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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...nsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in... ...n: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis ... ... I set forth upon my voy age, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expect. It was suggested that ... ...ould thus have reversed the verdict of Lord Tennyson’s hero is less eccentric than appears. Few men who come to the islands leave them; they grow grey... ...ture in low latitudes; it is a point on which the scientific and sentimental tourist are at one, and has inspired some tasteful poetry. The period cer... ...beach, and climbing and fringing the steep sides of mountains. Rude and bare hills embraced the inlet upon either hand; it was enclosed to the landwar... ...ee what men might be whose fathers had never studied Virgil, had never been conquered by Caesar, and never been ruled by the wisdom of Gaius or Papini... ...y strip up her dress, and, with cries of wonder and delight, rub herself bare-breeched upon the velvet cushions. Biscuit, jam, and syrup was the enter... ...nd what I knew of the Cluny Macphersons, or the Appin Stewarts, enabled me to learn, and helped me to understand, about the Tevas of Tahiti. The nativ...

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Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...Omoo Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville PART I CHAPTER I. MY RECEPTION ABOARD IT WAS the mi... ...ort. In this way men are frequently shipped on board whalemen in the South Seas. My stipulation was acceded to, and the ship’s articles handed me to s... ... of service, was at last employed as a government packet in the Australian seas. Being condemned, however, about two years previous, she was purchased... ... founded is this. A year or two after his landing there hap- pened to be a season of scarcity, owing to the partial failure of the breadfruit harvest ... ...g to the partial failure of the breadfruit harvest for several consecutive seasons. This brought about such a falling off in the number of subjects fo... ...ke pups ashore. But, at intervals, the gray albatross, pecu- liar to these seas, came flapping his immense wings over us, and then skimmed away silent...

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...servant stray’d, Their manners noted, and their states survey’d, On stormy seas unnumber’d toils he bore, Safe with his friends to gain his natal shor... ...ung Thousa bore (the bright increase Of Phorcys, dreaded in the sounds and seas); Whom Neptune eyed with bloom of beauty bless’d, And in his cave the ... ...air domain Of Ilus, sprung from Jason’s royal strain, Measured a length of seas, a toilsome length, in vain. For, voyaging to learn the direful art To... ...t stranger guest the Taphian realm obeys, A realm defended with encircling seas. Mentes, an ever honour’d name, of old High in Ulysses’ social list en... ...ands the raging deeps I trace, And seek my sire through storms and rolling seas! Hear from thy heavens above, O warrior maid! Descend once more, propi... ...rd thee, and my hand convey: The winged vessel studious I prepare, Through seas and realms companion of thy care. 47 Pope Thou to the court ascend : ... ...hither, whither flies my son (she cried) To realms; that rocks and roaring seas divide? In foreign lands thy father’s days decay’d. And foreign lands ... ...hild! storms beat, and rolls the main, Oh, beat those storms, and roll the seas in vain!” “Far hence (replied the prince) thy fears be driven: Heaven ... ... reverend form array’d, Spoke to T elemachus the martial maid. “Lo! on the seas, prepared the vessel stands, The impatient mariner thy speed demands.”...

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...l ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disap- peared from those seas (with a considerable amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown f... ...ll that happened, quite distinctly. I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also... ...overed as to be able to get from my bunk to the scuttle, and see the green seas trying to keep pace with us. I judged the schooner was running before ... ...os? Does the captain think he is going to sell them somewhere in the South Seas?” “It looks like it, doesn’t it?” said Montgomery, and turned towards ... ...nd otherwise mutilated, es- caped from Moreau’s house. It was in the silly season, and a prominent editor, a cousin of the temporary laboratory-as- si... ...ature would watch me, and go leaping off when I called to it. There came a season of thunder-storms and heavy rain, which greatly retarded my work; bu... ... contain the water I should need if I floated forth upon these untravelled seas. I would have even tried pottery, but the island contained no clay. I ...

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...sort of divine (pagan) emanation, the deputy-Neptune for the circumambient seas. If he did not actually rule the waves, he pretended to rule the fate ... ...obscure as we were and as supreme in the face of all the winds and all the seas, in an immensity that receives no impress, preserves no memories, and ... ..., right in our teeth. There was no sense in it. It fitted neither with the season of the year nor with the secular experience of seamen as recorded in...

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...y poppy-field just above the Sutlej V alley on the Kotgarth side; so, next season, they turned Christian, and brought their baby to the Mission to be ... ...Lispeth grew impatient, and was told that the Englishman had gone over the seas to England. She knew where England was, because she had read little ge... ...luding chaperons. Moonlight picnics are useful just at the very end of the season, before all the girls go away to the Hills. They lead to understandi... ...en … unless Maud Copleigh cares to try. THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES Thus, for a season, they fought it fair— She and his cousin May— T actful, talented, de... ...ty about Mrs. Reiver; nothing but selfishness. And at the beginning of the season, poor little Pluffles fell a prey to her. She laid herself out to th... ...t was nobody’s business to warn Pluffles that he was unwise. The pace that season was too good to inquire; and meddling with another man’s folly is al... ...e years before lawn-tennis was born when we all played croquet. There were seasons before that, if you will believe me, when even croquet had not been... ...ton rubbed the top of his head; for he was an easy- going man. Late in the season, when he judged that the time was ripe, Barr-Saggott developed a pla... ...ance Policy . Perhaps it was the Viceroy’s way of saying:— ”Lie low.” That season, came up to Simla one of these crazy people with only a single idea....

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...with being the accursed cause of bringing you to it? Suppose too in such a season I should be sum- moned from you. Could I submit to see you encounter... ... hundreds, thousands for aught I know, of miles or leagues, that lands and seas are between us? What is the pros- pect from that mount in our garden w... ...ried out, ‘And am I then such a wretch to wish for your presence at such a season? ought I not to rejoice that you are out of the hearing of my cries ... ... at once as into the lowest abyss, seemed to be the sport of the winds and seas. The captain himself almost gave up all for lost, and exprest his appr... ...l to loos- ening her stays, and performed all the offices proper at such a season; which had so good an effect, that Amelia soon re- covered the disor... ...nd on earth but yourself, I hope you will pardon my writing to you at this season; though I do not know that you can relieve my distresses, or, if you... ...f certain virtues, Shun the day, and lie conceal’d In the smooth seasons and the calms of life. Booth, having opened the window, and summone... ... her intention; for to sacrifice the time and patience of Amelia at such a season to the mere love of talking of herself would have been as unpardonab... ...ich I must have otherwise inevitably perished. “Her kindness to me in this season of distress prevailed on me to return again to her house. Why, indee...

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...his own youthful days. But although Edward eagerly carried the gun for one season, yet when practice had given him some dexterity, the pastime ceased ... ...was a little bookish, he admitted; but youth, he had always heard, was the season for learning, and, no doubt, when his rage for let- ters was abated,... ...take of the diversion of grouse-shooting upon his moors in Perthshire next season. Shortly after, Mr. Bradwardine remitted from Scotland a sum in reim... ...he first time this fortnight, tempered her turf-fire to such a heat as the season required in her damp hovel even at Midsummer, set forth her deal tab... ...fuddled, or, as your English vernacular and metaphorical phrase goes, half-seas-over. Not that I would so insinuate respecting you, Captain W averley,... ...d meet them at the Dern Path with Ban and Buscar. ‘For, until the shooting season commenced, I would willingly show you some sport, and we may, God wi... ...for never being in what is called Pride of Grease, he is also never out of season, though it be a truth that his venison is not equal to that of eithe... ...ap- pening daily in the immediate vicinity, without his having crossed the seas, and while he was yet in the otherwise well- ordered island of Great B... ...e his politeness, turned down a mighty bumper of the same generous liquor, seasoned with his good wishes to the house of Bradwardine. Having thus rati...

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...condescend! Ah! thank you, this will do nicely. Those colours—yes; and the Seaside Book. I’ll choose one or two. What is most popular here?’ James beg... ...sters, she shut up the house until her son should be of age, and spent the season in Lowndes-square, the autumn ei- ther abroad, in visits, or at wate... ...m prematurely old. The 207 Yo n g e story was soon told; there had been a seasoning fever as a welcome to the half-reclaimed moorland; ague and typhu... ...e for having encouraged him, and wondered what the poor young man over the seas would think of it, her interposition had never been so welcome. Charlo...

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... Even so to Ilion’s city came by stealth A spirit as of windless seas and skies, A gentle phantom form of joy and wealth, ... ...a glass, of faith gone by. One only he who went reluctant forth Across the seas with me Odysseus he Was loyal unto me with strength and will, A trusty... ...wonder meets thy claim: I stand amazed That thou, a maiden born beyond the seas, Dost as a native know and tell aright Tales of a city of an alien ton...

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...or the old sea-faring men Came to me now and then, With their sagas of the seas. – Longfellow . CHAPTER I T HE WEATHER DOOR of the smoking-room had be... ...hairs together, and, since he had boasted before the man that he was never seasick, his pride made him go aft to the second-saloon deck at the stern, ... ...o lose weight, while his heels wavered in the breeze. He was fainting from seasickness, and a roll of the ship tilted him over the rail on to the smoo... ... am?” “’Twasn’t a calm,” said Harvey , sulkily . “It was a gale, and I was seasick. Guess I must have rolled over the rail.” “There was a little commo... ...d o’ packet in a flat ca’ am. Least of all when his ex- cuse is that he’ s seasick.” “Excuse!” cried Harvey . “D’you suppose I’ d fall over- board int... ...Here, an’ ef we went back naow-it’ s more’n a thousand mile-we’ d lose the season. The men they wouldn’t hev it, allowin’ I was agreeable.” “But my fa... ...l right.” “He’ d try . I don’t doubt he’ d try ,” said Troop; “but a whole season’ s catch is eight men’ s bread; an’ you’ll be better in your health ... ...ou that ever single time since we’ve sailed together.” “ A matter o’ seven seasons,” returned Tom Platt coolly . “Good stowin’ s good stowin’ all the ... ... of his lungs. More schooners had crept up in the night, and the long blue seas were full of sails and dories. Far away on the horizon, the smoke of s...

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...at is the time o’ the day? ARIEL: Past the mid season. PROSPERO: At least two glasses. The time ‘twixt six and now Must b... ...or which foul deed The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures, Against your peace. Thee of thy so... ... SEBASTIAN: A most high miracle! FERDINAND: Though the seas threaten, they are merciful; I have cursed them without cause. [Kneels... ...y. PROSPERO: I’ll deliver all; And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales And sail so expeditious that shall catch Your royal ...

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...rld; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season when we have least judg- ment to direct us. On the other hand, a goo... ...al, he has one peculiar to himself—he compares hu- man life to the several seasons, and at once exposes to his readers a view of the great and little ... ...it to furnish every month with a particu- lar description, as it may every season. Of the following eclogues I shall only say, that these four compreh... ...: that they have as much variety of description, in respect of the several seasons, as Spenser’s: that, in order to add to this variety, the several t... ..., the several times of the day are observed, the rural employments in each season or time of day, and the rural scenes or places proper to such employ... ...d o’er the whitening vale their fleecy care, Fresh as the morn, and as the season fair: 20 The dawn now blushing on the mountai... ...d the curling vines: Four Figures rising from the work appear, The various Seasons of the rolling year; And what is that, which binds the radiant sky,... ...he Light himself shall shine Reveal’d, and God’s eternal day be thine! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountai... ...lawless beasts obey’d, And even the elements a tyrant sway’d? In vain kind seasons swell’d the teeming grain, Soft showers distill’d, and suns grew wa...

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...d those vapors that offended us; And by the benefit of his wished light, The seas wax’d calm, and we discovered T wo ships from far making amain to us... ...senger. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE : Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season; Reserve them till a merrier hour than this. Where is the gold I g... ...re divine, the masters of all these, Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas, Indued with intellectual sense and souls, Of more preeminence than ... ... time to me. DROMIO OF SYRACUSE : Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season, When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? We... ...O OF SYRACUSE : Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he’s worth, to season. Nay, he’s a thief too: have you not heard men say That Time come...

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...heard In spring time from the Cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings? ... ...y! indeed I know not if you sleep, or feed. How motionless! not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze H... ...ter under every wind. A hope for times that are unkind And every season? Thou wander’st the wide world about, Uncheck’d by pride or scru... ...m) ntitled poem) ntitled poem) I am not One who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk, About Friends, who live within an ... ... sought, Comes to me not; malignant truth, or lie. Hence have I genial seasons, hence have I Smooth passions, smooth discourse, and joyous thoug... ...s’d away. How perfect was the calm! it seem’d no sleep; No mood, which season takes away, or brings: 10 I could have fancied that ... ...acts blow their trumpets from the steep, No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds... ...is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have...

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...e how he did prevail I shame to speak, But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores Between my father and my mother lay, As I have heard my f... ...ere’s a large mouth, indeed, That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas, Talks as familiarly of roaring lions As maids of thirteen do of pup...

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...ther, art thou excommunicate still?” “Far from it, most pious Crusader. If seas of holy wells could assoil me, I should be pure enough. My sweet Isabe... ...eover, if ink be wanting, he bade me tell you that there’s a fish in these seas, with many arms, and very like the foul fiend, that carries a bag of i... ...te of that age of exceeding beauty in which he lived. Thus, in this festal season, banquets were provided, and military shows took place, for the bene... ... of Wales, and I, have sworn to one another to bring all within these four seas into concord and good order; and then we may look for such a blessing ... ...g, “if this same Crusade is to be when peace and order are within the four seas. Moreover, thou wilt have ruined my trade by that time!” “Nay, Henry, ... ... fellow to boot, that could floor any man at single-stick, within the four seas. Ay, and have been thought comely too, though Joyce o’ the haugh did p...

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... why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gol...

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...the King’s Service, 5 Herman Melville having been impressed on the Narrow Seas from a home- ward-bound English merchantman into a seventy-four outwar... ...tho’ shorn of its blazonry, did not cease with the knights, neither on the seas, though nowadays in encounters there a certain kind of displayed galla...

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...asons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to th... ...ravels – Swift 66 merchantman, returning from Japan by the North and South seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddel, of Deptford, a very civil man, and an... ... island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and wes... ...le rejoiced. But he, being a man well experienced in the navigation of those seas, bid us all prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened the ... ...h my knife toward the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable supply, my own being so much broken in the teeth, that it was ... ... palace he has near Flanflasnic, a city within eighteen English miles of the seaside. Glumdalclitch and I were much fatigued: I had gotten a small col... ...n my box, about half an hours walk from the palace, towards the rocks on the seashore. I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, ... ...ut repairing. All the fruits of the earth shall come to maturity at whatever season we think fit to choose, and increase a hundred fold more than they... ...as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers.” I made him a small present, for my lord had furnis...