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...- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sor...

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...iscovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo... ...ion against the Spanish -- Secrecy maintained by Drake -- Dangers in the South Seas -- His departure on a pirating cruise - - In trouble with Barbary ... ...Fuegan conjurers minister to a fatally injured boy -- Discoveries in the South Seas -- A pleasant intercourse with islanders -- Enthusiastic reception... ...bestow, and my chief aim will be accordingly accomplished. Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands. CHAPTER I. THE ROLLING STONE OF HISTORY. Of all ... ...ce of nature, that where land now is the ocean was once spread, and where deep seas now roll in perpetual unrest a verdant plain or forest-covered cou... ...was a great port of entry for vessels passing out of the Mediterranean and Red Seas on the voyage to India. From this city also started caravans overl... ...ited his life to the irate king in consequence. HAMILCAR'S VOYAGE TO THE NORTH SEAS. Himilco, or Hamilcar, and Hanno his brother, 443 years before Chr... ...tween ports of the Mediterranean and India, and that the Red and Mediterranean seas were connected by a canal to facilitate this trade, while as late ... ...e-half, lie commercial nations whose thousands of vessels ploughed the limited seas. Twenty-five hundred years ago the Phoenicians, the Zidonians, and...

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... words of Thomas C. Moser, the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres. It is at once an exotic adventure story of the Eastern seas in the popular tradition of Kipling and Stevenson and a complexly wrought 'art novel' in the tradition of Flaubert and James. (summary by Stewart Wills)...

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...ontrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still c...

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...the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race th... ...nd grow confidential. The generations pass away swiftly enough on the high seas of life; more swiftly still in the little bubbling back-water of the q... ...t. And it may be worth while to add that these clouds rolled away in their season, and that all clouds roll away at last, and the troubles of youth in... ...eir prey; and in a true Sexton’s Calendar, how the species varied with the season of the year. But this was the very poetry of the profes- sion. The o... ... They had engagements to keep, not alone with the deliberate series of the seasons, but with man-kind’s clocks and hour-long measurement of time. And ... ...g vanity and incredu- lous of good; and sure enough, somewhere on the high seas of life, with his health, his hopes, his patrimony and his self- respe... ...ight busyness of animals, the signs of the weather, the cares of the snowy season, the exquisite stu- pidity of sheep, the exquisite cunning of dogs: ... ...ater-door, where I am standing, seem as low as Styx. And I must choose the season also, so that the valley may be brimmed like a cup with sunshine and... ...the instancy and virgin freshness of that memory; and be pricked again, in season and out of season, by the desire to weave it into art. There is anot...

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...ty only, but they proved themselves worthy of San Martin’s confidence. The season was not propitious. They had to swim swol- len rivers. They seemed, ... ...are a rap for wind, or 103 Joseph Conrad rain, or spray, or sun, or green seas, or anything. She was a blue-eyed, jolly girl of the very best sort, b... ...l- las on these shores, in Baiæ, in Vico, in Capri. They came down to this seaside in search of health, bring- ing with them their trains of mimes and...

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... the road I loiter, How idle and alone. Ah, past the plunge of plummet, 5 In seas I cannot sound, My heart and soul and senses, World without end, are... ... stood The bluebells in the azured wood. Yonder, lightening other loads, The seasons range the country roads, 20 But here in London streets I ken No s... ...ld reason, 5 And saw your road and where it led, And early wise and brave in season Put the pistol to your head. Oh soon, and better so than later Aft... ... the last gleaner overstept, Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue A single season, never two; Or if one haulm whose year is o’er 15 Shivers on the u... ...k the air, and feel the sun. 10 Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season: Let us endure an hour and see injustice done. Ay, look: high heav... ...moonlight pale. 48 A Shropshire Lad LIX The Isle of Portland THE star filled seas are smooth to night From France to England strown; Black towers abov... ...tle, thence to more, 65 He sampled all her killing store; And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, Sate the king when healths went round. 52 A Shropshire L... ...below them, A dead man out of mind. Some seed the birds devour, And some the season mars, 10 But here and there will flower The solitary stars, And fiel...

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...Shakespeare: First Folio 270 Sterne Falconbridge commands the Narrow Seas, 271 The Duke is made Protector of the Realme, 272 And yet s... ...1243 Fa. How will my Wife, for slaughter of my Sonne, 1244 Shed seas of Teares, and ne’re be satisfi’d? 1245 King. How will the Cou... ... 1982 Thou and Oxford, with fiue thousand men 1983 Shall crosse the Seas, and bid false Edward battaile: 1984 And as occasion serues, this... ...ce, then trusting France: 2069 Let vs be back’d with God, and with the Seas, - 46 - The third Part of Henry the Sixt Shakespeare: First Folio 20... ...enries Regall Crowne. 2497 Well haue we pass’d, and now re- pass’d the Seas, 2498 And brought desired helpe from Burgundie. 2499 What then... ..., and blunt Hollanders, 2604 Hath pass’d in safetie through the Narrow Seas, 2605 And with his troupes doth march amaine to London, 2606 A...

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...te” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas”—the emptiest phrase in history—childish at- tempts to sow suspicion b... ...hukovsky, the subtle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach follows them presently upo... ...ce time, she has constantly exported labour; the Italian worker has been a seasonal emigrant to America, north and south, to Switzer- land, Germany an... ...he penalties of the various Zeppelin and submarine murders, the freedom of seas and land alike from piracy, the evacuation of all Poland including Pos... ...ively created German mercantile marine ship or coal or exist upon the high seas—so long as it can be used as an economic weapon against her. Neither B... ...or the advancement of German world power. The long-standing freedom of the seas van- ishes at the German touch. So beyond the present war there opens ...

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... railer,” and “What Price Hair-pins Now?” They decided to begin with small seaside places, and gradu- ally, as they gained confidence, attack larger c... ...ve, now the Americans a submarine that would drive every ironclad from the seas. Each time there would be a war panic. The strength and heart of the n... ... Germans—“now or never we may seize the air—as once the British seized the seas! While all the other powers are still experimenting.” Swift and system... ...York, but also in London—in Bun Hill! that the little island in the silver seas was at the end of its immunity, that nowhere in the world any more was... ...dventures. He told how he and a “gentle- man friend” had been visiting the seaside for their health, how a “chep” came along in a balloon and fell out... ...ustry and settled populations, gigantic cities spreading gigantically, the seas and oceans dotted with shipping, the land netted with rails, and open ...

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... Tanny,” repeated Julia softly. “They’re old—older than the Old Man of the Seas, some- times, aren’t they? Incredibly old, like little boys who know t... ...LL ILLAR OF SAL AR OF SAL AR OF SAL AR OF SAL AR OF SALT T T T T THE OPERA SEASON ENDED, Aaron was invited by Cyril Scott to join a group of musical p... ... down, and I feel nothing but helpless nausea. You know, like when you are seasick.” Her dark-blue, heavy, haunted-looking eyes were resting on him as... ...uch a woman, you know, as the kind of out-of-doors morning-feelings at the seaside.” “Quite! A sort of sea-scape of a woman. With a perfectly sham inn...

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...eep in a knot the resolution of her mind; for the second and in that young season the stronger nature grafted by her education fixed her to the religi... ...lance to be righted, she leaves that business to society, and if it be the season for the gathering of society, it will be righted more or less; and i... ... purpose: it was a good note. Then could the Tory, delivering at the right season the Shakesperian ‘This England . . .’ and Byronic—’The invio- late I... ...rious suggestions, such as the flight of yachts, mention of the shoot- ing season, sight of a royal palace; and adopted a continually heightened satir... ... I say, what a splendid creature Cissy Halkett has shot up! She topped the season this year, and will next. You’re for the darkies, Beauchamp. So am I... ... be condemned to seek repose in so dull a place, after the fatigues of the season in Paris, it is considerably worse than for women, so I am here to d... ... le Commandant,’ cried Beauchamp. ‘Admiral and marshal, each of us in good season,’ said Roland. ‘Thanks to your promotion, I had a letter from my sis... ... the features of the day she set her brush to picture: characteristic of a season rather than cheer- less in tone, though it breathed little cheer. Is... ...aid he envied her that power of isolation, and the eye for beauty in every season. She opened a portfolio of Mr. Tuckham’s water-colour drawings in ev...

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...he Island of Rachrin: but is forced to land close to hostile forces at Artonish Castle on the seacoast of Argylshire. Seeking refuge from tempestuous seas, Bruce begs shelter from Ronald, Lord of the Isles: inadvertently on the day of his marriage feast to the beautiful Edith of Lorn. Bruce's very presence is enough to interrupt the nuptials and to break up the festivities...

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...avour of a sitting), they have to speak of her pretty frequently, and they season their dish, the coxcombs do, by hinting a knowledge of her history. ... ... be, But it ‘s mighty better reasoned For a man to be well seasoned, And a man she has in me,” cries Kirby.’ As to his exact a... ...e death again, a whole field laid low by one stroke, and wintriness in the season of glad life. A wind had blown and all had vanished. The second gree... ... house came swimming and plunging af- ter her, like a spectral ship on big seas, and her father and mother lived and died in her breast; and now they ... ...ream. He was of the class of youths who, in apprehension that their bright season may not be permanent, choose to fortify it by a systematic contempt ... ...three would have told you, that the end of a three days’ frost in the late season of the year and the early, is likely to draw the warm winds from the... ...not the heart to disagree with her, for he could belabour the Admiralty in season, cause or no cause. Altogether he much enjoyed the ride, notwithstan... ...nk she has come to town yet. She generally sees out the end of the hunting season. Leave the letter to me: it shall go. You, with your keen observatio... ...nd by roaring at as the delusion; this com- mon bloom of the ripeness of a season; this would never have utterly captured a sceptic, to vanquish him i...

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... finishing her manuscript for this book there was little concern that the oceans of the earth might be endangered. Without doubt contamination of the seas was occurring, but there was no real public awarenessno sense of threat. A deleterious mercury content had not yet been detected in the great billfish and tunas. There were fewer oil despoliations, and the dumping of che...

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...paths of the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. The freedom of the seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality, and cooperation. No doubt a so... ... hitherto sought to be es- tablished may be necessary in order to make the seas indeed free and common in practically all circumstances for the use of... ...opment. It need not be difficult to define or to secure the freedom of the seas if the Governments of the world sincerely desire to come to an agreeme... ...al armaments and the cooperation of the navies of the world in keeping the seas at once free and safe. And the question of limiting naval armaments op... ...proposing government by the consent of the gov- erned; that freedom of the seas which in international con- ference after conference representatives o... ... all shipping seeking to pass through certain designated areas of the high seas to which it is clearly my duty to call your attention. Let me remind t... ...e fighting forces of the belligerents, thereby insuring the freedom of the seas, a principle upon which the German Gov- ernment believes, now as befor... ...red that it is determined to restore the prin- ciple of the freedom of the seas from whatever quarter it has been violated. 14 Why We Are at War T o ... ... authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest de- gree be made contingent upon...

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...is chancellor and the lord of Calais; Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas; The duke is made protector of the realm; And yet shalt thou be safe... ...d ne’er be satisfied! Father: How will my wife for slaughter of my son Shed seas of tears and ne’er be satisfied! KING HENRY VI : How will the count... ... But, Warwick, Thou and Oxford, with five thousand men, Shall cross the seas, and bid false Edward battle; And, as occasion serves, this noble qu... ...er using France than trusting France: Let us be back’d with God and with the seas Which He hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only... ...aned state for Henry’s regal crown. Well have we pass’d and now repass’d the seas And brought desired help from Burgundy: What then remains, we being ... ...hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders, Hath pass’d in safety through the narrow seas, And with his troops doth march amain to London; And many giddy peop...

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...ndifferent to fate, Thou sittest at the Western Gate; Thou seest the white seas fold their tents, Oh, warder of two continents; Thou drawest all thing... ...s a guardian. Behold me pitched neck-and-crop from twenty days of the high seas into the whirl of California, deprived of any guid- ance, and left to ... ... and to those who understand her is the Anglo- Indian “spin” in her second season; but the girls of America are above and beyond them all. They are cl... ...nd strawberries of no ac- count, where the procession of the fruits of the seasons was like a pageant in a Drury Lane pantomime and the dry air was wi... ...eisurely, via the Yellowstone, just in time for the tail-end of the summer season at Saratoga. We had met once or twice before in the park, and I had ... ...r as the understand- ing of the uses of life goes, Isser Jang, for all its seasonal cholers, has the advantage over Chicago. Jowala Singh knows and ta... ... with one eye on the smoke of the flesh-pots of the old country across the seas, while with the other he squints biliously and prejudicially at the al... ...s a large village of a quarter of a million inhabit- ants, situated on the seashore, which is falsely called Lake Erie. It is a peaceful place, and mo... ...rial waste-basket, to chevying Cana- dian schooners up and down the Alaska Seas. It is perfectly impossible to go to war with these people, whatever t...

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...any we would welcome peace to-morrow; we would welcome her shipping on the seas and her flag about the world; against the Hohenzollerns it must obviou... ...ces and dynasties, I believe it will turn first to the idea of keeping the seas with Britain and France, and then to this still wider idea of an under... ...nd cheat each other? Is the Russian seeking only a necessary outlet to the seas of the world, or has he dreams of Delhi? Here again, as in all these q... ...erests of France than they are to those of the younger Britains beyond the seas. A voice in an Alliance that included France and the United States, an... ...the United States, and had its chief common interest in the control of the seas, may in the future seem far more desirable to these great and growing ... ...ty in the Middle Ages. I do not see how some such synthetic control of the seas is to be avoided in the future. And now coming back to the “White Man’... ... than they know. We come now to the third and most difficult type of over- seas “possessions.” These are the annexed or conquered re- gions with settl...

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...preuaile, I shame to speake: 113 But truth is truth, large lengths of seas and shores 114 Betweene my father, and my mother lay, 115 As... ...outh indeede, 774 That spits forth death, and mountaines, rockes, and seas, 775 Talkes as familiarly of roaring Lyons, 776 As maids of ...

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...cessively chilly, and it was not a full dress occasion, but merely an out of season performance, with everybody wearing ordinary street clothes, I dec... ...f playing this part—which implies all the dangers implied by taking the open seas instead of staying in port— whether such a fact is conducive to the ... ...for it, and also because it moves to a different rhythm, and keeps different seasons. It is because they refuse to regard it either as merely an excha...