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..., 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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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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... ...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 ...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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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 ... ...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...

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...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...

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...ia—which, as most people know, was before it was discovered in the British colony of Australia—I was in the West Indies, trading among the Islands. Be... ... S., Long. 60 degrees W ., off New South Shetland; in the neighbourhood of Cape Horn. We were sixty seven days out, that day. The ship’s reckoning was... ...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...

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...north. What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who es caped on the rock, or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but conclud... ...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 ... ...hey have not lost their faculty. Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord i... ...nder, bound for Surat. We had a very prosperous gale, till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a lea... ...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... ...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... ... execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people! ...

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...able eddies and obstructions among the con- stituent atoms of the American colony. He was shame- fully idle, spiritless, sensual, snobbish. He irritat... ...f to its grave defects, and come to life as flesh and blood, to wear white capes and long trains. All I can say is that she really possesses every mer... ...gentleman in the neckcloth, an old lady in a red satin dress and an ermine cape, who wore across her forehead a band with a topaz set in it. Young 15... ...ined brick, flanked by two low wings, each of which terminated in a little Dutch- looking pavilion capped with a fantastic roof. Two towers rose behin... ...his great empty saloons on the Boulevard Haussmann. They were as neat as a Dutch village, Mrs. Bread’s only occupation had been removing individual du...

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... county, he was enabled to draw them from among the increase of the former colony. Although the settlement of this part of Otsego a little pre- ceded ... ... dominions. Before the war of the Revo- lution, the inhabited parts of the colony of New York were limited to less than a tenth of its possessions, A ... ...un- dred and twenty years before the commencement of our tale, come to the colony of Pennsylvania, a friend and co-religion- ist of its great patron. ... ... pronounced the word “English,” or “Yengeese.” New York being originally a Dutch province, the term of course was not known there, and Farther south d... ...y , on the fertile borders of that beautiful stream. The Germans, or “High Dutchers,” as they were called, to distinguish them from the original or Lo... ...tchers,” as they were called, to distinguish them from the original or Low Dutch colonists, were a very peculiar people. They possessed all the gravit... ...d man to some that follows the seas, I suppose that, taking the coast from Cape Ler Hogue as low down as Cape Finish-there, there isn’t so much as a h... ...run of it. By the Lord Harry, woman, if Garnsey only lay somewhere between Cape Hatteras and the bite of Logann, but you’d see rum cheap! As to the se... ...nning themselves, rapidly and dexterously, in the hairs of his cue and the cape of his coat. The body was now raised slowly, looking ghastly and grim ...

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... the race of men who had fought against the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Dutch and the English, has not been changed by the unavoidable defeat. They... ... didn’t you speak at once? I thought you might have been some masquerading Dutchmen from a dodging gunboat.” “Do I speak like a blamed Dutchman? Pull ... ...’s position in Anjer on his way through Sunda Straits—or to any British or Dutch man-of-war he might meet. The let- ter ended by anticipatory thanks, ... ...e as he came out, overland through Egypt. The yacht would return round the Cape, of course.” 33 Joseph Conrad “A lady?” said Lingard. “You say there ... ...distinctive features. It is land with- out form. It stretches away without cape or bluff, long and low—indefinitely; and when the heavy gusts of the n... ...leared out into the bush, while at the shore end of the jetty the warriors capered and yelled, preparing for a gen- eral attack. Lingard noticed with ... ... to him, and he accounted for it to his uncle, the Governor-General of the colony, by pointing out that Englishmen, when worsted in the struggle of lo...

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...ntice idle dog, and stops his beer unless he works to his liking. He gives Dutch cheese, too, eating Cheshire, sir, himself; and Sundays out, are only... ... to suit the taste of a gentleman of his years, with a short, black velvet cape, and laced pocket holes and cuffs, all of a jaunty fashion; his linen,... ...had been made to furnish this chilly waste, but before the broad chimney a colony of chairs and tables had been planted on a square of carpet, flanked... ...clination as thirsty men would hold them to their lips; such sturdy little Dutch kegs ranged in rows on shelves; so many lem ons hanging in separate ... ...shered him into the bar, while he wrapped himself in sundry greatcoats and capes, and so tied and knotted his face in shawls and handkerchiefs, that h... ...y deep red curtains flapped and fluttered idly in the wind; even the stout Dutch kegs, overthrown and lying empty in dark corners, seemed the mere hus... ...he midst of all the vast assemblage; here a frightened woman trying to es cape; and there a lost child; and there a drunken ruffian, unconscious of t...

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...at ca- nal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half. The other was a small, s... ...he robber is on board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that... ...ver!” The Parsee made a motion to keep silence. A group of old fakirs were capering and making a wild ado round the statue; these were striped with oc... ...ent weapons of a Hindoo prince. Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries 51 Jules Verne sometimes drowned the noise of... ...teen hundred miles from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast. Phileas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey... ... a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas... ...cutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything. The Frenchman fel... ...when it penetrated Utah, the region of the Great Salt Lake, the sin- gular colony of the Mormons. 126 Around the World in 80 Days Chapter XXVII IN WH... ...s well as men engaged in the liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hun...

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...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... ... delight- ful climate, excellent government-house, all your own way in the Colony, and a certain promotion. I congratulate you with all my heart. I pr... ...Jane, very sorry. Lady Southdown wrote it off to her other daughter at the Cape of Good Hope. It was town-talk for at least three days, and was only k... ...keray a case out of his great-coat—it was a natty white great-coat, with a cape and a velvet collar—pulled out a red morocco case, which he gave her. ... ...he was quite well (though as gaunt as a greyhound) before they reached the Cape. “Kirk will be disappointed of his ma- jority this time,” he said with... ...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... ...and other Lares, making a little Britain wherever we settle down. From one colony to another Becky fled uneasily. From Boulogne to Dieppe, from Dieppe...

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... OUR WEEK’S VOYAGE is now drawing to a close. We have just been to look at Cape Trafalgar, shining white over the finest blue sea. (We, who were look... ...who were looking at Trafalgar Square only the other day!)The sight of that cape must have disgusted Joinville and his fleet of steamers, as they passe... ...iotism is made. I write this as a sort of homily ‘a propos of the day, and Cape Trafalgar, off which we lie. What business have I to strut the deck, a... ... where all were glad of a drink of fresh water. A village of beavers, or a colony of ants, make habitations not unlike these dismal huts piled togethe... ...hipping the Divine Being in order to follow ours; yet surely our religious colony of men and women can’t fail to do good, by the sheer force of good e... ...se. In the village of Siloam I would not recommend the artist to loiter. A colony of ruffians inhabit the dismal place, who have guns as well as stick... ...nts the day on the canal passed away, as harmlessly as if we had been in a Dutch trackschuyt. Towards evening we arrived at the town of Atfeh—half lan...