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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

... of psychoanalysis, Long Island polo, and the Ming platter he had found in Vancouver. She promised to meet him in Deauville, the coming summer, “thoug...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...has been made by other eminent voyagers: by Carteret, Byron, Kotzebue, and Vancouver. For my own part, although hardly a day passed while I remained u... ... I know, might have been left on the island by Wallace, Carteret, Cook, or Vancouver. The stock was half rotten and worm-eaten; the lock was as rusty ... ...rpse was refused Christian burial, but that the heart which was brought to Vancouver some time after the event, and which the Hawiians stoutly maintai...

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Friarswood Post-Office

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...p with printed sheets of paper about ‘Mails to Gothenburg,— Weekly Post to Vancouver’s Island’—and all sorts of places to which the Friarswood people ...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...ed at the island; and at intervals, Wallis, Byron, Cook, De Bourgainville, Vancouver, Le Perouse, and other illustrious navigators refitted their vess... ..., after all that of late years has been done for these islanders, Cook and Vancouver may, in one sense at least, be considered their greatest benefact... ...ief at the demise of a high chief, or member of the royal family. And yet, Vancouver relates that, on such an occasion, upon which he happened to be p... ...sland had, in many things, “more refined ideas of decency than ourselves.” Vancouver, also, has some noteworthy ideas on this subject, respecting the ... ...se wild cattle, and the way they came on the island. Some fifty years ago, Vancouver left several bullocks, sheep and goats, at various places in the ... ...brow, with a long dark object borne aloft on his horns. Having referred to Vancouver’s attempts to colonize the islands with useful quadrupeds, we may... ...e adjoining hillsides, which are clothed in the most luxuriant vegetation, Vancouver’s bullocks soon wandered; and unmolested for a long period, multi...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

... was put by us to the inhabitants who unanimously agreed in the story.” In Vancouver’s Voyage, there is a somewhat similar statement with respect to O...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...s; onions, 37 1/2 cents; meat and other articles in proportion. In 1853 at Vancouver veg- etables were a little lower. I with three other officers con... ...r of remnants of tribes in the vicinity of Portland in Oregon, and of Fort Vancouver in Washington Territory. They had generally ac- quired some of th... ... coast. They still retained posts along the Columbia River and one at Fort Vancouver, when I was there. Their treatment of the Indians had brought out...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...take credit for the attack, but he did not get a reply. He spent a week in Vancouver preparing the explosive components with a close friend.The chemic...

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