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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 175 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71464 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76 Mr. 65 man 55 New 48 day 47 England 39 time 36 great 36 St. 34 little 32 English 31 illustration 28 like 24 good 24 South 24 Mrs. 23 God 21 look 21 London 21 CHAPTER 20 french 20 York 20 Captain 17 River 17 India 17 General 16 american 16 States 16 Indians 16 Government 15 Lake 14 old 14 mile 14 english 14 San 14 Bay 13 water 13 United 13 Sir 13 North 13 Lord 13 Europe 12 european 12 West 12 Mississippi 12 France 12 America 11 river 11 long 11 italian 11 Rome Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 28427 man 22143 day 20308 time 14042 water 12560 mile 12443 foot 12134 way 12130 place 11168 river 10590 country 10424 year 10084 side 9499 people 9337 house 9074 part 8886 thing 8687 night 8288 hand 7641 life 7370 mountain 7256 tree 7199 one 7009 woman 6993 head 6660 hour 6547 boat 6447 nothing 6415 morning 6266 road 6201 eye 6119 sea 5894 work 5765 land 5752 horse 5658 island 5453 world 5394 town 5320 name 5220 ice 5119 hill 5067 rock 4999 ground 4988 city 4984 wind 4943 course 4826 end 4820 ship 4790 child 4763 point 4712 friend Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 45243 _ 6825 Mr. 4012 New 3236 Indians 3226 England 2809 America 2733 States 2662 Captain 2535 St. 2461 English 2408 | 2378 . 2058 de 2030 South 1919 Mrs. 1734 God 1685 North 1659 River 1643 United 1617 York 1613 General 1587 London 1568 India 1501 Sir 1483 Government 1482 � 1442 Europe 1398 Cape 1380 M. 1348 CHAPTER 1328 West 1295 Island 1279 Dr. 1248 San 1243 Lake 1236 Cook 1231 John 1224 Lord 1215 France 1180 State 1144 Mr 1121 Bay 1087 Great 1076 la 1073 Rio 1068 Americans 1067 Miss 1039 Indian 1029 Johnson 1015 Sunday Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10036 most 472 least 365 well 12 highest 11 near 8 hard 7 worst 4 brightest 3 long 2 smartest 2 sky,--the 2 odor,--the 2 lest 2 infest 2 greatest 2 goethe 2 early 1 ¦ 1 writhe 1 wickedest 1 warmest 1 tempest 1 soon 1 softest 1 smoothest 1 sittest 1 scuppernong,--the 1 quick 1 oftenest 1 officinalis 1 negroes''--the 1 mosquito,--the 1 mightiest 1 loveliest 1 loudest 1 lookest 1 kindliest 1 kindest 1 impossible—most 1 hottest 1 healthiest 1 happiest 1 grimmest 1 gaudiest 1 field;--the 1 farthest 1 farest 1 fairest 1 exprest 1 eldest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 www.gutenberg.org 8 archive.org 3 rjs.org 2 www.gutenberg.net 2 kdl.kyvl.org 1 books.google.com.sb Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 4 http://archive.org 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47750/47750-h/47750-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47750/47750-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44745/44745-h/44745-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44745/44745-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43209/43209-h/43209-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43209/43209-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29314/29314-h/29314-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29314/29314-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/43775 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/43774 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1866 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1865 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/3/8/14384/14384-h/14384-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/3/8/14384/14384-h.zip 1 http://rjs.org/gutenberg/OCR2Gutenberg/ 1 http://rjs.org/gutenberg/ 1 http://rjs.org 1 http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=kyetexts;cc=kyetexts;view=toc;idno=b92-161-29919559 1 http://kdl.kyvl.org/ 1 http://books.google.com.sb/books?id=7QYdAAAAMAAJ 1 http://archive.org/details/wanderlust00reyn 1 http://archive.org/details/narrativeoflifet00butlrich 1 http://archive.org/details/intrackofrlsteve00hammuoft 1 http://archive.org/details/cu31924022188266 Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 3 ccx074@pglaf.org 2 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk 1 gutenburg@rjs.org 1 gutenberg@rjs.org 1 gcowling@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au 1 andy@linxit.demon.co.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55 _ is _ 51 one does not 36 _ was _ 36 nothing is more 31 _ did _ 30 country is very 28 _ are _ 28 man is not 25 river is here 25 river is very 22 _ do _ 21 nothing is so 20 people do not 19 men do not 18 day was fine 18 life was not 17 day was very 17 men did not 17 morning was fine 17 water is very 16 day was not 16 houses are not 16 people are not 16 people are very 16 things are not 16 women are not 15 man does not 15 one did not 15 one is not 15 time is not 15 water was so 14 _ had _ 13 man had not 13 men were not 13 night was very 12 morning was fair 12 people were very 12 river is about 12 time was not 12 water was not 11 _ see _ 11 _ was common 11 country is not 11 house was full 11 man did not 11 men went out 11 men were all 11 one is almost 11 people did not 11 people were not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 day was not yet 4 day is not far 4 life was not so 4 one is not surprised 4 things are not so 4 time is not yet 3 people are not very 3 time is not far 3 water is no more 2 _ do not _ 2 _ was not far 2 boats was not as 2 boats were not able 2 country is not quite 2 day had not yet 2 day was not very 2 houses are not as 2 life are not yet 2 life is not long 2 life is not safe 2 life was not successfully 2 life was not worth 2 life were no easy 2 man had not yet 2 man has no business 2 man is no longer 2 man is no more 2 men are not only 2 men had no other 2 men make no such 2 night is not so 2 night was not dark 2 one hears no step 2 one is not interested 2 people had no notion 2 people have no idea 2 things are not good 2 time being no object 2 time had not yet 2 time is not distant 2 time was not far 2 trees are no more 2 water is not far 2 water is not so 2 way was not particularly 2 women are not pretty 2 women do not often 2 women is not so 2 women know no veils 1 _ are no good A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 22022 author = Alcott, Louisa May title = Aunt Jo''s Scrap Bag, Volume 2 Shawl-Straps date = keywords = Amanda; Americans; English; Lavinia; Livy; London; Madame; Matilda; Mrs.; Pelagie; Rome; St.; day; french; good; lady; like; little; old; woman summary = short-sighted man insisted on carrying the ladies to a dirty little They had a pleasant day; for good old Madame soon recovered her temper, said Amanda, coming into the room where her comrades sat upon the floor, manner, while Lavinia went up and down, finding for herself little little, old-time village on the banks of the Loire, looking as if it had this lovely drive in a peaceful manner,'' said Lavinia, still a little As Amanda paused for breath the little man took the word, and rattled He did like a man; for suddenly the doors of an old stable flew open, Lavinia and Amanda had old passports, and window were the two little Napoleonic heads, with big, black eyes, said Lavinia, proudly displaying a wash-stand that looked like a soon,'' said Amanda, in the little back entry, while her luggage was Dear Amandas, Matildas, and Lavinias, why delay? id = 30970 author = Allen, Grant title = Miss Cayley''s Adventures date = keywords = ADVENTURE; Ashurst; Brownie; Cantankerous; Cayley; Count; Elsie; England; Evelegh; Florence; Georgina; Harold; Higginson; Lady; Lois; London; Lord; Maharajah; Manitou; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Old; Schlangenbad; Southminster; Tillington; english; illustration; man summary = began to feel like a globe-trotter already; the Cantankerous Old Lady look at me like that: be practical, Elsie, and let me help you paint the mademoiselle,'' he said, in an off-hand tone, ''Lady Georgina has sent me When Lady Georgina and the Count returned, they were like old friends don''t need them, my dear,'' Lady Georgina said to me, with a because I saw a good-looking young man evidently trying to avoid you ''Miss Cayley,'' she said, introducing me; ''my nephew, Mr. Harold Tillington. ''But you will come to the hotel at once, Harold?'' Lady Georgina ''But, Lady Georgina,'' I cried, ''you said you ''I think you have a dear, kind old heart,'' I said, ''under the quaintest always the said Harold Ashurst Tillington consents to marry"-I think ''And how have you been all this time, dear Lady Georgina?'' I asked, ''To my house, dear,'' Lady Georgina answered, looking anxiously at me; id = 4229 author = Amundsen, Roald title = The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 date = keywords = Aires; Atlantic; Barrier; Bay; Bjaaland; Buenos; Captain; December; February; Fram; Framheim; Hanssen; Hassel; January; Land; Lindström; March; Mount; November; Polar; Pole; Ross; Scott; Sea; South; Stubberud; Whales; Wisting; antarctic summary = New Year''s Day came and went without any change in the ice. but these men succeeded in working their way on foot over sea-ice place came the south-west wind with rain, fog, and foul weather in carry dogs, too, aboard this ship," he would say, every time he came on days, and before the month was half over we had come a good way into long sea voyage, and probably many on board the Fram looked forward dogs themselves saw to its covering with ice, and for the time being a mass of dogs it took some little time before they came across each this way for the first time going south, Hanssen''s dogs had fallen That day we crossed the last crevasse for a long time to come, and reached our good little house again, with two sledges and eleven dogs; was the best day''s work the Fram had done up to that time. id = 40830 author = Anderson, Andrew A. title = Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa date = keywords = Africa; Bay; Bengulu; Boers; Bushmen; Cape; Colony; East; English; Free; Government; Great; Kaffir; Kalahara; Kuruman; Limpopo; Mr.; Natal; Orange; South; State; Town; Transvaal; Vaal; Zambese; Zulu; country; river summary = the country was more open, and on a small branch of that river, close to THE NATIVE COUNTRY NORTH OF THE VAAL RIVER. spring of good water, and an open country, where we remained the night. large Kaffir station, close to a small branch of the Harts river, above Notuane river to the Great Marico road, the country is very dry and passing through forest and open country with native kraals situated on Debabe, a large native station, where the river turns south, branching the Limpopo river, an extent of country some 150 miles in length; and colonial side of the river, then turns north-west for 120 miles, winding the country that is situated on the north side of the Zambese river, up difficult and mountainous country, where large rivers would have to be open up the country on the south side of the Zambese river. id = 40746 author = Baillie, Marianne title = First Impressions on a Tour upon the Continent In the summer of 1818 through parts of France, Italy, Switzerland, the borders of Germany, and a part of French Flanders date = keywords = Alps; Berne; Bonaparte; England; France; Geneva; Italy; London; Madame; Mont; Mr.; Paris; Simplon; St.; Switzerland; Turin; country; english; french; great; italian; little; pass summary = Passing a little public house, we observed the following houses, in most of the French towns and villages we have yet seen, are mules, and observed many beautiful trees of mountain ash, with their seen such a beautiful thing in my own country? The country shortly changed to a scene of wonderful richness and beauty, met, with their large black eyes, and peculiar style of beauty, told us water-mill at work in the valley below us appeared like a baby-house, places, as both French and Italian are equally used in this country), we difference of this little country house from those to which we had been country, which we thought extremely pleasant, tasting like the best The country beyond this place began to improve in picturesque beauty; English traveller, like myself, to observe the manners here of very strange effect to an English eye; but among the French people there id = 27874 author = Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title = Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands date = keywords = America; Australia; CHAPTER; Cuba; England; English; Europe; Gulf; India; Islands; Italy; Japan; Lake; Mediterranean; New; North; Norway; Ocean; Palace; Paris; Rome; Russia; San; Sea; South; St.; States; Sweden; Zealand; capital; city; european; foot; great; illustration; large; mile; thousand summary = 1837 the city was formed with less than five thousand inhabitants; at On our way westward, we stop for a day at Salt Lake City, the capital of Sea-lions come out of the water in large numbers to sun themselves upon horses, to an elevation of seven thousand feet, leaving behind nearly Hawaiian group, which is situated a little over two thousand miles away. The great seas and oceans of the globe, like the land, have their miles along the river, and a hundred thousand people live in boats. cities of this great island-continent which possesses an area of nearly The public library of the city is a large and impressive building, He is little seen in the cities,--his place is in The large and populous city formed here, though so temporary, is divided considerable city of nearly seventy thousand inhabitants, situated on The city contains over forty thousand inhabitants, and is situated six id = 45706 author = Barber, James, active 1837-1839 title = The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. date = keywords = Alexandria; Bombay; Cairo; Calcutta; Casal; Ceylon; China; Co.; Company; East; Egypt; England; Esq; Foot; Hotel; House; India; Infantry; London; Malta; Mr.; Native; Oriental; Overland; Peninsular; Regiment; Royal; STREET; Southampton; St.; Suez; Valetta; illustration summary = luggage be sent down in due time.[1] Passengers need not leave London "Landing at Alexandria, the passenger will find three good hotels, As the passage through Egypt _en route_ to India differs but little, reach Suez in time to embark in the East India Company''s steamer at _East India Company''s rules for the engagement of passages and part, leave their own Presidency in the East-India Company''s steamers, Alexandria--provided the passenger has not booked himself in India the traveller to be in the East India Company''s service--the Indian pay Bombay, Rules for Passengers by the East India Company''s Steamers 39 INDIA AND LONDON-LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, INDIA AND LONDON-LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, THE ROYAL MILITARY, EAST INDIA AND GENERAL Army, Navy, East India Company, and Merchant Services; also for persons TO THE OFFICERS OF THE QUEEN''S OR EAST INDIA COMPANY''S SERVICE, By EDWARD THORNTON, Esq. Illustrated by Maps, showing the Possessions of the East-India Company id = 5405 author = Beach, Rex title = The Ne''er-Do-Well date = keywords = Alfarez; Allan; Anthony; Chiquita; Colonel; Cortlandt; Edith; Garavel; Gertrudis; God; Higgins; Kirk; Locke; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Panama; Ramon; Runnels; Senor; Weeks; York; american; good; man; spanish summary = "Old man Anthony doesn''t care for this sort of thing. One day when Kirk had begun to feel that his acquaintance with Mrs. Cortlandt was well established, he said to her: "You talk like a man," Anthony said, admiringly. Kirk could not help thinking that a man of the consul''s wide look upon Kirk, as he said, "Mrs. Cortlandt tells me you''re going to be Allowing his eyes to leave her face for a moment, Kirk saw that she was Edith Cortlandt, her hand upon the arm of a swarthy man whom Kirk knew May I give you a hand, Mrs. Cortlandt?" Kirk helped Edith "I hope to make good," said Kirk, simply, "and I think I can." Then he "I suppose her father would not let her come," said Kirk, slowly, but "You came, didn''t you?" Kirk said, in a voice not at all like his own. id = 19589 author = Bigges, Walter title = A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine. date = keywords = Captaine; Fleete; Generall; Lieutenant; Maister; vvhich; vvith summary = The day follovving standing in vvith the shore againe, vve discried an conter commaundement vvas (vvhich had bene receiued in that place some stand, he sent to parle vvith our Generall, vvhich vvas graunted by our abundantly, vve vvere forced by the vile sea gate, vvhich at that ordinance throughout the towne, and vpon all the platformes, vvhich vvas sent vvith Captaine Goring, vvho comming to the said Messenger, he first In vvhich time by the Generall it vvas aduised and resolued, vvith the for the King in the Spanish Galley, vvhich vvith the Tovvne vvas lately vvhich Captaine vvas committed the charge of the shot of the said where after tvvo or three dayes a great ship vvhich vve had taken at S. her companie, vvhich staied by great hap vvith her, vvas readie to take shore a place built like a Beacon, vvhich vvas in deede a scaffold vpon id = 3334 author = Bigges, Walter title = Drake''s Great Armada date = keywords = Captain; Domingo; General; Lieutenant; Master; St. summary = captain in the Aid; Master Christopher Carlile, the Lieutenant-General, in her, as being brought unto the General, he thought good to make stay spent, our General called for Captain Sampson, and willed him to go to Carlile, our Lieutenant-General, was sent with his own ship and three the town, the Lieutenant-General thought good not to make attempt till was now arrived; and presently after these captains was sent the great Lieutenant-General and 600 men, marched forth to a village twelve The captains aforesaid coming to the Playa, landed their men; and having placed the troop in their best strength, Captain Sampson took is great, neither the inhabitants of the town, or island, ever came at Master Carlile, our Lieutenant-General; at which time, being about eight Captain Winter, through a great desire to serve by land, having now keep the town, albeit that of men able to answer present service we have id = 755 author = Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) title = A Lady''s Life in the Rocky Mountains date = keywords = Birdie; Colorado; Denver; Estes; Evans; Indians; Jim; Long; Mountain; Mr.; Mrs.; Park; Peak; Plains; Rocky; St.; Truckee; Vrain; great; horse; man; ride; snow summary = water twenty-two miles long by ten broad, and in some places 1,700 feet a clearing and surrounded closely by mountain and forest, looked like a six miles of prairie, and then reached the beautiful canyon of the St. Vrain, which, towards its mouth, is a narrow, fertile, wooded valley, depth, dark with the indigo gloom of pines, and mountains with snow Personality of Long''s Peak--"Mountain Jim"--Lake of the Lilies--A Personality of Long''s Peak--"Mountain Jim"--Lake of the Lilies--A Long''s Peak, 14,700 feet high, blocks up one end of Estes Park, and Plains lay cold, in blue-grey, like a morning sea against a far Park is 10,000 feet high, a great rolling prairie seventy miles long, for six miles by pine-skirted mountains 12,000 feet high! canyon of the mountains, dark with pines and cool with snow. from the mountains in such clouds as to make Long''s Peak look like a id = 32333 author = Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) title = Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5. date = keywords = Bay; Cape; Carolina; Champlain; Creek; Delaware; George; Gulf; Hudson; Inlet; Island; Jersey; Lake; Lawrence; Lord; Mr.; New; North; Point; River; Sound; South; St.; States; United; York; canoe; mile; paper; water summary = "Since my little paper canoe entered southern waters upon her Having passed the little isle, the ship enters the great Gulf of St. Lawrence, and passes the Magdalen Islands, shaping its course as wind nearly eight miles wide, a bad place to cross in a small boat in windy the lake with the Hudson River, is sixty-four miles long, ending at the better boat for rough water than the Rob Roy. The New York Canoe Club, paper-boat manufactory on the river Hudson, two miles above Troy. waters, rising within half a mile of Long Lake, and upon the same waters of Delaware Bay. An hour after leaving Murderkill Creek the wind came from the north in miles, cross Rehoboth and Indian River sounds, ascend White''s Creek, Four miles from South Point I struck the marshes which skirted Dr. Purnell''s large plantation, and pushing the canoe up a narrow branch of id = 6322 author = Bonpland, Aimé title = Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 date = keywords = Africa; Alps; America; Andes; Araya; Barcelona; Bonpland; Canary; Cape; Caracas; Cariaco; Caripe; Chaymas; Cordilleras; Cruz; Cumana; Cumanacoa; Europe; Firma; Grenada; Guayra; Indians; Islands; Margareta; Mexico; New; Orinoco; Orotava; Paria; Peak; Peru; Quito; Rio; San; Santa; Silla; South; Spain; Spaniards; St.; Tamanac; Teneriffe; Terra; Venezuela; Vesuvius; West; World; european; mission; spanish summary = vast circuit west, north, east, and south, the current takes a new placed on the coasts of continents, serve as sea-marks to direct in the air, indicated some new eruption of the great volcano of depth near a coast formed by very high and perpendicular mountains. health, as soon as we could land them at the island of St. Margareta, or the port of Cumana, places remarkable for their great appearance of mountains or hills.) and it receives, near the Indian mountainous place covered with stunted trees, exposed to the winds, the coasts, appears a great degree of coolness. of the great trees; and the natives, who love solitary places, form mass, it appeared to belong to the great formation of the sea-coast the mountains of the coast would have formed a narrow island, low-water appears like a small island. Caracas, situated in the mountains, three degrees west of Cumana, id = 20263 author = Boswell, James title = Boswell''s Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica date = keywords = ANDREW; Boswell; Corsica; Corsicans; Corte; Donaldson; Dr.; ERSKINE; Edinburgh; English; Footnote; France; French; General; Genoese; JAMES; Johnson; King; Lady; London; Mr.; Paoli; Rousseau; Signor; Sir; great; letter; man; ode summary = Boswell writes to tell his friend Temple--"I have hopes that our Johnson draws between Boswell''s Account of Corsica, which forms more volume of letters that passed between Boswell and his friend The _great man_ now," he writes to his friend Temple. of letters, his book on Corsica brought him far greater pleasure than Boswell, I shall not praise your letter, because I know you have [Footnote 22: Boswell in a letter to his friend Temple, dated May 1st Dear ERSKINE,--What sort of a letter shall I now write to you? He said his great object was to form the Corsicans in such a manner that country." Then turning to the man, "Sir," said he, "Corsica makes it a [Footnote 125: "On the evening of October 10, 1769, I presented Dr. Johnson to General Paoli. [Footnote 130: "''Sir,'' said Johnson, ''I am a friend to subordination, as id = 6018 author = Boswell, James title = The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. date = keywords = Alexander; Allan; BOSWELL; Charles; Col; Edinburgh; England; English; Highland; James; Johnson; Lady; Laird; London; Lord; M''Lean; M''Leod; M''Queen; Macdonald; Macleod; Malcolm; Monboddo; Mrs; Mull; October; Rasay; Scotland; September; Sir; Sky; footnote; good; great; man summary = ''Sir,'' said Mr Johnson, ''a lawyer has no business Of Dr Beattie, Mr Johnson said, ''Sir, he has written like a man Johnson said nothing at the time; but when we came to the great door Dr Johnson gave him this character: ''Sir, he is a civil man, and a Johnson, after they were acquainted, said, ''I take great delight in Dr Johnson said, ''So great a number as a thousand is better. Mr Grant having prayed, Dr Johnson said, his prayer was a very good Dr Johnson said, that ''a chief and his lady should make their house dependence on his will, Dr Johnson said, ''You are right: it is a man''s Dr Johnson said nothing at the time; but when we were in our ''True, sir,'' said Dr Johnson: ''but you may ''True, sir,'' said Dr Johnson: ''but you may ''Why, sir,'' said Dr Johnson, ''I shall say nothing as to the id = 46695 author = Bowring, John title = A Visit to the Philippine Islands date = keywords = Antique; CHAPTER; Capiz; China; English; Europe; General; Governor; Ilocos; Iloilo; Indians; Luzon; Manila; Mas; Mindanao; Negros; Panay; Pangasinan; Philippines; Santa; Spain; Spaniards; St.; Sual; Tagál; Zamboanga; british; chinese; dollar; european; great; island; large; native; place; province; spanish; state; year summary = usually introduce a Philippine Indian with a game-cock under his arm, having arrived from Manila, the Indians surrendered, being promised The Philippine Islands are divided into provinces, subject either to each of which a native Indian or mestizo, called a gobernadorcillo descendants of Chinese fathers and Indian mothers form incomparably The great mass of the indigenous population of the Philippine Islands ordered him to be paid six times its value, and the Indian said he Indians settled in Manila are said to be the worst of their races: great number of Spanish ladies from Manila are generally seated at the so that now the Indian generally denominates this native authority The following return gives the exports from Manila for the year 1858:-island, which is peopled by a race of Indians said not to be hostile, does not pay to produce in large quantity for export to Manila, and id = 10813 author = Boyd, Mary Stuart title = A Versailles Christmas-Tide date = keywords = Antoinette; Boyd; Christmas; Château; Iorson; Louis; Madame; Marie; Palace; Paris; Placidia; Queen; Versailles; french; illustration; little summary = A little casement window to the left of the wide entrance-door [Illustration: The Red Cross in the Window] "young table-cloths"--the little Colonel made haste to fold his also. look exchanged, the little Colonel passed out alone. Of a former visit to Versailles we had retained little more than the In cold weather the school-girls wear snug hoods, or little the open-air market rouses Versailles from her dormouse-like slumber and In Versailles Madame does her own marketing, her maid--in sabots and little village of counterfeit rusticity wherein Marie Antoinette loved The Château of Versailles, like the town, dozes through the winter, only time we sat together around the little tree, watching the Soeur light the little room with the red cross on its casement, wherein, although our admirably illustrated by Mr. A.S. Boyd, whose sense of humour happily Mr. Boyd''s illustrations add greatly to the interest and charm of the book. id = 6445 author = Brooke, Rupert title = Letters from America date = keywords = Boston; Canada; East; England; Falls; Harvard; Montreal; New; Ottawa; Quebec; Toronto; West; York; american; canadian; english; great; like; little; man summary = bloom of which his short life had too little time to remove and faith; we feel him not a little lost and lonely and stranded in the New shoulder, and a voice said, "Look hard at that, young man! the waters of the sea, and some great liner making its slow way out to The harbour was bright with sunlight and blue water and little white romance in the long grim American train, in the great lake we passed in little French villages, by day and by night. clear light blue, almost cloudless, like an English sky, and the water The American Falls do not inspire this feeling in the same way as the A new city; a little understand, old man," he said, "how out of place I am amongst this Imagine a little round lake 6000 feet up, a mile across, closed closed, but further up there was a little place still lighted, inhabited id = 45531 author = Butler, Robert title = Narrative of the Life and Travels of Serjeant B—— date = keywords = Bible; CHAPTER; Colonel; Edinburgh; God; India; Lord; Madras; Mr.; Mrs.; Serjeant; author; day; great; man; regiment; think; time summary = of revisiting Scotland--Friends left in India--Account of Mrs. Copwick--Her Marriage and unhappy Condition--Promising Piety years, and great numbers in our regiment were taking the bounty every took the road again, and was in Shoreham in good time to march with the blessing of God, I got a good deal better, and left the hospital regiment; the men, women, and children, dying almost every day. twenty-one of these robust looking men went the way of all living in time we could not muster five hundred effective men in a regiment arrived, a number of the men got considerably better; about mid-day and 89th regiments left us, on account of a general order received to lives lost in this way, yet during the march a great number indeed, getting any good books, when a person had a little spare time, to time I played the fife upon the Lord''s day going to church, id = 12874 author = Cameron, Agnes Deans title = The New North date = keywords = Arctic; Athabasca; Bay; Canada; Chipewyan; Company; Cree; Edmonton; England; Eskimo; Fond; Fort; God; Great; H.B.; Hudson; Indians; Island; John; Lac; Lake; Landing; Lesser; Mackenzie; Mounted; Mr.; Mrs.; North; Northern; Peace; Red; River; Simpson; Slave; Smith; St.; Winnipeg; canadian; chapter; illustration; man summary = Great Slave Lake--The first white women at Fort Rae--Land of the old Duncan Tremblé, a river-dog on the Athabasca for forty years, looked Conifer boys comes round." The man of the river and the woods hates a The men know where to put their hands on old-time tent-poles, the boys The father tells of the days when as a young man he served The Company, day Wyllie made a coffin for an Indian." We step into the old man''s Yellow-Knife Indian woman at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake. little Indian babies, his disciples for the days to come. We are all day and all night crossing Great Slave Lake from Fort Rae to Mackenzie River and the banks of the Great Slave may some day afford our way for three hundred miles up the great river to Fort Vermilion. has a Bishop who one day each year makes holy water of the Red River id = 33359 author = Candler, Edmund title = The Unveiling of Lhasa date = keywords = Amban; Captain; China; Chinese; Chumbi; Colonel; Dalai; General; Government; Gurkhas; Gyantse; India; Jong; Karo; Lama; Lhasa; Lieutenant; Major; Phari; Pioneers; Potala; Sikkim; Tibetans; Tuna; Valley; Yatung; Younghusband; british; man summary = Gautsa to Phari Jong--A wonderful old fortress--Tibetan the Red Lamas--Chumulari--The Tibetan New Year--Bogle''s Tibetan camp at Hot Springs--The Lhasa Depon meets Tibetan expedition is to convey some idea of the life we led in Tibet, Chinese and Tibetan officials, and was even presented to the Dalai Lama mile beyond the Customs House, through which no Tibetan or British The road to Phari Jong passes through two military walls. into the Kongbu Valley--a likely camping-ground for the Tibetan troops. two Lhasa officers who have the government of Phari Jong sent me some The Tibetans stood on the roofs of their houses like a row of which overlooked the Tibetan camp and the valley beyond, the Gurkhas jong if it entered camp by the direct Lhasa road. until we were within fifty miles of Lhasa that the Tibetan Government We reached Lhasa to-day, after a march of seven miles, and camped id = 42449 author = Chaplin, Charlie title = My Wonderful Visit date = keywords = Angeles; Chaplin; Charlie; Doug; England; Europe; George; Kennington; Knoblock; London; Los; Mr.; Tom; Wells; american; feel; good summary = Mary''s picture, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," and asked for suggestions. away, and I felt or wanted to feel myself just a simple soul among He doesn''t like New York and thinks he wants to get back Am feeling very sad, rather regretful--think what a nice man I want to explore new lands and I feel I notice a thoughtful-looking, studious sort of man seated across from invitations; have made new friends, met a lot of charming people, tells me they are French and British camera men coming to welcome me. a day late, the crowd expected had no way of knowing when I would time, I know, I am going to want Shaw and Barrie. old boy, I should like to see you when you come to London--that is, if A Somerset man writes: "A friend of mine has a very old-time spot "Dear Charles," writes an eleven-year-old, "I''d like to meet you very, id = 27250 author = Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title = What I Saw in America date = keywords = Dickens; England; Englishman; Europe; God; Ireland; Jefferson; Jews; Lincoln; Middle; Mr.; New; North; President; Republic; South; States; West; York; american; english; french; great; irish; like; people; sense; thing summary = American Constitution is a thing like the Spanish Inquisition. thing unless you think it out.'' It is not to deny that American Ireland Irish; the great mass of men taking certain national traditions In other words, the democratic ideal of countries like America, know a little about journalism, American and English, would have That sort of thing is the bad side of American literature; but I think few Americans realise how much English children situation like that of modern America, and especially the Middle West. American citizens do at least so far love freedom as to like to have difference in the conversation of American and English business men arises, I think, from certain much deeper things in the American which of New York, which is by no means the same thing as America, is that of so national as humour; and many things, like many people, can be id = 36962 author = Cook, Frederick Albert title = My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy date = keywords = Annoatok; April; Arctic; Bartlett; Bay; Bradley; Cape; Captain; Cook; Copenhagen; Dr.; Eskimos; Greenland; Land; Mount; Mr.; National; New; North; October; Parker; Peary; Polar; Pole; Society; Sound; Whitney; York; american; day; ice; illustration; mile; time summary = that Mr. Peary (a year later than Dr. Cook) reached the Pole. of pin-point accuracy, the North Pole has been honestly reached by Dr. Cook, three hundred and fifty days before any one else claimed to have THE LAND-ADHERING PACK ICE OF POLAR SEA--THE MOST DIFFICULT returned from the famine-land of ice and cold--the world of his awakes, turns over, drinks some ice-water, eats a little half-cooked The land, the sea, the air, ice, and snow, have great individual LAND--ADHERING PACK ICE OF POLAR SEA--THE MOST DIFFICULT TRAVEL OF THE They hoped to get back to land and off the ice of the Polar sea in one upbuilding of the ice of the North Polar Sea. Snapping our whips and urging the dogs, we traveled until late in the Dr. Cook reached the Pole, I doubt Peary, his observations bear the [Illustration: THE LAND-DIVIDED ICE-PACK REPORTED BY PEARY PROVES COOK''S id = 58361 author = Curzon, Robert title = Armenia: A year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia date = keywords = Armenia; CHAPTER; Church; Constantinople; Emperor; England; Erzeroom; Hossein; King; Mohammedan; Pasha; Persia; Sea; Shah; St.; Sultan; Trebizond; Turkey; Turks; christian; great; man; place; russian; time; turkish summary = Koords, headed in our days by the great chieftains Beder Khan Bey, round towers, with conical roofs, like old-fashioned pigeon-houses, What the Pasha looked like, and what manner of man he was, it was like every body else in this country, and a long nose and a black best places, over round stones as big as a man''s head, with larger a rich man''s house is prodigious, the turfed roof forming a small "One day passes much like another at Erzeroom, and though there Now it came to pass, once upon a time, that the great of the good old times, I one day proceeded to the citadel to see young bears one day, who lived in our house for some time. A curious episode in the history of Armenia took place in the time The country which was called Armenia in ancient times is now divided id = 33455 author = Dana, Richard Henry title = To Cuba and Back date = keywords = Chartrand; Church; Cuba; Cubans; Grand; Havana; Matanzas; Morro; Mr.; Negro; Negroes; New; Paseo; Spain; States; United; York; house; man; spanish summary = The state-rooms of the "Cahawba," like those of most American sea-going and linens, in a room so large that it looked like a part of the Great Cerro, a pretty and cool place in the suburbs, but are coming in to Mrs. Almy''s boarding-house, for the convenience of being in the city, and for look of the great days of Old Spain about it; and you think that knights Yesterday and to-day I noticed in the streets and at work in houses, men Negroes, a few slaves on duty as carriers, a few low whites, and now and Taking all the slaves together, men, women, and children, the young and and the United States, slavery, the coolie problem, the free-Negro labor sugar-cane; but the garden, the trees about the house, and what remains slave, low whites, coolies, and men of high condition were all id = 55759 author = Dorr, David F. title = A Colored Man Round the World date = keywords = England; Fellowes; France; Frank; Mr.; Naples; Napoleon; New; Paris; Queen; Rome; St.; day; french; great; like; look; man; old summary = looking like all the rest, I came to the conclusion that the English if you are lucky, you arrive at 8 o''clock at a little old French town It is said that these little old half dead towns live off It is a little old town with a wall round it, and a hill close man what it meant, who said it is a place where all the rich people said "look there ahead, those old walls we are going under is the came up to the pretty little ruined city Albano, he said, "there, once felt like driving the good-natured old fool away, but as he was and looks like a man in every sense of the word. old times we looked upon a town. had, and the old man said he would have half of the asparagus cooked These great temples are situated so that it takes a man many days to id = 39718 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The Wanderings of a Spiritualist date = keywords = Adelaide; Arthur; Australia; Bailey; Brisbane; Britain; Christ; Church; Conan; Doyle; Dr.; England; God; Government; Hall; London; Melbourne; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Professor; Sir; South; Spiritualists; State; Sydney; Zealand; british; good; great; man; time summary = House Ball.--The Rescue Circle again.--Sitting with Mrs. Harris.--A good test case.--Australian botany.--The land of myrtles.--English cricket team.--Great final meeting in Melbourne. works of man, are flanked by great sky advertisements of various brands one of those great men like Sir Ronald Ross, whom the Indian Medical of these good, kind people was aboard, bearing great bunches of wild the fittings of a man-of-war, and a great impression of cleanliness and the need for good living in a way which meets their spiritual wants, Of my psychic work at Auckland there is little to be said, save that I said, "Above your head I see a man, an artist, long hair, brown eyes, man who has spent great part of his life studying the subject, and As an example of how it works, some years ago a Melbourne man named many cases by large proprietors who work great tracts with few hands, so id = 55714 author = Eaton, Charlotte title = Stevenson at Manasquan date = keywords = Casco; Eaton; Hawkins; Low; Mr.; Mrs.; Sanborn; Seymour; Stevenson summary = York under the title "A Last Memory of Robert Louis Stevenson"; Mr. Dickie''s notes have appeared in the New York World, and Mr. Seymour''s come to make a farewell visit to his old friend Will Low, the artist. My husband, the late Wyatt Eaton, and Stevenson, were friends in their call him the man of good manners, or "the mannerly Stevenson," and this nights, and the good old farmer, never suspecting that Stevenson was of Stevenson''s must feel like Father Tabb in the library of his friend "One day, as I walked by," said he--meaning the Sanborn place--"I heard "I am glad _thee_ was good to Peter, said Mrs. Sanborn. "Ideals," said Stevenson, "are apt to stay by you when material things "Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson (wife of the author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)." the time, I told Mrs. Stevenson that on the day Mr. Eaton finished his id = 12380 author = Eddy, Arthur Jerome title = Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" date = keywords = Alcott; Batavia; Boston; Buffalo; Canandaigua; Concord; Emerson; Hawthorne; Lexington; Morgan; Mr.; New; Professor; Rochester; Street; Thoreau; York; american; automobile; come; day; good; little; machine; man; mile; old; road; time summary = The real chauffeur, the man who knows his machine, who can run it, The man who cannot run his machine a thousand miles without expert said that his eight horse-power machine will run faster and climb miles per hour with a single-cylinder motor, but for bad roads and matter of great concern in this vast country, where roads, notorious hill, to find also a good, well-travelled road one mile On country roads there is but one way to pass horses without risk, time five hours, distance by road about ninety-four miles. "That was in Morgan''s time," said an old man, and every one in the machine--like the horse--will not mind one or two hills, no matter the wonderful things eight good horses can do on the road, and is A good half-day''s work was required on the machine before starting have followed a good road all the way. id = 30924 author = Everts, Truman title = Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner''s Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 date = keywords = Madison; Yellowstone; day; fire; illustration; night; tree summary = had dwelt too long amid the mountains not to know that such a thought, of another night alone in the wilderness, and this time without food night must be spent amid the prostrate trunks before my return could third day I rose early and started in the direction of a large group procure, I know that from this time onward to the day of my rescue, my Buoyed by the hope of finding food and counsel, and another night of the foot of the lake, with the hope, by constant travel, to reach it Days and nights came and went, and were waters, and sat beside it for a long time, waiting for the storm to thought over every foot of the day''s travel, and concluded that the In a day or two I took leave of my kind friends, with a feeling of id = 1146 author = Fielding, Henry title = The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon date = keywords = Fielding; Francis; July; Lisbon; London; Mr.; Mrs.; captain; day; good; great; little; man; ship; time; wind summary = grave; till in two months'' time I had again acquired some little degree a ship that was obliged to sail for Lisbon in three days. began with great reason to apprehend that our voyage might be long, and all kinds from the shore, in order to put off the evil day of starving most absolute power of a captain of a ship is very contemptible in the time presumed to make use of a great lady''s name, the wife of the first in order to raise a small sum, a man is obliged to submit to pay as many a man-of-war, to return instantly to the ship; for that the wind was Having contracted no great degree of good-humor by living a whole day assistance, and while the captain had a little boat of his own, with men The captain declared he was sure of a wind, id = 43520 author = Fielding, Henry title = The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 11 A Journey From This World to the Next; and A Voyage to Lisbon date = keywords = CHAPTER; Elysium; Francis; Julian; July; Lisbon; London; Minos; Mrs; Rome; captain; day; good; great; illustration; king; leave; little; long; man; person; time; wind; world summary = and good men who have thought with our author are sufficient to keep him poet answered, he believed, if Minos had read his works, he would set a Duke," cried Minos, "you are infinitely too great a man for Elysium;" A great number of spirits now came forwards, who all declared they had Minos: "on second consideration, Mr Patriot, I think a man of your great generality of the world were guilty of in their conduct to great men, "We observed great difference introduced by time and circumstance in the began with great reason to apprehend that our voyage might be long, and the same time presumed to make use of a great lady''s name, the wife of Having contracted no great degree of good-humour by living a whole day the opinion of some, the great difference in happiness between man and He was, I believe, likewise a man of great id = 4030 author = Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot title = Travellers'' Stories date = keywords = London; beautiful; child; little; look; old; place; time summary = land, I saw a white butterfly hovering over the waves, and looking as about ten feet square, and it looked to me like a great rustic flower I should like some time to read you a description of this lovely place, other plants,--young trees and flowers,--to the beautiful little porch, Ullswater, of looking with your living eyes on Derwent Water, built seven hundred years ago; and the ruins that are now standing look grow green and more beautiful and perfect as time passes on. There is a fine old park around these lovely ruins; and, not far off, a well knew how to choose beautiful places to live in. beautiful Ara Force, one of the most lovely falls I have seen in long days passed away, and the lady waited in vain for her true knight. far more beautiful than Laura Bridgman''s; her head good, but not so The school is a fine looking place, surrounded id = 38249 author = Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) title = Down the Columbia date = keywords = Andy; Armstrong; Bend; Big; Blackmore; Canyon; Captain; Cascades; Columbia; Creek; Dalles; Earl; Falls; Golden; Harmon; Ike; Imshallah; Kinbasket; Kootenay; Lake; Nixon; Rapids; River; Rock; Roos; Selkirks; Surprise; Windermere; illustration; mile; water summary = the roughly tumbling left-hand channel of Rock Island Rapids with only a pleasure boating, any attempt to run the Big Bend between those points Rapids was a real all-day and all-night sucker, but the old river hand calm open reaches of the upper river give way to really swift water. Kootenay River, and its waters did not reach the Columbia until after a With comparatively good water all the way to the head of Surprise water that was more like a lake than a river. place was below the half-mile-long third cascade, and no old river man Kinbasket Lake, just below Middle River--slack water all the way. what I knows is a ten-mile-an-hour current looks to me like slack water, quarter-mile of white riffle looked like comparatively easy running. water, and it would form a lake 150 miles long all the way to the of bedrock running half way across the river from the right bank. id = 20928 author = Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, Sir title = Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 date = keywords = A.M.; Brownsville; Captain; Colonel; Confederate; General; Jackson; Johnston; Judge; Lee; Longstreet; Major; Mississippi; P.M.; Polk; Richmond; Sargent; South; States; Texas; Yankee summary = eight feet long, we reached water at 7 A.M. At 9 A.M. we espied the cavalcade of General Magruder passing us by a attention to all the good-looking officers who accompany the General Maxey''s brigade left this place by road last night to join General to General Johnston and other Confederate officers; he pronounced them By great good fortune this was the evening of General Slaughter''s ride I met Major-General Cheetham, a stout, rather rough-looking man, church, I called again on General Bragg, who talked to me a long time now in the Confederate army, and is on the staff of General Beauregard''s Secretary-at-War for Generals Lee and Longstreet, I left Richmond at 6 _28th June_ (Sunday).--No officer or soldier under the rank of a general their horses are generally good, and they ride well. train of horses and mules, &c., arrived to-day, sent in by General id = 11526 author = Fuller, Margaret title = Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 date = keywords = God; Henry; Illinois; Mackinaw; Mariana; Mr.; Mrs.; bear; day; eye; good; great; indian; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; think; time; woman summary = But what I liked best was to sit on Table Rock, close to the great fall. Coming up the river St. Clair, we saw Indians for the first time. It is always thus with the new form of life; we must learn to look at it At this time love was the natural guest, and he came to her under a form But the power of fate is with the white man, and the Indian feels it. look of a white man, and I fixed my eye steadily on his. heart, showed the aversion that the white man soon learns to feel for A person who had seen them during great part of a life, expressed his he looked straight into the Indian''s eye, and like other wild beasts he the white man, was thus expressed by the Indian orator at Mackinaw while any Indian, his life was placed in great hazard. id = 14681 author = Galton, Francis title = The Art of Travel; Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries date = keywords = Africa; Australia; Captain; Dr.; England; Mr.; North; Sir; Sketch; South; bag; boat; end; fig; fire; foot; good; great; horse; large; long; man; place; small; table; traveller; tree; water; way; wood summary = case, the following plan gives the rate of travel per hour, with the required for making a steady pack-ox, some will carry a good weight and Pack-Saddles.--To make when Travelling.--Cut four bent pieces of touch small walking-stick, and eight inches long, is bent (see "Wood, to bend"); By the water-side.--A stony beach makes a fine dry encamping-place, and bag with a very small tent, just large enough to enclose the man''s head Heavy saddle-bags are often of use to secure the tent-ropes; and, it when travelling, mix it with a little flour and water, and then boil with a piece of wood, has been made to boil water by burying it a little experienced travellers discover watering-places, is so great that it this quantity should be carried on from every watering-place, so long as To raise Water from Wells for Cattle.--By hand.--Let one man stand in Vessels to carry water, small; large. id = 44191 author = Garner, R. L. (Richard Lynch) title = Gorillas & Chimpanzees date = keywords = Aaron; Congo; Elisheba; Gaboon; Moses; animal; ape; cage; chimpanzee; gorilla; hand; illustration; man; native; sound; time summary = details that they are called "anthropoid," or "man-like apes." They the great apes appeared to be the best subjects for that purpose, so I The gorilla was said to be the most like man, and the chimpanzee next. cage, how the time was occupied and what I saw besides the apes, that I As the native who captured him approached, the timid little ape tried river on my way to the jungle in search of the gorilla and other apes. thing in which these apes appear to be wiser than man is, that when At another time, while sitting in the cage, I heard the sound of In the order of nature the gorilla occupies the second place below man. man." But he had never seen a specimen of the ape, except the skulls forest for days at a time, and yet never saw a live gorilla. id = 4354 author = Gissing, George title = By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy date = keywords = Calabria; Cassiodorus; Catanzaro; Concordia; Cosenza; Cotrone; Croton; Ionian; Italy; Naples; Rome; Sculco; Sea; Squillace; Taranto; day; italian; little; long; time summary = the mass of mountains which now, as in old time, bear the name of Great scarce-lighted streets and came to an open place, dark and solitary and old days, when it was called Taras, or later Tarentum, stood on a long towards the old town, with its long sea-wall where fishermen''s nets of the Little Sea, were observable great ancient heaps of murex It is barely half a mile long; it rises amid a bed of great There was a good view of Taranto across the water; the old town on its Like the old town of Taranto, Cotrone occupies the site of that took place years ago, long before a railway had been thought of in "What do people do here?" I once asked at a little town between Rome man all through the troubled time which saw Italy pass under the day to school from a little place called San Sostene to Catanzaro, id = 15171 author = Griffith, William title = Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries date = keywords = A.M.; Abies; Andropogon; April; Artemisia; Assam; Bambusa; Bayfield; Berberis; Bheir; Bootan; Cabul; Campanula; Candahar; Churra; Clematis; Compositae; Daphne; Euphorbia; February; Ficus; Gam; Gaultheria; Gordonia; Hypericum; Juncus; Labiata; March; Mimosa; Mishmee; Moflong; Mogoung; Mr.; Nov; P.M.; Panax; Panee; Pinus; Polygonum; Potentilla; Primula; Pteris; Quercus; Rhododendron; Rosa; Rubus; Saccharum; Salix; Spiraea; Statice; Thibaudia; Viburnum; common; foot; hill; large; occur; place; plant; river; small summary = the change from the well-wooded Himalaya mountains to those of the Hindookoosh, without even a shrub five feet high, takes place to the east of interesting appearance, those previously seen, excepting however Thumathaya, being entirely covered with tree jungle; but beyond this site, the Hookhoom valley, bounding which occurs a range of hills stretching E.S.E. and W.N.W. These in the centre present a gap in which a river is seen we have seen, are small; it is situated on a low hill on the left bank. cultivation; no large trees occur within 1.5 miles of the town. occasionally low hills as about Kioukloloing, no large villages occur; the most common plants: Borassus is abundant: Fici occur about villages. Ericineae appear in places about 5,000 feet, Gaultheria continuing as far Some cultivation occurs about the place on the slopes of hills, chiefly common and of very large size, 2,400 feet above the river, as well as id = 47177 author = Grover, Eulalie Osgood title = The Sunbonnet Babies in Italy date = keywords = Babies; Molly; Sunbonnet; illustration; italian; look summary = "Look at the big city just ahead of our boat!" cried Molly. The little girl called the man _il padre_, which means "father," and little girl looked so much like the brown-eyed man, it was easy "That is not a street, father," said Molly. "O father, may we get out and walk a little way up the street?" asked "Perhaps the little boy''s father owns one of these small shops and "I believe half the people of Naples live out of doors," said Molly. At last Molly said, "Why, the bottom of the ocean looks very much like "It looks as if pirates might live there," said Molly. home, but the boat-man said they would look just like any other water "It looks like a little village down there," said May. "To-day brings the great surprise," said the Sunbonnet Babies'' father "My little girls want to see you very much," he said. id = 2385 author = Hamilton, Gail title = Gala-Days date = keywords = Anakim; Boston; Canada; Cheri; Class; College; England; God; Halicarnassus; Lord; New; Saratoga; St.; child; day; eye; good; great; hand; heart; high; know; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; mountain; old; people; right; stand; thing; time; way; woman; world summary = great eyes at it, and says, "What in the world--" and ends with a huge, moment there are two women and a little girl taking their walks abroad North Pole by this time, had not Crene''s dark eyes,--so pretty to look But women in the natural state wish men to stand godlike erect, to and see little things, eight, ten, twelve years old, who ought to be in we see an old man''s darling, little Jenny of the Manse, a light-hearted children, dear little unnatural pale faces and heavy eyes,--may your day; and, till time shall be no more, the evening and the morning will right, the man (or the woman) who devotes his life to the study of A fresh-faced, good-natured-looking man is just shall greatness of soul stand forth, if not in evil times? would go a great way towards setting the world right. things are great to little men and women. id = 43209 author = Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir title = In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France date = keywords = Camisards; Cevennes; England; France; Mount; Mr.; Paris; Pont; Puy; St.; Stevenson; Tarascon; Tarn; Tartarin; day; english; french; illustration; little; town summary = [Illustration: "In a little place called Le Monastier, in a pleasant little highland town, which lies secure away from railways and can lies La Bastide, a drowsy little town despite its long connection with wife--a fair-haired little woman with cheeks like red apples, dressed taken us some two hours, and we had a long way to travel that day. passing on our way the old castle of Miral and a picturesque church valleys such as these, or in cosy little towns like Pont de Montvert, river only a little way from the road. place precisely as Stevenson pictures it, noting by the way a tiny new withdrawn a little way from the east end of the grand old There are several ways of reaching this little-known corner of France, The little town sits in the mouth of a great ravine that place in days of old, for it is one of the interesting things in the id = 7879 author = Hawthorne, Nathaniel title = Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. date = keywords = Angelo; Capitol; England; English; Hotel; Italy; J-----; Louvre; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Palace; Paris; Peter; Piazza; Rome; San; St.; french; great; italian; little; look; picture; roman; way summary = are fresco paintings of sacred subjects, and a beautiful picture covers In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they lights burning at the altar, and it looked very like a Christian church; open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, painting in fresco, looking like a whole heaven of angelic people To-day we went to the Colonna Palace, where we saw some fine pictures, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a id = 7880 author = Hawthorne, Nathaniel title = Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. date = keywords = Angelo; England; Florence; Grand; Italy; J-----; Medici; Michael; Mr.; Mrs.; Palace; Powers; Raphael; Rome; Siena; St.; U----; Uffizi; Venus; english; gothic; great; italian; little; look; old; roman summary = gallery, I think I might come to have some little knowledge of pictures. rest of the face, it has a very queer look,--less like a human eye than a We looked pretty thoroughly through the gallery, and I saw many pictures altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it was pleasant, looking downward into the little old piazza and narrow busts, that look like faces of ancient people gazing down out of the streets of old Siena looked very grim at night, and it seemed like gazing way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day we saw what looked a rough village street, betwixt old houses built id = 7881 author = Hawthorne, Nathaniel title = Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete date = keywords = Angelo; Capitol; Church; Corso; England; Florence; Hotel; Italy; J-----; Medici; Michael; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Palace; Palazzo; Paris; Peter; Piazza; Raphael; Rome; San; Siena; St.; Story; U----; Venus; Virgin; american; english; french; gothic; great; italian; little; look; power; roman summary = In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day id = 6381 author = Hearn, Lafcadio title = Two Years in the French West Indies date = keywords = Anse; Antilles; Bon; Cyrillia; Devil; Dié; Footnote; Fort; France; God; Good; Grande; Guadeloupe; Labat; Manm; Martinique; Maximilien; Mimi; Missié; Morne; Pelée; Pierre; Père; Robert; Rouge; Rue; Saint; St.; Stéphane; african; black; color; day; french; great; green; illustration; indian; light; like; little; long; look; moin; nature; sea; time; water; west; white summary = extravagantly white it looks to-day, like snow in the sun. Close by the ship it looks black-blue,--the color All day the pure sky, the deepening of sea-color, the lukewarm wind. of green light, reaching over the sea like a thin protraction of color today looks almost black: the south-west wind has filled the day Then a high white shape like a cloud appears before us,--on the Some day there may be a great change in the little city of St. Pierre;--there may be less money and less zeal and less remembrance of Seen from the bay, the little red-white-and-yellow city forms but one sea-wall comes into sight--dull gray stone--work, green-lined at all its little like New Orleans in the old quarter; everywhere fine tall palms. Good-God (_Bon-Dié_) one day sent a great wind which blew away Missié filled by blacks or men of color; no white creole can obtain a public id = 43497 author = Hedin, Sven Anders title = Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 1 (of 2) date = keywords = Ali; Chang; Dangra; English; Government; Governor; Gyangtse; India; Indus; Isa; Ladak; Ladakis; Lama; Leh; Lhasa; Lord; Muhamed; Naktsang; New; Ngangtse; Rabsang; Rehim; Robert; Sahib; Shigatse; Sing; Sonam; Tashi; Tibet; Tibetans; Tsangpo; Tsering; Tundup; author; chapter; chinese; day; illustration summary = During the following days Muhamed Isa was always on his feet, looking Muhamed Isa set up for the caravan men a large Tibetan tent with a broad We needed a day''s rest in this camp, for before us was the high pass however, little water, ran to the lake, and all day long we fell in with We have not seen a drop of water all day long, and the caravan is small pass we came to a new longitudinal valley, where the country was men for several days, but after that should pass black tents daily. Our day''s march ran round the lake and into a broad valley extending in slowly marching over passes and through winding valleys, over small long day''s journey and a difficult pass, and therefore it was still dark This time Muhamed Isa accompanied me, and the Tashi Lama received me in id = 43549 author = Hedin, Sven Anders title = Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) date = keywords = Abdul; Ali; Bongba; Brahmaputra; Chang; Gartok; Gova; Governor; Gulam; Himalaya; Illust; India; Indus; Isa; Kailas; Kerim; Ladak; Ladakis; Lama; Langak; Leh; Lhasa; Lobsang; Muhamed; Puppy; Robert; Saka; Sutlej; Targo; Tashi; Tibet; Tibetans; Trans; Tsering; Tso; author; chapter; illustration summary = east of the mountain the flat open valley of the Targo-tsangpo comes seven short days'' journey; the pilgrim road closely follows the lake great river drink of the water, because it comes from the holy mountain On the same day a large white-and-blue tent was set up by our camp, but Tabie-tsaka, how far they marched each day, and where they passed lakes, gain our camp on the bank of the Tsangpo; the river looks like a lake, After a while we passed the valley junction and the unlucky camp No. 283, and were again on the great caravan route, the road of dead horses. Mountain north-east of Camp 310; the freshwater Lake white limits of the valley was seen to the south-east the large lake Three tents stood in a side valley and some men came out to look passed two tents, where four Tibetans came out to look at us. id = 36201 author = Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming) title = Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 date = keywords = Bay; Bodega; California; Coast; Drake; English; Fletcher; Francis; Indians; Miwok; Pomo; Wagner summary = culture described in the accounts of Drake''s voyage to California are many Coast Miwok Indians from Drake''s Bay and Bodega Bay must have been Drake''s landing was somewhere north of San Francisco bay, possibly even Indian words in the sixteenth-century accounts of Francis Fletcher and the Coast Miwok of Drake''s Bay and Bodega Bay. Wagner, in his attempt to show that Drake landed at Trinidad Bay, makes words of Pomo attribution; and (3) if Drake landed in Coast Miwok Coast Miwok[66] and Pomo.[67] The word _Gnaah_, by which (so Fletcher suggest that Drake landed in Trinidad Bay and saw the Yurok Indians. But there are two bays in Coast Miwok territory to which Drake Sir Francis Drake''s Anchorage on the Coast of California in the Year 338-357), show, the Coast Miwok inhabited both Bodega Bay and Drake''s (London, 1804), said that the Drake''s Bay Indian men whom he saw were id = 13403 author = Howard, Clare title = English Travellers of the Renaissance date = keywords = Court; Duke; Earl; Edward; England; English; Englishman; Footnote; France; Francis; Hall; Henry; Italy; James; John; Letters; Life; London; Lord; Oxford; Paris; Robert; Rome; Sir; Spain; State; Thomas; William; french; italian; travel summary = great horse--Attempts to establish academies in England--Why travellers traveller of Stuart times was the young gentleman who was sent to France for the first time in an English book for travellers: "The Grand Tour of "travelled through Italy Five times, as Tutor to several of the English their governor, from their foreign travels into France and Italy. Footnote 91: _The Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby_, 1547-1564, ed. Footnote 91: _The Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby_, 1547-1564, ed. Footnote 100: Sir Thomas Overbury, _An Affectate Traveller_, in Footnote 111: _Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby, Written by Himself_, Footnote 128: _Life and Travels of Thomas Hoby, Written by Himself_, p. Footnote 180: _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, vol. Footnote 180: _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, vol. Footnote 180: _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, vol. Footnote 312: "That young men travel under some tutor, or grave servant, id = 7014 author = Humboldt, Alexander von title = Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 date = keywords = Africa; Amazon; America; Andes; Angostura; Apure; Aragua; Atabapo; Atures; Bonpland; Cano; Caracas; Caribs; Carichana; Carlos; Cassiquiare; Cordillera; Cumana; Encaramada; Esmeralda; Europe; Father; Fernando; Great; Guaviare; Guiana; Indians; Javita; Jesuits; Llanos; Lower; Maypures; Meta; Negro; New; Orinoco; Ottomacs; Rio; San; Santa; South; Spaniards; Upper; Uruana; Valencia; World; mission; river; spanish summary = land, the little rivers of the valleys of Aragua form a peculiar of the Indians of Cassiquiare and the Rio Negro, the wild tree plain itself divides the waters between the Baltic and the Black Sea. Geographers, who suppose the existence of a chain of mountains banks of that great river, from the mouth of the Apure as far as stopped, on the right bank, at a little Indian mission, inhabited by the banks of the Orinoco.) This rock, which calls to mind the form of Maypures of the great cataracts; among the Indians of the Rio Erevato, cataracts, the Indians of the Upper Orinoco would not travel so far to Near the latter are some rocks covered by the water, that form a small practised), as the waters of the Orinoco near the Great Cataracts. (twenty to a degree) on the five great rivers, Apure, Orinoco, id = 4521 author = Jardine, Frank Lascelles title = Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland date = keywords = Bay; Brothers; Camp; Cape; Creek; December; Eulah; January; Jardine; Leichhardt; Mr.; November; Richardson; River; Settlement; Somerset; York; horse; mile summary = crossed, and the party camped at the end of 18 miles on a similar distance a large creek of running water was crossed, and the camp the river running north-west, and depending on its correctness, Mr. Jardine bore to the north-west for 15 miles, travelling over sandy little party having travelled over nearly 360 miles of ground in 18 with broad tea-tree gullies, to two sandy water courses half-a-mile camp at about nine miles, then crossed over to the river to look for Country improves--Good Camp--Eulah Creek--The Brothers attacked the line, and the party had to camp without water at about 13 miles: party to a well-watered creek, with vine scrub banks running N. miles the party reached and camped on a fine, well-watered, rocky At two miles from camp a large creek was crossed creek half-a-mile from the camp, on crossing which the party had to id = 2024 author = Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title = Diary of a Pilgrimage date = keywords = Ammergau; Cologne; English; Europe; Heidelberg; Munich; Ober; Reprinted; Rhine; german; good; like; little; look; play; time summary = He said that a simple thing like a bottle of brandy in your bag might like to come, explaining, by means of her guide-books and histories, Seafaring people talk like this, because they are silly, and do not know the land of the stranger, to come across a little homely English row like "That''s all right, old man; that''s the sort of thing we need. "It''s no good, old man," he says, with a sickly smile, so full of pathos proper time for a man to come to the carriage-window and clamour to see German shoemaker with this book and have talked the man''s head off. After breakfast we got a time-table, and looked out for a train to determined-looking man, I felt satisfied, and wished him "Good-night," That''s just what a German express train would like to "This is the train for us, old man," he says. id = 2064 author = Johnson, Samuel title = A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland date = keywords = Allan; Boswell; Col; England; Hebrides; Highlands; Islands; Laird; Macdonald; Maclean; Macleod; Mr.; Mull; Raasay; Scotland; Sir; Sky; english; great; man summary = We left this little island with our thoughts employed awhile on the Elgin seems a place of little trade, and thinly inhabited. this island lived from the present time, is afforded by the stone heads table, a visit was paid by the Laird and Lady of a small island south of Those, said he, are the walls of a place of refuge, built in the time of the eldest son of the Laird of Col, heir to a very great extent of land, It is generally supposed, that life is longer in places where there are In the Islands, as in most other places, the inhabitants are of different in as little danger from the powerful as in other places. English, and had never seen any other places than the Islands of Sky, thoughts that naturally rise in places where the great and the powerful id = 5891 author = Kingsley, Mary Henrietta title = Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons date = keywords = Africa; Ajumba; Bantu; Bubi; Buea; CHAPTER; Calabar; Cameroon; Captain; Coast; Congo; Eclaireur; English; Fan; Fans; Fernando; Francais; Gaboon; Gold; Government; Igalwa; Island; Lagos; Lembarene; Leone; Mr.; Niger; Ogowe; Rembwe; River; Sierra; South; West; Xenia; come; european; french; great; man summary = in the true sense of the word, and form a great native-born white fish, for the great West African Bank, which fringes the coast in white man plantation-making, has come too close to him. leaving their gaunt roots exposed in midair." High-tide or lowtide, there is little difference in the water; the river, be it far great, broad, business-like-looking river entrances open on and of course this state of affairs is most common in nonslaveholding tribes like the Fan. Mission work was first opened upon the Ogowe by Dr. Nassau, the down river in a canoe and gave me good advice in Fan, and I got him Fan town called Efoua, where no white man or black trader had yet white men come to the bank, on the other side of the river, and call of the things a man, black or white, fails to do, whether for good id = 32977 author = Kipling, Rudyard title = From Sea to Sea; Letters of Travel date = keywords = Baksh; Boondi; Calcutta; California; Chicago; China; Chinaman; Chitor; City; Company; East; England; Englishman; Francisco; Globe; God; Government; Hong; House; India; Japan; Jeypore; Jodhpur; King; Kong; Maharaja; Man; New; Palace; Park; Police; Professor; Rajputana; Ram; River; Road; Sahib; San; Singh; Sir; State; Tokio; Udaipur; West; Yellowstone; american; chinese; english; good; great; japanese; know; life; like; little; look; thing; time summary = Man Sagar the road of to-day climbs up-hill, and by its side runs the half light of dawn, a great city sunk between hills and built round The Englishman, men said, might go by it if he liked, or he might not. said, long before the City of the Rising Sun, which is little more than And then, after a little time, came the end, and a return to the road in place, the main road of the city; and from that point looks like an old man and remembers many things." As he babbled, the night shut in a man had said good-by to the Englishman; adding cheerily: "We shall "Your men are no good," said the North Borneo man. salmon-wheels ''fore long," said a man who lived "way back on the Here he told me a little--such things as a man may tell a stranger--of id = 7777 author = Kippis, Andrew title = Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods date = keywords = America; Banks; Bay; Cape; Captain; Cook; Discovery; Dr.; Endeavour; England; English; Gore; Hope; Indians; Islands; King; Lieutenant; Mr.; New; Ocean; Otaheite; Pacific; Resolution; Sir; Society; Solander; South; Tupia; Zealand summary = Soon after the ship came to anchor the second time, Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, who had gone on shore to see if any gleanings of natural watering-place, Lieutenant Cook went with Dr. Solander and Mr. Monkhouse, to the head of the bay, for the purpose of examining that time, Captain Cook came to a resolution, provided he met with no From Matavai Bay, Captain Cook directed his course for the island of was a new discovery, Captain Cook gave the name of Hood''s Island, Pursuing his discoveries, Captain Cook came in sight of an island, ships came to an anchor in Adventure Bay. Captain Cook, as soon as he the same place with all the Indians of the South Sea. On the 30th of January, 1777, Captain Cook sailed from Adventure Bay, The next place visited by Captain Cook was a small island, called id = 45162 author = Knox, Thomas Wallace title = How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. date = keywords = Atlantic; China; Company; East; England; English; Europe; France; Francisco; India; Italy; Liverpool; London; New; P.M.; Paris; San; Singapore; St.; States; Street; United; York; american; day; french; good; italian; steamer; travel; traveler summary = travel--railways, steamships, hotels, carriages, fees, and the be found at all the news-stands on the great railway lines the tourist sea travel, try and get as near the middle of the ship as you possibly years ago, while a steamer was on her way to New York, a crow came on one, begin at noon, and a person who remains till one or two P.M. must pay for an extra day of room and attendance. traveler who holds his room till it is time to go to the train finds sou on a franc is a good general rule; it is followed by the great first-class travel is not sufficient to pay for anything like a good Siberian journey may begin at any hour of the day the traveler A good team will travel from forty to sixty miles a day with favorable or fifty cents for a day of twelve hours, and if the traveler wishes id = 13150 author = Kolb, E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) title = Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico date = keywords = Angel; Bright; Canyon; Cataract; Colorado; Creek; Edith; Emery; Grand; Green; Gulf; Jimmy; Major; Powell; River; Utah; boat; mile; rapid; rock; water summary = Green River City proved to be a busy little place noisy with switch The canyon-walled river turned southeast here, and continued of Major Powell''s parties had upset a boat in a Red Canyon rapid. river, and noon found us several miles below the camp, having run About the lower end of Red Canyon the river turned directly east, The river at the entrance of this rock-walled canyon was nothing through Cataract Canyon''s forty-one miles of rapids, with their boats, this, or in the 120 miles of good boating from Green River, Utah, to rapids, although the descent of the river would make rough water even like the rapid at Dark Canyon, sweeping under the wall until turned by water a great deal as we lifted and lined the boats over the rocks at boats over the rocks at the head of the rapid. left, the boating party was camped at the end of the canyons. id = 43342 author = Lamson, J. (Joseph) title = Round Cape Horn Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige, from Maine to California in the Year 1852 date = keywords = CHAPTER; Cape; Captain; Horn; Johnson; July; June; Mr.; Mrs.; Rio; San; Talcahuana; bird; day; passenger; ship summary = A voyage round Cape Horn in a passenger-ship is an event of the past. Birds--Amusement of the Mate and Passengers--A Poet--Fair Winds--A for fourteen passengers and a state-room for the captain was built from one or two days'' loss of time, is the port charges, the passengers afternoon a large school of porpoises came playing round the ship, Near us lay the North America, a large ship from New York Captain Jackson then took a boat manned by two sailors, and went the passengers ready to return on board the bark, where we passed the _June 11._ A large white albatross flew round the ship to-day with There was a large gathering near the captain''s state-room soon after the night with him; and the next day he took his _chere amie_, Mrs. L----t, to the same house, where they tarried till we sailed. a passenger-ship round Cape Horn, and that I thought such an account id = 43997 author = Lang, John title = Wanderings in India, and Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan date = keywords = Agra; Black; Blue; Calcutta; Colonel; Court; Deputy; England; General; Government; Governor; India; Judge; Lieutenant; Lord; Maharajah; Major; Meerut; Mr.; Mrs.; Mussoorie; Rajah; Ranee; Sahib; Singh; Sir; british; european summary = lady said, "The heaven is speaking, Sahib." I answered, "Truly; but the tea, and followed the young man, who led me to the little house near "One day, when the Sahib came into my room, I began to talk to him "Sahib," said Black and Blue, looking up at the doctor, "you are very matter-of-fact way in which the natives of India regard the death of said--"No; it is written in general orders that no officer shall employ "Well, old man, what is the matter?" said the Lieutenant to the almost "''Look into that boy''s face,'' said the lady to her husband and myself; "I get, sir, for this business," said the old man, pointing with his "Good morning to you, sir," said the old man to the snake. "Well, sir," said the old man, coming up to me, after he had made a id = 37206 author = Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) title = Sea and Sardinia date = keywords = Cagliari; England; English; Etna; Italy; Mandas; Naples; Nuoro; Sardinia; Sicily; black; come; dark; good; great; italian; like; little; long; look; man; old; sea; white summary = In little puffs and specks and stars, it looks very like bits of water, is white looking, under the great dark toe of Calabria, the toe little way out to sea, heaps of shadow deposited like rubbish heaps in Enter two fresh passengers: a black-eyed, round-faced, bright-sharp man bits of blue and flying white cloud overhead: the little boats like distance down the table sat a little hard-headed grey man in a long grey a little fort ahead, done in enormous black-and-white checks, like a And at last a little man with lank, black hair, like an esquimo, tram, like a little train, bumps to rest, after having wound round the The dark-browed man looked up at the girovago and said: Ah, but--said the little dark bus-conductor, with his small-featured head-cloths looked like some thick bed of flowers, geranium, black I went round the ship to look at the dark night of the sea. id = 9497 author = Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) title = Twilight in Italy date = keywords = America; Christ; English; Father; Gaudenzio; Giovanni; God; Hamlet; Infinite; Italy; King; Maria; Paolo; San; Self; Sunday; italian; like; little; look; man summary = street, where the sunshine and the olive trees looked like a mirage hung like a blood-stain from the grey wall above her, stood a little So she stood in the sunshine on the little platform, old and yet like And, like a bird, she went to sleep as the shadows came. white-cold ecstasy of darkness and moonlight, the raucous, cat-like, I said how I liked the big vine-garden, I asked when it ended. look like ghosts in the darkness of the underworld, stately, and as if child, he makes a little separate world down there in the theatre, like And Maria, stout and strong and handsome like a peasant woman, went A confused light, like hot tears, would come into his eyes It was like God grafting the life of man upon the body of the earth, long hill from the lake, came to the crest, looked down the darkness of id = 16565 author = Lewis, Meriwether title = History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. date = keywords = Clarke; Drewyer; French; Indians; Lewis; Little; Mandans; Minnetarees; Missouri; Mr.; N.W.; Osage; Platte; Ricaras; Rocky; Shoshonees; Sioux; St.; States; United; day; man; mile; river; small summary = miles, we passed a remarkable large coal hill on the north side, called five miles, a bend of the river, and two creeks on the north, called the five miles we passed a stream on the south called Turky creek, near a river, and at four miles passed a creek fifteen yards wide on the south, at two miles, passed the mouth of a small river on the north, called Big descended to the river and passed a small creek on the south, called, by miles distance, we had passed a large island in the middle of the river, and a half miles we had passed an island in the middle of the river, high all day, and came to a creek on the north at two miles distance, half miles we passed a small creek in a deep bend on the south with a three miles, and then reached the river near a small island, at the id = 51910 author = Lindsay, David Moore title = A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora date = keywords = Arctic; Aurora; Bay; Bear; Cape; Captain; Dundee; Greenland; John; June; Newfoundland; St.; illustration; ship; sound summary = Looking forward, I saw the little ship taking tons of dark water ship stuck hard and fast in the ice, and presented to me a wonderful and board her supplies and exchanged her beautiful whale-boats for a number In the course of a short time the captain''s boat got fast to a whale, some time the whale was killed and towed to the ship, which was reached boats started in the direction of the ship with the whale in tow. boat-steerer was standing on the ice, and the man in the ship''s barrel The ship was anchored to the ice and the boats whale went under the ice, but came out nearer the ship and was fastened having the ship painted, so the boats were put upon the ice and the men the Captain, I went on the ice to look at the ship. id = 42252 author = Lindsay, Vachel title = Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty date = keywords = Beauty; God; Gospel; Illinois; Kallyope; Kansas; Mennonite; New; Sunday; day; like; little; man; time; walk; work summary = gradually transformed till it looked like that of a show-man. about a man walking rapidly away from his home town to tell all men Man. I have walked in eastern Kansas where the hedged fields and the about sermon-time, and feeling like repenting, I walked in. A little while back a few people began to ask me to work for my in and eat anyway." The man who accepts my offer of work may let me When I asked the way to Tipton the farmer wanted me to walk the the old days literary men used to be obliged to do such things. am near a queer little Mexican house built of old railroad ties. Let me tell you of a typical wheat-harvesting day. The old farmer, too stiff for work, comes out on his dancing pony and Like many a restaurant in Kansas, it was a sort of farm-hand''s id = 1436 author = Lobo, Jerónimo title = A Voyage to Abyssinia date = keywords = Abyssinia; Emperor; Galles; God; Indies; King; Moors; Nile; Portuguese; Red; Sea; Turks; abyssin; great summary = and soon afterwards left Pate to return to the Indies, and in nine-andtwenty days arrived at the famous fortress of Diou. account of the coast of the Red Sea. The patriarch having met with many obstacles and disappointments in his of land, which came out a great way into the sea, we found ourselves in welcomed by great numbers of Catholics, both Portuguese and Abyssins, who having taken his haunt near the place where I lived, killed all the oxen way, we were in great perplexity a long time what measures to take; at AEthiopia, lived on the top of a mountain, received us with very great left the place, and went to another mountain, higher and better peopled. in a short time great numbers whom we thought capable of being admitted scarce had I left the place before the viceroy came in person to put me id = 14658 author = London, Jack title = The Road date = keywords = Army; Des; General; Jack; Kelly; Kid; Moines; Road; Swede; come; day; good; know; man; run; time; train summary = the car-ends are not "blind." When the train is going as fast as the train stops, I know those shacks will fusillade me with rocks. mile, I rise to my feet and walk down the train half a dozen cars. right, I''ll give him the run of his life, for my wind is good. went like clockwork, fifteen seconds to a hobo--and thirty days. "Thirty days," said his Honor, and called another hobo''s name. judge began talking at the same time, and he said, "Thirty days." I tramped steadily by, each man reaching with his right hand and taking half a dozen hall-men went inside and did a bit of man-handling. at night, for speed, and in the day-time riding in box-cars and see our hands in front of our faces, like a pair of blind men we The freight got under way, and we lay down in one end of the box-car id = 2512 author = London, Jack title = The Cruise of the Snark date = keywords = Adam; Bihaura; Bora; Captain; Charmian; Francisco; God; Haleakala; Hawaii; Honolulu; Malaita; Marquesas; Martin; Molokai; Mr.; Nature; New; Roscoe; San; Snark Snark.  “The sea is filled with life.  It at Niihau there was a man—”  And at that moment doesn’t stand still.”  Very true, but the water five hundred feet to the sea.  This was a day’s work blowing.  How the Snark’s sails manage to feel

“Get out of the way!  I’m coming!” I

“I’ll be all right,” he said. 

“I don’t know,” I answered. 

“We can’t wait,” I said.  “This the Snark’s deck.  For twelve days, at anchor, for men, doesn’t run on time.  When I discovered this,

Heavens!  The Snark’s time was not as good the Snark it was only 8:9.  “Greenwich time to,” quoth Mr. Caulfeild.  “That’s old id = 56961 author = Long, Lily A. (Lily Augusta) title = The Red House on Rowan Street date = keywords = Ben; Burton; Bussey; Dr.; Hadley; Henry; High; Leslie; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Philip; Ralston; Ridge; Selby; Underwood; Watson summary = "I want to get the address of Miss Leslie Underwood," Burton went on, "No, merely ill-mannered," said Burton politely, as he turned away. But the moment that Leslie Underwood entered the room, Burton forgot "Now I am going to begin my story," said Leslie, "because I want Mr. Burton to understand what lies back of this present persecution. Underwood opened his eyes and looked at Burton with portentous But Mrs. Underwood looked down the table toward Burton and spoke with moment''s hesitation, said: "Henry, will you hand this to Mr. Hadley, stupid one," said Burton, thinking that it was time for him to take a "Hand him a knife, Henry," said Dr. Underwood. "Come away from this," said Burton in a low voice to Leslie. "Yes," said Selby, looking at Burton defensively under his eyebrows. "Yes, I shall see Ben Bussey," said Burton. "It looks all right," said Burton. id = 34167 author = Loviot, Fanny title = A Lady''s Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas date = keywords = CHAPTER; Caldera; California; Captain; Chinese; Francisco; Hong; Kong; Rio; Rooney; San; day; french; pirate summary = Consul--Visit of Than-Sing--Good-bye to Captain Rooney _page_ 122 That same night the sailors bore her body upon deck, and the captain three days, said the captain, we should probably arrive at the end of Chinese shores for more than twenty days, the captain informed us that "Caldera"--Chinese Pirates--Scene between Decks--A Crew in "Caldera"--Chinese Pirates--Scene between Decks--A Crew in Soon after this, Than-Sing and the captain came in search of me. The pirates of the Chinese seas make their junks their homes, and Once at sea, it is scarcely likely that the pirates, busy as they Captain Rooney then came up, and Than-Sing, Having boarded and pillaged the merchant-junk, the pirates, it seemed, with any pirate-junks, the captain of the "Lady Mary Wood" prepared to pirates in the Chinese seas, has just returned to France in pirates in the Chinese seas, has just returned to France in id = 40238 author = MacGregor, John title = A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe date = keywords = CHAPTER; Danube; Edition; England; English; Englishman; France; John; Life; London; New; Rhine; Rob; Roy; Sunday; Switzerland; author; boat; canoe; come; day; french; german; good; history; illustration; little; river; water; work summary = On this new world of waters we are to launch the boat, the man, and his Launching our boats unobserved on the river, we soon left Liege in the came to a large Schloss, where we observed on the river a boat evidently long cart and let the boat lie on these, which will bear it like springs a pleasant rivalry set up, for it is "man and boat" _versus_ the river water than my canoe--and every time it grounded there came a loud and river on this dark night to carry up a boat. see another English boat come in, so little and so lonely, but still so when we had got a little way in I had to stop the boat, and this too by boating men in that quarter never came here by the river, and the Rob in some fast rivers, say, at least, a hundred times in a day''s work, and id = 23137 author = Marryat, Frederick title = Diary in America, Series One date = keywords = America; Americans; Boston; CHAPTER; Canada; Carey; England; English; General; God; Indians; Kentucky; Lake; Martineau; Massachusetts; Mississippi; New; North; Ohio; Philadelphia; Sally; Sing; Sioux; Society; South; States; Union; United; Virginia; Washington; West; Wisconsin; York; british; man; volume summary = North America, visited the United States and Canada, writing his in a short time I altered my opinion: even at New York, the English appearance at New York was very much like bursting into a friend''s house "They may say the times are bad," said a young American to me, "but I considerable time to watch the great mass of water tumbling, dancing, working as the Englishman or the American does, he will pass his time work upon America, states that she went up to hear the orator at Bloody that time paid _a state or county tax_,'' shall enjoy the rights of an States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any person shall, in were residing in the United States or were in the American service, I am The return at present is very great in these western states; the labour like the United States, where a man may, in any other profession, become id = 23138 author = Marryat, Frederick title = Diary in America, Series Two date = keywords = Assembly; Canada; Canadians; Captain; Congress; Cooper; England; English; Federal; Florida; General; Government; House; Indians; Lord; Martineau; Mississippi; New; President; Reviewer; River; States; Union; United; Upper; Washington; West; York; american; british; country; french; low; volume summary = North America, visited the United States and Canada, writing his customs of Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man. The other day, one American lady observed that, "it was too bad of horses, which are remarkably good in the United States: they appear to in the United States, I shall point out some facts with which the reader The small state of New Jersey has the credit of supplying the _American_ other States, and therefore the Irish of New York govern the country.-the United States, and as long as the present party are in power. English-woman, but was born in the States, and brought up in an American between the two countries, has the American minister been in a state of States as a _working_ government, but to inquire how far the Americans States as their Great Father, yet, in this report, the Indian feeling The American Indian in his natural state suffers much id = 12617 author = Massey, Montague title = Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century date = keywords = Calcutta; Chowringhee; Co.; Court; East; Government; Hoffmann; House; Johnston; Mr.; Old; Photo; Road; Street; illustration summary = Old view of Government Place, East, and Old Court House Street Old view of Government Place, East, showing Gates of Government House Present-day view of Government Place, East, and Old Court House Street Old Court House Street, looking south Bathgate & Co.''s premises, Old Court House Street Currency Office, built on the site of the old Calcutta Auction Company Hamilton & Co.''s premises, Old Court House Street Present view of Clive Street, showing Chartered Bank''s premises on the [Illustration: Old view of Government House, South aspect _Photo by Place, East, and Old Court House Street] Place, East, and Old Court House Street] the building of new business premises, was when Jardine Skinner & Co. vacated their old offices which were situated on the site of Anderson by Johnston & Hoffmann_ Old Court House Street, premises, Old Court House Street] in Old Court House Street by a low-roofed, one-storeyed building owned id = 27252 author = Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) title = The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia date = keywords = Alhambra; Andalusia; Cordova; England; God; Granada; Maria; Moors; Murillo; Ronda; Seville; Spain; Spaniard; Virgin; day; great; life; like; little; look; man; moorish; sidenote; spanish; woman summary = village round Seville on a feast-day; her emotions are purely human, and In a little town like Ronda, so entirely apart from the world, The houses are huddled against the churches, which look like portly remained as the Moors left them, the houses still are built round little natural ways of living, that it is possible still to spend long days, Seville the joy of life and the love of sunshine; but the old quiet houses with great banners of blue and white; and at night the silent, looked a little like the souls of infants dead. There are only five great bull-fights in a year at Seville, namely, on three very old women seated like witches round a _brasero_, the great walls and low, tiled roofs, looks like some old charter-house. the houses looked like long rows of tombs. things a little more easily: we English look upon life so very id = 48788 author = Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) title = On a Chinese Screen date = keywords = China; England; English; London; Mr.; Shanghai; Wingrove; american; chinese; day; eye; good; great; like; little; long; look; man; old; think; year summary = Chinese gentlemen, smiling, look at them with soft eyes. "Of course it doesn''t look like a room in London," she said, "but it the head of the pass till he came to the old river bed which was the in Chinese things tends a little to the grotesque, I think." looked with distrust upon any man who studied the Chinese language. He sought to look as little like "Mr. Wingrove thinks it''s bad for the work to go away for a year like "Mr. Wingrove won''t hear a word against the Chinese," said his wife, little intimate beer-houses of Berlin where the tired working man could "That''s what I looked like when I first came out to China," he said. He has lived in China for five years, but he knows no Chinese and takes He knows more Chinese than any man in China. id = 27568 author = McDougall, Henriette title = Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak date = keywords = Bishop; Borneo; Brooke; Captain; Chambers; Chinese; Christians; Dyaks; England; English; God; Government; James; Kuching; Map; Mr.; Mrs.; Rajah; Rev.; Sarawak; Singapore; Sir; malay summary = A little procession left our house, the rajah walking first, dressed in to have an English governess for my Mab, I took the little Chinese girl The Lundu Dyak chief was a great friend and admirer of Sir James Brooke to get out of his large boat and scramble up into a Dyak house. Dyaks, ten days in the boats our friends had with them. boat of about twenty-eight feet, with a little covered house in it, and Bishop then went to the Rajah''s war boat at the Quop, and told him that was all arranged than the Bishop arrived in his little boat; it was like lived in the house, the married people having each their little room, As early as the year 1848, the Rajah had a little Dyak house built on church, Chinese, English, and Dyak. people there are: Dyaks, Malays, Klings, Chinese, English. id = 45078 author = Methley, Alice A. title = How the World Travels date = keywords = England; India; carriage; cart; country; day; great; illustration; strange; travel summary = [Illustration: EARLY CART WITH SOLID WHEELS.] [Illustration: ROMAN TRAVELLING CARRIAGE.] or donkey, the little conveyances are drawn by shaggy, long-horned [Illustration: BELGIAN DOG-DRAWN CART.] Before the time of railways large public travelling carriages, are content with old ways, and travel through the country districts Another type of cart has four wheels and curious cage-like sides, rather like sedan chairs, in which native ladies sometimes travel, these great animals look when they are carrying native rajahs or little Chinese lady only travels once in this gorgeous conveyance. Cape carts, which are two-wheeled vehicles drawn by a pair of mules large, hooded wagons, very much like those to be seen in Africa, [Illustration: COUNTRY COACH, AUSTRALIA.] districts of Australia, and travellers drive in coaches drawn We have been to many countries and have seen many modes of travel, in the island to carry travellers into districts where rough and id = 30197 author = Nansen, Fridtjof title = Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship ''Fram'' 1893-1896 date = keywords = Arctic; August; Fahr; Fram; Greenland; Hansen; Islands; Jeannette; Johansen; Josef; July; June; Land; March; October; Peter; Pole; Sea; September; Spitzbergen; Strait; Sunday; Sverdrup; Taimur; Trontheim; ice; siberian summary = drift-ice in this way, in order to reach home after having abandoned or drifting in the ice north of Bennett Island they saw all around them a With an ice-encumbered sea north of her, and more open water or the White Sea, they said, had only been clear of ice a very short time, way out to sea, and, in the distance, all drift-ice. land through broken ice, but in the course of the day went further east over a sea perfectly clear of ice; but after mid-day the wind drift-ice to the north of the New Siberian Islands. The following day we got into good, open water, but shallow--never Next day we met ice, and had to hold a little to the south to keep me to expect open water for a good way farther north; but it is seldom time to-day Sverdrup thought he saw land far astern; it was dark and id = 16793 author = Neihardt, John G. title = The River and I date = keywords = Atom; Benton; Bill; Fort; Kid; Missouri; River; Yellowstone; boat; day; great; illustration; like; little; man; mile; night; old; water; wind summary = have since heard it said that river boats are not beautiful!) My throat And then the dog-days came, and I saw my river tawny, sinewy, gaunt--a Our party of three left the railroad at Great Falls, a good two-days'' After skirting four miles of water that ran like a mill-race, we came old for voyages--had talked about this place; a long time ago, ''way down doers of things, I''d like to put in a few words for those old up-river up-river men flashed out--like a stereopticon picture when the man moves "And now, little boat," said I, in that dark brown tone of voice of of the upper river is always cold, and the great wind chilled the air. to travel day and night, for the water was falling steadily and already day like the memory of an old sorrow dulled by time. Grand Old Man of the Missouri River. id = 14384 author = O''Brien, Frederick title = White Shadows in the South Seas date = keywords = Atuona; Bed; Brunnec; Chicken; Eggs; Exploding; Fatu; Fern; French; God; Golden; Gossip; Great; Grelet; Hanavave; Hiva; Joan; Kai; Kivi; Lalala; Marquesan; Morning; Oomoa; Porter; Père; Red; Star; Taaoa; Tahiti; Tai; Vait; Valley; american; chapter; day; illustration; like; man; white summary = She said that people came from far valleys to see her legs, and I "A wicked man," said Exploding Eggs in Marquesan when the trail lay custom of white men who rule, the governor said to Mouth of God that This was a custom of the old days, said Great Fern, with those Few houses like his remained on Hiva-Oe, he said in reply to my Even to-day, one white man in a valley sets the standard of sobriety, old gods before the white men came. pocket he carried always a small god, that day and night said When I said that I should indeed like to see that man, Mouth of God The white man who danced in Oomoa Valley; a wild-boar hunt in the The white man who danced in Oomoa Valley; a wild-boar hunt in the chief after looking at him with terrible eyes, said, ''O man of heart, id = 49039 author = Payson, George title = Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities date = keywords = Bar; Bill; CHAPTER; California; Captain; Coloma; Dr.; Ford; Fork; Francisco; Island; John; Mormon; New; Number; Orig; Sacramento; San; St.; Sunday; Tertium; York; day; foot; great; like; little; long; man; river; time; water; way; work summary = liberal hand of nature, instead of waiting patiently, like good thousand dollars, yet working away ignobly, day and night, like any of like a great ant-hill--and, far beyond all, and forming a fitting Walking one Sunday half a mile up the river, I found our little friend nearly half the working days of the last two months in prospecting--O days without working, we set off a prospecting down the river, in the We found little time for conversation during the day, and it might be left them, and returned to assist in working the Long Tom. The wheel, some eight feet in diameter, was attached to the end of a dollars a day, we moved a quarter of a mile up the river to a bar a second set, and thus the work went on day and night, till the water rivers, like a man with his feet on the pole and his head under the id = 18975 author = Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin) title = The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club date = keywords = April; Arctic; Bartlett; Bay; Borup; Cape; Columbia; Eskimos; Etah; Grant; Greenland; Henson; Jesup; Land; March; Marvin; New; North; Peary; Pole; Roosevelt; Sheridan; Society; York; ice; illustration; lead; sledge summary = TYPICAL VIEW OF THE ICE OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN NORTH OF GRANT LAND 209 the ships became imprisoned by the ice for the winter, a few miles north the sledge party that finally reached the long-courted "ninety North." sixty miles north of Etah, we came to a dead stop in the ice pack off return the following year, when the Peary Arctic Club would send a ship Cape Columbia of supplies for the spring sledge journey toward the Pole. The fall work ended with the return of Bartlett and his party from Cape Marvin, with his men and supporting parties, going north to Cape Bryant with two Eskimos, twenty dogs, and one sledge, leaving the main party My four Eskimos carried the technic of dogs, sledges, ice, and cold as OF DEPARTURE AND RETURN OF NORTH POLE SLEDGE PARTY] OF DEPARTURE AND RETURN OF NORTH POLE SLEDGE PARTY] id = 60078 author = Perkins, Edna Brush title = The White Heart of Mojave: An Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert date = keywords = Bill; Charlotte; Creek; Death; Emigrant; Johnnie; Lake; Mojave; Molly; Silver; Springs; Valley; Worrier; mountain summary = Death Valley, its beautiful high mountains, its shining white floor, know how the desert-mountains look? It looked down on an immense dry lake in a valley lake would be blue with little white waves running before the wind, but the little bushes the sun was very hot and the mountain seemed to Death Valley was the goal, but after the day at Saratoga Springs desert and had once traveled the length of Death Valley with burros; fearsome-looking mountain-tops; before morning it snowed a little, but The smooth, white bottom of the valley looks more like a frozen lake night, dim sand spreading away, dark-blue mountains on blueness. Like all desert watering places the surroundings It was like the valleys on the dead, bright moon when you look at them Mountains looked like hills. desert, deep white valleys, yellow dry lakes, ranges of rose and blue id = 43776 author = Pike, Zebulon Montgomery title = The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. date = keywords = Arkansas; Brower; Capt; Col; Fort; Illinois; Inds; Iowa; Itasca; Kas; Lac; Lake; Mex; Minnesota; Mississippi; Mo.; Mr.; New; Osage; Pike; Rio; Rivière; San; St.; Tex; Wisconsin summary = Ark. r., Arkansaw river; br., branch (of a stream); chf., (Indian) Indian, Indians; isl., island; l., lake; ldg., landing; Miss. pk., peak; pra., prairie; pt., point; r., river; rap., rapid or Ariz., 730, and Fort Aubray, Col., named for him Barn bluff, Minn., 70, height as given there is by city survey of Cajuenche was a tribe of Yuman Inds., called Cojuenchis on Pike''s map Cedar Lake sta., Minn., 135 Sonora; crossed Rio San Juan June 24th; reached Cibola middle of July, Crescent spr., near Lake Itasca, named by Brower East Arm of Lake Itasca was so named by Brower Little Elk l., at Lake Itasca, named by Brower Painted Rock raps., or Little falls, Minn., 123, 316 Rio Grande City, Tex., 692 Rio San Juan, Mex., 682, 685, 692, 776 Rio San Miguel, Mex., 774 Rio San Miguel, Tex., 696 Rock isl., at Little Falls, Minn., 123 id = 7499 author = Ray, George Whitfield title = Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America date = keywords = America; Argentina; Ayres; Bible; Bolivia; Brazil; Buenos; Catholic; Chaco; Christ; Church; God; Government; Holy; Indians; Jesus; Mary; Paraguay; Rio; Rome; South; St.; Virgin; brazilian; day; find; footnote; horse; man; roman summary = As I have said, horses are left to die in the public streets. of the Red Cross were busily engaged all day in carrying away the dead. work?" One said: "The days are too long!" Another answered: "I am too said, "I am the Light of the world." Some day they may hear of Him and South America had a native horse, which lived and disappeared ages ago. Indians, for on those wide prairie lands a man without a horse is Next day the man was quietly carried away to the little forest clearing old man, whom I afterwards learned was the _High Priest_ of the tribe, nights and two days is a long time to spend in crossing a river. One evening after a long day''s journey, I reached a house, away near over South America, and many Indian idols may be seen in the churches, id = 47750 author = Reynolds, Robert Rice title = Wanderlust date = keywords = Anderson; Chicago; Goodman; Jacksonville; London; Mr.; Orig; Paris; day; good; night; time; way summary = We sailed at the set time, and in the afternoon of the second day That night about dark I reached the little town of Way Cross. For some time I had been thinking of wiring home for money and that day Half the day I spent in trying to get work but at every attempt, I Spring came, and in due time summer and vacation days would follow, of hay and a good night''s rest, to be followed by another day''s labor. The train had hardly arrived when a young fellow and his girl came In the day time, between the hours of eleven and four, the streets are The last night of the miserable days which we spent in Paris came very A few days later our troubles ended, for Goodman received a letter my work I received one dollar and seventy-five cents a day, and, truly, id = 19475 author = Rinehart, Mary Roberts title = Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains date = keywords = Boy; Dan; Flathead; Glacier; Head; Lake; National; Park; Pass; Photograph; day; horse; illustration; mountain summary = GETTING READY FOR THE DAY''S FISHING AT CAMP ON BOWMAN LAKE 40 MOUNTAIN MILES: THE TRAIL UP SWIFTCURRENT PASS, GLACIER NATIONAL Getting a pack-outfit ready for a long trip into the wilderness is a was on the second day, I think, that his horse buried his head between and camp at the different lakes, coming back again to the wagon-trail to than riding a walking horse hour after hour through a long day. [Illustration: _Getting ready for the day''s fishing at camp on Bowman Where the trail turned off toward the mountains and Kintla Lake, we met We dropped three pack-horses over cliffs in two days, but got them Creek Valley; the trail was dusty; packs slipped on the sweating horses There was no water for the horses at camp that night, and none for them pack-horses was three hours behind us in reaching Doubtful Lake. id = 43394 author = Rinehart, Mary Roberts title = Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton date = keywords = Eaton; Glacier; Howard; Lake; Mountain; Park; West; horse; illustration summary = around a camp-fire, and long days on the trail. antelope and deer, black and grizzly bears, mountain lions, trout--well, thousand,--seen from an automobile or from a horse, Glacier Park is a saddle,--long vistas, the trail of game, the camp-fire at night, and a Then, at last, at twilight, Glacier Park Station, and Howard Eaton on A pass is a bloodcurdling spot up which one''s horse climbs like a goat deep breaths of clear mountain air, a camera dropped on the trail, of food in his pocket, the Glacier Park ranger covers unnumbered miles, One day, riding along a narrow trail on a mountain-side, the horse left the party for a time, I rode back to them on the pack-horse I have Glacier Park, not by automobile, but on a horse, and ride over his of peaks, lakes, and rivers of Glacier Park are being replaced by the There are many bears in Glacier Park. id = 46161 author = Roberts, F. A. title = By Forest Ways in New Zealand date = keywords = Alps; Cook; Franz; Glacier; Government; Island; Josef; Maoris; Mount; New; Waiho; Wellington; Zealand; mile; tree summary = forest, beside the green Arthur river, and for five miles of the Round the irregular, rocky shore of the tiny lake grow trees--ratas rounded hills stand blue mountains, rugged and mysterious, their unexpectedly upon a lovely blue-green lake, six miles long, fed by lake, though still forty miles away, we saw Mount Cook, half hidden snow line was the New Zealand edelweiss, with quaint grey flower called, reached New Zealand, they landed ten miles from the city of the lower levels, are miles of forest, deep green at first, paling snow, white and glistening in the sunshine: mountain and glacier high bush hills, cleared in places for grass; round us played a trees and ferns and green mosses grow down to the water''s edge, Welcome Flat rise mountains of rock and snow, behind green bush bare green hills, and on one side a mountain of two thousand feet. id = 23031 author = Seacole, Mary title = Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands date = keywords = Balaclava; Bay; British; CHAPTER; Crimea; Cruces; Day; England; Gorgona; Hill; Hotel; Jamaica; Kingston; Mr.; Mrs.; Navy; New; Panama; Russians; Seacole; Sebastopol; Spring summary = took us some time to reach the long, low hut which he called his home. poor worn heart longed to see once more the old familiar faces of the be cured in my way by mine; while I was fortunately able to nurse Mr. Day through a sharp attack of illness. resign my hopes for a time, and so started for Navy Bay. But all the way to England, from Navy Bay, I was turning my old wish He soon found his way to Spring Hill, and before long case one day when I passed through the camp and saw my friend Seacole, British Hotel, Spring Hill, Crimea." young officer coming down one day just in time to carry off my last By this time the day''s news had come from the front, and perhaps among Mind you, a day was a long time to give to sorrow in the id = 6818 author = Seton, Ernest Thompson title = The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake date = keywords = Athabaska; Bay; Billy; Buffalo; Caribou; Chipewyan; Company; Fort; Great; Hudson; Indians; July; Lake; Landing; Lynx; Moose; Preble; River; Slave; Smith; Sousi; Weeso; chapter; come summary = with 60 half-breeds and Indians to man them, left at the same time, day John MacDonald, the chief pilot and a mighty man on the river, looking over the river to the dark forest, a quarter mile away, P. M., we came suddenly on some Buffalo tracks, days old, but still Then back at camp, 200 yards away, the old man''s tongue was loosed, It seems, as Sousi went to the water hole, he came on an old Bear miles south of Smith Landing, he saw in the snow where a Lynx bad said five, meaning five days each way and as much time as we wished When we came away, heading for the open lake, the dogs followed us One day when at Gravel Mountain, old Weeso came to camp in evident So we went; the night came down, but far away were the id = 5199 author = Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir title = South! The Story of Shackleton''s Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files date = keywords = Antarctic; Aurora; Caird; Camp; Cape; December; Elephant; Endurance; Evans; Expedition; Georgia; Hut; Island; James; January; Joyce; Mackintosh; March; Point; Sea; South; Stancomb; Weddell; Wild; Wills; Worsley; ice summary = "Two sledging parties will operate from the base on the Weddell Sea. One will travel westwards towards Graham Land, making observations, the afternoon, but at midnight the ship was stopped by small, heavy icefloes, tightly packed against an unbroken plain of ice. I had never seen such a large area of unbroken ice in the Ross Sea. We waited with banked fires for the strong easterly breeze to moderate squally with snow-flurries, and I did not order a start till 11 p.m. The pack was still close, but the ice was softer and more easily east and south-west had no apparent effect upon the ice, and the ship have set the ice in strong movement towards the north, and the southwesterly and west-south-westerly winds that prevailed two days out of boat drifted down towards the ice-floe, where her position was likely S. The pack was well broken a mile from the ship, and the ice was id = 18541 author = Slocum, Joshua title = Voyage of the Liberdade date = keywords = Antonina; Aquidneck; Brazil; CHAPTER; Cape; Liberdade; Montevideo; New; Rio; Rosario; South; brazilian; day; page; sail; sea summary = ports--Scarcity of sailors--Buccaneers turned pilots--Sail down the Join the bark at Montevideo--A good crew--Small-pox breaks out--Bear up Sail from Frio--Round Cape St. Thorne--High seas and swift currents--In stormy night--At Garavellas--Fine weather--A gale--Port St. Paulo--Treacherous natives--Sail for Bahia. crew: the day of our sailing was bitter-cold and stormy, boding no good not come that day, but Captain Speck''s little friend, Garfield, said: Our sailing-day from Rosario finally came; and, with a feeling as of light-ship, passing it on Christmas Day. Clearing thence, before night, Down the river and past the light-ship we came once more, this time with At Rio--Sail for Antonina with mixed cargo--A _pampeiro_--Ship on At Rio--Sail for Antonina with mixed cargo--A _pampeiro_--Ship on A new crew--Sail for Antonina--Load timber--Native canoes--Loss of A new crew--Sail for Antonina--Load timber--Native canoes--Loss of Time, three days from Caravellas; distance sailed, 270 miles. Time from Bahia, five days; distance sailed, 390 miles. id = 2311 author = Smollett, T. (Tobias) title = Travels through France and Italy date = keywords = Aix; Antibes; Boulogne; DEAR; Dover; Dr.; England; Florence; France; Frenchman; Genoa; Grand; Italy; John; Joseph; LETTER; Languedoc; London; Lyons; Marseilles; Mediterranean; Monaco; Montpellier; Mr.; Nice; Paris; Peter; Piedmont; Pisa; Provence; Rome; Sardinia; Savoy; Sir; Smollett; South; St.; british; country; day; english; french; good; great; house; italian; people; place; roman; time; travel; water summary = The case of Smollett''s Travels, there is good reason to hope, is clever people about Nice in modern times, one would probably find that French history both as the home of famous men in great number and as, great way out to sea, sometimes even as far as the coast of England. Sussex pay English gold for great quantities of French brandy, tea, day, in the skirts of the town, a great number of females thus mounted, in a day or two for Montpellier, although that place is a good way out great body of excellent water, which by pipes and other small branching Next day we journeyed by the way of Antibes, a small maritime town, It contains several small towns, and a great number of villages; chiefly supplied by a small stream of very fine water; another great What further I have to say of Nice, you shall know in good time; at id = 36672 author = Speed, Nell title = Tripping with the Tucker Twins date = keywords = Arabella; Charleston; Claire; Dee; Dum; Edwin; Gaillard; Green; Judith; Kent; Louis; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Professor; Tucker; Zebedee; boy; girl; old summary = "When Dum looks like that she always gets what she goes after," said That was so like Dee and explained the many old men I had seen in the "Isn''t she a great girl, though?" said Dum, a little wistfully. "Poor boy!" exclaimed Zebedee to me, as Dee turned to Louis and drew him "I should love to look after them, if you would trust me," said Mrs. Green, flushing for fear Zebedee might think her pushing. time that Zebedee got up and danced a little _pas seul_, and Mrs. Green "Page has a lovely story she has made up about the gates," said Dum. Dee "I hope we will know before Zebedee comes back," said Dee. "I always feel that I am going to meet persons like again," said Mrs. Green; "if not here, in the hereafter. teaspoons that looked a little like the old ladies themselves. id = 13749 author = Stevens, Thomas title = Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama date = keywords = Afghanistan; Afghans; Allah; Ameer; Asia; Beerjand; CHAPTER; China; Delhi; East; England; English; Fankwae; Ferenghi; Furrah; General; Governor; Harood; Herat; Hindoo; India; Japan; Kan; Khan; Mecca; Meshed; Mr.; Sahib; Shah; Teheran; Valley; chinese; country; day; european; japanese; like; little; look; man; mile; people; persian; place; road; russian; time; village; water summary = miles with a bicycle over Asiatic roads is a task of no little magnitude, little apartment, with a round, moon-like hole in the thick mud wall for The little village of Deh Namek is reached about mid-day, where my the road, white, level, and impressive; like the Great American Desert, small walled village is finally reached and shelter obtained beneath its place, the people having been apprised of my coming by some travellers A region of red-clay hills and innumerable little streams ends my riding My road leads right past the little cluster of black tents; several women present it to the little, old, blue-gowned Khan of the village. A small gathering of wild-looking men are collected at the landing-place, miles in the same manner as the poor wretch passed on the road to-day. like a big bite out of a cake, is passed, and the pretty little village id = 5136 author = Stevens, Thomas title = Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I From San Francisco to Teheran date = keywords = Angora; Asia; Baba; Belgrade; Bey; CHAPTER; Club; Constantinople; Danube; Effendi; England; English; Englishman; Erzeroum; Europe; Ferenghi; Governor; Igali; Ismidt; Khan; Koords; Minor; Mountains; Mr.; Mussulman; Pasha; River; Shah; Sheikh; Sivas; Stamboul; Sultan; Sunday; Tabreez; Teheran; Turkey; Turks; Valley; american; armenian; bicycle; find; good; like; look; mile; oriental; persian; road; servian; turkish summary = miles over the Nevada line, I find good road, and ride up and dismount Thirty miles to the east looking from this distance strangely like flocks dusky road; for like a huge watering-pot do the rain-clouds pass to and few miles my road leads through the long, straggling street of a village, our road ahead, look like veritable brigands heading us off with a view peasants'' villages are all on the river, and the road leads for mile A few miles wheeling over very fair roads, next morning, brings me into and follow his caravan until ridable road is reached a good mile in people learned yesterday that I wouldn''t ride across the stones, waterditches, and mud-holes of the village streets, and these at once lead high up some mountain-slope far away, the little dark-green area looking country; observing a likely-looking traveller approaching, they come id = 52528 author = Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift title = The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary date = keywords = Butaritari; Henderson; Hird; Island; Jack; Janet; King; Lloyd; Louis; Mr.; Mrs.; Samoa; Tembinoka; Tin; illustration; little; man summary = same; but alas, the ship, which looked like a man-of-war, moved away To-day we came to anchor off Savage Island, or Nuieue, having on board A native man, an old friend, stopped us on the way back to Apia, white trader''s house, Penrhyn Island_] Lloyd carried the camera, while Louis walked about looking round him. Louis and Lloyd went back to the ship, but I remained, with Tin Jack, eyes starting with terror; Louis''s little girls ran to him and me and We took from the island a man, woman, and boy for He said if we crossed the island we would find a board house, When Lloyd came the trader said he wanted two fine white and looks just like the _Equator_.[10] Louis says that every intelligent-looking man, a missionary from another island, came up and accompaniment to Louis''s singing; the old man several times tried to id = 31557 author = Stevenson, Robert Louis title = The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 date = keywords = Anaho; Apemama; Apia; Arick; Atuona; Black; Butaritari; CHAPTER; Captain; Casco; Chief; Consuls; English; Europe; French; Government; Hatiheu; Hawaii; Justice; King; LOUIS; Makin; Marquesan; Mataafa; Moipu; Mr.; New; Polynesian; President; Samoa; Samoans; South; Stevenson; Sunday; Tahiti; Tembinok; come; day; european; german; house; island; like summary = return to my old life of the house and sick-room, I set forth to leeward interests; the time of my voyages had passed like days in fairyland; and shore of Anaho cotton runs like a wild weed; man or woman, whoever comes island Bourbons, men, whose word a few years ago was life and death, days later the schooner had come in; and things appearing quieter, Mr. Stewart and the captain landed in Taahauku to compute the damage and to returned before there came a rush, like that of a furious strong man, wife was near her time he remembered he was in a strange island, like a whites" is the man''s word: "What is the matter with this island is the Seas a white man may land with his chest, and set up house for a On the way up to the lean man''s house you pass a little village, all of id = 535 author = Stevenson, Robert Louis title = Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes date = keywords = Camisards; Cevennes; Father; Gevaudan; God; Lady; Modestine; St.; day; hand; like; little; man; night; protestant; road; time summary = of black bread and white, like Father Adam, for myself and donkey, only Scottish-looking man; the mother followed, all in her Sunday''s best, with ''My man knows nothing,'' she said, with an angry nod; ''he is like the old man, who came a little way with me in the rain to put me safely on handsome, silent, dark old woman, clothed and hooded in black like a nun. gone to God. At night, under the conduct of my kind Irishman, I took my place in the stood like a man bewildered in the windy starry night. hill air and crossing all the green valley, sounded pleasant to my ear, If I deceived this good old man, in the like manner I would Thus, talking like Christian and Faithful by the way, he and I came down people turned round to have a second look, or came out of their houses, id = 35480 author = Stockton, Frank Richard title = The Dusantes A Sequel to "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine" date = keywords = Aleshine; Craig; Dusante; Enderton; Jim; Lecks; Lucille; Mr.; Mrs.; Ruth summary = When the little party, consisting of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, Mr. Enderton, my newly made wife, and myself, with the red-bearded This was not altogether a cold meal, for Mrs. Aleshine had provided a little tea-kettle, and, with some snow-water "Gracious me, Barb''ry Aleshine," said Mrs. Lecks, "you don''t suppose "Barb''ry Aleshine," said Mrs. Lecks from underneath her great woolen "That''s my mind exactly," said Mrs. Lecks; "and though I know there''s "Now, Barb''ry Aleshine," said Mrs. Lecks, "when you start off on a "It was all very well, Mr. Dusante," said Mrs. Aleshine, "for you to "He might as well have adopted a father at the same time," said Mrs. Aleshine, "although, to be sure, he would ''a'' had to been particular to "If I was you, Barb''ry Aleshine," said Mrs. Lecks, "I''d adopt some "Well, well," said Mrs. Lecks, "I don''t know how that''s goin'' to work, id = 13450 author = Stokes, Katherine title = The Motor Maids in Fair Japan date = keywords = Billie; Buxton; Campbell; Comet; Elinor; Japan; Komatsu; Mary; Miss; Mme; Mr.; Nancy; Nicholas; O''Haru; Onoye; Yoritomo; japanese summary = "Come, Nancy, dear," floated Miss Campbell''s voice across the garden. "But then the Japanese daughter-in-law''s turn comes later," said Mary "But I like the looks of this place, Komatsu," said the gracious big lady Hardly a moment later Billie, glancing through the door, saw Nancy in "They are no longer little girls," thought Miss Campbell, rather sadly, them in the house," Billie heard Miss Campbell remark, as she ran along "You are just a little girl after all, Billie," he said. "How do you feel now, Miss Billie?" asked Nicholas Grimm coming to the "Where is Onoye, O''Haru?" Miss Campbell asked, a few days after the "Nonsense," thought Billie; but Miss Campbell was in one of her Billie surprised the little Japanese girl sitting up examining her arm, "But Papa likes him," said Billie, simply, feeling that her father''s "Well, Miss Nancy, ''is'' what?" asked Mr. Campbell, smiling. id = 36763 author = Stubbs, Laura title = Stevenson''s Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage date = keywords = Kava; Mr.; Samoa; Stevenson; Tusitala; Vailima; illustration; like; native summary = feathery-topped coconut palms, the dark green spreading bread-fruit trees, I tasted a green coconut plucked direct from the palm by a native, who, way through a perfect network of little islands, all alike, palm-fringed brown thatched roofs of native houses, and white ones of Europeans! little chat the old man took us to his house and initiated us into the [Illustration: NATIVE GIRLS MAKING KAVA Upolu--Stevenson''s Island--although not the largest, is by far the most [Illustration: THE ROAD OF THE LOVING HEART was given to Stevenson, not because the Samoans knew or loved his books, [Illustration: VIEW OF VAILIMA FROM STEVENSON''S GRAVE Vailima is not much changed since the days when Robert Louis Stevenson [Illustration: NATIVE FEAST AT VAILIMA in _Vailima Letters_, also the Girls'' School for the daughters of Native looked like the long-lost Island of Avilion, Levuka, which looked more like a mountain range than an island. id = 26059 author = Stuck, Hudson title = The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America date = keywords = Alaska; Basin; Browne; Cook; Denali; Glacier; Grand; Kantishna; Karstens; Mr.; Muldrow; North; Parker; Peak; Walter; illustration; sidenote summary = mountains revealed as the clouds of a passing snow-storm swept away, he The photograph of the base camp shows a mountainous ridge stretching Peak of the mountain, eight or nine thousand feet above us. So the upper glacier separates the two great peaks of the mountain and as the Parker-Browne party reached the foot of the mountain, the ladder of the mountain they went, and immediately they reached their base camp volumes of snow and ice dust rose in clouds thousands of feet high and masses detached, and by the time the ice reached the glacier floor it snow and ice, the broad highways of the glaciers at their feet carrying Here, with nothing but rock and ice and snow around, nine thousand feet twenty-thousand-foot mountain every member of the party climbed at least feet of the mountain is all permanent snow and ice; nor is the id = 11454 author = Sturge, Joseph title = A Visit to the United States in 1841 date = keywords = Anti; Boston; Britain; Committee; Convention; England; Footnote; Friends; God; Great; John; London; Meeting; Mr.; New; North; Philadelphia; President; Slavery; Society; States; Tyson; United; Yearly; York; american; british; christian summary = Appendix A: ANTI-SLAVERY EPISTLE OF "FRIENDS" IN GREAT BRITAIN. commerce of the Slave States had imbued them with pro-slavery views and friends of the anti-slavery cause, and in receiving calls at our hotel. Foreign Anti-slavery Society, is another remarkable man, clear and sound visits from a large number of the friends of the anti-slavery cause, and the designation of the "American Anti-Slavery Society." The State of the second day, a meeting of the Female Anti-Slavery Society was held of the Executive Committee of the State Anti-Slavery Society, be present at an anti-slavery meeting of the State Society, to which I anti-slavery cause in Great Britain from the time of the old right to state, that the memorial refers to slavery and the slave-trade great loss at the time by his fellow-laborers in the anti-slavery cause, to the anti-slavery cause, and the Society of Friends itself, I id = 4381 author = Synge, J. M. (John Millington) title = The Aran Islands date = keywords = English; Gaelic; Galway; Inishmaan; Irish; Kilronan; Michael; O''Conor; day; island; man; old; people; woman summary = A little after midday when I was coming back one old half-blind man That night it died, and ''Believe me,'' said the old man, ''the fairies This evening an old man came to see me, and said he had known a Later in the day, as the old man talked continually of the fairies She told her dream in the morning, and an old man said When it came in from the sea the young man went down before it, and old men who were talking Irish, and a young man who had been a The old man went on telling of his experiences at sea and the places Then word went round that an old man, known as Little ''Some men from the south island,'' he said, ''came over and bought I am in the south island again, and I have come upon some old men id = 44745 author = Taylor, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) title = The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches date = keywords = CHAPTER; Chicago; Christmas; Lucy; Michigan; New; Railway; West; York; away; car; day; eye; good; great; like; little; look; man; old; thing; time; train; way; world; year summary = main street, the horses'' ears laid close to their heads like a running fleet of white-decked "liners," looking like Brobdignagian--that word "drive," who looked like a bundle of old clothes, was as smart as a water, he came aboard to eat, he looked like a bewildered muskrat, and waited in the old days with their faces toward the rising sun, like a There are sleepy-looking dogs in the baggage-car, with ears like Again on the train: A man enters the car who toes straight out the way head packed like a knapsack behind his ears, and you think a little an old-fashioned man with an ancient hat that was beaver in its time. man like the beat of his heart,--and tell me if you think it worth beautiful in the great lamp-like eyes of an amiable creature that comes the rushes, like the little Moses of old, and everybody as loving as id = 2843 author = Thackeray, William Makepeace title = Little Travels and Roadside Sketches date = keywords = Duke; Rubens; english; french; great; little; look; man; old; picture; time summary = dinner; then tea with huge family jugs of milk; and the little people to me to be a great deal more pious than Rubens''s big pictures; just as A couple of days of Rubens and his church pictures makes one thoroughly amusing to see one little fellow of eight years old smoking, with much small a place as this one falls in with them a dozen times a day--"Have working-dress of black satin, LOOKING YOUR HAT OFF, as it were. plain, a quaint old chair or two, and little pictures of favorite saints is pleasant to look at the smiling, cheerful old Beguine, and think no little old-fashioned, red-bricked, gable-ended, shining-windowed Convent is on a little place planted round with trees, and that seems to be the old towers and pinnacles, tall gables, bright canals, and pretty little for us that the Prussians came up!" says one little gentleman, looking id = 42146 author = Thomson, Thomas title = Western Himalaya and Tibet A Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India During the Years 1847-8 date = keywords = August; Chenab; Dras; Himalaya; India; Indus; Iskardo; July; June; Kashmir; Kunawar; Mr.; Nubra; Parang; Piti; September; Shayuk; Simla; Sutlej; Tibet; Zanskar; foot; pass; river; sidenote; valley; vegetation summary = valley is traversed by a little stream descending from the mountains, Sutlej valley; but the lofty ranges north of that river, covered with immediately above the valley of the river Giri, a large mountain tree at 4-5000 feet in the north-western Himalaya, always in valleys precipitous rocks, to the valley of the Sildang river, a large stream few hundred feet, the road continued nearly level for some miles, with few other species, all common mountain-plants at low elevations, which mountain range north of the Sutlej, at the great bend of that river feet, into a wide steeply-sloping valley, descending from the north to Kuru -Great contraction of valley -Mountain pass of Waris the river and near a village, a considerable tree perhaps forty feet Chenab valley -Chishot -Snow-beds -Camp at 10,500 feet -Chenab valley -Chishot -Snow-beds -Camp at 10,500 feet -- id = 29306 author = Thwaites, Reuben Gold title = Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo date = keywords = America; Big; Cincinnati; Creek; Doctor; English; Fort; French; George; Great; Illinois; Indiana; Island; John; Kentucky; New; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Pilgrim; Pittsburg; River; Virginia; Washington; West; mile; western summary = land west of the mountains and south of the Ohio River, provided it country, and for the first time find what the great river is like. For many days to come we are to have Ohio on the right bank and West on the banks of Yellow Creek (51 miles), a peaceful little Ohio stream our path to the great river, and, dropping down-stream for two miles, Across the half mile of river are the little levels and great slopes Captina Creek (108 miles) is not far down on the Ohio bank, and beside Two miles farther down, on a high bank at the mouth of Fishing Creek, Newport, a half dozen miles up river, was walking to his home, which The Kentucky hills come close to the bank, a mile or two River (909 miles), which half-way down its island name-sake,--at the The Tennessee River (918 miles), the largest of the Ohio''s id = 1865 author = Trollope, Anthony title = North America — Volume 1 date = keywords = Boston; Canada; England; Englishman; General; Government; Governor; House; Lake; London; Lowell; Maryland; Massachusetts; Mississippi; Montreal; Mr.; New; Niagara; North; President; Quebec; South; St.; States; Union; United; Washington; West; York; american; english summary = nationalities as the States of New York and Pennsylvania; and sends that portion of the United States called New England consists of States, because the towns of Canada had so great a start. State of New York is the town called Niagara Falls, and here there New England consists of six States, of which all of course belong slave States;--and I think that the North will ultimately make good to place the six States of New England in such a position? money than other cities, or that the men of New York generally are be remarked that large as is the State of New York, and great as is In the constitution of the State of New York nothing is said about to me that as New England takes her place in the world as a great The States in these matters have had a great advantage over England. id = 1866 author = Trollope, Anthony title = North America — Volume 2 date = keywords = Cairo; Congress; England; Englishman; General; Government; House; Kentucky; Louis; Massachusetts; Missouri; Mr.; New; North; Pennsylvania; Post; President; Representatives; Secretary; Senate; Seward; South; St.; States; Union; United; Virginia; Washington; York; american; english summary = the United States was a nation, he succeeded in carrying a law by degradation of men to the state in which I saw the American soldiers this constitution for the United States of America." Here a great United States; and in such case the Senate elects its own President with another shall present a petition to Congress, stating the matter State shall appoint the regimental officers, raise the men, and The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage in a war, The Congress of the United States shall have power to adjourn to any Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and holding any office under the United States shall be a member of United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services 2. This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall id = 44992 author = Trollope, Anthony title = Travelling Sketches date = keywords = Alpine; Club; English; French; Robinson; art; man; tourist; travel; work summary = respect is very like to the human nature of people who stay at home. The unprotected female tourist is generally a much stronger-minded The art tourist now described is not the man or woman The first great object of the art tourist is to be able to say, without work,--the art tourist soon obtains many very useful guides to He or she must be a very young art tourist who does not know the All this is a great assistance, and gives hope to an art tourist in a art tourist soon learns, much to his own comfort. And so the art tourist goes on till he really knows something about though the art tourist will sometimes talk to you of pictures, what is I think that we all know the tourist in search of knowledge, the Let the tourist in search of knowledge work hard and despise id = 10345 author = Trollope, Frances Milton title = Domestic Manners of the Americans date = keywords = America; Americans; Atlantic; Baltimore; Cincinnati; England; Europe; General; Hall; Jesus; London; Lord; Miss; Mississippi; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Ohio; Orleans; Philadelphia; Potomac; States; Union; United; Washington; Wright; York; chapter; english; french; great; look; man summary = the little towns and villages we passed, wretched looking, in the this, Miss Wright said was impossible; the lady of the house called throughout the United States) of the little town. reason in a comfortable London drawing-room know little about the power of entering your house at any hour of night." She told me throngs of the young and beautiful to the chapels and meetinghouses, all dressed with care, and sometimes with great continued for a little way under the trees, making a beautiful length, a long, black, grim-looking man entered; his dress, the A lady who professed a great admiration for Mrs. Drake had obtained her permission to be present upon one occasion a noble looking place, having a portico of stately white columns, field look like a little forest. American people (speaking of the great mass) have no more idea of City of New York--Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies-- id = 5808 author = Twain, Mark title = Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 1 date = keywords = Australia; Brown; CHAPTER; English; Honolulu; Kanaka; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Pacific; People; Queensland; Taylor; day; man; ship; thing; time summary = Leaving Honolulu--Flying-fish--Approaching the Equator--Why the Ship Went Where New Zealand Is--But Few Know--Things People Think They Know--The Railway Station--Making Way for White Man--Waiting Passengers, High and officers of the ship laid away their blue uniforms and came out in white Ten years passed away before I saw him the second time. We had one game in the ship which was a good time-passer--at least it was by all; in fact, people said that he was made entirely out of good "It looks like an accident, his coming at such a time; but let no one Mr. Brown drive the Old People to Nancy Taylor''s one at a time, or put Savages are eager to learn from the white man any new way to kill each In Captain Cook''s time (1778), the native population of the islands was pictures of ships, New England rural snowstorms, and the like; sea-shells id = 5809 author = Twain, Mark title = Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 2 date = keywords = Adelaide; America; Australia; England; India; London; Melbourne; New; South; Sydney; Wales; day; man summary = ought to see Sydney in the summer time if he wanted to know what warm about New Year''s Day, the mercury went up to 106 deg. and New South Wales and its capital are like the rest in this. thousand up to half a million head; in America the word indicates a man knowing when a man is working by a god''s power and not by his own. Oh, come--later news than fifty days, brought steaming hot Show me a copy of the London Times only ten days old." Victoria is by no means so great as that of New South Wales. South Australia, and then all the way back to Sydney. Hill is close to the western border of New South Wales, and Sydney is on knows in some way or other whether the marks were made to-day or Freethinkers, Infidels, Mormons, Pagans, Indefinites they are all there. id = 5810 author = Twain, Mark title = Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 3 date = keywords = Australia; Ballarat; Club; Mr.; New; Robinson; Whites; Zealand; good; like; man; thing; time summary = The white man knew ways of keeping down population which were worth The white man knew ways of reducing a native population country eighty times as large as Rhode Island, as I have already said. when the white man came; they could muster but twenty, thirty-seven years civilization down to this day the white man has always used that very There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man''s Mr. Chauncy once saw "a little native man" throw a cricket-ball 119 of white people and natives were pretty nearly as good as his pictures of On the way we saw the usual birds--the beautiful little green parrots, I clip them from a chatty speech delivered some years ago by Mr. William Little, who was at that time mayor of Ballarat: ''For,'' said he, ''I, who have lived eighteen years in New Zealand and have little inconsequent patch like New Zealand, ah, what wouldn''t you know id = 5811 author = Twain, Mark title = Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4 date = keywords = America; Australia; Bluff; Calendar; England; Maori; Maryborough; New; Zealand; good; like; man summary = looks the other way; the person caught noticing would suffer fine and relating to New Zealand; and his house is a museum of Maori art and American who has lived there half a lifetime; a fine man, and prosperous no man without good executive ability can ever hope--tell me, have you fine native house of the olden time, with all the details true to the present, in their proper places, and looking as natural as life; and the In New Zealand women have the right to vote for members of the In the New Zealand law occurs this: "The word person wherever it occurs night may forget some other things if they live a good while, but they A good many of us got ashore at the first way-port to seek another ship. the time of day by a clock, he won''t stay where he cannot find out when id = 5812 author = Twain, Mark title = Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 5 date = keywords = Bombay; English; Feringhea; Highness; Hindoo; India; Mr.; New; Satan; Sleeman; Thug; Tookaram; day; like; man; place; thing; time summary = You soon find your long-ago dreams of India rising in a sort of vague and In this case a native prince, 16 1/2 years old, who has been making mud pies in a village street, and having an innocent good time. In India your day may be said to begin with the "bearer''s" knock on the servant in an Indian hotel you are likely to have a slow time of it and been eight years old; so in the natural (Indian) order of things she The bride was a trim and comely little thing of twelve years, dressed as man with a dog like that feels just as a person does who has a child that have explained to him that if you take a great long low dog like that and was two men and a little of another man per month during his twenty years id = 5813 author = Twain, Mark title = Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 6 date = keywords = Benares; Calcutta; Ganges; Hindoo; India; Lucknow; Mr.; Mutiny; Sir; Taj; british; great; man; time; way; year summary = of Maha Kal, the Great Fate, and happiness in the life to come is poor thing to dig tanks with, because, by the time this one was finished, I think it difficult not to believe that a god who could build a world The dead women came draped in red, the men in white. high ground a little distance away began to talk and shout with great Close to the cremation-ground stand a few time-worn stones which are Rajah''s people, and all Benares came storming about the place and Hastings escaped from Benares by night and got safely away, leaving the in a good house in a noble great garden in Benares, all meet and proper By these, I know that in India the tiger kills something over 800 persons In India the snakes kill 17,000 people a came back from the water, I saw that they had not taken her little id = 5814 author = Twain, Mark title = Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 7 date = keywords = Africa; Barnum; Boer; England; English; French; India; Jameson; Johannesburg; Mauritius; Mr.; New; Rhodes; South; british; man summary = has a hundred friends about him, evenings, be likes to have a good time Man likes light work or none at all--there he labors all day in the between those people and the Boer government, Great Britain would have to Jameson was intercepted by the Boers on New Year''s Day, and on the next stand by Jameson and their new oath of allegiance to the Boer government, Boer, and taking the results: Jameson''s men would follow the custom. government by England in 1877, the Boers fretted for three years, and place where the Boers interrupted the Jameson raid.) The little handful Four days after the flag-raising, the Boer force which had been sent that Boer marksmanship is not so good now as it was in those days. equal of the 8,000 Boers, Jameson should have had 240,000 men, whereas he In the train that day a passenger told me some more about Boer life out id = 8471 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. date = keywords = Allbright; Bob; Gulf; Mississippi; child; man; river; time summary = instance, a man is living in the State of Mississippi to-day, a cut-off Hard Times, La., the river is two miles west of the region it used to OF OLD MISSISSIPPI RIVER WHICH LA SALLE FLOATED DOWN IN HIS CANOES, TWO fair right to think the river''s roaring demon was come. (it is high water and dead summer time), and are floating down the river went and got it and said never mind, this warn''t going to be the last of and so the Child better look out, for there was a time a-coming, just as man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to his face in the river, and come and set down by me and got out his pipe, Some said, let''s all go ashore in a pile, if the bar''l comes again. I now come to a phase of the Mississippi River life of the flush times id = 8472 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. date = keywords = Bixby; Jones; Mr.; night; pilot; river summary = engine bells, and in due time the boat''s nose came to the land, a torch It made my heart ache to think I had only got half of the river plain that I had got to learn this troublesome river BOTH WAYS. What is called the ''upper river'' (the two hundred miles between St. Louis and Cairo, where the Ohio comes in) was low; and the Mississippi Coming up-stream, pilots did not mind low water or any kind of ''My boy, you''ve got to know the SHAPE of the river perfectly. change the shape of the river in different ways. river in the night the same as he''d know his own front hall?'' I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the It was plain that I had got to learn the shape of the river in all the river--shapes and all--and so I can run it at night?'' id = 8473 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. date = keywords = Bixby; Mississippi; Mr.; New; Orleans; association; boat; pilot summary = The next moment both men were flying up the pilot-house companion way, One trip a pretty girl of sixteen spent her time in our pilot-house with By this time the boat''s yawl was manned and away, to search for the pilot''s knowledge who carries the Mississippi River in his head. of what the pilot must know in order to keep a Mississippi steamer out I think a pilot''s memory is about the most wonderful thing in the world. later he took out a full license, and went to piloting day and night-The moment that the boat was under way in the river, bitter pill to have to accept association pilots at last, yet captains the association pilots and said-S----, pay him about a thousand dollars, and take an association pilot half the boats had none but association pilots, and the other half had id = 8474 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 4. date = keywords = Brown; New; Orleans; St.; Stephen; Yates summary = In the old times, whenever two fast boats started out on a race, with a Those boats will never halt a moment between New Orleans and St. Louis, those wood-boats in tow and turn a swarm of men into each; by the time times in Fort Adams reach, which is five miles long. That trip we went to Grand Gulf, from New Orleans, in four days (three made the run from St. Louis to St. Paul (800 miles) in 2 days and 20 hours. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and fortytwo years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and threequarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets old bend had already begun to fill up, and the boat got to running away vanished time, is that of Brown, of the steamer ''Pennsylvania''--the man The moment I got back to the pilot-house, Brown said-- id = 8475 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 5. date = keywords = Cairo; Louis; Mumford; New; St.; river summary = going to follow the river the rest of my days, and die at the wheel when One thing seemed plain: we must start down the river the next day, if thing to look new; the coal smoke turns it into an antiquity the moment THE RIVER ABREAST OF THE TOWN IS CROWDED WITH STEAMBOATS, stuff down the river at a time, at an expense so trivial that steamboat MY idea was, to tarry a while in every town between St. Louis and New had as many dollars as they could read alligator water a mile and a half alligator water it was said; I don''t know whether it was so or not, and old times, but it seemed to need some repairs here and there, and a new Uncle Mumford has been thirty years a mate on the river. about the only place in the Upper River that a new cub was allowed to id = 8476 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 6. date = keywords = Island; Mississippi; Murel; New; Orleans; man; river; time; water summary = The next time I saw my partner, I said, ''Now, come out, be honest, and man shot a boy twelve years old--happened on him in the woods, and young man rode up--steamboat laying there at the time--and the first low water the river bank is very high there (fifty feet), and in my day TIMES-DEMOCRAT''S relief-boat, see Appendix A]} The water had been to the boat, at the same time, for she can of course make more miles Devil''s Island, in the Upper River, they wanted the water to go one way, 4. Some believed in the scheme to relieve the river, in flood-time, by man on the river banks, south of Cairo, talks about it every day, during ''He had sold the other negro the third time on Arkansaw River for War. Two men whom I had served under, in my river days, took part in The usual river-gossip going on in the pilot-house. id = 8477 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. date = keywords = Adler; Arkansas; Mississippi; Napoleon; Vicksburg; man; time summary = I have a lodger who shall tell you all you want to know. heard nothing that I said; took no notice of my good-byes, and plainly ''The thumb''s the only sure thing,'' said he; ''you can''t disguise that.'' It was the print of the thumb of the fortythird man of Company C whom I had experimented on--Private Franz Adler. river two days to prepare my way for me is going to follow me with it; goggles behind me in that dead man''s hand. themselves, after long years; for MY hands were tied, that night, you Again the man tried to do something with his hands. You put money into the hands of a man matter off as being a small thing; but when you come to look at the watch this man all the time, and keep him within bounds; it would not do Years ago, I talked with a couple of the Vicksburg non-combatants--a man id = 8478 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 8. date = keywords = Backus; Cincinnati; Mabry; Mr.; Natchez; New; O''Connor; Orleans summary = time I saw this Mr. John Backus, I guessed, from his clothes and his All the passengers were on deck to look--even the gamblers--and Backus times saw the gamblers talking earnestly with Backus, and once I threw ''I CALL you!'' said Backus, heaving his golden shot-bag on the pile. speak, made of high-colored yarns, by the young ladies of the house, and Delaware; on the wall by the door, copy of it done in thunder-andlightning crewels by one of the young ladies--work of art which would two are memorials of the long-ago bridal trip to New Orleans and the goods per year.''{footnote [New Orleans Times-Democrat, 26 Aug, 1882.]} A Then New Orleans piped up and said-factory in New Orleans: labels, bottles, oil, everything. bank, got a shot gun, took deliberate aim at General Mabry and fired. The instant Mabry shot, O''Connor turned and fired, the id = 8479 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. date = keywords = Black; Captain; General; Louis; Mississippi; Mr.; New; North; Orleans; Paul; River; South; St.; Sunday; Walter; York; head; look; man; time; year summary = All day long you hear things ''placed'' as having happened had stepped out of his house in New Orleans, one night years ago, to largely and vaporously of old-time experiences on the river; always & when she got out of the cars at a way place i said, marm have you lost year of Littles Living Age, i didn''t know what you would like & i told When I for the first time heard that letter read, nine years ago, I felt small boy, at the time; and I saw those giddy young ladies come crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sadfaced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat. One day the head said: ''The time is not distant when I shall be freed observing the woman, after some time said to the man who came with her: id = 8480 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. date = keywords = New; Orleans; South; Walter summary = me--now captain of the great steamer ''City of Baton Rouge,'' the latest One of the pilots whom I had known when I was on the river had died a buried a young fellow who perished at the wheel a great many years ago, had stepped out of his house in New Orleans, one night years ago, to I was told that one of my pilot friends fell dead at the wheel, from WE had some talk about Captain Isaiah Sellers, now many years dead. steamboat pilot, still surviving at the time I speak of, had ever turned largely and vaporously of old-time experiences on the river; always river, and sign them ''MARK TWAIN,'' and give them to the ''New Orleans of it, in the captain''s own hand, has been sent to me from New Orleans. was a very real honor to be in the thoughts of so great a man as Captain id = 8481 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 11. date = keywords = Brown; Louis; Mr.; St.; Sunday; boy; letter; time summary = One Monday, near the time of our visit to St. Louis, the ''GlobeDemocrat'' came out with a couple of pages of Sunday statistics, whereby months before my time was up, for i saw it want no good, nohow--the day little room over the stable i sat a long time thinking over my past life a chance for 3 months--he talked to me like a father for a long time, & year of Littles Living Age, i didn''t know what you would like & i told after them every Sunday hour before school time, I also got 4 girls to This letter arrived a few days after it was written--and up went Mr. Williams''s stock again. When I for the first time heard that letter read, nine years ago, I felt from the time she went in; and was always suffering, too; never got a small boy, at the time; and I saw those giddy young ladies come id = 8482 author = Twain, Mark title = Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. date = keywords = Black; General; Mississippi; Paul; River; St.; York; head; indian; man; place; water summary = ''When Dean came,'' said Claggett, ''the people thought he was an escaped He granted these facts, but said that if I would hunt up Mr. Schoolcraft''s book, published near fifty years ago, and now doubtless ''I blow my breath,'' said the old man, ''and the stream stands still. crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sadfaced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat. A few miles up this river, the depth of water on the banks was fully At thirty miles above the mouth of Black River the water extends from One day the head said: ''The time is not distant when I shall be freed they had received food from the old man: but very soon the bear came in observing the woman, after some time said to the man who came with her: id = 8582 author = Twain, Mark title = Roughing It, Part 1. date = keywords = CHAPTER; City; Indians; Jules; Lake; Nevada; New; Rocky; Slade; St.; day; driver; horse; man; time summary = miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of We changed horses every ten miles, all day long, and fairly flew over the days, and I''ll be along some time to-night, and if I can do ye any good places and sleep thirty or forty minutes at a time, on good roads, while team out of the stables--for in the eyes of the stage-driver of that day, Now that was stage-coaching on the great overland, ten or twelve years beat was pretty long, and his sleeping-time at the stations pretty short, thousand long miles in fifteen days and a half, by the watch! No matter what time of the day or night City we had heard drivers and conductors talk about only three things been about this man Slade, ever since the day before we reached The stage-drivers and conductors told us that sometimes Slade would leave id = 8583 author = Twain, Mark title = Roughing It, Part 2. date = keywords = City; God; Hank; Lake; Lord; Monk; Mormon; Mr.; Salt; Slade; Young; man summary = world when the driver said that the Mormons often came there from Great and a little Rocky Mountain news, and we gave him some Plains information Two miles beyond South Pass City we saw for the first time that small piles of stones which the driver said marked the resting-place of of Big Mountain, fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, when all the world said further, that Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing and hid up unto the Lord, to come forth in due time by the way of God, will no suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old. And it came to pass that they fought all that day, and At the end of our two days'' sojourn, we left Great Salt Lake City hearty I left Great Salt Lake a good deal confused as to what state of things id = 8584 author = Twain, Mark title = Roughing It, Part 3. date = keywords = Ballou; Carson; Humboldt; Mr.; Nevada; Secretary; States; United; day; dollar summary = great plain and was a sufficient number of miles away to look like an sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above the could hold, three times a day, and chasing game over mountains three yellow pine timber land--a dense forest of trees a hundred feet high and log-house and excite the envy of the Brigade boys; but by the time we had out a long way from shore, so great a storm came up that we dared not try miles, and he walked back for exercise, and got the horse towed. Gold Hill, was the most successful silver mining locality in Nevada. rather, for we lay by a couple of days, in one place, to let the horses "Can''t tell, yet," said Mr. Ballou, who was an old gold miner, and had ledge that would yield two thousand dollars a ton--would that satisfy way--suppose some person were to tell you that two-thousand-dollar ledges id = 8585 author = Twain, Mark title = Roughing It, Part 4. date = keywords = Arkansas; Ballou; Higbie; Lake; Morgan; Mr.; Ollendorff; West; Wide; man summary = promising subject, and gave him no rest day or night, for awhile. fourth morning, Arkansas got drunk and sat himself down to wait for an man that was a gentleman all the time and every way you took him, give me snow-storm continued another day our case would be the next thing to in the air, rocks as big as a house jumping ''bout a thousand feet high silver and gold in a ton of rock would find its way to the end of the He said he was paying me ten dollars a week, and thought it a good round and bullied the pack horse till I presently got him into a trot, and then A white man cannot drink the water of Mono Lake, for it is nearly pure swimming, for that venomous water would eat a man''s eyes out like fire, id = 8586 author = Twain, Mark title = Roughing It, Part 5. date = keywords = Brown; Col; Jack; Nevada; Noakes; Reeder; Virginia; Williams; day; dollar; man summary = appearance about that time, with a cocked revolver in his hand, and said dollars, and said he meant to go into the fruit business in a modest way. Twenty-Five Dollars a week to come up to Virginia and be city editor of and all day long half of this little army swarmed the streets like bees day, and every man believed that his little wild cat claim was as good as man offered a stock present to a friend, for the offer was only good and Virginia, a man "located" a mining claim and began a shaft on it. For a long time after one of the great Virginia mines had been "Come right along, friends," said Col. Jack; "don''t mind us. election before it got a start; and everybody said he was the only man Reeder said it was a most cowardly act to shoot a man in such a way, id = 8587 author = Twain, Mark title = Roughing It, Part 6. date = keywords = CHAPTER; California; Chinaman; Duke; Francisco; Mr.; San; Virginia; day; long; man; old; time summary = They told her to wait a year and a day, and if at the end like a man; helped his exhausted and insensible blonde, her parents and boat and went to the blonde''s ship--so his captain made him work his Virginia was a busy city of streets and houses above ground. feet froze, and lost money, too, becuz old Robbins took a favorable turn In California he gets a living out of old mining claims that white men went away for a week and left me the post of chief editor. two or three years old at the time. word, I kept the due state of a man worth a hundred thousand dollars buggy--overboard went the man, and in less time than I can tell it the eyeing and pointing men stood about many a building, looking at long were found in this way by the same man in one day. id = 8588 author = Twain, Mark title = Roughing It, Part 7. date = keywords = Admiral; Captain; Honolulu; Kamehameha; Kanaka; King; Minister; Mr.; Williams; day; horse; man; native; time summary = natives; then the white town of Honolulu, said to contain between twelve I saw long-haired, saddle-colored Sandwich Island maidens sitting on the to-day--time, 4:30 P.M.--the party to consist of half a dozen gentlemen and so I said I had never seen lightning go like that horse. time there frequently, on sultry days "laying off." The spot is called It is said that in the old times thousands of human beings were Another friend of mine bought a pretty good horse from a native, a day or You give your horse a little grain once a day; it comes from San In old times here Saturday was a grand gala day indeed. the person or thing placed under tabu was for the time being sacred carried to the eating house, where he took a little food in his converse with them all the day long of his great joy in the turnip. id = 8589 author = Twain, Mark title = Roughing It, Part 8. date = keywords = Brigham; Cook; Gold; Hill; Lynch; Mormon; Mr.; Winters; day; foot; like; man; time summary = houses; a steep wall of lava, a thousand feet high at the upper end and took away his life, and tried to picture in my mind the doomed man Some of the old natives believed Cook was Lono to the day of their death; generations passed from before the people like a cloud, and a shout went high and pointed at both ends, is a foot and a half or two feet deep, and wastes of lava long generations ago stricken dead and cold in the climax stood, was a small look-out house--say three miles away. gentlemen gave a good part of their time every day, during the calm, to "I tell you I don''t like this place at night," said Mike the agent. If you want to be facetious, young man, there are times and I then read what I had written and handed it to Mr. Lynch, whereupon Mr. Winters said: id = 30820 author = United States. Children''s Bureau title = If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime date = keywords = baby; illustration; travel summary = Mothers sit crowded into single seats with toddlers or with babies in If your baby is sufficiently trained to use his own toilet seat, by all When baby is ready for food, the porter will heat a bottle and bring it If you are traveling in the Pullman, you can put the baby or young And you''ll certainly need some help if you''re traveling with a youngster And traveling by bus with a baby or young child requires even better planning than travel by train. train coach will be needed when you travel by bus. while you travel, or you will have to put the baby on the evaporated-milk By all means carry your own water, and for the baby or young child it If you are traveling by car, you will be able to take along the baby''s But if you must travel with your baby, you''ll be doing id = 10779 author = Unknown title = Happy Little Edward And His Pleasant Ride and Rambles in the Country. date = keywords = Edward summary = [Illustration: Edward and Aunt Mary.] HAPPY LITTLE EDWARD. HAPPY LITTLE EDWARD. river, to give the horses time to get a little rest and refreshment. So Edward and his mother seated themselves on the green bank; and she "What is that running up the tree, mother?" asked Edward; "see what Edward listened, and heard something like the sound of a little hammer His mother told him this little bird, was called a "There, Edward," said his mother, "are your cousins, William, George, Before dark, Edward''s aunt called the children to supper, and they all The next morning the children were all up early, and Edward went out The loud report not only frightened the bird, but startled little Edward Edward saw nothing that pleased him so much as that river, and and looking as much pleased as Edward was. night Edward got home; nor how delighted he was in telling of all the id = 29314 author = Van Dyke, Henry title = Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit date = keywords = Arabs; Bethlehem; Christ; Church; Damascus; David; Galilee; Gilead; God; Hermon; Holy; Israel; Jericho; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jordan; Land; Lord; Mount; Nazareth; Palestine; Temple; Valley; city; hill; little summary = river-valley, a purple strip of high mountains rolling away to the the grassy hills of Galilee, looking upon the faces and the ways of the long, steep valley leading into the heart of the hills. cities are, after all, but a little longer-lasting tents and camps. Outside the gates we ride, for the roads which encircle the city wall _The cities are scattered over the world like ant-hills: the tents in a new place, on a hill opposite the Jaffa Gate, with a Northward, beyond the city-gate, the light fell softly on a little rocky hill, shaped like a skull, the ancient place of stoning for those whom Valley, runs the Jordan Bed, twisting like a big green serpent. our little stream plunges, and look down into the deep, grand valley of hills, and open to the cloudless sky which makes its water like a little THE CITY THAT A LITTLE RIVER MADE id = 41751 author = Vámbéry, Ármin title = Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand date = keywords = 8vo; Afghans; Asia; Bilal; Bokhara; Central; Chinese; Constantinople; Edition; Emir; England; English; Etrek; Footnote; Gömüshtepe; Hadji; Herat; Kervanbashi; Khan; Khanat; Khiva; Khokand; Kirghis; Maymene; Mecca; Mehemmed; Mohammed; Mollah; Oxus; Persia; Persians; Rev.; Russia; Samarcand; Second; Shah; Sir; Sultan; Teheran; Tekke; Timour; Turkestan; Turkomans; Vols; Yomuts; author; dervish; european; history; turkish; Özbeg summary = part, a Hadji from Chinese Tartary (called also Little Bokhara), who the Great Desert, Khiva, and Bokhara was selected. sufferings of long years he reached the holy city, where he died. high an origin has to do amongst the Turkomans in Khiva and Bokhara.'' present day produces upon the traveller arriving from Persia an the Khan of Khiva, on a sort of elevation, or dais, with his left arm having passed the important place called Kaisar, we reached a little history of Khiva, a great part of them were forced by Allahkuli Khan of Central Asia: in his rear, in the cities of Khiva, Bokhara, and [Footnote 120: A place of public resort in the city of Bokhara.] Merv to Bokhara by the Emir Said Khan, when about the year 1810 he at the present day, when journeys, not only in Bokhara, {428} but even id = 2530 author = Wallace, Alfred Russel title = The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature date = keywords = Amboyna; Archipelago; Australia; Bali; Borneo; CHAPTER; Celebes; Dyaks; Europe; Government; India; Java; Lombock; Macassar; Malacca; Mias; Moluccas; Mr.; New; Rajah; Sarawak; Singapore; Sumatra; Timor; chinese; dutch; european; island; malay summary = perceive between Asia and Australia a number of large and small islands islands the years of the great earthquakes form the chronological is placed the large island of Borneo, in which no sign of recent connected the great islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo with the allied species of Java, the wild cattle of Borneo and the kind long islands of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo resemble in their natural In the interior of the island the Chinese cut down forest trees in the landing-place to the hill a Dyak road had been formed, which consisted Near the landing-place we found a fine house, 250 feet long, raised high the houses by little aqueducts formed of large Bamboos split in half peculiar species of birds and mammals in such an island as Banca is a The number of land birds in the island of Celebes is 128, and from these id = 2539 author = Wallace, Alfred Russel title = The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature date = keywords = Amboyna; Archipelago; Aru; Australia; Batchian; Birds; Bouru; Bugis; Ceram; Dobbo; Dorey; Gilolo; Goram; Guinea; Islands; Macassar; Moluccas; Mr.; Mysol; New; Papuan; Paradise; Ternate; Waigiou; european; malay; man summary = beautiful little long-tailed bird, ornamented with green, red, and a good place for birds, and as possessing a large population both of a completely new form of the Bird of Paradise, differing most remarkably island), where some Malays and Galela men have a small village, and have our resting-place there was a little bush-covered island in the middle number of species of birds at present known from the various islands of the small number of birds yet shot more than half were known New Guinea One day I get under a tree where a number of the Great Paradise birds day I went out, I obtained 10 new species; so that although I collected only two days'' water on board, and the small, rocky, volcanic island After three days, my man brought me the first bird--a very fine The large islands to the east of New Guinea are very little known, but id = 8159 author = Waterton, Charles title = Wanderings in South America date = keywords = America; Cayenne; Demerara; Edmonstone; England; Essequibo; Europe; Guiana; Indians; Mr.; New; Pernambuco; River; St.; States; United; bird; come; day; find; forest; large; little; long; nature; time; tree summary = of the river are at a place called Saba, from the Indian word which The trees which form these far-extending wilds are as useful as they At the close of day the vampires leave the hollow trees, whither they The day after passing the place where the white man lived you see a This is the place you ought to have come to two days ago, had the water One day, on asking an Indian if he thought the poison would kill a man, hard day''s walk, an Indian got his bow ready and let fly a poisoned the place a large tree had fallen into the river, and in the meantime Wherever there is a wild fig-tree ripe, a numerous species of birds On all the ripe fig-trees in the forest you see the bird called the bird; he will stand for hours together on the branch of a tree, or on id = 11104 author = Wharton, Edith title = In Morocco date = keywords = Africa; Arts; Atlas; Fez; Footnote; France; General; Idriss; Ismaël; Marrakech; Meknez; Morocco; Moslem; Moulay; Rabat; Salé; Spain; Sultan; arab; european; french; illustration; moroccan summary = the Arab house, built about one or more arcaded courts, with long narrow General Lyautey came to Morocco; but ferocious old Salé, Phenician Near the tower, the red-brown walls and huge piers of the mosque built At that hour the old Moroccan cities look like the between Rabat and Fez is travelled not only by French government motors ruined tombs of the Merinid Sultans look down over the city they made point from which to look down at Fez. There it lies, outspread in golden light, roofs, terraces, and towers for the long tunnel-like street that leads down the hill to the Fez One is told that in cities like Fez and Marrakech the Hebrew quarter offices to be built within the walls of Moroccan towns, and this house fortified mountains which stand about Fez like prison-walls. was under the Merinid Sultans that Fez became the centre of Moroccan palace-making Sultans whose walled cities of splendid mosques and towers id = 39042 author = Wharton, Edith title = In Morocco date = keywords = Africa; Arts; Atlas; Fez; France; General; Idriss; Ismaël; Lyautey; Marrakech; Meknez; Morocco; Moslem; Moulay; Rabat; Salé; Spain; Sultan; arab; european; french; illustration; moroccan summary = the Arab house, built about one or more arcaded courts, with long narrow General Lyautey came to Morocco; but ferocious old Salé, Phenician Near the tower, the red-brown walls and huge piers of the mosque built At that hour the old Moroccan cities look like the between Rabat and Fez is travelled not only by French government motors ruined tombs of the Merinid Sultans look down over the city they made for the long tunnel-like street that leads down the hill to the Fez One is told that in cities like Fez and Marrakech the Hebrew quarter offices to be built within the walls of Moroccan towns, and this house fortified mountains which stand about Fez like prison-walls. Kairouan, the walls of Marrakech, the Medersas of Fez--influences that was under the Merinid Sultans that Fez became the centre of Moroccan palace-making Sultans whose walled cities of splendid mosques and towers id = 26232 author = White, Ramy Allison title = Sunny Boy in the Country date = keywords = Boy; Grandpa; Horton; Jimmie; Mother; Mrs.; Sunny; daddy summary = "It''s like mending fingers, isn''t it, Mother?" Sunny Boy was so anxious Grandpa Horton to Sunny Boy. He liked to put a little letter inside his "Did Mother tell you?" asked Sunny Boy, as Daddy swung him into his chair "Why, Sunny Boy!" said Daddy and Mother. As soon as Sunny Boy came out into his yard this morning, the little gate "That means I must go down right away," said Mrs. Horton, when Sunny Boy took the team away to the barn, and Mother and Sunny Boy and Grandpa and On his way to the brook, Sunny Boy passed Grandpa and Jimmie in wide Jimmie carrying Sunny Boy and Grandpa and Bruce following made quite a "Do you know Jimmie?" said Sunny Boy, running to keep up with him. "Why does Grandpa call you Mother?" inquired Sunny Boy of Grandma. She and Grandpa and Mother and Sunny Boy were going for their id = 3529 author = Wollstonecraft, Mary title = Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark date = keywords = Christiania; Copenhagen; Denmark; England; English; France; French; Gothenburg; LETTER; Mary; Norway; Norwegians; Sweden; Tonsberg; Wollstonecraft; country; little; man; people summary = good-natured man; but men with common minds seldom break through general The day was fine, and I enjoyed the water till, approaching the little present state of manners and acquirements I think I have formed a often insupportably fatiguing, renders the inhabitants of little towns As I wish to give you a general idea of this country, I shall continue in appeared to me the country in the world most proper to form the botanist nothing like vegetable life appears to cheer with hope the heart. The Norwegians appear to me a sensible, shrewd people, with little Copenhagen; and the people of this country, having the good sense to What little I have seen of the manners of the people does not please me Little art appeared, yet sublimity everywhere gave place the family increases, a little more land is cultivated; thus the country works, great as they are termed, and little as they appear, I could not id = 45238 author = Wyeth, John B. (John Bound) title = Wyeth''s Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend''s Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834 date = keywords = Bay; Boston; Captain; Clark; Columbia; Company; Dr.; England; Fort; Indians; Lewis; Louis; Missouri; Mountains; Mr.; New; Oregon; Platte; Richardson; River; Rocky; Snake; St.; States; Sublet; United; Vancouver; Walla; William; Wyeth; man; visit summary = largest rivers in these rocky mountains.[42] It took us all day large body of horse made a fine appearance, especially their long next morning a number of us went back to the Indian fort, so called, the Rocky Mountains and the great river of the West, the case is far conduct of the horses--Killing a buffalo--Indian mode of Indians--Requisites of a mountain-man--Good fare, and adventure--An Indian horse-thief--Visit to the Snake camp-and our Indians have killed but two buffalo for several days. Early in the afternoon we passed a large party of white men, afterwards, Captain W., with three men, visited the Indians, _7th._--We frequently fall in with large bands of Indian horses. On the opposite side of the river there is a large Indian village, a small Indian trail on the river bank, which we followed in all We passed to-day several large lodges of Indians, from whom we id = 21244 author = Young, Egerton Ryerson title = By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians date = keywords = Bay; Christian; Church; Evans; God; Gospel; House; Indians; Jesus; Lake; Lord; Missionary; Norway; Reverend; River; Spirit; Winnipeg; Young; dog summary = Our Christian Indians, who rested the Sabbath day, One day a fine-looking Indian came in with a couple of fat ducks. God. We were surprised at times by seeing companies of pagan Indians stalk two canoes, and to man them four Indians from our Norway House Mission. After paddling about forty miles the next day we reached the Indians of conversing with an old fine-looking Indian, I said to him, "What is your Indians to tramp down the deep snow in the trail, that the poor dogs white brother, have been a long time in coming with that great Book and or some other old Indian guide or dog-driver, or canoe-man, while they Said he, "Did you not go to Nelson River with dogs and Indians about two He said he had been gazing all day long across the great lake watching with our Christian Indians of other places, were groping after the great id = 23460 author = nan title = Abroad date = keywords = Bertie; Dennis; Mabel; Rose; illustration summary = Said he, last Easter, "I propose, for Nellie, Dennis, Mabel, Rose, The Passengers look bright, and say, "Are we not lucky in the day!" Dennis and Rose and Mabel, walking upon the deck, are gaily talking-Says Rose, to Dennis drawing nigher, "I think the wind is getting "If a gale blows, do you suppose, we shall be wrecked?" asks little Rose. "Come and buy us, quick, to-day!" Rose says--"Good-night!"--to Bertie fast asleep, He knows a long, long time ere one draws near, Children are happy with "Sister" all day, Went one day with Mamma for a long country walk, The whole day long, from morning to night, A little old man comes walking along: With little Rose and Mabel side by side; Rose and Mabel side by side;--Bertie watching while they ride. Then, I''m sorry to say, dear Nellie and May, Rose, Dennis, and Bertie id = 2854 author = nan title = Sir Francis Drake Revived date = keywords = Cartagena; DRAKE; Dios; JOHN; Nombre; Panama; Rio; Spaniards; captain; cimaroon summary = his brother JOHN DRAKE was Captain (having in both of them, of men and Within seven days after his coming, having set up our pinnaces, and Captain had caused to be made of purpose in England; not great sheaf sent for, about eight days before; Captain RANSE took his leave, leaving Our Captain had his desire, and men enough for his pinnaces. For our Captain allowed one half of the company to pass their time Within three days after, we arrived at the place which our Captain For in our absence, Captain JOHN DRAKE, having one of our pinnaces, as As soon as we could trim our ship, being some two days, our Captain sent to the great grief both of Captain and company. Our Captain understanding by our Cimaroons, which with great heedfulness Captain''s haste, and leaving of their towns, we marched many days with