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...ttle with the natives -- Conversions to Catholicism -- A terrible slaughter of Indians -- Indian maidens distributed among the Spaniards 185- 193 CHAP... ...STORY OF THE BUCCANEERS. A black chapter in history. -- Plunder and torture of Indians -- Applying live coals to the feet of a Mexican King -- Origin ... ...w Zealand -- Tasman's ship surrounded by hostile New Zealanders -- Murdered by Indians -- A desperate fight in the sea -- Discovery of other islands n... ...e -- Female wrestlers and boxers -- An extraordinary dance -- A band of bamboo players -- The female dancers punished for a false step 469- 480 CHAPTE... ...lted by a goat........................................ 450 Procession of flute-players............................................. 451 Feast of the R... ...the sailor an eclipse is a dire portent of evil; a meteor is a lucky omen; the Aurora Borealis is a certain forerunner, of disaster. A moaning sound f... ...ad. The presence of electrical lights at the mast-heads, the brilliancy of the Aurora Borealis, the appearance of peculiar mists, the resonance of the... ...ing of the 22d, two islands were discovered, one of which received the name of Aurora, from the early hour in which it was first seen, while to the ot... ...al for the collection of a crowd, and when a circle of auditors was formed the players began, their selections consisting of improvised songs with occ...

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...advantages, which in his former warres hee had obtained of them. Certaine Indians did likewise carry the bones of one of their Captaines in the skir... ...andement. And in those places where the Portugales abated the pride of the Indians, they found some states observing this universall and inviolalile ... ...es die in the very instant that you die. Nam nox nulla diem, neque noctem aurora sequuta est, Que non audierit mistus vagitibus ægris Ploratus, mor... ...med her-selfe to live upon spiders: and now in the new-found world of the Indians, there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing clim... ... of injustice that refuse good and honest Comedians, or (as we call them) Players, to enter our good townes, and grudge the common people such publi... ... in drinking. Enterludes and commedies, rejoyce and make us merry, but to players they are tedious and tastelesse. Which to prove, we see it is a de... ...nner of silke, of scarlet, or any goldsmiths worke, except only Enterlude- players, Harlots, and Curtizans. With such an invention did Zeleucus whilom...

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...silence—not even hostility! The game was up to 21 Kipling them; the other players hid their cards and waited. Sus- pense, she felt, was in the air, a... ...spondents espondents espondents espondents espondents VIGILANS—The Laws of Auroral Derangements are still imperfectly understood. Any overheated motor... ...plaints have reached us of accidents similar to yours while shoot- ing the Aurora that we are inclined to believe with Lavalle that the upper strata o... ... that we are inclined to believe with Lavalle that the upper strata of the Aurora Borealis are practically one big electric “leak,” and that the paral... ...st in “Sprue.” Another time the place was full of schoolboys—sons of Anglo-Indians whom the Infant had collected for the holidays, and they nearly bro... ...ut of the drive, and the air was gay with the merry outcries of the tennis players. As twilight drew on they all went away, and I was left alone with ...

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...as well enough to be reckoned on as a substitute in case any of the actual players had been disabled. Possibly his accident was good for his studies, ... ...ion; who had, moreover, strong opinions derived from experience of the Red Indians in Upper Canada—namely, that to reclaim the young, and educate them... ...o the part previously visited, nor was there time to do more than touch at Aurora, and exchange some fish-hooks for some bows. At Malicolo, in 1851, t... ...ween Mallicolo and Espiritu Santo to the west; Aspee, Ambrym, Whitsuntide, Aurora to the east), where for eighty miles the water is always smooth, the... ... ‘Now let me tell you about an island called Ambrym, lying to the south of Aurora and Pentecost, the two northernmost islands of the New Hebrides grou... ...l probability, sought to impose an English line of thought and religion on Indians and Africans. Even English dress was thought to be almost essential...

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... stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in... ...d by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with the Indians, and the cattle-rustlers once came galloping before hell-for-leathe... ...y gossiped sometimes squatted on their heels on the sidewalk, like resting Indians, and reflectively spat over the curb. She found beauty in the child... ...some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had painted sc... ..., and rattled away. The small boy and his sister ate grass and sighed. The players pretended to be exhilarated by practising service, but they startle... ... me for a light, and we got to talking, and come to find out, he came from Aurora, and when he found out I came from Minnesota he asked me if I knew D...

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... strain to be found in the books of all ages. What is Guido’s Rospigliosi Aurora but a morn- ing thought, as the horses in it are only a morning clou... ... sembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars. The in- violate spirit turns their spite aga... ...“union” of Plotinus, the vi- sion of Porphyry, the conversion of Paul, the aurora of Behmen, the convulsions of George Fox and his Quakers, the illumi... ...ogrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisher- ies, our Negroes and Indians, our boats and our repudia- tions, the wrath of rogues and the pusi... ...ther for nooks and secrets. The imagination delights in the wood- craft of Indians, trappers, and bee-hunters. We fancy that we are strangers, and not... ...e is a less troublesome game, and not a misunderstanding rises between the players. Man- ners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments and br... ...e of wood-craft, and I suppose that such a gazet- teer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous dr... ...the means of insight? For though gamesters say that the cards beat all the players, though they were never so skilful, yet in the contest we are now c... ...ey were never so skilful, yet in the contest we are now consider- ing, the players are also the game, and share the power of the cards. If you critici...

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...t appears to have been properly named Musketaquid, or Meadow River, by the Indians. For the most part, it creeps through broad meadows, adorned with s... ... Shad, and Alewives were formerly abundant here, and taken in weirs by the Indians, who taught this method to the whites, by whom they were used as fo... ...k there, you would go there again.” C HANNING. “The Indians tell us of a beautiful River lying far to the south, which they cal... ... the surface of the water. It was a quiet Sunday morning, with more of the auroral rosy and white than of the yellow light in it, as if it dated from ... ...nd, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the 47 HenryDavidThoreau sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the ... ..., that “all the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it. ... ...ng white barley and corn, Standing by the chariots, awaited fair throned Aurora.” The “white armed goddess Juno,” sent by the Father of gods and men...

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.... The Wisdom of the Trail 4 S ITKA CHARLEY had achieved the impossible. Other Indians might have known as much of the wisdom of the trail as did he; ... ... the pre cious match box with its attendant strips of dry birch bark. The two Indians fell sullenly to the task of gathering dead branches and underw... ...it was not his desire to endure no more. His deepening anxiety vanished as two Indians dragged into view round a bend in the river. They staggered and... ... So many an unsung wanderer fought his last and died under the cold fire of the aurora, as did his brothers in burning sands and reeking jungles, and a... ...h his wife and her women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants, and his high ch...

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...e, and other their neighbours, all stiff drinkers, brave fellows, and good players at the kyles. The good man Grangousier took great pleasure in their... ...ith the ball was over or under the line. The waters are the heats that the players take till they sweat again. The cords of the rackets are made of th... ...ar as unto Mount Caucasus, passed along the Scythians, the Massagetes, the Indians, and sailed 242 Gargantua & Pantagruel over the great river Phison... ...r confessor, without default. And therein am I willing to be judged by the players. He had no sooner spoke these words than the works of Virgil were b... ...nsed than by the flames thereof consumed or changed. Therefore, Arabians, Indians, Sabaeans, Sing not, in hymns and Io Paeans, Your incense, myrrh,... ...mission to better judgments, that this course was perhaps steered by those Indians who sailed to Germany, and were honourably received by the King of ... ...d-hearted Sappho run wild, grow young again, for Venus’s use; so Tithon by Aurora’s means; so Aeson by Medea, and Jason also, who, if you’ll believe P...

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...nd steps of virgin liberty’ you might have supposed her some Hebe or young Aurora of the dawn. When you saw only her superb figure, and its promise of... ...niary difference to Urquiza. Thus stood matters, when a party of strolling players strolled into Paita. Kate, as a Spaniard, being one held of the Pai... ...r all, that did most to serve our Kate, was Kate. War was then raging with Indians, both from Chili and Peru. Kate had always done her duty in action;... ...cities, on bright moonless nights, when some brilliant skirmishings of the Aurora are exhibiting, or even a luminous arch, which is a broad ribbon of ... ...ed in a book that there was such a thing, or could be such a thing, as the Aurora Borealis; and in fact Halley had the credit of discovering it. 218 ...