...e surround- ing high-backed chairs. There was a tent-stitch rug before the Dutch-tiled fireplace, and on the walls hung two framed prints,—one represe... ...eted her toilette, looking out into a garden below, laid out in the formal Dutch fashion, with walks and beds centring in a fountain, the grass plats ... ...their new abiding place. The house was of brick, shaped like the letter H, Dutch, and with a tall wing, at each end of the main body, projecting, and ... ... crusading Sedhurst, devoid of arms, feet, and nose was stowed away in the eastern sepulchre, in company with funeral ap- paratus, torn books, and mot... ...hich she did not know to be Somerset House; and from another window on the east side of the house she saw, over numerous tiled roofs, a gateway which ... ... captains.” 239 Yo n g e She set down on a small table a wonderful cup of Eastern porcelain, and some little sugared cakes, and Aurelia, not to be ut... ...what’s good for her! She will be a very queen over the black slaves on the Indies. Captain Karen will tell you how the wenches thank him for having br... ...orted to become wives to the planters in the southern colonies or the West Indies, but that such a destiny should be intended for their own Aurelia, ... ...bound for. Loveday only had a general 245 Yo n g e impression of the West Indies, and believed that the poor lady’s destined spouse was a tobacconist...

...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...

... 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...

...ar gale of wind; luckily for the shipping, it blew inland, that is, to the east; and all the way down to Warrington, eighteen miles distant to the eas... ...s. Ratcliffe Highway is a public thoroughfare in a most chaotic quarter of eastern or nautical London; and at this time (viz., in 1812), when no adequ... ...he darkest night that ever hid a murder or baffled a pursuit. London, from east to west, was covered with a deep pall (rising from the river) of unive... ... private history: in particular I remember his telling me that in the East Indies he had been a prisoner of Hyder’s: that he had escaped with some dif... ...f intercepting any further draughts upon the rest of the solar system, the Dutch ambassador rose, and proposed the health of their high mightinesses t...

... out in the lighter or the small boat, in a long, heavy roll from the nor’-east. When the dog was taken out, he got awfully ill; one of the men, Geord... ... was something beautifully soft, a sort of light of tenderness, as on some Dutch Madonna, that came over her face when she looked at the man. They tal... ...ain, it shrinks together, as if for warmth, on one of the withering, clear east-windy days, until it seems to lie underneath your feet. I want to let ... ...oad from the Prince’s Villa; it has one window to the south and one to the east, with a superb view of Mentone and the hills, to which I move this aft... ... had no feeling one way or another, from New York to California, until, at Dutch Flat, a mining camp in the Sierra, I heard a cock crowing with a home... ...himself at a table covered with waxcloth, and a pam- pered menial, of High-Dutch extraction and, indeed, as yet only partially extracted, lays before ... ...tern-windows – the ships that bring deals from Norway and parrots from the Indies. Let us sit down here for twenty years, with a packet of tobacco and...

...rning in the Harwich stage coach. A fat eld- erly gentlewoman, and a young Dutchman, seemed the most inclined among us to conver- sation. At the inn w... ...d there been a Synod of Cooks.’ While we were left by ourselves, after the Dutchman had gone to bed, Dr. Johnson talked of that studied behaviour whic... ...straction; viz. New-year’s- day, the day of his wife’s death, Good Friday, Easter-day, and his own birth-day. He this year says:—’I have now spent fif... ...to be imputed to a sick man as a crime. In his retrospect on the following Easter-Eve, he says, ‘When I review the last year, I am able to recollect s... ...ffering’ was to be strongly exemplified in him. On Sunday, April 19, being Easter-day, Gen- eral Paoli and I paid him a visit before dinner. We talked... ...told him that I had been informed by Mr. Orme, that many parts of the East-Indies were better mapped than the Highlands of Scotland. Johnson. ‘That a ... ...entertaining manner. ‘I lately, (said he,) received a letter from the East Indies, from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well; he had returned fr... ...nds more, he would lend it to him. He resolved to go out again to the East Indies, and make his fortune anew. He got a consider- able appointment, and... ...ou should feel, were you to find at Rotterdam an epi- taph upon Erasmus IN DUTCH!’—BOSWELL. 383 Boswell’s Life of Johnson been written without Mr. Bo...

...n had nearly ceased, the clouds had broken before a cool wind from the north east, and stars were shining from the peaceful heights beyond them. Docto... ...en if I were, I would not have a coin of your wealth, if it would buy me the Indies. You mur derer!” ‘“What!” ‘“I climbed it,” said the young man, po... ..., my love, and Mithter John Eth cott.’ A bandy vagabond, with a head like a Dutch cheese, in a fustian stable suit, attending on a horse box and goi...

...nient slop-selling establishments of which there is abundant choice at the eastern end of London, purchased on the spot two suits of mourning—one for ... ...in- ner on the same day. Accordingly , Mr Dombey produced a list of sundry eastern magnates who were to be bidden to this feast on his behalf; to whic... ... drawing-room until the hour appointed for dinner; punc- tual to which, an East India Director,’ of immense wealth, in a waistcoat apparently construc... ...ead the letter aloud. ‘“My dear Ned Cuttle. When I left home for the W est Indies”—’ 145 Charles Dickens Here the Captain stopped, and looked hard at... ...quote it from memory. ‘“My dear Ned Cuttle, when I left home for the W est Indies in forlorn search of intelligence of my dear-” There he sits! There’... ...f my boy, until I died.’ ‘Began to think as how he was a scientific Flying Dutch- man!’ said the Captain, as before, and with great seriousness. ‘But ...

...ed as absolutely of the lives and fortunes of his conquered subjects as an eastern mon- arch; and forbade, upon pain of death, the English either fire... ...o Portobello, to dispossess the King of Spain of the treasures of the West Indies; and a third into the Baltic, to prevent the Northern Powers from co... ...e matter, since this is imperceptible to us; this matter goes from west to east, since all the planets are carried from west to east. Thus from hypoth... ... that there is no such thing as a celestial matter which goes from west to east since the comets traverse those spaces, sometimes from east to west, a... ...e friend a Cato. He embarks on board his ship in order to go and fight the Dutch, having left all his money, his jewels, and everything he had in the ... ... in fiction than in truth.” This answer was not so sincere as that which a Dutch ambassador made, who, when the same monarch complained that his maste...

.... The story of “The Schoo- ner with a Past” may be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a... ...emed stealthy and remote. There was about that figure the scent of the far East, like the peculiar atmo- sphere of a Mandarin’s back yard, and the mus... ... I only wished to suggest that in the nature of things, the war in the Far East has been made known to us, so far, in a grey reflec- tion of its terri... ...esides myself, seventeen men all good and true, including a round enormous Dutch- man who, in those hours between sunset and sunrise, managed to lose ... ... hair’s- breadth escape into Italy; and, reaching Genoa, took passage in a Dutch mail steamer, homeward-bound from Java with London as a port of call.... ...ish merchant ships engaged in deep water voyages to Australia, to the East Indies and round the Horn were essen- tially British. The small proportion ...

...ks were the two salutary weights which kept down the Austrian power in the East and West; but it would rise again in all its ter- rors, if once it wer... ...ught to propitiate by embrac- ing the Calvinist religion. Both Spanish and Dutch armies appeared, but, as it seemed, only to make conquests for themse... ...turned; but the spark which kindled the flame came unex- pectedly from the east. The tranquillity which Rodolph II.’s ‘Letter of Majesty’ had establis... ...ret arming among the Turks spread consternation among the provinces to the eastward; and, to complete his perplexities, the Protestants also, in his h... ...d on adoration. Denmark and Sweden, Holland and Venice, and several of the Dutch states, acknowledged him as lawful sov- ereign, and Frederick now pre... ..., and the two Sicilies, and their distant possessions in the East and West Indies, was under Philip III. and Philip IV. fast verging to decay. Swollen... ...did, agriculture, the natural support of states. The conquests in the West Indies had reduced Spain itself to poverty, while they enriched the markets... ...g waited in vain for a master willing to purchase their services; till the Dutch, pressed by the Spanish General Spinola, offered to take them into pa...

... for his uncle’s favor. Thomas had served with the Em- peror, and with the Dutch, when King Charles was compelled to lend troops to the States; and ag... ... looking to the north, and communicating with the little chapel that faced east- 34 Henry Esmond wards and the buildings stretching from that to the ... ...ks, and Harry Esmond his sleeping closet. The side of the house facing the east had escaped the guns of the Cromwellians, whose battery was on the hei... ...ns, whose battery was on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the pai... ...anging hands whilst my lord and lady were away. King James was flying, the Dutchmen were coming; awful stories about them and the Prince of Orange use... ... lieve that there was a word of truth in the promises of tolera- tion that Dutch monster made, or in a single word the perjured wretch said. My lord a... ...oltz, who knew everything that was passing in Flanders and France (and the Indies for what I know), insisted that there would be no more fighting in 1...