...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...PACE COLORED PLATES, DRAWN ESPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK BY AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS. PUBLISHED AND MANUFACTURED BY HISTORICAL ... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ...h exquisite manner that they vastly surpassed the best workmanship of European artists; and besides these, a Spanish helmet, which had been sent to Mo... ...me for British commerce. Besides the crews there were scientists, naturalists, artists, astronomers, and the young man, Omai, whom Captain Furneaux ha... ... Here he came to anchor in a cove which he called Hope Bay, in the vicinity of Vancouver Island, and directly after saw a dozen natives on the shore, ... ...ion that it was the eagerly soughtfor passage was not unnatural, as the Bay of Vancouver, into which it leads, is sufficiently large to justify the b...

...e stairs. ‘I wouldn’t touch him with a pair of tongs!’ ‘Who?’ said a voice from the bedroom. ‘Why, that tramper who has just been in to buy a loaf! He... ...nder you did not find of him up here! The police ought to hinder such folk from com- ing into decent people’s shops! There, you may see him now!’ ‘Is ... ...lothes aren’t good enough for a scarecrow—and the dirt, you can’t see that from here, but you might sow radishes in it!’ ‘Oh, he’s swinging on the rai... ...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 ... ...and life, wins a strange value, especially if the work of the great master-artists of many years ago. And even the painter Murillo himself, though he ...

...GOODNESS! If ever I did see such a pig!? said Ellen King, as she mounted the stairs. ?I wouldn?t touch him with a pair of tongs!? ?Who?? said a voice from the bedroom. ?Why, that tramper who has just been in to buy a loaf! He is a perfect pig, I declare! I only wonder you did not find of him up here! The police ought to hinder such folk from coming into decent people?s sho...

...WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a ... ...e bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ... ...everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwark... ... liciting their services. Numbers at once flocked to the royal abode, both artists and sitters. It was a famous time; and the buildings of the palace ... ...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...

...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...er were both descended, on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. ... ...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... ...f a song tattooed upon his chest, and a variety of spirited cuts by native artists in other parts of his body. He sported a fishing rod in his hand, a...

...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...e has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men of war now peacefu... ...life time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers. Often, adventures which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted unworthy of bein... ...t ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might...

...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came to town, gave them cigars, addressed them by their f... ...ift-books”—large, expensive editions of fairy-tales illustrated by English artists and as yet un- read by any Babbitt save Tinka. In a corner by the f... ... 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... ...es, gosh, we got to have some boob for au- dience, when a bunch of hot-air artists like Frink and Littlefield get going.” “Well, dear—I meant to speak...

... Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my... ...o him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady as- sistance. Both to Capta... ...ollected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his g... ...ident. When thus em- ployed, their forms resemble the symbol by which many artists represent marine birds. Their tails are much used in steering their... ... 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...