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...ennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...ssociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elect... ...ight rolled off up Vaea mountain-side; back with Clarke to the Mis- sion; had a bit of lunch and consulted over a queer point of missionary policy jus... ... ingenuity, I begin it at different places; so that if you stumble on one section, you may not even then sus- pect the fulness of my labours. Accordin... ... libation, drank another, and flung the remain- der outside the house behind him. Next came the turn of the old shapeless stone marked T. It stands fo... ... great hereditary war man, came next; five times the cup-bearers marched up and down the house and passed the cup on, five times it was filled and the... ...hild, and we came to the Four Beasts that were all over eyes, the sickening ter- ror with which I was filled. If that was Heaven, what, in the name of... ...l of kava and dinner. But the impression on our minds was ex- traordinary; the sight of that picket at the ford, and those ardent, happy faces whirls ... ...like; but does any single soul understand me? Fanny is on the whole very much better. Lloyd has been under the weather, and goes for a month to the So...

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...ith the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little h...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...is more, the beautiful creature can talk.’ He wondered, for she was young, new to society. Subsequently he is rather ashamed of his wonderment, and ac... ... dislocate the intimate connexion between the tugged flaxen forelock and a title. No similar blame is incurred by Henry Wilmers. No blame whatever, on... ... abstain. She says of Romance: ‘The young who avoid that region escape the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown.’ Of Poetry: ‘Those that hav... ... any branch of us we fail in growth, there is, you are aware, an unfailing aboriginal democratic old monster that waits to pull us down; certainly the... ... on the spin when he said, ‘Who is she?’ Sir Lukin did not know. ‘She ‘s a new bird; she nodded to my wife; I’ll ask.’ He manoeuvred a few steps cleve... ...d scored, disfig- ured … a sort of barbarous Maori visage—England in a New Zealand mask. You may call it the sentimental view. In this case, I am deci...

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...ds the close of ’89. By that time gratitude and habit were beginning to attach me to the is- lands; I had gained a competency of strength; I had made ... ... By 8 In The South Seas the same step I had journeyed forth out of that comfort- able zone of kindred languages, where the curse of Babel is so easy ... ...mon to both races: common to both tongues the trick of dropping medial consonants. Here is a table of two widespread Polynesian words:— House. Love. T... ... amusements and interests, the islander, upon a hundred islands, has been recently cut off. And to this, as well as to so many others, the Samoan stil... ...without with such a mental and implicit awe, and, when examined from within, should present so many apparent evidences of design. We read in Dr. Campb... ...was suffered to approach him at his food, and for human beings he showed a full mea- sure of that toadying fondness so common in the lower animals, an... ...children liable to fits of pouting. They wore dresses by day, but there was a tendency after dark to strip these lendings and to career and squall abo...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ... dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to... ... just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of ’balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he’s sold all on ’em but one, a... ...ho, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main. But no longer snuffing in the trail of the w... ...ong the fishermen, he is in discriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; t... ...eer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but his fo...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ...ead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase t... ... just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of ‘balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he’s sold all on ‘em but one, a... ...ho, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main. But no longer snuffing in the trail of the ... ...mong the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; t... ...reme. In the British Greenland 146 Moby Dick Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but his f...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...d, “I am told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—i... ...es of outside influences—we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the imp... ...impulse—the content ing of his own spirit—and is merely a machine and en titled to no personal merit for anything he does, it is not humanly possibl... ... the Unrevealed. O.M. That is what she surely does. In all his history the aboriginal Australian never thought out a house for him self and built it.... ...y temper. Quarternions, a bird with a flat beak and no bill, living in New Zealand. Quarternions, the name given to a style of art practiced by the Ph... ...does he explain why Stephen was awarded a pleasanter death than he was en titled to, while the aged King Henry, his predecessor, who had ruled Englan...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Penn... ... fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melvil... ...father of Herman, was an importing merchant,—first in Boston, and later in New York. He was a man of much cul- ture, and was an extensive traveller fo... ...would enter into a descriptive contest with these inimi- table pictures of aboriginal life in the ‘Happy V alley.’ So great an interest has always cen... ...ville’s Marquesas Islands.’ It was issued in America with the author’s own title, ‘Typee,’ and in the outward shape of a work of fic- tion. Mr. Melvil... ... have, with the consent of his family, changed the long and cumbersome sub-title of the book, calling it a ‘Real- Romance of the South Seas,’ as best ... ...lonies of these insects, who prom- ise ere long to supplant altogether the aboriginal sand-flies. They sting, buzz, and torment, from one end of the y... ... * * There is little more to be related. T oby left this vessel at New Zealand, and after some further adventures, arrived home in less than two y...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ... of misdemeanor, and of misfortune. And those who came under the two first titles, were lodged here through all stages of their connection with public... ...e that the number of those who haunted the prison gates, with or without a title to admission, was enor- mous; all the relatives, or more properly the... ...shall apparel itself in glorious light; a third time I will plunge it into aboriginal darkness, and upon the vision of man a third time it shall rise ... ...ious savages. The natives of the Society and the Friendly Isles, or of New Zealand, and other favored spots, had, and still have, an art of cookery, t... ...de Quincey an instinct whispers that chestnuts may be roasted; or with the aboriginal Chinese of Charles Lamb’s story, to whom the experience of many ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ... both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species, this relation is often broken: as one instance of this I may m... ... same kind of peaty soil, yet can boast of few plants de- serving even the title of bushes; whilst in Tierra del Fuego it is impossible to find an acr... ...lt-lakes are inhabited by small crustaceous animals; and flamingoes (Edin. New Philos. Jour., Jan 1830) likewise frequent them. As these circum- stanc... ...red to the plant, which I have mentioned a few lines lower down, under the title of giant thistle. Whether it is a true thistle I do not know; but it ... ...mal a mass of broken land, distant from a continent, possessin so large an aboriginal quad- ruped peculiar to itself. Thei numbers have rapidly decrea... ... the steamer as paddles, and the os- trich as sails: and th Apteryz of New Zealand, as well as its gigantic extinct prototype the Deinornis, pos- sess... ... curious, and well deserves attention. Most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else; there is even a difference betwee...

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...But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll le...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life...

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.... . . . . . 1 The White Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The W... .... . . 391 The Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Told in the Drooling Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 CONTENTS ii... ...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ... * * * Fifteen minutes had barely elapsed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwe... ... of the trail, and the law. But these things had not come to him in a day. The aboriginal mind is slow to generalize, and many facts, repeated of ten... ...portuk said grimly. And Tommy made out the bill of sale, wherein all right and title in the woman El Soo was vested in the man Porportuk. El Soo signe... ...the youngsters on him. There was that bloke, Sandel. He had come over from New Zealand with a record behind him. But nobody in Australia knew anything...