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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...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... ...ality of this people was limitless, for besides supplying the crew with fowls, cocoanuts, and many vegetable productions, the men and women came in pr... ... sugar in powder and enclosed in sacks; of oranges, and last but not least, of cocoanuts, or ghost-nuts, as they called them, "cocoa" being a Portugue... ...ell again, deriving more strength from the palm wine than from the fish, yams, cocoanuts, bananas and other dainties which they purchased from the isl... ...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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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt i... ...ing horses, they became incredibly warlike. So did the North American plains Indians. War is usually a manifestation of accumulated power. Regardl... ...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...ult ability and can control the ball with their racquets enough to beat other players who have wasted most of their lives trying to win… Competiti... ...ecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of their life t... ...aking them scapegoats… putting all of their cultural shame onto the American Indians and using this psychological projection as an excuse to do ever... ... many people would eat chocolate if they knew that nearly one half of all the cocoa in the world is produced by plantations that use children as sla... ...not supposed to be guilty of any wrongdoing. If you buy chocolate, made from cocoa grown on the Gold Coast in Africa picked by child slaves… you ca... ...on buying chocolate without a single feeling of being responsible for letting cocoa plantations profit from child labor. What’s more. All of the ...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...hed. Apple fritters were decided upon, with sausage on the side, and Dutch cocoa for all. Morgan sliced the apples and watched the patchwork of ge... ... sausages tempted with their aroma and delivered on their promise. And the cocoa was rich and chocolaty and cooled to just the right temperature. ... ...ght temperature. “To the victor go the spoils.” Daniel brought his mug of cocoa to clink against his son’s. With an elaborate wink, he slurped th... ...play?” “Oh, my time in the game was very brief. But I was one of the best players of all.” “My God. Does Daniel know?” “I told you,” York said... ...old you,” York said with a grim smile. “He knew all the rules. And all the players.” “And he tolerated that betrayal? He didn’t blame you? Or He... ...ee the full sweep of the spectacle, the stage filled with patriots and fake Indians, the theater packed with row upon row of rapt faces, every eye t...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...from centuries earlier in other lands, with herbal formulas borrowed from the Indians. Since then, even more has been discovered about physiology an... ...r (soups, vegetables, bottled meat sauces, gravies, flavoring syrups, sauces, cocoa mixes. 11. Only eat homemade desserts. 12. Frozen, fresh, or ca... ...dividuals who do repetitive hand and wrist movements, such as typists, tennis players, grocery store clerks, and the like. It is most common in women... ...ium stones from forming, avoid dairy products, meats, beet greens, black tea, cocoa, cranberries, nuts, parsley, pepper, spinach, Swiss chard, and es...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...water from the “butt.” His 32 Omoo draughts were mixed on the capstan, in cocoa-nut shells marked with the patients’ names. Like shore doctors, he di... ...few bread-fruit trees in any part of the Pomotu group. In many places the cocoa-nut even does not grow; though, in others, it largely flourishes. Con... ...tion still less, the natives are hired to dive after them. A great deal of cocoa-nut oil is also obtained in various places. Some of the uninhabited i... ...bly he had seen the herds of panniered mules driven in this way by mounted Indians along the great Callao to Lima. The boat at last loaded, the Yankee... ...or myself, I made san- dals from a bullock’s hide, such as are worn by the Indians in California. They are made in a minute; the sole, rudely fash- io... ...cushion when the next king went to be crowned. But it was not as strolling players, nor as footmen out of employ, that the doctor and myself looked fo...

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Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...h their boats and canoes all full of oranges and limes and grape-fruit and cocoanuts. Doesn’t one’s mouth fairly water for them?” “Do please sit down,... ...t goes on four legs but a pig! What do you eat, then, besides pig?” “Yams, cocoa-nut, fish—oh, so good, and put pig into hole among hot stones, make a... ...of puppy dog, and another of kit- tens, and bird’s-nest soup; and then the players will come and act part of the nine-night tragedy, and we will look ... ...thought of Arabs with their tents and horses, and Leonidas told her of Red Indians with their war-paint, and little Negroes dancing round the sugar-bo...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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... ...up about a dozen hairs and binding them firmly with grass or fine twine of cocoa-nut fibre plastered with coral lime. As the hair grows, the binding i... ...ught for him from Auckland, we went into his house, gazing with delight at cocoanut trees, bananas, breadfruit trees, citrons, lemons, taro, &c., with... ...wattle plastered with coral lime, the roof thatched with the leaves of the cocoa-nut and pandana; the fences of the garden were made of cane, prettily... ...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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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

By: Honoré de Balzac

... the Indies. Now, isn’t it much better to supply a French prod- uct to the Indians than to send them back what they are supposed to send to us? Make t... ...x seemed good and obliging. He played at boston without complaining of the players; he laughed at the things which make a bourgeois laugh; talked of w... ...ning to druggists: lavender, oil of almonds, sweet and bitter, orange oil, cocoa-nut oil, castor oil, and others.” “My dear friend,” said the illustri... ... seated himself in an armchair near the bookshelves. He looked at the card-players, listened to the conversations, and went to the doorway every now a... ...on three thousand francs. The day began to dawn, the wax lights paled, the players joined the dancers for a last quadrille. In such houses the final s...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... at Bethesda Chapel, Liverpool, on behalf of the mission for the Chickasaw Indians. Was it not a charming evening? At ten the servants were told to ca... .... Didn’t he shoot Captain Marker? Didn’t he rob young Lord Dovedale at the Cocoa-Tree? Didn’t he cross the fight between Bill Soames and the Cheshire ... ...y? He’s adored in his regiment; and all the young men at Wattier’s and the Cocoa-Tree swear by him.” When Miss Rebecca Sharp wrote to her beloved frie... ...ncies he can play at billiards,” said he. “I won two hundred of him at the Cocoa-Tree. He play, the young flat! He’d have played for anything that day... ...s flushed: the great game of war was going to be played, and he one of the players. What a fierce excite- ment of doubt, hope, and pleasure! What trem... ...e Oriental Club, where he spent his mornings in the company of his brother Indians, where he dined, or whence he brought home men to dine. Amelia had ... ...d flannel petticoats for the Quashyboos—cotton night-caps for the Cocoanut Indians—painted handscreens for the conversion of the Pope and the Jews—sat...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...oko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained cala- bash like a punchbowl; and this punchb... ...ill no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Dev... ...at wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau, with breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths, were sent round with the ... ...more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say... ... milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be que... ...hing the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, 254 Moby Dick and in due time ... ...uld be used, and no man must speak but in whispers. So seated like Ontario Indians on the gunwales of the boats, we swiftly but silently paddled along... ...h would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and comfortably seat all the players. Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow toot...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...oko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbow... ...l no doubt remember, was the name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Dev... ...at wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau, with breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths, were sent round with the ... ...more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say... ... milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be que... ...hing the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the roots of the cocoa nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due time arrived at Tahi... ...uld be used, and no man must speak but in whispers. So seated like Ontario Indians on the gunwales of the boats, we swiftly but silently paddled along... ...would accommo date a couple of whist tables, and comfortably seat all the players. Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow toot...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...mer who had been giving a small order at the little saddler’s, and the groom from the great house, and the publican, and even The Uncommercial Travel... ...n’t know, possibly they do, that Down by the Docks is the road to the Pacific Ocean, with its lovely islands, where the savage girls plait flowers, an... ...sed man, and to detect the hold of some savage customs on conditions of society rather boastful of being high above them. I wonder, is the Medicine Ma... ...re belief. Let me halt on my Uncommercial road, to throw a pass- ing glance on some funeral solemnities that I have seen where The Uncommercial Trave... ...icoats and butting their ridiculous Charles Dickens 276 wigs at Mr. Speaker? Yet there are authorities innumerable to tell me—as there are authoritie...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...r which Bennett Hall is celebrated and the remarkable dietary of nocturnal cocoa, cakes and soft biscuits with which the girls have supple- mented it,... ... journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a priest or so, here a clump of old-fashioned Protestants, he... .... Next them are a group of anglicised Germans and highly specialised chess-players, and then two of the oddest- looking persons—bulging with documents... ...olicy is to arrest any dis- cussion, any conferences that would enable the Indians to work out a tolerable scheme of the future for themselves. But th...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...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... ...y seemed to have slowly ripened for our especial use. Bread and sugar, and cocoa boiled in river wa ter, made our repast, and as we had drank in the ... ...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... ..., 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. ... ...which we were to behold, and wondered which way the towns lay from us. Our cocoa was soon boiled, and supper set upon our chest, and we lengthened out... ....” I then lived some where to tell of. Such is Commerce, which shakes the cocoa nut and bread fruit tree in the remotest isle, and sooner or later d...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...uite agile. It was not until after that dreadful siege of our house by the Indians, which left me a widow ere I was a mother, that my dear mother’s he... ...his youth:— ”Were your father, Madam,” he said, “to go into the woods, the Indians would elect him Sachem;” and his lordship was pleased to call me Po... ...ad stared at the player woman who acted the wicked tragedy-queen, when the players came down to Ealing Fair. She sat in a great chair by the fire-corn... ...of this past trial as an initiation before entering into life—as our young Indians undergo tortures si- lently before they pass to the rank of warrior... ...bottles he had had the honor to drink over-night with Mr. St. John at the “Cocoa-Tree,” or at the “Garter” with Mr. Walpole and Mr. Steele. Mistress B...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...ut together. It is remarkable, that neither the ancient Egyptians, nor the Indians, nor the Chinese, encouraged foreign commerce, but seem all to have... ... employment of them as the means of subsistence. The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. are founded upon those two prin... ...rofessions; church- men, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labo... ...nts near thirty years ago. Quito, which had been but a miserable hamlet of Indians, is represented by the same author as in his time equally populous.... ...end, that the Spanish creoles are in many respects superior to the ancient Indians. After the settlements of the Spaniards, that of the Portuguese in ... ...are not produced in the mother country. Of this kind are molasses, coffee, cocoa-nuts, tobacco, pimento, ginger, whalefins, raw silk, cotton, wool, be... ...me of the productions of America and the West Indies, sugar, rum, tobacco, cocoa-nuts, etc. and in some of those of the East Indies, tea, coffee, chin...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...- jection to the introduction of that threatening expression. Even the two players at dominoes glanced up from their game, as if to protest against ph... ...ere used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, some- thing about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, ... ...ng mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, could only go and be Indians, I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we c... ... I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we can’t be Indians, unfortunately—Good morning!’ They came down-stairs with powder bef... ...d of him? Did anybody ever find boiled mutton and caper-sauce growing in a cocoa-nut?’ None of the Bleeding Hearts ever had, it was clear from the ala...

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