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...Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Dutch: Max Havelaar, of de koffij-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij) is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) which was to pl...

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...er a collection of true to life stories from the "City of Dreams," that can amaze, amuse, or simply confuse you. Find out what really can happen when East meets West in a downtown club, and explore the crumbling old city that was once- Batavia. Meet Chicken Harry an expatriate in love with the cities diverse nightlife, or experience a rainy season flood. Journey in...

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... dreamt of visiting the fabled far flung city of Batavia- the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The few who turned these dreams into reality enter... ... of visiting the fabled far flung city of Batavia- the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The few who turned these dreams into reality entered Bat... ...isiting the fabled far flung city of Batavia- the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The few who turned these dreams into reality entered Batavia ...

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... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ... pre-epidemic levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian ... ... one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in 1927. In Russi... ...xtended the debate on the Civil Rights Act for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" ... ... emerged as a leader in the cable industry in Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF. During the 1990s the consolidated g... ...th century, both Hernando Cortes (in Mexico) and Christopher Columbus (in the West Indies) described these unusual uses of the snack. Father Bernar... ...31 by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). RCA refined its own system, as did the Dutch Philips. Not until 1951 were the standards for public broa... ...atau (Krakatoa) on August 26-27, 1883, a wave 35 meters high swept across the East Indies killing in excess of 36,000 people. Triggered by a submar...

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... with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the merm...

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...avigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonde... ...e -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthag... ... sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectr... ...ly ship -- Real spectres of the sea -- Why the spectre ship was commanded by a Dutchman -- Dying superstition 81-89 CHAPTER VII. Marco Polo's visit to... ...tagem -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- ... ... -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- A cit... ... lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the world -- ' Discovery of the West Indies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the younger ... ...isoner - - His arrest results to his advantage -- Surprising sights in the far east -- An exciting race after native swimmers -- Torture of prisoners ... ...he commonly accepted version of the story is that given by Jal: An unbelieving Dutch captain, endeavoring to double Cape Horn against the force of a h...

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...ism may mark the similarity between what I have written here, and the ancient Eastern teachings of Dualism, or Daoism. However: the ancient teachin... ...ominids 152 firestorm. Did our ancestors burn down the forests on the east side of the Rift Valley? Was that the reason they were chased ou... ...ed. Climates of the world became drier: trees began slowly disappearing. In Eastern Africa, this change of weather patterns was magnified by the R... ...ery major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the ... ...lates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coin... ... they reduce the cost of their gas until the profits go up again. This has a Dutch origin. It’s principle in Dutch is called: Tanstaffl… or loosely... ...ted to the fact that breadfruit was bound to feed the black slaves of the West Indies and free them from bondage like Christian and his crew were fre... ... Nobody bought the breadfruit. Nobody ate it except a few slaves in the West Indies. Instead; the English World was transfixed by the unbelievable... ...servants to New York, and finally: the shipping of African slaves to the West Indies and America. British ship-culture; was a culture of sadistic c...

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...ficial. Rembrandt, born in Leyden, Holland, was surrounded by dis- tinctly Dutch scenery. At first he showed himself to be most real- istic, taking hi... ...in the Louvre, at Paris. College ConfereDce The third nnnual conference of eastern college men on the oppor- tunities and work of the Christian minist... ...ly close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 score after Allen throw a s... ... revision of tlie present eligibility rulea. Condition Examinations During Easter Recess, J907 iMonday, April 1, 11)07, 7.30 p, in., -t H. H.— Kntranc... ...foreign countries represented were as fol- lows: Canada 1. England 1, West Indies 1, South America 1, Tur- key 2, and Sandwich Islanda 5. Fifty years ... ..." Mr. Chapman is a famous ornith- ologist and on a recent trip to the West Indies made a study of the flamingoes. The illuatrationa to be used in the ... ...ncluding, from the French school, Appian, Buhot, CorotandD'Aubigny ;of the Dutch artists, Jongkind, Ziloken and Gravesande; besides work by the Americ... ...ain Brokers. ) Broadway and Duanc Street - . . . New York Painting:sBy the Dutch School The Art Department has placed on exhibition in the second tloo...

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...he French, the sharpe state of the Spanish, the strong signifacncy of the Dutch cannot from heere be drawne to life. The sense many keepe forme; the... ... seene by the formes of sommonings and challenges, that the Princes of the East, and their successors yet remaining, have in use, so fierce, so haugh... ...that it is not an Iland, but rather firme land, and a continent, with the East Indias on one side, and the countries lying under the two Poles on th... ...They drinke not at meat, as Suidas reporteth, of some other people of the East, which dranke after meales but drinke many times a day, and are much ... ...l of Montfort had gained against the faction of Charles de Blois, for the Dutchy of Britanie) the victorious conqueror met with the bodie of his enem... ...am our last Duke of Guienne, father to that Eleonore who transferred that Dutchy unto the houses of France and England, the last ten or twelve yeare... ...alt, as the Tartars and Moskovites doe. These new discovered people of the Indies, when the Spaniards came first amongst them, esteemed that as well ... ...g their neighings as a language of truce and composition. In the [he]ther Indies the chiefe and royallest honour was anciently wont to be to ride upo... ...d ran in himselfe, where all were burned. Ninachetuen, a lord in the East Indies, having had an inkling of the King of Portugales viceroys deliberati...

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...X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...sing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West XXX. The Faithful River XXXIII. In Captivity XXXV. Initiation... ...is wife and take aboard a North Sea pilot to help him sail the ship up the east coast. He had not felt equal to the task by himself, for it is the sor... ...ful awakening of the ship herself, till then, in the picturesque phrase of Dutch seamen, “lying asleep upon her iron.” For a ship with her sails furle... ...re must have been many open mouths and following eyes on board those ships—Dutch, English, with a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who ha... ... ten fathoms of water. Ultimately they brought us up with the jibboom of a Dutch brig poking through our spanker—noth- ing worse. And a miss is as goo... ... her lines at bow and stern. It is impossible to say. She was built in the East Indies somewhere, of teak-wood 37 Joseph Conrad throughout, except th... ...lines at bow and stern. It is impossible to say. She was built in the East Indies somewhere, of teak-wood 37 Joseph Conrad throughout, except the dec... ...fy him openly, as on the banks of the Agulhas homeward bound from the East Indies, or on the outward pas- sage round the Horn, he struck at you fairly... ...o, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound from the West Indies. A thin, silvery mist softened the calm and majestic splendour of li...

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... his acquaintance had been proposing to him to go a voyage for them to the East Indies, and to China, as private traders. “And now, uncle,” says he, “... ...acquaintance had been proposing to him to go a voyage for them to the East Indies, and to China, as private traders. “And now, uncle,” says he, “if yo... ... as I have said, with his project of carrying me thither in his way to the East Indies. I paused a while at his words, and looking steadily at him, “W... ... have said, with his project of carrying me thither in his way to the East Indies. I paused a while at his words, and looking steadily at him, “What d... ...these I carried a tailor, who had offered himself to go a passenger to the East Indies with my nephew, but afterwards consented to stay on our new pla... ... I carried a tailor, who had offered himself to go a passenger to the East Indies with my nephew, but afterwards consented to stay on our new plantati... ...here. After some time we got a mate, a boatswain, and a gunner, English; a Dutch carpenter, and three foremast men. With these we found we could do we... ...ARNED OF DANGER BY A COUNTRYMAN A LITTLE WHILE AFTER THIS there came in a Dutch ship from Batavia; she was a coaster, not an European trader, of abou... ... bargain. We picked up some more English sailors here after this, and some Dutch, and now we resolved on a second voyage to the south- east for cloves...

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... at sea, and had been a sailor’s wife; but whether she was mostly English, Dutch or Spanish, nobody knew and nobody cared. Her husband had been lost a... ...a, Miss Lucy, and those are the loveliest isles, except, may be, the W est Indies, that ever I saw.” “T ell me about them, please,” entreated Lucy. “H... ...the long, jagged tongue, with no particular top to it, hanging down on the east side of America. Perhaps it was the making herself so cold that did it... ...e tom-tom; and Lucy found herself and Leonidas whirling round with a young Dutch planter between them, and an Indian with a crown of feath- ers upon t... ...e sugar, rice, cot- ton of the West; the silk and coffee and spices of the East; the tea of China; the furs of the North: it is all exchanged from one...

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...n successively in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune. My hour... ... in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune. My hours of leisure I... ...e seas; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north west of Van D... ...s; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north west of Van Diemen... ...s many lan guages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no ... ...st of the palace. T he empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north east of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of eight hund... ...he author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by pirates. The malice of a Dutchman. His arrival at an island. He is received into Laputa. I had no... ...I were now settled for life?” adding, “that he intended a voyage to the East Indies in two months,” at last he plainly invited me, though with some ap... ...and setting guard upon us, went to search the sloop. I observed among them a Dutchman, who seemed to be of some authority, though he was not commander...

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...ore it was discovered in the British colony of Australia—I was in the West Indies, trading among the Islands. Being in command and likewise part owner... ...cuit, a piece of beef, a small cask of water, a small box of lemons, and a Dutch cheese. It took a long time to make these exchanges, and they were no... ... fair morning, and there were broad fields of sunlight on the waves in the east. I said no more than this: “I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith ...

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...cordage are her natural produce. W e need go abroad for nothing. Whereas the Dutch, who make large profits by hiring out their ships of war to the Spa... ...nd in which she will in time excel the whole world. The great empires of the east are mostly inland, and consequently excluded from the possibility of... ...of such as are fit for service, can be spared on any one station at one time.East and W est Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, and other parts over which ... ...fit for service, can be spared on any one station at one time.East and W est Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, and other parts over which Britain extends... ...over our trade to Europe, we have as large a one over her trade to the W est Indies, which, by laying in the neighbourhood of the continent, is entire... ...and placed this new world, at the greatest distance it could possibly stand, east and west, from every part of the old, doth, neverthe “Common Sense”...

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...St Giles, St Andrew’s, Holborn, and towards Westminster, began to now come eastward towards the part where I lived. It was to be observed, indeed, tha... ...ared violent, yet seeing it did not presently spread into the city, or the east and south parts, the people began to take courage, and to be, as I may... ... place we calf the Liberties, and in the suburbs, in Southwark, and in the east part, such as W apping, Ratcliff, Stepney , Rotherhithe, and the like,... ...tion. These had spe- cious titles also, such as these: – ‘ An eminent High Dutch physician, newly come over from Holland, where he resided during all ... ...I remember that any one of those families miscarried. Among these, several Dutch mer- chants were particularly remarkable, who kept their houses like ... ...t our ships or corre- spond with us; indeed we stood on ill terms with the Dutch, and were in a furious war with them, but though in a bad condition t... ...d the like advantage to Spain, to the Canaries, to Guinea, and to the West Indies, and par- ticularly to Ireland; but as the plague spread itself ever...

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... with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, -- the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their kniv...

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...to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples an... ...to say, war- den of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town, and member of the Assembly of the States of Holland, was forty-nine years of a... ...llous campaign on the Rhine, which, in the space of three months, had laid the power of the United Provinces prostrate. Louis XIV . had long been the ... ...od laughs at the presumption of man, who wants to raise and prostrate the powers on earth without consulting the King above; and the fickleness and ca... ...soning of this kind, it can be seen that the four or five thousand tulip-growers of Holland, France, and Por- tugal, leaving out those of Ceylon and C... ...ook his stand, with the telescope to his eye. This telescope had not been of great service to him since the autumn of 1671. The tulips, like true daug... ...d yet,” he continued, “it would have been so very delightful to spend the hundred thousand guilders on the enlargement of my tulip-bed or even on a jo...

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... England, and should adopt all the manners, and ideas, and feelings of the Dutch. For this and other reasons, in the year 1620 they embarked on board ... ... were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken pos session of that region many years before, and cal... ...ghened by northern tempests and black ened by the burning sun of the West Indies. He wears an immense periwig, flowing down over his shoulders. His c... ... returned, he was told of another Spanish ship, or galleon, which had been east away near Porto de la Plata. She had now lain as much as fifty years b... ...m England in the Rose Algier, and cruised for nearly two years in the West Indies, endeavoring to find the wreck of the Spanish ship. But the sea is s... ...p tain Phips judged it best to return to England. Before leaving the West Indies, he met with a Spaniard, an old man, who remembered the wreck of the... ...es of North America. This name was given to the high grounds in the north, east part of Newton, and to the bounds of that town and Watertown. At a sho... ...d was known in Greece. The physicians of T urkey, too, those long bearded Eastern sages, had been acquainted with it for many years. The negroes of A...

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...ary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEI... ...ck. Another version of the Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ...landers all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and av- enues—north, east, south, and west. Y et here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic... ... word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insur- ance Companies pay death-f... ...st unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more... ... dropped into the sea; when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leavin... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Loui... ...latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been ...

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...w. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. ... ...ck. Another Version of the whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ...landers all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic ... ... word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death for... ...st unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more... ...d dropped into the sea; when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leavin... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis... ...latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been ...

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...loan, and take tent o’ the jaw-hole.” “Oh, if ye get to eassel and wessel [Eastward and West- ward] again, I am undone!—Is there nobody that could gui... ...ed the national dress of the Scottish com- mon people with something of an Eastern costume, she spun a thread, drawn from wool of three different colo... ...e, and with a countenance bronzed by a thousand con- flicts with the north-east wind. His frame was prodigiously muscular, strong, and thick-set; so t... ... Captain Dirk Hatteraick, and the Yungfrauw Hagenslaapen, half Manks, half Dutchman, half devil! run out the bowsprit, up mainsail, top and top-gallan... ...ng them off in triumph to the next custom-house. Dirk Hatteraick vowed, in Dutch, Ger- man, and English, a deep and full revenge, both against the gau... ...man that was here?—that’s the famous Colonel Mannering, sir, from the East Indies.” “What, him we read of in the newspapers?” “Ay, ay, just the same. ... ...ble profession by my great-uncle), and has a par- ticular antipathy to the Dutch; think with what ear he would be likely to receive proposals for his ... ... and whence you came?” “My name is Brown, mother, and I come from the East Indies.” “From the East Indies!” dropping his hand with a sigh; “it cannot ... ...hat everything I look on seems the thing I want maist to see. But the East Indies! that cannot be—Weel, be what ye will, ye hae a face and a tongue th...

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...kment, gently occupied. They were indifferent, like pieces of dead na- 12 Robert Louis Stevenson ture. They did not move any more than if they had be... ... tell him where I had been, and where I hoped to go; and as he listened, I de- clare the fellow sighed. Might not this have been a brave African trave... ... to admire, the apologetics died away, and the good people began to brag of their barge, and their happy condition in life, as if they had been Empero... ...for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.’ The Ho- tel du Nord, nevertheless, lights its secular tapers within a stone-cast of the church; a... ...secular tapers within a stone-cast of the church; and we had the superb east-end before our eyes all morning from the window of our bed- room. I have ...