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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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...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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...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 ...

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...boy, years ago, in Menado. There was a legend of a governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, on official tour, committing suicide on that 35 spot by... ...ears ago, in Menado. There was a legend of a governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, on official tour, committing suicide on that 35 spot by leapi... ...ago, in Menado. There was a legend of a governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, on official tour, committing suicide on that 35 spot by leaping in... ...is little tales. Funny fellow, Cloete. C-l-o-e-t-e—Cloete.” “What was he—a Dutchman?” I asked, not seeing in the least what all this had to do with th... ...fe anchorage at all. Should she by chance part from her anchors in a north-east gale and get lost on the beach, as many of them do, why, it’s five hun... ...somewhat disillusioned. As to Stafford, he died, professed loafer, in some East End hospital or other, and on his last day clamoured “for a par- son,”... ...pparently, speak any other European language than English, but he flew the Dutch flag on his prau. “The other was the Frenchman without hands. Y es. T...

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...iii 15 to them both, and they shall be exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou this lett... ...m both, and they shall be exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou this letter to Mistress... ...he height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that ...

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...ch Steam Naviga- tion Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the ... ...would not bet in its favour. 21 Jules Verne The frigate skirted the south-east coast of America with great rapidity. The 3rd of July we were at the o... ...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... ...der Farragut, faithful to his promise, was to turn the course to the south-east and abandon for ever the north- ern regions of the Pacific. The frigat... ...ich they had the right of re- ceiving all merchandise coming from the West Indies. Now, to disembark these ingots at the port of Vigo was depriving th...

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...eghanies which cover the midland counties of New Y ork, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn through the centre of the State. As the wat... ...plant had taken root, were both larger and more numerous than those on its eastern, and one in particu- lar thrust itself forward in such a manner as ... ...mself, in this heavy undertaking, of the experience of a certain wandering eastern mechanic, who, by exhibiting a few soiled plates of English archite... ... 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... ...y, that you keep in this country; but then you’re so close aboard the West Indies, you make but a small run of it. By the Lord Harry, woman, if Garnse... ...ement of the sugar-bush to me. Here is Mr. Le Quoi—he has been in the West Indies, and has seen sugar made. Let him give an account of how it is made ... ...hy of the thing. Well, monsieur, how is it that you make sugar in the West Indies; anything in Judge T emples fashion?” The gentleman to whom this que...

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...holding such discourse on the beach, that no more bodies had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would be thr... ...nallgo, near Moelfra, Anglesey. His brother is the Reverend Hugh Robert Hughes, of Penrhos, Alligwy. CHAPTER III W APPING WORKHOUSE M Y DAY’S NO-BUSIN... ...The Uncommercial Traveller 19 with his name; I am afraid he usually got the worst of those transactions, and was frightfully taken in. No, I was going... ...least excited; trotted to the foot-lights with his tongue out; and there sat down, panting, and amiably surveying the audi- ence, with his tail beatin... ...’ll drown the crew, and will eat them too!’ (Here I always be- came exceedingly faint, and would have asked for water, but that I was speechless.) The... ...peasant-houses where the stone dove-cotes in the littered yards are as strong as warders’ towers in old castles. Here, are the long monotonous miles o... ...ously inquired whether I should be much sur- prised and disappointed if among the treasures in the com- ing hamper I discovered potted game, and guava... ...fly open, and such a fleet of armed ships, under steam and un- Charles Dickens 258 der sail, shall burst forth as will charge the old Medway— where t...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are...

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...T A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Sc... ...chiefs, came pouring into Britain. One body, conquering the Britons in the East, and settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled ... ... En gland waste. In the last mentioned reign, they seized Edmund, King of East England, and bound him to a tree. Then, they proposed to him that he s... ...et Norman sailors, they fell upon each other tooth and nail. The Irish and Dutch sail Charles Dickens 163 ors took part with the English; the French... ...ns that even she could only explain in unintelligible jargon. The other, a Dutch man, named Von Paris, who practised as a surgeon in Lon don. Edwar... ...their recol A Child’s Histroy of England 334 lection, a great Protestant Dutch hero, the Prince of Orange , was shot by an assassin, who confessed ... ...uding those who rose in arms against him, to be sent as slaves to the West Indies. If he were rigid, he was impartial too, in asserting the laws of En...

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... a setting of light music. I could recall no more the hallucination of the East- ern Archipelago which I certainly hoped to see again. The story of “A... ...bers or our associate members.” In my wanderings about London from West to East and back again (I was very idle then) the two little rooms in Fenchurc... ...had had the man and his surroundings with me ever since my return from the eastern waters, some four years before the day of which I speak. It was in ... ...have welcomed with grati- tude an opportunity to exchange into the “Flying Dutchman.” Finally he shoved me into the North Sea (I suppose) and provided... ...a (I suppose) and provided me with a lee-shore with outlying sandbanks—the Dutch coast presumably. Distance, eight miles. The evidence of such impla- ... ... I had spent a little time on the way in the Mediterranean and in the West Indies. I did not want to present myself to the British Merchant Service in...