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...orge. “Turn it all into a fine park like Violet Hill”—he jerked a thumb to westward—”that Mr. Sangres bought. It was four farms, and Mr. Sangres made ... ...own on the floor by the couch and took her hand. “Seven,” she said, as the French clock struck. “Year be- fore last you’d just be coming back from bus... ...ly learned official Mr. L.L. Geary, Sec- 69 Kipling ond Despatcher of the Western Route—to the Captains’ Room (this wakes an echo of old romance), wh... ...The word “Cape” rises across the face of a dial; a gong strikes: the South African mid-weekly mail is in at the Highgate Receiving Towers. That is all... ...atly combed by the dry fingers of the East. Below that again is the strong westerly blow through which we rose. Overhead, a film of southerly drifting... ...ns to relieve her mind about cheap German enamels for collar-bearings. The Frenchman assents cordially, cries “Courage, mon ami,” and switches off. Th... ...NEOUS ANEOUS ANEOUS ANEOUS ANEOUS [ WANTS ] REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY, FOR East Africa, a thoroughly competent Plane and Dirigible Driver, acquainted with ... ...” I said. “Is he in the Service?” “No. Strick got him into the Centro-Euro-Africa Protec- torate. He’s Assistant-Commissioner at Dupe—wherever that is... ... Then he told us he was a Hajji—had been three times to Mecca—come in from French Africa, and that he’d met the nigger by the way- 121 Kipling side—j...

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...ay that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honourable one. A French bastard landing with an armed banditti, and establishing himself ... ...The first king of England, of the present line (William the Conqueror) was a Frenchman, and half the Peers of England are descendants from the same co... ... to be drained of inhabitants, to sup port the British arms in either Asia, Africa, or Europe. Besides what have we to do with setting the world at d... ...errun with oppression. Free dom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her—Europe regards her like a stranger, and En... ...tly inland, and consequently excluded from the possibility of rivalling her. Africa is in a state of barbarism; and no power in Europe hath either suc... ...d this new world, at the greatest distance it could possibly stand, east and west, from every part of the old, doth, neverthe “Common Sense” Thomas...

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...r that matter, was either destroyed or disorganised by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected... ...erywhere man has found God. But nowhere, save on this half-European, half- African ledge of rock could you find so many different har- monies, combini... ...t-sided windows of stained glass beyond the high altar. At the time of the French expedition into Spain to estab- lish Ferdinand VII once more on the ... ...edition into Spain to estab- lish Ferdinand VII once more on the throne, a French gen- eral came to the island after the taking of Cadiz, ostensibly t... ...ct of great importance, he turned his attention to that unexplored Central Africa which occu- pies the learned of today. The scientific expedition was... ...reat sacrifices made in his travels were all forgotten like his studies of African dialects, his discover- ies, and observations. One story will give ... ...uchess listened with all her ears), “was the remark which the man makes at Westminster when you are shown the axe with which a man in a mask cut off C... ...ate his departure. T wenty-fours hours later the brig lay to off the north-west shore of an island within sight of the Spanish coast. She had been spe...

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...op in Bond Street, stand, as is very well known, the Windsor Chambers. The West 8 Men’s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British an... ...their statue of Britannia presenting a packet of the soap to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and the West Diddlesex Western Branch on the base- men... ...senting a packet of the soap to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and the West Diddlesex Western Branch on the base- ment)—lives a gentleman by the n... ...ew every face behind the scenes; and was in the habit of using a number of French phrases in his conversation, having picked up a smattering of that l... ...ny’s the time I shall ‘ope to see you under that ma’ogany.” “What will the French milliner say? She’ll hang herself for despair, Eglantine.” “Hush! no... ...of which operation Morgiana sat in perfect contentment looking at the last French fashions in the Courrier des Dames, and thinking how her pink satin ... ...ner, beginning, “Doctor, ye racklackt Sandy M’Lellan, who joined us in the West Indies. Wal, sir,” etc. These and little Cutler made up the party. Now...

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... the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to ... ...ank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon t... ...me, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—nobody seems to have realised... ...h some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West Indian banana, glance at the latest telegrams from all the world, scru... ...he prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (in the... ...ph theatre, and marvelled at the high-flung early Georgian houses upon the westward bank of that old gully of a thoroughfare; he felt strange with all... ...nd he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and used them with an uncon...

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... memoir, was son to a clergyman of a Norfolk family, and was born at Coney Weston, on February 11, 1790. He was educated at Eton, and there formed mor... ...relations in the Eastern counties, some- times with Lady Patteson’s in the West. Landwith Rectory, in Cornwall, was the home of her eldest brother, Dr... ...Deutsch wohl’ and he found him- self talking to a German on one side and a Frenchman on the other. His letters throughout his foreign travels are more... ... tower-like masses of the Norfolk pine on the shores, was at that time the French Bishop of New Caledonia, the Oul, as the natives called him and his ... ...the Roman Catholic chapel, and on 108 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the west side is St. Paul’s Church, an Early English stone building, looking re... ...te so much time for writing as you have, I dare say, in spite of music and French and history and geography and all the rest of it. But I do dearly lo... ...bout. What an age it is! America, how is that to end? India, China, Japan, Africa! I have Jowett’s books and “Essays and Reviews.” How much I should l... ...nesia. And so one’s thoughts float out to India, and China, and Japan, and Africa, and the islands of the sea, and the very vastness of the work raise... ...there should be two missionary dioceses, and without the right man for the African Mission, there might have been a difficulty in carrying out the pla...

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...ow that stir and whirl of human thought one calls by way of embodiment the French Revolution, has altered absolutely the approach to such a question. ... ...ve not forgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for ... ...lying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic massacre. It was the French Revolution of that cold tyranny, the vindictive overthrow of the pam... ...ndon,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London, twelve miles to the north-west, was making itself felt more and more. But this was only the beginning... ...formerly come to the very borders of the High Street were broken up north, west and south, by new roads. This enterprising person and then that began ... ...istic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducking for it—and a huge French May-day poster displaying a splendid proletarian in red and black on... ...ving been born and brought up in Bromstead and Penge, and the war in South Africa being yet in the womb of time, could quite honestly entertain the no... ...urning resentfully upon him for a common ignorance and assumption… . South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories. How... ...blundering went on. Men, mules, horses, stores and money poured into South Africa, and the convalescent wounded streamed home. I see it in my memory a...

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...t of Progress” is the lightest part of the loot I carried off from Central Africa, the main por- tion being of course “The Heart of Darkness.” Other m... ...besques. He was treated with a solemn re- spect accorded in the irreverent West only to the monarchs of the stage, and he accepted the profound homage... ...nce; the song ceased; they swarmed on the beach in the long shadows of the western hills. The sunlight lingered on the purple crests, and we could see... ...inated by the holder of a sceptre the shadow of which, stretching from the westward over the earth and over the seas, passed far beyond his own hand’s... ... to him through all his wanderings about the country. He spoke English and French with a war- bling accent, wrote a beautiful hand, understood bookkee... ...suddenly that this Carlier was more precious to him here, in the centre of Africa, than a brother could be anywhere else. Carlier, en- tering into the... ...nable and silly discussions about plots and person- ages. In the centre of Africa they made acquaintance 83 Joseph Conrad of Richelieu and of d’Artag... ...azed Carlier. “In the first moment I fancied the fellow was going to speak French. Anyway, it is a different kind of gib- berish to what we ever heard... ... he was very strange, seemed not to understand, seemed to have forgot- ten French—seemed to have forgotten how to speak altogether. Kayerts and Carlie...

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...w Territo- ries from the baneful influence of human bondage, as the North- western Territories were sought to be preserved by the Ordi- nance of 1787,... ...the public mind as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buy... ... from importing slaves 35 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five from Africa. As to Governor Chase, I have a kind side for him. He was one of the... ...subject. The American people, on the first day of January, 1854, found the African slave trade prohibited by a law of Congress. In a majority of the S... ..., that barrier. Come down again to our State of Illinois. The great North- west T erritory, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin... ... first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- lishment of our independence it became a part of ... ... Virginia afterward to transfer it to the General Govern- ment. There were French settlements in what is now Illinois, and at the same time there were... ...rench settlements in what is now Illinois, and at the same time there were French settlements in what is now Missouri, in the tract of country that wa... ... better remain in Chicago, with such a chance for copartnership. If I went west, I think I would go to Kansas, to Leavenworth or Atchison. Both of the...

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... Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con sider the extent of the va... ...is always moving bodily sideways. At Hard Times, La., the river is two miles west of the region it used to occupy. As a result, the original site of t... ...d throwing in civili zation and whiskey, ‘for lagniappe;’ and in Canada the French were schooling them in a rudimentary way, missionarying among them... ...ese various clusters of whites must have heard of the great river of the far west; and indeed, they did hear of it vaguely,—so vaguely and indefinitel... ... value it or even take any particular notice of it. But at last La Salle the Frenchman conceived the idea of seeking out that river and exploring it. ... ...ed. In the morn ing the chief and six hundred of his tribesmen escorted the Frenchmen to the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks ab... ...ircus to the menagerie was easy and natural; from the elephant to equatorial Africa was but a step; then of course the heathen savages would suggest r...

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...to an Anchor, and here we lay, the Wind continuing contrary, viz. at South west, for seven or eight Days, during which time a great many Ships from Ne... ...e, till being past the Light House atWinterton, the Shore falls off to the Westward towards Cromer, and so the Land broke off a little the Violence of... ...Enterprises to my View; and I went on board a Vessel bound to the Coast of Africa; or, as our Sailors vulgarly call it, a V oyage to Guinea. 12 ROBIN... ...Course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those Islands and the African Shore, was surprised in the Grey of the Morning, by a Turkish Rover... ...up with them. They ask’d me what I was; in Portuguese, and in Swam, and in French, but I understood none of them; but at last a ham and told him I was... ...y to the Northward upon our own Coast, with Design to stretch over for the African Coast, when they came about 10 or 12 Degrees of Northern Latitude, ... ...ut of our Knowledge; it began from the South East, came about to the North West, and then settled into the North West, from whence it blew in such a t... ...ral Towns on the Way, with an Account, that so much Snow was fallen on the French Side of the Mountains, that several Travellers were obliged to come ... ...ery little V oyage. But while we were considering this, there came in four French Gentlemen, who having been stopp’d on the French Side of the Passes,...

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...h. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Spanish. PEKEE NUEE NUEE, Fegee. PEHEE NUEE NUEE, Erromang... ...ure has placed on their shoulders.” Sir T. Herbert’s Voyages into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge shoals of whales, that they w... ...ess in the fishermen.” Extracts 9 Thomas Jefferson’s Whale Memorial to the French minister in 1788. “And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?”... ...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a wh... ... come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the nee... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zo... ...the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances — this kind of trave... ...nd calms of all four oceans, her old hull’s complexion was darkened like a French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her vener a... ...ay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pa gan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and...

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...and, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds. Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more som- ber every minute, a... ...in the fairway—a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ... ...chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At... ...llions. He shook hands, I fancy, mur- mured vaguely, was satisfied with my French. Bon voy- age. “In about forty-five seconds I found myself again in ... ...ntinent, I were about to set off for the center of the earth. “I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, fo... ...re wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp ... ...depth appeared the same; but as I had been informed the station was on the west side, I naturally 52 Heart of Darkness headed for the western passage...

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...l religion was so thor- oughly blended with all that is most majestic in a French woman that Godefroid resolved to leave no stone unturned to make him... ... had it protested, and sued Mongenod for me. Meantime the disasters of the French armies had produced such depreciation of the Funds that investors co... ...el to bring you myself a little fortune; but the union of Holland with the French Empire caused the vessel to be taken by the English and sent to Jama... ...e a great deal of noise. I mean the ‘Chauf- feurs.’* Every province in the west of France was at that time more or less overrun with these ‘brigands,’... ...ied tribute on those who bought the confiscated property of emigres at the West. When the Thermidorian reaction began, after the fall of Robespierre, ... ...of the ‘Moniteur’ and the other newspapers of that time, even those of the West, you will not find a word about the four or five criminal trials which... ...the parched skin clung to the bones as if it had been burned by the sun of Africa. The dome of the forehead, high and threatening, overshad- owed a pa...

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...H. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, ERROMANG... ... has placed on their shoulders.” —Sir T. Herbert’ s V oyages into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they w... ...and boldness in the fishermen.” —Thomas Jefferson’ s Whale Memorial to the French Minister in 1778. “And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?”... ...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a... ... 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 virtue of the ne... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, con- trasting climates, zone by ... ...the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances—this kind of travel,... ...nd calms of all four oceans, her old hull’s complexion was darkened like a French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her venerabl... ...ay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and h...

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...s pleasantly, with its white cottages, and orchard and other trees, on the western slope of a green hill looking far and wide over green meadows and l... ... artillery; I remember the window by which I sat while my mother taught me French; and the patch of garden which I dug for— But her name is best left ... ... stream in upon us with every breath we draw. Anthony says they attended a French school, though only for about three months; and he well remem- bers ... ... any young soul in it, lies fatally over the horizon in these epochs!—This French scene of things, a grand school of its sort, and also a perpetual ba... ... you about these; but perhaps you may like to hear of my expedition to the West. “I wrote to Polvellan (Mr. Buller’s) to announce the day on which I i... ...spent a few days at the old Mansion of Mr. Buller of Morval, the patron of West Looe; and during the rest of the time, read, wrote, played chess, loun... ... into a state of great excitement, and massa- cre a good many thousands of Africans and Asiatics?—For the present, it appears, the English Education Q... ...hat the straightest line from Gibraltar to this place goes close along the African coast; which accordingly we saw with the utmost clearness; and foun... ...... The last book I have lighted on is Moffat’s Missionary Labors in South Africa; which is worth reading. There is the best collection of lion storie...

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...ral McDowell is in position on your right, his supplies must be drawn from West Point, and you will instruct your staff-officers to be prepared to sup... ...see how, lacking that, you can have any, except the scrap from Richmond to West Point. The scrap of the Virginia Central from Richmond to Hanover Junc... ...tion, remembering that our object is to give such protection as you can to western 45 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six Virginia. Many thanks... ...s corroborated by a despatch from General King at Fredericksburg, saying a Frenchman, just arrived from Richmond by way of Gordonsville, met 10,000 to... ...ts from Rich- mond to Jackson could be in Gordonsville, as reported by the Frenchman and your deserters. Have not all been sent to de- ceive? A. LINCO... ...r for our military commanders to employ, as laborers, as many per- sons of African descent as can be used to advantage. The twelfth and thirteenth sec... ... shall employ as labor- ers within and from said States so many persons of African descent as can be advantageously used for military or naval purpose... ...asonable wages for their labor. 3. That as to both property and persons of African descent accounts shall be kept sufficiently accurate and in detail ... ...he coast of Cuba between the United States war steamer San Jacinto and the French brig Jules et Marie, resulting in serious damage to the latter. The ...

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.................................................................... 38 SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND .................................................... ............................................................ 189 THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN ................................................................... ............................................................... 304 THE SOUTH-WESTER ....................................................................... ...mething, you see. “But don’t say a word,” he continues, “against the brave French any more.” —That stopt me: we’ll now march together. I couldn’t re... ...e: we’ll now march together. I couldn’t read further before. That “brave French” I couldn’t stomach. He can’t see their cunning to get Us Britons t... ...et: and then a long plunge in the sea. XVIII ‘“Well, now about me and the Frenchman: it happened I can’t tell you how: And, Grandfather, hear, if yo... ...e rage of the havoc wide-mouthed, the bright car superimpending Over Asia, Africa, low down; ruin flaming over the vales; Light disastrous rising sava...

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...lic Emancipations, and Rotten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientif... ...wledge of it, and of him, to England, and through England to the dis- tant West:” a work on Professor Teufelsdrockh “were un- doubtedly welcome to the... ...and fish and flesh, soup and solid, oyster-sauce, lettuces, Rhine-wine and French mustard, were hurled into one huge tureen or trough, and the hungry ... ...imself, as we said, laughed only once. Still less do we make of that other French Definition of the Cooking Animal; which, indeed, for rigorous scien-... ...porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, have I, looking at the distant western Mountains, consumed, not without relish, my evening meal. Those hue... ... you to the end of the World! “Why mention our Swallows, which, out of far Africa, as I learned, threading their way over seas and mountains, corporat... ...thy serene soli- tude; stately, massive, all of granite; glittering in the west- ern sunbeams, like a palace of El Dorado, overlaid with precious meta... ... for who would speak, or be looked on, when behind him lies all Europe and Africa, fast asleep, except the watchmen; and before him the silent Immensi... ...en the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo- Jumbo and Indian Pawaw be utterly abolished. For all things,...

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... spirit as a man may debate a project to ascend the Matterhorn or to cross Africa, John consid- ered Alan’s proposal, and, greatly daring, accepted it... ...and stood awhile, a strange peri at the gates of a quaint paradise, by the west end of St. George’s Church. They were singing within; and by a strange... ..., as he stood under the doors of that estranged house, and looked east and west along the solitary pavement of the Royal Terrace, where not a cat was ... ...se purblind Edinburgh eyes John was to let in the dazzling daylight of the West; and the details in general of that unrivalled transformation scene, i... ... fast asleep, for Maria is a malade imaginaire.’ With this specimen of the French, not of Stratford-atte- Bowe, but of a finishing establishment in Mo... ... land; to hear him, you would have thought they had encountered in Central Africa. Dick had never found any one take a fancy to him so readily, nor sh... ...n the door, and planted him face to face with Mr. V an Tromp, in a suit of French country velveteens and with a remarkable car- 101 Stevenson buncle ...