...ed food with each other. They can carry 15-20 times their body weight. Only the colony's queen breeds. Unfertilized eggs develop into males. The... ...ts an iris-like "shutter" to release the correct amount of light from his bacterial colony. The squid replaces the hosted vibrios daily. Still, bac... ...city in the country and, for a long time, its capital - was made a separate British colony in 1886. It was administered from Freetown, Sierra Leone.... ...xtended the debate on the Civil Rights Act for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" ... ...with a moustache. He wore a deerstalker hat (similar to Sherlock Holmes'), wore no cape and carried no cane. Read more about this elusive figure ... ... emerged as a leader in the cable industry in Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF. During the 1990s the consolidated g... ...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...

...ing the thumb or wrist the motion is felt throughout the whole hand. – From the Cape Breton Advocate. OF MEDICAL HERBS. The old writers on... ...lse recognition, by the highest authority of the devil‘s power to appear in the colony; nay, by strange construction it was made an act of conjuratio... ... her friends to respect her body, and give it a Christian burial. But the whole colony rang with her story. It was exceedingly alarming to the ruler... ...led Ann Cole, and much admired for her beauty and ingenuity. She understood the Dutch and French languages, rare attainments then, but which of them... ... little ones of her own family, and when she practiced the deceptive art in the Dutch language, the unearthly jargon seeming to came from no visibl... ... a great fast at Salem, and another proclaimed by the government throughout the colony, ―that the Lord would effectually rebuke Satan and save his p...

... eyes openly reflected his admiration of Helen’s beauty. Helen, dressed in a bottle green woollen cape trimmed with arctic fox fur to THE CURSE OF ... ... Africa, stopping briefly at a few ports to take on fresh supplies and water and then rounded the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean. Helen had... ...e reached the sub-continent of India. Everyone was relieved that the notorious weather around the Cape had not lived up to its reputation when sudde... ...in the north of the City. The Residency is, of course, built on land bought from the Nawab by the Dutch, who were the first European Power to acquir... ...a tray of iced drinks under one of these portraits, which Helen learned, subsequently, was of the Dutchman who had erected this building. Isabel de ... ...ud. Isabel was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern India, and that her father had ... ...trees outside her bedroom window. She stretched and walked to the window to watch the squabbling colony and noticed on her dressing table a single r... ...nie des Indes Orientales. Their rivalry with the British was more fierce and bitter than with the Dutch and Portuguese, because their respective cou...

... 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... ...co da Gama to the command -- Departure of the squadron -- First passage of the Cape -- Buffeted by terrific storms -- A mutiny quelled by strategy -- ... ... -- Discovery of the skeletons of giants -- Incredible sufferings of a Spanish colony -- Capture of four Spanish vessels -- Torture of a Spanish messe... ...s purpose to Emanuel................................. 156 First passage of the Cape............................................... 159 Capturing Hamme... ...in named Hesperus, who in his time made a voyage upon the ocean and discovered Cape Verde and the Island of St. Thomas; and Gonsalvo Hernandes, a chro... ...er to attract favorable attention to the country, in which he hoped to found a colony. The result was that, as he had anticipated, large numbers of Ic... ...Icelanders and Norsemen emigrated to Greenland and there founded a flourishing colony at the point where Gotthaab, or Godhaven, is now situated, which... ...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...

...Bulgaria 34 Burkina 36 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chi... ...es- tant; also small Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, and Jewish minority Language: Dutch (official), Papiamento (a Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English dia- ... ...nde- pendence from the Netherlands is granted in 1996 Legal system: based on Dutch civil law system, with some English common law influence Government... ... Roman Catholic; remainder Protestant, none, or other Language: 56% Flemish (Dutch), 32% French, 1% German; 11% legally bilingual; divided along ethni... ... 31 British Indian Ocean Territory (continued) British Virgin Islands Type: colony administered by United Kingdom Capital: none Government leaders: W... ...th runways 2,440-3,659 m, 306 with runways 1,220-2,439 m Canada (continued) Cape Verde Telecommunications: excellent service provided by modern telec... ...ion: 344,282 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 2.61% Nationality: noun Cape Verdean(s); adjective Cape Verdean Ethnic divisions: about 71% Creol... ...and Khabarovsk areas); short section with North Korea is indefinite; British colony of Hong Kong will become a Special Administrative Region in 1997; ... ...st); about 95% in agriculture, mostly sheepherding Government Official name: Colony of the Falkland Islands Type: British dependent territory Capital:...

...to be the first to impregnate the female egg-cell into a mechanical opera. Cape Canaveral: was the cape of the foreskin pulling back to reveal the... ... can-averal, and opened up a viral can of mechanical worms to do his bidding. Cape Canaveral was re-named Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most ... ...truction of the entire continent of America was set off by the first European colony establishing a foothold on an island 3 miles off the coast of t... ...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... ...ansom, despite relying on these "savages" for food and supplies. The Roanoke colony disappeared leaving no explanation except the cryptic qwords: ‘... ... A negative attempt. The ‘and’ is left unfinished… and what happened to the colony? The lost colony of Roanoke remains an unsolved mystery to thi... ... Before any settlement was even attempted at the landing at Province Town on Cape Cod Island, it was marred by an English sea captain seizing 27 nat...

... sitting on the stone floor, the chain between us. John urged me to leave Capernaum. “You can’t go on preaching there. Antipas has men on the lookou... ...ain? Peter’s Heshvan 19 I have preached in the synagogues at Cana and Capernaum during the last few days. I do not like preaching indoors. The s... ...ectful, some are quite idle and oblivious of anything but themselves. At Capernaum, as I spoke, swallows flew in and out, swooping low. I won- dered... ... you’re fond of.” “I’m still partial to green. I suppose you bought the Dutch pigments...” Our horses, side by side, kept an even pace: both from ... ..., limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He loved this roo... ...uet in the château, again royalty. Three hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the major... ...ntry against all enemies. I supplied ships for the Queen. In Virginia, my colony is dedicated to all that England stands for. Sirs, I protest! Ju...

...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... ... it is a means for presenting a feature of college sentiment which has es- caped the rectignition of the edi- tors who have not yet had the ad- vantag... ...oceeded by schooner and row boat far inland until he arrived at a deserted colony which had been occupied four years previous. The quest was given up ... ...inches of rain fell in three hours, and when he finally reached the second colony, a few battered mud nests with here and there an egg almost submerge... ...ar to New England and should cease to at- teniiit the portrayal of life in Cape Colony and Peru. The proposi- tion is new to Williams and there- fore ... ... New England and should cease to at- teniiit the portrayal of life in Cape Colony and Peru. The proposi- tion is new to Williams and there- fore deser... ...rf, Ig, Oildersleeve Horrax c, o, Donnelly (Capt.) Templeton Ig, rf. Cook, Capen Oakley rg. If, Olmsteaa Score—Williams 28, Trinity 16. Ooals from flo... ...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...

...mmediately, and rounding the Chateau d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ram... ...rank their wine, was the village of the Catalans. Long ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and settled on the tongue of land on which it is to t... ...if misfortune should occur to you, I would ascend the highest point of the Cape de Morgion and cast myself headlong from it.” Fernand became deadly pa... ...abduction, as from time to time he sat sad and motionless on the summit of Cape Pharo, at the spot from whence Marseilles and the Catalans are visible... ..., to Latakia, — was exposed in pots of crackled earth- enware of which the Dutch are so fond; beside them, in boxes of fragrant wood, were ranged, acc...

..., the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, l...

... was obliged to continue her course. She was then three hundred miles from Cape Clear, and, after three days’ delay, which caused great uneasiness in ... ...at is to say, three weeks after our departure), the frigate was abreast of Cape Blanc, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia. We had cross... ... 3rd of July we were at the opening of the Straits of Magellan, level with Cape Vierges. But Com- mander Farragut would not take a tortuous passage, b... ...this lost rock at the extrem- ity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sail- ors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn. The course w... ...proached these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony took alarm. The white petals re-entered their red cases, the flowers... ...ho, like him, led this strange existence? Should I find down there a whole colony of exiles who, weary of the miseries of this earth, had sought and f...

...of the sea. He had been on these coasts for the last three years. From Low Cape to Malantan the dis- tance was fifty miles, six hours’ steaming for th... ... been married for over a year before it reached them, coming out round the Cape. The big case made part of the first direct general cargo landed in Ho... ...lice of time. Five-and-thirty years ago an enterprise like his had for the colony enough importance to be looked after by a Queen’s ship. A big slice ... ... had been a time when men counted: there were not so many carriages in the colony then, though Mr. Denham, he fancied, had a buggy. And Captain Whalle... ...long; pretty nigh went through every engine-room afloat belong- ing to the colony. Then suddenly, “What do you think happened, Harry?” Captain Whalley... ...fter time, with a slow and thundering fall, into the shadow of the leeward cape; and across the wide opening the nearest of a group of small islands s... ...rdam Courant, the Graphic in its world-wide green wrappers, an illustrated Dutch publication without a cover, the numbers of a Ger- man magazine with ... ...ed hastily from side to side, puffed out his cheeks, suffocated. “Stuck up Dutchman!” And he moaned out feverishly a long tale of griefs. The efforts ... ...He stumbled across a grating and swore. He would not hesitate to fling the Dutchman’s correspondence overboard—the whole confounded bundle. He had nev...

...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... ...irt or two into my old carpet bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, Iduly arr... ...d persons with whom I conversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape Horner in a great hurricane; the half foundered ship weltering there ... ...n Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restle... ... 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... ...e ship touched there. The whale ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emi...

...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... ...IRT OR TWO into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pa- cific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly... ...d persons with whom I conversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foun- 23 Herman Melville dered ... ...n Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a rest- ... ... 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... ...- ship touched there. The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Austra- lian settlement, the ...

...sets forth, the same welcome and the same joys expect them beyond the next cape, where the nearest village nestles in its grove of palms. To the visit... ...riotism flies in arms about a hen; and if you comment upon the colour of a Dutch umbrella, you have cast a stone against the German Em- peror. I give ... ...English house. He had played a part in a revolt in Java, had languished in Dutch fetters, and had risen to be a trusted agent of Brigham Young, the Ut... ...at night. He could then see the lights of a town with wharves; he supposes Cape Town. Off the Cameroons they anchored or lay-to, far at sea, and sent ... ...ll the world over. In the opinion of some, then, the town had narrowly es- caped destruction, or at least the miseries of a drunken sack. To the knowl... ...nous. And fear was mingled with annoyance in the minds of the Anglo- Saxon colony. On the 24th, a public meeting appealed to the British and American ... ... Matafele, only one (I understand) remaining at his post. The whole German colony was thus collected in one spot, and could count and wonder at its sc... ...ic popularity surrounded him among the Germans. It was natural. Consul and colony had passed through an hour of serious peril, and the consul had set ...

...ar- ticular, the desire of seeing my new plantation in the island, and the colony I left there, ran in my head continually . I dreamed of it all night... ...pro- posal, sir,” says he. “I daresay you would be pleased to see your new colony there, where you once reigned with more felicity than most of your b... ...above, a very considerable cargo of all kinds of neces- sary things for my colony, which, if I did not find in good condition, I resolved to leave so.... ...e, Oh yes, Oh there!” pointing to our old habitation, and fell dancing and capering like a mad fellow; and I had much ado to keep him from jumping int... ... have fallen upon them so effectually as not a man of them should have es- caped, which could only have been by getting in between them and their boat... ...merica. We kept on S. by E., in sight of the shore four days, when we made Cape St. Augustine, and in three days came to an anchor off the bay of All ... ...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...

...summoned on duty else- where, Jos Sedley was left in command of the little colony at Brussels, with Amelia invalided, Isidor, his Belgian servant, and... ...ht about him. In tending her patient, and in thinking of the wonderful es- capes of the day before, her second day passed away not too slowly with Ame... ...r Lady Jane! It must not be imagined that Mr. Pitt Crawley’s artifices es- caped the attention of his dear relations at the Rectory at Queen’s Crawley... ...d stories. He described the different pugilistic qualities of Molyneux and Dutch Sam, offered playfully to give Lady Jane the odds upon the Tutbury Pe... ...note round her head. “Hurray?” said Rawdon, wondering at the little figure capering about in a streaming flannel dressing-gown, with tawny locks dishe... ...se near Berkeley Square and a small villa at Roehampton, among the banking colony there. Fred was considered to have made rather a mesalliance by the ...

...n that pale phantas- magoria of cliff and cloud, our haven lay concealed; and somewhere to the east of it—the only sea-mark given—a certain headland, ... ... early moment from the table. It was in these circumstances that we skirted the windward shore of that indescribable island of Ua-pu; viewing with diz... ... but he is an American born, somewhere far east; followed the trade of a ship-carpenter; and was long employed, the cap- tain of a hundred Indians, br... ..., his eye timorous and dull: he seemed at once oppressed with drowsiness and held awake by apprehension: a pepper rajah muddled with opium, and listen... ...ess movement and congregation of natives in the street. But it was not before half-past one that a sudden hubbub of voices called us from the house, t... ... passed us daily going afield; but they fetched a wide circuit round our tapu, and seemed to avert their looks. At times we went ourselves into the vi...

...rm she sung to a wild tune, in a high and shrill voice, and, cutting three capers with such strength and agil- ity, as almost to touch the roof of the... ... Captain Dirk Hatteraick, and the Yungfrauw Hagenslaapen, half Manks, half Dutchman, half devil! run out the bowsprit, up mainsail, top and top-gallan... ... minary. Still greater scope was given to evil tongues by the removal of a colony of gipsies, with one of whom our reader 56 Guy Mannering is somewha... ...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... ...op of war crowded all sail to pursue, but she had stood too close upon the cape, so that they were obliged to wear the vessel for fear of going ashore... ...e woods, which, as we have said, covered a promontory termi- nating in the cape called the Point of Warroch, Kennedy met young Harry Bertram, attended... ...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 ...

... 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 ... ...arked on board the ship Mayflower, and crossed the ocean, to the shores of Cape Cod. There they made a settlement, and called it Plymouth, which, thou... ...Plymouth, which, though now a part of Massachusetts, was for a long time a colony by itself. And thus was formed the earliest settlement of the Purita... ...hard Saltonstall, who had been one of the five first projectors of the new colony. He soon returned to his native country. But his descendants still r... ...f a new place of rest. He was banished in 1634, and went first to Plymouth colony; but as the people there held the same opinions as those of Massachu... ... 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... ... expedition against Louisburg. This was a fortified city, on the island of Cape Breton, near Nova Scotia. Its walls were of immense height and strengt... ...o gaze at this crowd of oddly dressed foreigners. At first they danced and capered around them, full of merriment and mischief. But the despair of the...

...ed in at the dining-room win- dow, managing his horse, which curvetted and capered beau- tifully —for one instant the young person might be seen at th... ...e couldn’t deny it. His father’s evident liking for Miss Sharp had not es- caped him. He knew the old gentleman’s character well; and a more unscrupul... ..., it was so harassing and severe, that the victim would be inclined to es- cape at the very first chance which fell in her way. Managing women, the or... ...summoned on duty else- where, Jos Sedley was left in command of the little colony at Brussels, with Amelia invalided, Isidor, his Belgian servant, and... ...d stories. He described the different pugilistic qualities of Molyneux and Dutch Sam, offered playfully to give Lady Jane the odds upon the Tutbury Pe... ...se near Berkeley Square and a small villa at Roehampton, among the banking colony there. Fred was considered to have made rather a mesalliance by 437... ...e prevailing fever at Swampton. His loss is deeply felt in the flourishing colony. We hear that the Governorship has been offered to Colonel Rawdon Cr... ...x of the carriage, Georgy made prodigious advance in the knowledge of High Dutch, and could talk to hotel waiters and postilions in a way that charmed...