him. They called him their war-chief. He was the ruler of three villages on a narrow plain; the master of an insignificant foothold on the ... ...orrent wound about like a dropped thread. Clumps of fruit-trees marked the villages; slim palms put their nodding heads together above the low houses;... ..., too much of an essential condition for the existence of his land and his people, to be destroyed by any- thing short of an earthquake. He summed up ... ...th had indeed rolled away from under his land, and he, with his handful of people, stood surrounded by a silent tumult as of contending shades. Certai... ... beat of the two ship’s chronometers tick- ing off steadily the seconds of Greenwich Time seemed to me a protection and a relief. Karain stared stonil...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...f their young captain; and, outlaws as they were, they spoiled no peaceful villages, they lifted not their hands against the persecuting monarch, and ... ... shall fight in the shade.’ T wo of the 300 had been sent to a neighboring village, suffering severely from 35 Yo n g e a complaint in the eyes. One ... ...ven months’ patience in his captivity, the Danish chiefs, who were then at Greenwich desired him to be brought into their camp, where they had just be...

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...WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a ... ...e bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ... ...everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwark... ...ssible. With this intention, we were now shaping our course for Hytyhoo, a village on the island of St. Christina—one of the Marquesas, and so named b... ...ence gathered, however, I learned to my surprise that, in some things, the people of Hivarhoo, though of the same group of islands, differed considera... ...slands, where we were going to refit, abounding with delicious fruits, and peopled by a race almost wholly unsophisticated by in- tercourse with stran... ...he was altogether too good-natured. Say what they will about easy-tempered people, it is far better, on some accounts, to have the temper of a wolf. W... ... the contrary; it stood stock-still; and by that means, no doubt, the true Greenwich time—at the pe- riod of stopping, at least—was preserved to a sec... ...ecious day of their lives all round, getting about that much in advance of Greenwich time. For this reason, vessels com- ing round Cape Horn—as they m...