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...A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, o...

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... Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- 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...

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...rcumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- ... ...avigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonde... ...ion of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice t... ... -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- A cit... ...f Marco Polo excited ambition to reach Zipangu and Cathay -- The search voyage westward -- Discoveries lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the wo... ...eries lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the world -- ' Discovery of the West Indies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the you... ... lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the world -- ' Discovery of the West Indies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the younger ... ...25- 334 CHAPTER XXXI. Voyage of Tasman. -- History of discovery among the East Indies -- Preparation for a voyage of discovery in search of a southern... ...ast Indies. -- Abandoning his purpose to find a northwest passage, Drake sails westward to the Moluccas -- Drake's ship is attacked by Islanders -- De...

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...Matilda Sophia Hanson, whose father has recently died in their country of Barbadoes in the West Indies, must live for a time with family friends in England. The Harewood family is astonished at how spoiled, rude, and uneducated the child is. However, with seemingly endless patience and love, they help Matilda work ...

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...he original English text only has been used, and but few changes made by cutting out the long and tedious description of plant and animal life of the West Indies of which Esquemeling had only a smattering of truth. But, the history of Captain Morgan and his fellow buccaneers is here printed almost identical with the original English translation, and we believe it is the fi...

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...Early on the morning of 1 August 1699, a small vessel, the Roebuck, tacked back and forth over the shoals off the western coast of New Holland awaiting daylight and the sight of land. Having suffered a long journey from Brazil, Captain William Dampier sought a harbour on the coast to replenish his dwindling supplies of water and fresh ve...

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...PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Discovery: 1699–1777 CHAPTER TWO Van Diemens Land and the western coast of New Holland: 1788–93 CHAPTER THREE Establishment of the British Colony, the initial years: 1788–92 CHAPTER FOUR Establishment of the British Colony—survival assured: 1793–99 CHAPTER FIVE The Con...

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...tion of true to life stories from the "City of Dreams," that can amaze, amuse, or simply confuse you. Find out what really can happen when East meets West in a downtown club, and explore the crumbling old city that was once- Batavia. Meet Chicken Harry an expatriate in love with the cities diverse nightlife, or experience a rainy season flood. Journey into Jakarta,...

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...isiting the fabled far flung city of Batavia- the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The few who turned these dreams into reality entered Batavia ...

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... TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD ACT I The margin of the Hu&son at West Point. Fort Putnam and the Highlands in the distance. A fig is $utte... ...ing Sovereign. At a clap! The key to all of this is in my hand, - [ 901 West Point; and in my other hand, Sir Henry's promises, - money in sums, ... ...the darkness. Thus without a blow, But with the magic of a countersign, West Point becomes your own. Andre'. Is there some house Or tavern, wher... ...tter quietly on the table. To Mrs. Arnold.] [601 I OF BENEDICT ARNOLD West Point I did deliberately betray: I begged the post intending to betra... ...memory of his infamy and of his fame covers me: Sara- toga knew him, and West Point acknowl- edges him. No tomb shall he have; yet shall the hills... ...irst honors sprouted. And Upon King George's bounty. When he In the West Indies, fighting for the King. Sir Grenville Temple brought me back his s...

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...antis (or Atlantica) was described in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of... ...d and disease-stricken Irish immigrants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of a... ... on islands off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean. It traps dozens of blowflies at a time in... ...an (chief minister) of Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in Gujarat in western India under British suzerainty. He later became dewan o... ... (Maowusu) Desert in the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia, about 700 km (435 miles) west of Beijing. The segment's length is 25 kilometers (15.5 mil... ...th century, both Hernando Cortes (in Mexico) and Christopher Columbus (in the West Indies) described these unusual uses of the snack. Father Bernar... ...atau (Krakatoa) on August 26-27, 1883, a wave 35 meters high swept across the East Indies killing in excess of 36,000 people. Triggered by a submar...

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...n’t have one at all because their only value is money. The fear that the West no longer has a soul is well founded, because the one that it had ha... ...eate centers of energy that are capable of giving a new soul to tomorrow’s Western World; a soul that can handle the massive invasion of cultures th... ...d to transform them into a source of eternal life. Our dream is that the Western World can become a single living organism made up of Persons who ... ...a work of art instead of life as violence. Our dream is that not only the West but the whole planet Earth can begin to move towards this goal. An... ... Can we deduce that every human being aspires to become an artist? In the West, immortality has been promised to the saints for the last two thousan... ...lat, he had thought up a very arduous and ambitious project: to get to the Indies by crossing the ocean instead of by land. Columbus presented hi... ...And when they finally came to land, Christopher Columbus had not found the Indies, but a new continent. I believe that since that day not only a ne...

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... Street, Wlllamstown Prank L. Siazenger Golf, Tennis and Hockey Supplies 8 West 28th St., New York H.E, Kinsman& Go. College it it Photographers Also ... ...|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western university law school. '()1 —Charles R. King died at his home in Ro... ...Brown 190S has been elected captain of the junior class baseball team. The Western New Y'ork club will hold a smoker in Bemis' at 8.30 Wednesday eveni... ... lin game was sensationally close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 sc... ...of Squires & Wynkoop, 44 Cortland street. New York city. Ex-'Ofi—Philip N. Westoott has accepted a position with the Holden-Ueuprey Co., manufac- ture... ...foreign countries represented were as fol- lows: Canada 1. England 1, West Indies 1, South America 1, Tur- key 2, and Sandwich Islanda 5. Fifty years ... ..." Mr. Chapman is a famous ornith- ologist and on a recent trip to the West Indies made a study of the flamingoes. The illuatrationa to be used in the ...

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...t Pg 892 Choice and Will Pg 890 Passion Pg 900 Innocence Pg 901 Modern Western Society Pg 903 The Consumer Dynamic Pg 915 The Destruction ... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...y is a barren desert because twelve thousand years ago in that area: is where Western cities were first invented. Their creation ultimately destroye... ...anings of these words: they all tell the same story. The Namib Desert on the West coast of Africa, the Olduvai Gorge which is on the east side of Af... ...ted to the fact that breadfruit was bound to feed the black slaves of the West Indies and free them from bondage like Christian and his crew were fre... ... Nobody bought the breadfruit. Nobody ate it except a few slaves in the West Indies. Instead; the English World was transfixed by the unbelievable... ...servants to New York, and finally: the shipping of African slaves to the West Indies and America. British ship-culture; was a culture of sadistic c... ... Nobody bought the breadfruit. Nobody ate it except a few slaves in the West Indies. Instead; the English World was transfixed by the unbelievable...

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... What Pisces move, or hot breath'd Leos beames. Or Capricornus bath'd in western streames. The knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eig... ... in that part of heaven where the Sunne riseth, and the cursed toward the West in opposition. They have certaine Prophets and Priests which commonly... ...ordance of events drive them from one corner to another, and from East to West, they will not leave to follow their bowle, and with one small pensill... ...alt, as the Tartars and Moskovites doe. These new discovered people of the Indies, when the Spaniards came first amongst them, esteemed that as well ... ...g their neighings as a language of truce and composition. In the [he]ther Indies the chiefe and royallest honour was anciently wont to be to ride upo... ...d ran in himselfe, where all were burned. Ninachetuen, a lord in the East Indies, having had an inkling of the King of Portugales viceroys deliberati... ...orthwith hewen in pieces. In a certaine kingdome of these late-discovered Indies, upon a day of a solemne procession, in which the idols they adore ... ... full of feare, Or in my Horoscope were Capricorne, Whose tyrannie neere westerne seas is borne: But so it is, that naturally of my selfe I abhor... ...a God. Some one hath his province and credit in the East, and some in the West: -----hic illius arma Hic currus fuit. -- Virg. Æn.i. 20. ...

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...s and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West XXX. The Faithful River XXXIII. In Captivity XXXV. Initiation XXXVII. ... ...ing when we passed St. Helena; was laid up for a time when we were off the Western Islands, but got out of bed to make his Land- fall. He managed to k... ...eas—a work, this, for staunch ships, and a great school of staunchness for West-Country seamen. A whole fleet of copper-bot- tomed barques, as strong ... ...lines at bow and stern. It is impossible to say. She was built in the East Indies somewhere, of teak-wood 37 Joseph Conrad throughout, except the dec... ... clouds that seemed to have been cut and hacked by the keen edge of a sou’-west gale. Our craft, a Clyde-built barque of 1,000 tons, rolled so heavily... ...n aspect peculiarly appalling. The inky ragged wrack, flying before a nor’-west wind, makes you dizzy with its headlong speed that depicts the rush of... ...fy him openly, as on the banks of the Agulhas homeward bound from the East Indies, or on the outward pas- sage round the Horn, he struck at you fairly... ...o, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound from the West Indies. A thin, silvery mist softened the calm and majestic splendour of li... ...leaves the shelter of his parental house, this spirit found the way to the Indies, discovered the coasts of a new continent, and traversed at last the...

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...lve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months? space and more. But then the wind came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make little or no way, and were sometimes in purpose to turn back. But then again there arose strong and great winds from the south, with a point east; which carried us up, for all that we c...

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...ive months’ space and more. But then the wind came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make little or no way, and were some ... ... been seen to arrive upon any shore of Europe; no, nor of either the East or West Indies, nor yet of any ship of any other part of the world, that had... ... seen to arrive upon any shore of Europe; no, nor of either the East or West Indies, nor yet of any ship of any other part of the world, that had made... ...ad great fleets; so had the Carthaginians their colony, which is yet farther west. Toward the east the shipping of Egypt, and of Palestine, was likewi... ... inventors. There we have the statue of your Co lumbus, that discovered the West Indies, also the in ventor of ships, your monk that was the invento... ...ntors. There we have the statue of your Co lumbus, that discovered the West Indies, also the in ventor of ships, your monk that was the inventor of ...

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...onvenient in the improbable case of his not making a large fortune in the “Indies.” First, he spoke freely of his intention to start shortly for Liver... ...? Such a striking young man as he would be sure to be well received in the West Indies: in foreign countries there are always open- ings—even for cats... ...h a striking young man as he would be sure to be well received in the West Indies: in foreign countries there are always open- ings—even for cats. It ... ...e smile of the triumphant wicked. He was rid of Jacob—he was bound for the Indies, where a gullible princess awaited him. He would never steal any mor... ...II I T WA S NEARLY SIX YEARS after the departure of Mr. David Faux for the West Indies, that the vacant shop in the mar- ketplace at Grimworth was und... ...T WA S NEARLY SIX YEARS after the departure of Mr. David Faux for the West Indies, that the vacant shop in the mar- ketplace at Grimworth was understo... ...ry soon appeared that he was a re- markable young man, who had been in the West Indies, and had seen many wonders by sea and land, so that he could ch... ...fe of Sultanic self-indulgence which he had 23 George Eliot passed in the West Indies, shaking his head now and then and smiling rather bitterly, as ... ...who had become familiar with the most luxuriant and dazzling beauty in the West Indies. It may seem incredible that a con- fectioner should have ideas...

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...t as one does sorrow for Jamaica. As regards scenery she is the gem of the western trop- ics. It is impossible to conceive spots on the earth’s surfa... ... to the eye than those steep green valleys which stretch down to the south-west from the Blue Mountain peak towards the sea; and but little be- hind t... ...but little be- hind these in beauty are the rich wooded hills which in the western part of the island divide the counties of Hanover and Westmoreland.... ...ed there for three days, had fallen in love with Marian Leslie. Now in the West Indies all young ladies flirt; it is the first habit of their nature—a... ...ere for three days, had fallen in love with Marian Leslie. Now in the West Indies all young ladies flirt; it is the first habit of their nature—and fe... ...s flirt; it is the first habit of their nature—and few young ladies in the West Indies were more given to flirting, or understood the sci- ence better... ...rt; it is the first habit of their nature—and few young ladies in the West Indies were more given to flirting, or understood the sci- ence better than... ...e they will not know how thoroughly flirting is an institution in the West Indies—practised by all young ladies, and laid aside by them when they marr...

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...acquaintance had been proposing to him to go a voyage for them to the East Indies, and to China, as private traders. “And now, uncle,” says he, “if yo... ... have said, with his project of carrying me thither in his way to the East Indies. I paused a while at his words, and looking steadily at him, “What d... ... I carried a tailor, who had offered himself to go a passenger to the East Indies with my nephew, but afterwards consented to stay on our new plantati... ...was an exceeding difficulty to us, for that the ship was bound to the East Indies; and though we were driven out of our course to the westward a very ... ...und to the East Indies; and though we were driven out of our course to the westward a very great way, and perhaps were directed by Heaven on purpose f... ...t ourselves in the way of meeting with other ships homeward bound from the West Indies, and get them a passage, if possible, to England or France. The... ...ey then en- 19 Daniel Defoe treated me that as I was driven so far to the westward before I met with them, I would at least keep on the same course t... ... weather would permit: and if not, I would carry them to Martinico, in the West Indies. The wind continued fresh easterly, but the weather pretty good... ...er Adventures of Robinson Crusoe From hence we directed our course for the West Indies, steering away S. and S. by E. for about twenty days together, ...

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...ke that inspired in a young man by the fanciful pictures of women drawn by Westall for the English “Keepsakes,” and that engraved by the Findens with ... ...ens to his father’s voice as it reaches him from the grave, he will go the Indies. My brother, Charles is an upright and courageous young man; give hi... ...dy you are crying, that’s enough, child. He’s going off like a shot to the Indies. You will never see him again.” The father took his gloves from the ... ... a look, and seemed to search out her inmost thought. “Why send him to the Indies?” she said. “If he is unhappy, ought he not to stay with us? Is he n... ...late. “But what will become of my cousin Charles?” “He is going off to the West Indies by his father’s request, and he will try to make his fortune th... ... “But what will become of my cousin Charles?” “He is going off to the West Indies by his father’s request, and he will try to make his fortune there.”... ...esumed her reading. When shall I return? I do not know. The climate of the West Indies ages a European, so they say; especially a European who works h... ...iled up beside her looking- glass, that she might follow her cousin on his westward way, that she might put herself, were it ever so little, day by da... ...d the folly of marrying a woman of fashion with a fortune derived from the West India Islands. To meet the costs of Madame d’Aubrion’s extravagance, h...

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...butter, and my half-pint of coffee—at the old-established coffee-shop near Westminster Bridge; and then I go into the City—I don’t know why—and sit in... ...dent of the Society was First boy, named Bob Tarter. His father was in the West Indies, and he owned, himself, that his fa- ther was worth Millions. H... ...of the Society was First boy, named Bob Tarter. His father was in the West Indies, and he owned, himself, that his fa- ther was worth Millions. He had... ...elieved that if he stood his ground, his father—belonging as he did to the West Indies, and be- ing worth millions—could buy him off. 49 Charles Dick... ...ed that if he stood his ground, his father—belonging as he did to the West Indies, and be- ing worth millions—could buy him off. 49 Charles Dickens A... ...s he knew a good deal of the world on account of his father’s being in the West Indies. After days and days of hard thinking, and draw- ing armies all... ...knew a good deal of the world on account of his father’s being in the West Indies. After days and days of hard thinking, and draw- ing armies all over...

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...me: she was as well known to them, poor soul! as Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Rebecca had the honour to pass a few days at Chiswick; after whi... ...bin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment... ...of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment, whi... ... Osborne followed pres- ently in the same regiment. They had served in the West Indies and in Canada. Their regiment had just come home, and the attac... ...rne followed pres- ently in the same regiment. They had served in the West Indies and in Canada. Their regiment had just come home, and the attachment... ...ps of the young man! Such was the state of affairs as the carriage crossed Westminster bridge. The party was landed at the Royal Gardens in due time. ... ...a thing unless you play for it. Hang it: the regiment’s just back from the West Indies, I must have a little fling, and then when I’m married I’ll ref... ...ng unless you play for it. Hang it: the regiment’s just back from the West Indies, I must have a little fling, and then when I’m married I’ll reform; ... ...Osborne in lodgings in a county town; or, worse still, in the East or West Indies, with a society of officers, and patronized by Mrs. Major O’Dowd! Am...