Excerpt Details
Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Full Text Search Details
... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevens... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or... ...h. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit’s schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four tons register; sailed from San Fran- cisco towards the end of June 188... ...old life of the house and sick-room, I set forth to leeward in a trading schooner, the Equator, of a little over seventy tons, spent four months among... ...gth; I had made friends; I had learned new interests; the time of my voy- ages had passed like days in fairyland; and I decided to remain. I began to ... ...ruise, in the trading steamer Janet Nicoll. If more days are granted me, they shall be passed where I have found life most pleasant and man most inter... ...n was an hour down by four in the morning. In the east a radiating centre of brightness told of the day; and beneath, on the skyline, the morning bank...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

Full Text Search Details
...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...on Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...d out to be a small, slatternly- looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and everything denoting... ...an, pale and slender, more like a sickly counting-house clerk than a bluff sea-captain. Bid- ding me be seated, he ordered the steward to hand me a gl... ...me after his liberation, to leave the ves- sel clandestinely at one of the islands, but was brought back ignominiously, and again shut up. Being set a... ... up in the lawless ports of the Spanish Main, and among the savages of the islands. Like galley-slaves, they are only to be governed by scourges and c... ... of St. Christina greeted us from afar. Drawing near the shore, the grim, black spars and waspish hull of a small man-of-war craft crept into view; t...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

Full Text Search Details
...ille A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...un as a yarn,’ not only to relieve the weariness of many a night- watch at sea, but to excite the warmest sympathies of the author’s shipmates. He has... ...y to convey their sound to a stranger. In several works descriptive of the islands in the Pacific, many of the most beautiful combinations of vo- cal ... ... important events lately occurring at the Sandwich, Marquesas, and Society Islands, have been regarded in America and England, and indeed throughout t... ... and never seen again. But his days of mourning will be few for Mungo, our black cook, told me yesterday that the word had at last gone forth, and poo... ...ill louder accents hailed the masthead with a tremendous ‘where-away?’ The black cook thrust his woolly head from the galley, and Boatswain, the dog, ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad.

Full Text Search Details
...onrad A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ad A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer-... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ... gnant moments. Neither in my mind nor in my heart had I then given up the sea. In truth I was clinging to it desperately, all the more desperately be... ...ion of the front gardens. The houses right and left were hidden behind the black masses of flower- ing shrubs. Willems had the street to himself. He w... ..., it seemed to him that the world was bigger, the night more vast and more black; but he went on doggedly with his head down as if pushing his way thr...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Village ?AND A MIGHTY SING?LAR and pretty place it is, as ever I saw in all the days of my life!? said Captain Jorgan, looking up at it. Captain Jorgan had to look high to look at it, for the village was built sheer up th...

Full Text Search Details
...ickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ns A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...es Publication A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...s mother, who raised her hands hurriedly, and put them together across her black gown, and looked eagerly at the visitor. “No! For God’s sake, don’t t... ...and afterward paid into the bankers’ . One memorable day,—a Wednesday, the black day of my life,— among the sums I so entered was one of five hundred ... ...make up stories and tell ‘em to that child. Stories of shipwreck on desert islands, and long delay in getting back to civilised lauds. It is to storie...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canal...

Full Text Search Details
... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a... ... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a pu... ... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own r... ...sylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in ... ...hem. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. ... ...h all sorts of bystreets and alleys.” “Y ou hid yourself, John?” “I wished to reach you without loss of time, and I did what people will do in politic... ...ilful guidance by the shortest possible routes through the windings of the river, which held in its watery embrace so many enchant- 38 The Black Tuli... ...and to indulge his own idea of happiness, Cornelius began to be interested in the study of plants and insects, collected and classified the Flora of a...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is ...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art 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...

Full Text Search Details
... Sea by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...eph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...rad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... we passed St. Helena; was laid up for a time when we were off the Western Islands, but got out of bed to make his Land- fall. He managed to keep up o... ...or so of their married life. There was also another woman there in a plain black dress, quite gray-haired, sitting very erect on her chair with some s... ...of the fact that it was Bangkok), a bit of manoeuvring of mine amongst the islands of the Gulf of Siam had given him an unforgettable scare. Ever sinc... ...recision of steel moved by white steam and living by red fire and fed with black coal. The other seems to draw its strength from the very soul of the ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind...

Full Text Search Details
... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...arts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and 5 Jules Verne Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length of sixty yards, if they attain that... ...emotion of the majority of the crew, when some capricious whale raised its black back above the waves! The poop of the vessel was crowded on a moment.... ...hat it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun (perhaps because there was n... ...rds the point indicated. There, a mile and a half from the frigate, a long blackish body emerged a yard above the waves. Its tail, violently agi- tate...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

Full Text Search Details
...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ...tion Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e sermon was, ‘Thine heart shall be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be con- verted unto thee, the forces also of the Gentiles shall c... ...r Christmas in the ‘Southern Cross,’ the schooner which was being built at Blackwall for voyages among the Melanesian isles. In expectation of this, P... ...re almost entirely open ground, with their population called Melanesian or Black Islanders, from their having much of the Negro in their composition a...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE .............................................................................................................................................. 4 OF THOSE CALLED ..........................................

Full Text Search Details
...Soldiers Three The Story of the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electro... ...Soldiers Three The Story of the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic... ...Soldiers Three The Story of the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...pling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling is a publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of th... ...c Classics Series Publication Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ite fog. Once or twice when it tried to lift, we saw a glimpse of the oily sea, the flitting vision of a junk’s sail spread in the vain hope of catchi... ...ets. Somewhere close to us lay the land, but it might have been the Kurile Islands for aught we knew. Very early in the morning there passed us, not a... ... t’ consequences o’ gettin’ two poor but honest soldiers sent t’ Andamning Islands. Mrs. DeSussa began to cry, so Mulvaney turns round oppen t’ other ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: ACT I. (SCENE.--DOCTOR WANGEL?S house, with a large verandah garden in front of and around the house. Under the verandah a flagstaff. In the garden an arbour, with table and chairs. Hedge, with small gate at the back. Beyond, a road along the seashore. An avenue of trees along the road. Between the tr...

Full Text Search Details
... Eleanor Marx-Aveling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a pub... ...ing A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a publication of the Pe... ...from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...m the Sea by Henrik Ibsen, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d. Bolette. I’m sure that was father. He’s been to visit pa- tients on the islands. (She is arranging things on the table.) Lyngstrand (taking a step ... ... beacon, and in the foreground. Farther back the outer fjord is seen, with islands and outstanding headlands. The open sea is not visible. It is a sum... ...taste. Hilde. But tell me, as an artist, how do you think I should look in black? Lyngstrand. In black, Miss Hilde? Hilde. Yes, all in black. Do you t... ...de? Hilde. Yes, all in black. Do you think I should look well? Lyngstrand. Black’s hardly suitable for the summer. How- ever, you’d probably look rema...

Excerpt Details
...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. Irela...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED......................

Full Text Search Details
...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...on A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...u will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. Engla... ...ft hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form ... ...t of these Is lands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly li... ...s, in token of their making all the is land theirs. In remembrance of the black No vember night when the Danes were murdered, wheresoever the invade... ...to behold. The streams and rivers were discoloured with blood; the sky was blackened with smoke; the fields were wastes of ashes; the waysides were he...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT..................................................................................... 4 HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP .........................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...cs Series Publication Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Series Publication Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ................................................................. 64 WITH THE SEA .......................................................................... ...gh to do-oo-oo, We get the hump— Cameelious hump— The hump that is black and blue! We climb out of bed with a frouzly head And a snarly-yarl... ...e for you) When we get the hump— Cameelious hump— The hump that is black and blue! The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with... ...l, to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and Promontories of the Larger Equinox. The... ...ocks, where they had fallen in the sea, and they became the most beautiful islands of Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and the rest of the Malay Archi-...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not let professional geographers take me up, and say that no one has so accounte...

Full Text Search Details
...assics Series Publication Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ics Series Publication Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not let professional geographers take me up, an... ... thither by enterprise or stress of weather, he would not have given those islands so good a name. That the Neapolitan sailors of King Alonzo should h... ...There are also here some six thousand white people and some six thou- sand black people, eating, drinking, sleeping, and dying. The convict establishm... ...the doing of the deed, and probably no malice; but the deed, let its moral black- 5 Trollope ness have been what it might, had sent him to Bermuda, w... ... attractive in its way. The land breaks itself into little knolls, and the sea runs up, hither and thither, in a thousand creeks and inlets; and then,...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea--s...

Full Text Search Details
... by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ... Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...yond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea—seemed to shatter themselves upon an adaman- tine surface into sparklin... ...of a river. Then on through a brown liquid, three parts water and one part black earth, on and on between the low shores, three parts black earth and ... ...ighway of the Far East. Darkness and gleams on the water, clear stars on a black sky, perhaps the lights of a home steamer keep- ing her unswerving co... ...hundred miles’ steady steaming through the maze of an archipelago of small islands up to a large na- tive town at the end of the beat. There was a thr... ...nsurveyed tracts of the South Seas, and had seen the sun rise on uncharted islands. Fifty years at sea, and forty out in the East (“a pretty thorough ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Eilean Aros. It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to ...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE MERRY MEN .......................................................................................4 WILL O? THE MILL...................................................................................50 MARKHEIM ..............

Full Text Search Details
...ronic Classics Series Publication Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...ic Classics Series Publication Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fil... ...State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purp... ... document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edito... ...nn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a cheerful heart.... ...away, after a poor, rough youth, and some years at sea, had married a young wife in the islands; Mary Maclean she was called, the last of her family; ... ...consequence. I have seen us sitting in broad sunshine on the Ross, and the rain falling black like crape upon the mountain. But the wetness of it made... ... lights upon the headlands and buoys along the channels of our iron-bound, inhospitable islands. The country people had many a story about Aros, as I ... ...poor man’s patchwork, the like of it unknown in cities, woven with homespun, and Sunday black, and sea- cloth polished on the bench of rowing. The roo...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who ...

Full Text Search Details
... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...ania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any ... ...this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty E... ... as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but ... ...t our ocean steamer was in sight. There she lay in mid-river, at the T ail of the Bank, her sea-signal flying: a wall of bulwark, a street of white de... ...otsman who had been long to sea; and yet he was from Wales, and had been most of his life a blacksmith at an inland forge; a few years in America and ... ...cuppers and looked up to where the funnel leaned out, over my head, vomiting smoke, and the black and mon- strous top-sails blotted, at each lurch, a ... ...d a Claude or two. The room is very spacious, and the five tables and two chairs are but as islands. One table is for actual work, one close by for re...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: This tale, of which I have not consciously changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windwa...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE SONG OF RAHERO ............................................................................4 I. THE SLAYING OF TAMATEA .........................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
... Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publicat... ... Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication... ...ds by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any cha... ...hed free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neit... .................................. 57 HEATHER ALE ...........................................................................................60 CHRISTMAS... ...ed on the boat beside the woman; and she Lightly addressed him, and yielded the paddle and place to sit; For now the torch was extinguished the night ... ...ive story; but a patchwork of details of manners and the impressions of a trav- eller. It may seem strange, when the scene is laid upon these proflig... ...slands, to make the story hinge on love. But love is not less known in the Marquesas than elsewhere; nor is there any cause of suicide more common in ... ... the morning, how long is the longest love? A cry, a clasp of the hands, a star that falls from above! Ever at morn in the blue, and at night when all...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A South Sea Bridal. I saw that island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled ...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE BEACH OF FALESA............................................ 4 THE BOTTLE IMP...................................................... 68 THE ISLE OF VOICES............................................... 95...

Full Text Search Details
... Island Nights’ Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...sland Nights’ Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) THE BEACH OF FALESA. CHAPTER I. A SOUTH SEA BRIDAL I SAW THAT ISLAND first when it was neither night nor morning. ... ...angle of the woods and the breach of the surf, and the brown roofs and the black insides of houses peeped among the trees. “Do you catch a bit of whit... ... never turned a hair. He left because of the beach – said he was afraid of Black Jack and Case and Whistling Jimmie, who was still alive at the time, ... ... smarter trader, and none 7 Island Nights’ Entertainments dodgier, in the islands. I thought Falesa seemed to be the right kind of a place; and the m... ...ounted a white man, and so is a Chinese! a strange idea, but common in the islands. It was a board house with a strip of rickety verandah. The store w...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: We sailed from Peru, where we had continued by the space of one whole year, for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months? space and more. But then the wind came ab...

Full Text Search Details
... The New Atalantis by Francis Bacon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ... The New Atalantis by Francis Bacon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person us ing this document file, for any purpose, and... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ... continued by the space of one whole year, for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from t... ..., knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown, and might have islands or continents that hitherto were not come to light. Wherefore we ... ...transporta tions from port to port, and likewise by sailing unto some small islands that are not far from us, and are under the crown and laws of thi... ...son, and had an aspect as if he pitied men. He was clothed in a robe of fine black cloth and wide sleeves, and a cape: his under garment was of excell... ...ut instead of his gown, he had on him a mantle with a cape, of the same fine black, fastened about him. When we came in, as we were taught, we The New...