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...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...ho are in the lowest scale of humanity, but are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance. The panorama of the islands, as t... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ...n villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off hi... ...wned with wreaths of smoke, appeared on the edge of the waters. It was the American steamer, leaving for Y okohama at the appointed time. “Confound he...

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..., and re- member that this man had been known to stroll up to a village of cannibals in New Guinea in a quiet, fearless manner (and note that he was a... ...c and sententious, who, for all I know, might have stolen her on the South American coast, whence he said he had come over to the Philippines “for fam...

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...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...are excited, they do commit fearful deeds, and they are almost universally cannibals, i.e. after a battle there will be always a cannibal feast, not o... ...hould probably stop at San Cristoval. A few years ago they were very wild— cannibals of course; but they are now building chapels, and thirsting for t... ...ly if I had time. ‘They are most simple, gentle and docile, unwarlike, not cannibals, I verily believe as good a specimen of the natural fallen man as... ...les long. I know that hundreds are living there ignorant of God, wild men, cannibals, ad- dicted to every vice. I know that Christ died for them, and ... ...as peril. The Bishop writes:— ‘The people, though constantly fighting, and cannibals and the rest of it, are to me very attractive, light-coloured, an... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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...by the horrors of a warfare the atrocities of which would have shamed even cannibals. Captain Merle and the adju- tant Gerard could not explain to the... ...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a...

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...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...reat original — the Tyre of this Carthage; — the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aborig... .... There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, the same as in South American ponchos. But could it be possible that any sober har pooneer woul... ...emembered a story of a white man — a whaleman too — who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooneer, in ... ...ese last mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom ... ... of the tempest. But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors. Not at all. Still New Bedford... ... the people stared; not at Queequeg so much — for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their streets, — but at seeing him and me upon such c... ...elagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men of war now peacefully ride in once savage harbor...

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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ... I remembered a story of a white man—a whaleman too—who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooneer, in ... ...ese last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom ... ... of the tempest. But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors. Not at all. Still New Bedford... ...ng the people stared; not at Queequeg so much—for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their streets,—but at seeing him and me upon such con... ...lagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbo... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the...

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... T reasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson TREASURE ISLAND T o S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following nar... ...ld no longer be in doubt about that. I began to recall what I had heard of cannibals. I was within an ace of calling for help. But the mere fact that ...

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...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- male will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her cha... ...maids are about no good, and we had best not ex- amine the fiendish marine cannibals, revelling and feasting on their wretched pickled victims. And so...

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...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss... ...s—they will blot it from their records, as levelling them with a nation of cannibals. The mummery, too, of exposing the senseless head—they have not t...

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...f this tax was nothing like so much as had been imagined in this bureau of Cannibals; and the King did not pay a single farthing more to any one than ... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h...

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... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ...kee traders are not the most edifying society—and the crew vowed they were cannibals, and had eaten a man three years ago, so they all went ashore arm... ...r. Ernescliffe, to take him on shore—” “Then you did really go amongst the cannibals!” exclaimed Blanche. “That is all nonsense,” said Harry. “Some of... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,... ... Tom, who primed him with all sorts of outrageous abuse of the niggers and cannibals, who would make Norman’s coats out of all shape, and devour littl...

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...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...y, and the natives shudder about the evening fire. For the Samoans are not cannibals, do not seem to remember when they were, and regard the practice ... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...friendly sovereign) was kidnapped and de- ported, on the requisition of an American consul, by the captain of an English war-ship. I shall have to tel... ...sion of Stuebel, was in the market supplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the Britis...

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...red with sensible repugnance; even with alarm. The ship was mani- festly in their power; we had women on board; I knew noth- ing of my guests beyond t... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...lish, his down-east twang, and the misfortune of his innocent life. For one cap- tain, sailing out of New Bedford, carried him to Nuka-hiva and maroon... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...ed his words are equally true of the Polynesian. And yet more. Among cannibal Polynesians a dreadful suspicion rests generally on the dead; and the Ma... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...ssions in Hawaii itself, where (in the war of lust) the American mis- sionaries were once shelled by an English adventurer, and once raided and mishan... ...in every quarter of the earth. The next moment she had taken Stanislao’s arm, and they moved off along the pier in the moonlight, leaving me bewildere... ... one of his colleagues, Kekela, a missionary in the great cannibal isle of Hiva-oa. It appears that shortly after a kidnapping visit from a Peruvian s...

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...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...model of which had been in the Exhibition of 1867. This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds t... ...confidence we might place in him. The 30th of June, the frigate spoke some American whal- ers, from whom we learned that they knew nothing about the n... ...ues Under the Sea to the Scotch for hospitality. They only just miss being cannibals. I should not be surprised at it, but I declare that they shall n... ...ing braved the icebergs of the South Pole, the coral reefs of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train! If this e... ... without disturbing the ordinary repose of the crew. The presence of these cannibals affected them no more than the soldiers of a masked battery care ...

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..., as he peered into the obscurity where I lay. “Ay, T ypee, my king of the cannibals, is it you I But I say, my lad, how’s that spar of your’n? the ma... ...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... clusters—concerning whom, however, but little is known—have a bad name as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mar... ...editary propensity to kill men and eat them. T rue, he came from a race of cannibals; but that was all that was known to a certainty. Whatever unpleas... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...ng on the island more than two years, he finally escaped in the boat of an American whaler, which landed him at Valparaiso. From this period he had co... ...ts bowsprit; which, from its posi- tion, looked nearly upright. She was an American whaler, a very old craft. Having sprung a leak at sea, she had mad...

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...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ...rough the dust. But it as well repaid. I intro- duced myself as a Hawaiian-American, and soon found my- self in full tide of talk, or rather of monolo... ...ily wish you many years yet of health and vigour. Your books I have in the American edition. I have ‘T ypee, ‘Omoo,’ ‘Redburn,’ and that noble piece ‘... ...m exclusively, inasmuch as the natives of all this group are irreclaimable cannibals. The name may, perhaps, have been given to denote the pe- culiar ... ...e. Although I was convinced that the inhabitants of our bay were as arrant cannibals as any of the other tribes on the island, still I could not but f... ...of the treacherous valley, exclaimed, ‘There—there’s Typee. Oh, the bloody cannibals, what a meal they’d make of us if we were to take it into our hea... ...mplish my object, and counted much upon my ability to elude these prowling cannibals amongst the many coverts which the mountains afforded. Besides, t...

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...eir surroundings at the Goyle. And when letters arrived from Hubert at the American Vale Leston, asking questions requiring some research in books, ei... ... fleeting visit from Hubert Delrio, who had fin- ished his frescoes at the American Vale Leston, and came for a day or two to Mr. Flight’s. She had so... ...e Bernard carried on the joke by asking Marilda if she thought the natives cannibals given to the snaring of mankind. Altogether it was a thoroughly m... ...ng between Londonderry and Bristol. He, with another, who proved to be the American captain of the Afra, were at the gate of the hospital, where an am... ...th the resolute fortitude and unselfishness generally shown by English and Americans in the like circumstances. The sea was not in a dangerous state, ...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- 658 V anity Fair male will permit the word breeches to be pro... ...maids are about no good, and we had best not ex- amine the fiendish marine cannibals, revelling and feasting on their wretched pickled victims. And so...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...owers left— the anti-German allies, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan- Americans. And it is to be noted that, whatever the constitu- ents of these... ... the European States after the war will grow up in the common European and American mind; public men on either side will indicate concordance with thi... ...og does not eat dog, nor lawyer, lawyer; but the newspapers are sharks and cannibals, they are in perpetual conflict, the Press is a profession as ope...

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...’ ‘I dare say I shall be. ’Tis a horrible climate, and there are no end of cannibals there, so that he would not take me out for anything,—and sharks,... ...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ...

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...e shall hereafter see) to an analogous conclusion with regard to the South American ostrich, the females of which are parasitical, if I may so express... ...t from their habits. The Saurophagus sulphuratus is typi- cal of the great American tribe of tyrant-flycatchers. In its structure it closely approache... ...Bra- zil, nothing struck him more forcibly than the splendour of the South American vegetation con- trasted with that of South Africa, together with t... ...elan, certainly three, and probably five species of rhinoceros; and on the American side, two tapirs, the guanaco, three deer, the vicuna, peccari, ca... ...the wild plains of Northern Patagonia: and first for the largest, or South American ostrich. The ordinary hab- its of the ostrich are familiar to ever... ...ths together taste a dro of water ex- cepting the dew. They all seem to be cannibals for no sooner was a mouse caught in one of my traps tha it was de... ... Cape Horn — Wigwam Cove — Miserable Condi- tion of the Savages — Famines —Cannibals — Ma- tricide — Religious Feelings — Great Gale — Beagle Channel ... ...oard, once found a stock thus buried. The different tribes when at war are cannibals. From the concurrent, but quite independent evidence of the boy t...

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... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...avior were as easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American population. When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters, though he b... ... Punic, in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living. In like manner we see literature best ... ...ere the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers; countries where man serves himself with metals,...

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...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...o thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares ( Lepus Americanus ) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winter... ...that it is easier to sail many thou sand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist o... ...nd not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared Walden 2...

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...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ...der to thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares (Lepus Americanus) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winte... ...but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist ... ...h, and not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with t...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...choly place. This was partly owing to the despondent tone in which so many Americans then spoke of their own affairs. It was not that the Northern men... ...of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the American machine. When any matter of real interest occasioned a vote, the a... ...ctly in the other way. I am almost disposed to think that we should become cannibals if gentlemen’s legs and ladies arms were hung up for sale in purv...

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...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ...’t any roads?” Skim interrupted, but none laughed. “My uncle he married an American woman for his sec- ond, and she took it up like a like the coroner... ... the way o’ talk leading to an- 34 Actions and Reactions other, and those American people at Veering Holler was very obligin’ with news, I’m told, ma... ...With seed and machinery—about two hundred pounds. I had the labour done by cannibals.” “That sounds promising.” Stalky reached for a fresh ciga- rette... ...k you,” said Agnes. “I’ve been at Weston-super- Mare a little too long for cannibals. I’ll go to the music- room and try over next Sunday’s hymns.” Sh... ... morning, his mess had rolled him into a lotus pond. “How did you get your cannibals to work for you?” asked Strickland. “They got converted to civili...

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...st dangerous chieftain in these parts, the Sheikh Sidi el Assif, has a new American machine pistol which fires ten bullets without loadin; and his rif... ...ing Howdyedo? like me, people aim pistols at them. I’ve been among savages—cannibals and all sorts. Everybody said they’ d kill me. But when I met the... ...p. (Sir Howard’s face falls.) LADY CICELY. What is it, then? RASSBOUND. An American cruiser. The Santiago. THE CADI (tearing his beard). Woe! alas! it... ...hind it, and an inkstand and paper ready for the sitter. A couple of cheap American chairs right and left of the table, facing the same way as the pre... ...s Conversion RANKIN (doubtfully). I could wish there were more chairs. Yon American captain will preside in this; and that leaves but one for Sir Howr... ...urse you are. But don’t you think he would make a better impression on the American captain if he were a little more respectably dressed? RANKIN. Mebb...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...God:” God’s Breath in Man is the title of the chief work of our best known American mystic (Thomas Lake Harris), and in cer- tain non-Christian countr... ...o practical fruits, and the ex- tremely practical turn of character of the American people has never been better shown than by the fact that this, the... ... John G. Paton, for example, in the New Hebrides, among brutish Melanesian cannibals, pre- 348 The V arieties of Religious Experience serves a charme...

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...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...y to killing him. From this fundamental right many others are derived. The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up b... ...ss as perhaps the most miserable of human occupa- tions. Nevertheless, the American Constitution roughly ex- presses the conditions to which modern de... ...t as the week-end bound- ers do, and to think and believe as the converted cannibals of Central Africa do, and to lie down and let every snob and ever...