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...he held perhaps as high a pro- portion as can be hoped in these distracted islands; and he counted among the number the preponderant name of Malietoa.... ... train choruses of children for its celebration. Song, as with all Pacific islanders, goes hand in hand with the dance, and both shade into the drama.... ...hem with the dance; time flies in the enjoyment of every pleasure which an islander conceives; and when the malangasets forth, the same welcome and th... ...” So, by the sure hand of popular speech, we have the picture of the house deserted, the malanga dis- appointed, and the host that should have been qu... ...ain they might enjoy themselves far beyond the aver- age of man. Seated in islands very rich in food, the idleness of the many idle would scarce matte... ..., no soul stirring; only acres of empty sward, miles of cocoa-nut alley: a desert of food. In the eyes of the Samoan the place has the attraction of a... ...metimes ill received. Over in Savaii, they found the village of Satupaitea deserted, save for a few lads at cricket. These they harangued, and were re... ...reigned and, in the island fashion, much wild firing. And in spite of all, desertion was for a long time daily. The detained 59 Robert Louis Stevenso... ...; they had been stealing “our” bananas. All morning the town was strangely deserted, the very chil- dren gone. A sense of expectation reigned, and sym...

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...o work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himsel... ...sorry for you (with the world so new-and-all); but that Humph-thing in the Desert can’t work, or he would have been here by now, so I am going to leav... ...palaver, and an indaba, and a punchayet, and a pow- wow on the edge of the Desert; and the Camel came chewing on milkweed _most_ ‘scruciating idle, an... ...and went away again. Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolling in a cloud of dust (Djinns always travel that way because ... ...agic), and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three. ‘Djinn of All Deserts,’ said the Horse, ‘is it right for any one to be idle, with the wor... ...l, to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and Promontories of the Larger Equinox. The... ...land Mead- ows of Anantarivo, and the Marshes of Sonaput. THIS Uninhabited Island Is off Cape Gardafui, By the Beaches of Socotra And the Pink Ara... ...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-... ...ut there was no need to paddle, for the water flowed steadily past all the islands till they came to the place called Pusat Tasek—the Heart of the Sea...

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... of subsis- tence. For a long time to come the natives of that interesting island, who cleave to their desert home with all that amor patriae which is... ...g time to come the natives of that interesting island, who cleave to their desert home with all that amor patriae which is so much more easily underst... ...l or two to receive a com- munication from a leading man of science in the island, which may furnish matter for additional information in a future edi... ...he worst of our difficulties.” I bent over the map. “You see this volcanic island,” said the Professor; “observe that all the volcanoes are called jok... ...very much struck with the aspect of a certain church spire situated in the island of Amak, which forms the south-west quarter of Copenhagen. I was ord... ... “Y our library! why there is nothing but a few tattered books upon almost deserted shelves.” “Indeed!” replied M. Fridrikssen, “why we possess eight ... ...se.” We were advancing at a rapid pace. The country was al- ready almost a desert. Here and there was a lonely farm, called a boer built either of woo... ...and cultivated portions of Iceland. What, then, must other tracts be, more desert than this desert? In the first half mile we had not seen one farmer ... ...treams, which we had to ford with great care, not to wet our packages. The desert became wider and more hideous; yet from time to time we seemed to de...

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...s The Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STORE IT WA S IN THE YEAR of our Lord one thousand seven h... ...ing out of the water, steady?” I asked my com- rade. “What?” says he. “The Island.” “O! The Island!” says I, turning my eyes towards it. “True. I forg... ...” “O! The Island!” says I, turning my eyes towards it. “True. I forgot the Island.” “Forgot the port you’re going to? That’s odd, ain’t it?” “It is od... ...there was an armed sloop came once a-year from Port Royal, Jamaica, to the Island, laden with all manner of neces- saries, to eat, and to drink, and t... ...d touched at Belize, that I was a-standing, leaning over the bulwarks. The Island was occupied by a very small English colony. It had been given the n... ...was much fitter for the work than they were, and that if all of us had our deserts, I should be both of them rolled into one. (It may be imagined what... ... to me, do not stir, my dear!”), and had remained quiet until the fort was deserted; she had then crept out of the trench, and gone into her mother’s ...

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...eir folly they had slain their brother Phoeus. T elamon dwelt in the Attic island; but Peleus departed and made his home in Phthia. (ll. 95 104) Afte... ... sea, if haply he should escape. And fishermen dragged him to shore at the island of Oenoe, formerly Oenoe, but afterwards called Sicinus from Sicinus... ... against the Thracians’ coming. So when they saw Argo being rowed near the island, straightway crowding in multitude from the gates of Myrine and clad... ...thou wilt not scorn our land at all; for it is deepsoiled beyond all other islands that lie in the Aegaean sea. But come now, re turn to the ship and... ...e ravening birds, which in The Argonautica 55 countless numbers haunt the desert island. In it the Queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a... ...n wake and call it twilight, at that hour they ran into the harbour of the desert island Thynias and, spent by weary toil, mounted the shore. And to t... ...ht; and some god preserved us. For even the birds of Ares that haunted the desert isle beforetime, not even them did we find. But these men had driven... ...ing bear, had set, and the air had all grown still under heaven, went to a desert spot, like some stealthy thief, with all that was needful; for be f... ...he Sigynni, nor yet the Graucenii, nor the Sindi that now inhabit the vast desert plain of Laurium. But when The Argonautica *Or, reading EMETEREN, i...

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...s fast enough in better protected regions higher up: for instance, Prophet’s Island contained one thou sand five hundred acres of land thirty years a... ...e peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and grassy prairies, watered by a thousand rivers, ranged by a th... ...he serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of the great American desert is my en closed property, and I bury my dead on my own premises!’... ... I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the win... ...ad a note book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, “points,” bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc.; but the informa tion was to be found only... ...f my ears hear aright, I have not only to get the names of all the towns and islands and bends, and so on, by heart, but I must even get up a warm per... ...d dart away from one of them, and come fighting its laborious way across the desert of wa ter. It would ‘ease all,’ in the shadow of our forecastle, ... ...es to accomplish the same thing. In 1722 the river darted through that neck, deserted its old bed, and thus short ened itself thirty five miles. In t... ...glected. So to this day that phantom steamer is still butting around in that deserted river, trying to find her way out. More than one grave watchman ...

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...leets have manoeuvered on those waters, which, half a century ago, were as deserted as waters well can be; and the day is not distant when the whole o... ... circumstances of trial, she was but woman; and the idea of being entirely deserted by her two male pro- tectors, in the midst of a wilderness that he... ...than one who has gone round the Horn. No, no, this earth is pretty much an island; and all that can be truly said not to be so is water.” Y oung Weste... ...f man when exposed to its fury. Still his pride revolted at the thought of deserting the boat, while others not only steadily, 34 The Pathfinder but ... ...is innate as well as acquired steadiness in danger, he would probably have deserted his post; had not the images of Indians tearing scalps from the hu... ...o do her a service!” said Jasper with emphasis. “Nothing shall tempt me to desert Mabel Dunham until she is safe in her father’s arms.” “Well said, la... ...geant is about to embark with a party to relieve a post among the Thousand Islands; and as I heard him say he intended that Mabel should go along, you... ...ft your berth into a part of the world where they say there are a thousand islands.” “Pathfinder, this is some of your forgetfulness?” “Nay, nay, Serg... ...shortly for a post on the lake, though I do not say it is for the Thousand Islands, and I may have to go with it; in which case I intend to take Mabel...

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....................... 39 4 Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson 1901 Edition I. – THE PERSONS OF THE TALE. AFTER THE 32ND CHAPTER o... ... “Then how about this sequel of yours? Are you to be Cap’n Smollett just the same as ever, and not very popular at home, says you? And if so, why, it’... ...nd him so,” said the book. “You must be differently made from me,” said the reader. “Let me tell you a fable,” said the book. “There were two men wrec... ...so,” said the book. “You must be differently made from me,” said the reader. “Let me tell you a fable,” said the book. “There were two men wrecked upo... ...CART-HORSES AND THE SADDLE-HORSE. TWO CART-HORSES, a gelding and a mare, were brought to Samoa, and put in the same field with a saddle-horse to run f... ...m civilly. “Lady and gentleman,” said he, “I understand you are from the colonies. I offer you my affectionate compliments, and make you heartily welc...

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...e pretended anxiety of Robinson Crusoe and others to escape from uninhabited islands. But Ohio was not at all as I had pictured it. We were now on tho... ...for some 19 Robert Louis Stevenson express upon a side track among miles of desert, we might have taken an hour to each repast and arrived at San Fra... ...he will meet with one of his own kidney; and that perhaps both may fall. THE DESERT OF WYOMING TO CROSS SUCH A PLAIN is to grow homesick for the moun-... ... sprang up and then died away again, and are now but wayside stations in the desert; how in these uncouth places pig-tailed Chinese pi- rates worked s... ...n was at school again, God bless him, while his brother lay scalped upon the deserts. FELLOW-PASSENGERS AT OGDEN WE CHANGED cars from the Union Pacifi... ...ended westward, until at length they are shut up into these hideous mountain deserts of the centre – and even there find them- selves invaded, insulte... ... river, whether up or down, is full of gentle attractions for the navigator: islanded reed-mazes where, in autumn, the red berries cluster; the mirror... ...r of the Inchcape reef springing up on the one hand, and the star of the May Island on the other, and far- ther off yet a third and a greater on the c... ...after the Fair Isle, what a fine city must that have appeared! and after the island diet, what a hospitable spot the minister’s table! And yet he must...

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...by Spirits. Other Spirits attending on Prospero. SCENE: A ship at Sea: an island. THE TEMPEST ACT I SCENE I: On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise o... ... be done! but I would fain die a dry death. [Exeunt.] ACT I SCENE II: The island. Before PROSPERO’S cell. [Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA .] MIRANDA: I... ...his mantle .] Sit still, and hear the last of our sea sorrow. Here in this island we arrived; and here Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit... ...re thou didst vent thy groans As fast as mill wheels strike. Then was this island— Save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hag bor... ...that made ‘em. CALIBAN: I must eat my dinner. This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takest from me. When thou c... ...: A laughter. SEBASTIAN: A match! ADRIAN: Though this island seem to be desert,— SEBASTIAN: Ha, ha, ha! So, you’re paid. ADRIAN: Uninhabitable a...

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...mitable space.” We had now passed the town, and had reached the species of desert which separates Croisic from the village of Batz. Imagine, my dear u... ...reen of the sea,—is grand with- out being savage; it is immense, yet not a desert; it is mo- notonous, but it does not weary; it has only three elemen... ...ecognize by scraps of mud or the dung of cattle the road that crossed that desert, now descending towards the sea, then rising landward ac- cording to... ...of an earthenware jug. Never had my imagination, when it carried me to the deserts where early Christian anchorites spent their lives, depicted to my ... ...ed over there, look!” said the fisherman, going up a hillock to show us an island in the little Mediterranean between the dunes where we were walk- in... ...as hard for folks who once had twelve thousand francs, and who owned their island. No one ever knew what Cambremer paid at Nantes to get his son away ... ...on which sprouted through the sand of the beach. As we crossed, we saw the island on which the Cambremers had lived; but we turned away our heads. Arr...

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...There hung a darkness, call it solitude 395 12 The Prelude of 1850 Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of s... ...t hath been attained; my mind Hath been revived, and if this genial mood 640 Desert me not, forthwith shall be brought down Through later years the st... ... the plain of Windermere With rival oars; and the selected bourne Was now an Island musical with birds That sang and ceased not; now a Sister Isle 60 ... ...us covert, sown With lilies of the valley like a field; And now a third small Island, where survived SCHOOL TIME (continued) 21 In solitude the ruins ... ...lood red wine. 145 In ancient times, and ere the Hall was built On the large island, had this dwelling been More worthy of a poet’s love, a hut, Proud... ...we returned at leisure Over the shadowy lake, and to the beach Of some small island steered our course with one, The Minstrel of the Troop, and left h... ... And thou, O Friend! who in thy ample mind Hast placed me high above my best deserts, Ye will forgive the weakness of that hour, 320 42 The Prelude o... ... great Power is met Sometimes embodied on a public road, When, for the night deserted, it assumes A character of quiet more profound 370 Than pathless... ...bting but a guide Was present, one who with unerring skill Would through the desert lead me; and while yet I looked and looked, self questioned what t...

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...ow to half a dozen figures. Flossie and Grubb were preparing to follow her desertion. “Cheer up, old Bert!” cried Edna, with artificial cheerful- ness... ...e middle, and wigs and beards of tow. The rest their nor- mal selves! “The Desert Dervishes,” they would call them- selves, and their chief songs woul... ...d to bathe and sit and talk and play with their children in peace, and the Desert Dervishes did not please them at all. The two white figures on scarl... ...ntion. “Ladies and gentlemen,” they said, “we beg to present ourselves—the Desert Dervishes.” They bowed profoundly. The few scattered groups upon the... ...rer. “There ain’t a bob on the beach,” said Grubb in an undertone, and the Desert Dervishes plied their bicycles with comic “business,” that got a lau... ...nd made a broad-chested and intelligent man of every Bert Smallways in the islands, had they given the resources they spent in war material to the mak... ...k and adventurous with private war. It was the peculiar shape of Manhattan Island, pressed in by arms of the sea on either side, and incapable of comf... ...s it did so, and in a few minutes all New York was vibrating to the Staten Island guns. Several of these guns, and especially that at Giffords and the... ...on, and made her roll a great deal as she went to and fro over Man- hattan Island. Away in the north-west clouds gathered. The throb-throb of her slow...

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...t vent thy groanes 408 As fast as Mill- wheeles strike: Then was this Island 409 (Saue for the Son, that he did littour heere, 410 A fr... ... Bees that made ’em. 469 Cal. I must eat my dinner: 470 This Island’s mine by Sycorax my mother, 471 Which thou tak’st from me: wh... ... In this hard Rocke, whiles you doe keepe from me 483 The rest o’th’ Island. [A3 484 Pro. Thou most lying slaue, 485 Whom stripe... ...res attend: Vouchsafe my pray’r 570 May know if you remaine vpon this Island, 571 And that you will some good instruction giue 572 How ... ...608 The name thou ow’st not, and hast put thy selfe 609 Vpon this Island, as a spy, to win it 610 From me, the Lord on’t. 611 F... ...709 Seb. A match. 710 Adr. Though this Island seeme to be desert. 711 Seb. Ha, ha, ha. 712 Ant. So: you’r paid. 71...

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........................................................... 164 FRAGMENT: THE DESERTS OF DIM SLEEP. ........................................................ ...noured poverty thy voice did weave Songs consecrate to truth and liberty,— Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve, Thus having been, that thou sho... ...es some unsculptured image; the strange sleep Which when the voices of the desert fail Wraps all in its own deep eternity;— Thy caverns echoing to the... ...read _65 And wind among the accumulated steeps; A desert peopled by the storms alone, Save when the eagle brings some hunter’... ...f Shelley”, 1862. There is a voice, not understood by all, Sent from these desert-caves. It is the roar Of the rent ice-cliff which the sunbeams call,... ...r murmurs not. _65 Ay, many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony: To such a one this morn was led, M... ... _90 The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous air, Islanded by cities fair; Underneath Day’s azure eyes 60 V olume Two Ocean’... ... _305 Of the olive-sandalled Apennine In the south dimly islanded; And the Alps, whose snows are spread High between the clouds and ... ...of the abyss were hurled Into the depths of Heaven. The daedal earth, That island in the ocean of the world, Hung in its cloud of all-sustaining air: ...

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...t few miles would be no light thing for the whale-boats to over- pass. The desert ran down almost to the banks, where, among gray, red, and black hill... ...the Nile had never spared them. Rapid had fol- lowed rapid, rock rock, and island-group island-group, till the rank and file had long since lost all c... ...fe, in a town called Khartoum. There were columns of British troops in the desert, or in one of the many deserts; there were yet more col- umns waitin... ...side, the few minutes of hand-to-hand scuffle, and then the silence of the desert, broken only by the yells of those whom their handful of cavalry att... ...mad with rage, and armed with the spear and the sword. The instinct of the desert, where there is always much war, told them that the right flank of t... ... flank of the square. Then the line of the dusty troops and the faint blue desert sky overhead went out in rolling smoke, and the little stones on the... ... of that kind?’ ‘It came of itself. Who’s the man that says that we’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding?’ ‘He’s... ...ttle. You want hammering.’ Dick shivered. ‘All right,’ said he. ‘When this island is disintegrated, it will call for you.’ ‘I shall come round the cor... ... you are working for. I know such little heavens that I could take you to,—islands tucked away under the Line. You sight them after weeks of crashing ...

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...the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhab itant of some undiscovered island, but a European. When I appeared on deck the master said, “Here is... ...t. On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her. She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself. “My children,” ... ...dened your memory with exploded systems and useless names. Good God! In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you th... ...mine. I thought also of my father and surviving brother; should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend w... ... from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing? They spurn and hate me. The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. I have wandered here ... ...er became fine and the skies cloudless. It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beauti ful flowers and ... ...ould cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that believe the eye by their gay appear ance; I have seen this ... ...d. Look at that castle which overhangs yon preci pice; and that also on the island, almost concealed amongst the foliage of those lovely trees; and ... ...procured from the mainland, which was about five miles distant. On the whole island there were but three miserable huts, and one of these was vacant w...

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...made provision for the security of the coasts of Naples and Sicily and the island of Malta. To this Don Quixote replied, “His Majesty has acted like a... ... seven cubits and a half in height, which is a huge size. Likewise, in the island of Sicily, there have been found leg-bones and arm-bones so large th... ...ightily mistaken. He enticed me away from home by a trick, promising me an island, which I am still waiting for.” “May evil islands choke thee, thou d... ...vil islands choke thee, thou detestable Sancho,” said the niece; “What are islands? Is it something to eat, glutton and gormandiser that thou art?” “I... ...to divert him from such an unlucky scheme; but it was all preaching in the desert and ham- mering cold iron. Nevertheless, among many other representa... ...ater advantage than all these does a knight- errant show when he traverses deserts, solitudes, cross-roads, for- ests, and mountains, in quest of peri... ...ote; “for those we see now-a-days are not like the hermits of the Egyptian deserts who were clad in palm-leaves, and lived on the roots of the earth. ... ... with sorrow enough in his heart. Don Quixote bade him not be uneasy about deserting the animals, “for he who would carry themselves over such longinq... ...at’s enough,” said Don Quixote to himself, “it would be preach- ing in the desert to attempt by entreaties to induce this rabble to do any virtuous ac...

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...rested; the woman I sat next looked a full-blood native, and it was in the prettiest and readiest English that she sang the hymns; back to Moors’, whe... ...ether as many boys as I could—three, and got the pigs penned against the ram- part of the sty, till the others joined; whereupon we formed a cordon, c... ...ht in the wild lime hedge which cuts athwart us just homeward of the garden, I found a great bed of kuikui—sensitive plant—our deadliest enemy. A fool... ...r deadliest enemy. A fool brought it to this island in a pot, and used to lecture and sentimentalise over the tender thing. The tender thing has now t... ... grove-land—‘the tops of the high trees. ’Savao, ‘sacred to the wood,’ and Faavao, ‘wood-ways,’ are the names of two of the characters, Ulufanua the n... ... map) we broke our shaft early one morning; and when or where we might expect to fetch land or meet with any ship, I would like you to tell me. The Pa... ... and had no fever. The day was otherwise uneventful. I am reminded; I had another visitor on Friday; and Fanny and Lloyd, as they returned from a fore... ...e; a tallish piebald, bought 66 Robert Louis Stevenson from the circus; he proved steady and safe, but in very bad condition, and not so much the wil... ...was quiet in Vaiusu, and when we got to the second ford, alas! there was no picket—which was just what Belle had come to sketch. On through quite empt...

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...ligion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and rose in this island through the last two hun- dred years. It is well known that the two ... ...use of this awakening from slumber in the two established churches of this island, the fact is so little to be denied, that, in both its aspects, it i... ...sed acts ‘for build- ing additional places of worship in the highlands and islands of Scotland.’ These acts may be looked upon as one section in that ... ..., that the early Hebrews who dwelt in tents, and who, in the barrenness of desert scenery, drew most of their hints for improving their personal embel... ...ts, against sick- ness, danger, and every species of calamity to which the desert was liable. The particular form of the amulet is to be ex- plained o... ...modes of idolatry, and especially to a nomadic people in flat and pathless deserts, without a single way-mark or guidance for their wanderings, except... ...of his Paradise Regained. The shadowy exhibition of a regal banquet in the desert, draws out and stimulates the sense of its utter solitude and remoti... ... tribute and professed obedience; and Corsica, Sardinia, with the Balearic Islands, were dependent upon his possessions in Italy and Spain. His moral ... ...sses, ‘forests drear,’ or the sad desolation of a silent sea-shore, of the desert, or of the ocean, is an idea not developed amongst them, nor ca- pab...