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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...Hebrides; but one of his best institutions had been a school in one of the Samoan or Navi- gators’ Islands, in which were educated young men of the na... ...e sent to the isles to prepare the way for white men. Very nobly had these Samoan pupils carried out his intentions, braving dislike, disease and deat... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha... ...and a good fellow he is, my head nurse in my illness. ‘I can’t write about politics. Then comes the astounding news of this fearful war. What am I to ...

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... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevens... ... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and... ...Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document Fi... ...nto their strengthened barracks where, please God, they may now stay! Perhaps you may suppose the day now over; you are not the head of a plantation, ... .... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ...like that. Back by moonlight in the consulate boat— Fanny being too tired to walk—to Moors’s. Saturday, I left Fanny to rest, and was off early to the... ...f I have been homesick for Barrahead and Island Glass, and 53 V ailima Letters Kirkwall, and Cape Wrath, and the Wells of the Pentland Firth; I could...

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...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...and no more; a man’s share of it is his share of bread; and commerce, like politics, is here narrowed to a focus, shows its ugly side, and becomes as ... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...t he was followed to the islands by Mormon assassins. His first attempt on politics was made under the auspices of what is called the missionary party... ...s in the South Seas. It does not appear that he was any more particular in politics, but he was care- ful to consult the character and prejudices of t...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...tevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document F... ...forth to leeward in a trading schooner, the Equator, of a little over seventy tons, spent four months among the atolls (low coral islands) of the Gilb... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...re too poor, and had no possessions to dispute. At least they had remained behind; and it thus befell that they were invited to my feast. I dare say i... ... has been the preservative of others. Tembinok’, like most tyrants, is a conservative; like many conservatives, he eagerly welcomes new ideas, and, ex...

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...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...the first to recognise the dignity of the church, but this was a matter of politics, and in his turn he reminded the Vicar that their Blessed Saviour ... ...e how that helped a man to teach boys to pass exami- nations, He talked of politics. It sounded odd to them to hear him compare Lord Beaconsfield with... ... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...it was not sufficient to put your name on a door to get briefs; and modern politics seemed to lack nobility. He felt himself a poet. 131 W. Somerset ...

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...t island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. The land breeze blew in our faces, and smelt strong of wild lime and vanilla: other things besides, but these were the most plain; and the chill of it set ...

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... Island Nights’ Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...point to the man: that he was fond of his wife, and kind to her. She was a Samoa woman, and dyed her hair red, Samoa style; and when he came to die (a... ...the mission and the island. For all that he is very shrewd, and, except in politics or about his own misdemeanours, a teller of the truth. I went to h... ...hing he did was to count his money; the sum was exact – forty-nine dollars American money, and one Chili piece. “That looks like the truth,” said Keaw... ...save my lover. What is this you say about a cent? But all the world is not American. In England they have a piece they call a farthing, which is about...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

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