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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... ...he landing at Ulna harbor -- Founding of Vera Cruz -- An interview between the Indian governor and Cortez -- Stories of incredible wealth -- Presentat... ...conceivable perfidy -- Twenty girls and as many boys demanded for sacrifice -- Indian maidens become wives to the Spaniards -- Destruction of the idol... ...than 313 feet square. A Catholic chapel now crowns the summit of this enormous mound, the sides of which are covered with grass and trees. The terribl... ...Port Desire in December, 1615, with a fleet of two vessels, and finding an old cemetery opened several of the graves and removed therefrom many skelet... ..., one of the group, in company with some of his crew, he came upon a morai, or cemetery, in which he observed a corpse lying upon a low scaffold with ...

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...s Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a m... ... accompanied it. Life and death...old friends, old enemies. My face is a cemetery. Gossips said that Mona was my mistress. We were friends. In th... ...n old notebook, one of those I used to keep in Italy: A stone lay on a mound where an attractive woodland shaded it. Herbs and flowers of many co... ...ou! Worms crawled out of the earth. Caesar, beware! Whenever I passed our cemetery I smelled new, raw earth—as terrifying as the death smell. ’Sbloo... ...ragonflies, my line thrown as far as I could throw it. Sitting on a mossy mound, I heard the warblers and lark spell morning into warm sun. Thirty-... ... smoked on the long watches. It settles the blood and calms the mind. The Indians...” “We know about the Indians,” Jonson said. “Just remember, we’r... ...he town of San José; I hear him telling about the treachery of the Tarawa Indians; his terrible thirst when his ship ran out of water at sea; he is ... ... We buried her among currant bushes, in the wind, in the sun. I left the cemetery to wander through hungry woodlands, woodlands I never saw again, ...

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...prompted Morgan to come to clean this room this morning. She found his desk mounded with papers, and stacks of correspondence lining the windowsill.... ...volio in Twelfth Night in a company set to tour through Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana startin’ in one week. Do you think he’s up to it?” Smothering... ... all these months behind the wardrobe in Helene’s old room. “This is the cemetery scene where Nell passes the stolen documents to Adam, her patrio... ... drawings. “Boston Harbor. Our little hellion, Nell, has dressed up as an Indian and joined the rebel colonists for their tea party. As they make ... ... over again. But why? Morgan slept in his arms, naked, trusting, the tiny mound of her belly whispering the secret she refused to speak. He lay h... ...ss that he’s got to think of, Danno. I heard she was promised a part as an Indian maiden if he threw in over there,” Cully Barnes said as Butler wal... ...o this to me.” Morgan knotted her hands and pressed them against the small mound of her stomach. “If he could help it.” There was a pounding at t...

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...and veer off the main road through adobe hamlets, and cacti and past Mexican Indians. When he woke from his epiphany he wasn't sure what to do with it... ... at Chuck's home (so she was told), these smaller, much greener, and dirtier mounds were a scanty mixture of dried leaves with freshly mowed weeds, sp... ...us. The ensuing days were of seeing the bones of 400 monks at the Cappuchin Cemetery, going to the ancient Pantheon temple of the gods with its open ... ...al intrigued her. He was no more dangerous than a child running around in an Indian costume and brandishing his rubber blade. "Go on. No need to be ba... ... her sanity. Being with that same man 24 hours a day at a Kentucky Derby, an Indianapolis 500 or other non-Parmenidetian activity that was paradise to... ... red, turned right, and moved up a steep hill until she was at a Confederate cemetery; and that there on a gravel road in the thickets of Elm trees, h... ...endors had been throwing out orange peels for a long period of time. He saw mounds of dirt and trash that were in this street. Guillermo turned to a ...

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... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ... procreative cloning, regardless of how safe it is. Therapeutic cloning - with its mounds of discarded fetuses - will allow rogue scientists to cro... ...ern day libraries. Compare this utopia to the current dystopy. Users struggle with mounds of irrelevant material to finally reach a partial and dis... ...ok of the future. G. The Archive Function The Internet is also the world's biggest cemetery: tens of thousands of deadbeat sites, still accessible ... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi...

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... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ... procreative cloning, regardless of how safe it is. Therapeutic cloning - with its mounds of discarded fetuses - will allow rogue scientists to cro... ...ern day libraries. Compare this utopia to the current dystopy. Users struggle with mounds of irrelevant material to finally reach a partial and dis... ...ok of the future. G. The Archive Function The Internet is also the world's biggest cemetery: tens of thousands of deadbeat sites, still accessible ... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi...

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...imself to light a candle. The match flickers for a moment, and shows great mounds of dusty rags upon the ground; then dies away and leaves a denser da... ... and presently comes back, shading a flaring taper with his hand. Then the mounds of rags are seen to be astir, and rise slowly up, and the floor is c... ...and chari ties of every sort and kind. In the suburbs there is a spacious cemetery: unfinished yet, but every day im proving. The saddest tomb I saw... ... and recross with dishes in their hands; two great dogs are playing upon a mound of loose bricks in the centre of the little square; a pig is turning ... ...eive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impuls... ...lls, is a valley known as ‘Bloody Run, ’ from a terrible conflict with the Indians which once occurred there. It is a good place for such a struggle, ... ..., the first settler here (afterwards buried under it), was tied by hostile Indians, with his funeral pile about him, when he was saved by the timely a...

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...hile I was getting ashore, demanding of all things in the world news about Indian journalism. It is an awful thing to enter a new land with a new lie ... ...rests us,” he said. “Have you got reporters anything like our reporters on Indian newspapers?” “We have not,” I said, and suppressed the “thank God” r... ...certain of it, why, then—I waited developments. “And what did you think of Indiana when you came through?” was the next question. It revealed the myst... ...ken; anon, where the black- berries grew rankest, we found a lonely little cemetery, the wooden rails all awry and the pitiful, stumpy head-stones nod... ...d who are exhibited to visitors under pretty and fanciful names. The first mound that I encountered belonged to a goblin who was splashing in his tub....

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...ng country stretched away upon all sides. Locust trees and a single field of Indian corn gave it a foreign grace and interest; but the contours of the... ...n, in the horror and isolation of a plague. Old, red Manhattan lies, like an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below anglified New York. The nam... ...hemselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; th... ...re has outlived all things, and lies dustily slum- bering in the plain – the cemetery of itself. The great road remains to testify of its former bustl... ...childishness of man’s imagination. His life from without may seem but a rude mound of mud; there will be some golden chamber at the heart of it, in wh...

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...of meeting, and Sego, or Sago, the ordinary term of salutation used by the Indians of this region. There is a tradition which says that the neighborin... ...ngthen their alliances, and which refers the name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, howev... ...ffice of a smoke-house. In 1779 an expedition was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of th... ...f logs and brush, which before had been only traced by long lines of white mounds, that ran across the valley and up the mountains, peeped out from th... ...e feelings of nature, he turned to renew his en treaties, but saw that the cemetery was occupied only by himself and his wife. “He is gone!” cried Eff...

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...on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the Spaniards were robbing, slaughtering, enslaving... ...anoe, and startled him; and reasonably enough, for he had been warned by the Indians that he was on a foolhardy journey, and even a fatal one, for the... ...t yet, when one stumbles on it in print. They had been warned that the river Indians were as ferocious and pitiless as the river demon, and destroyed ... ...just as it grew, and, therefore, perfect in its charm. Everything about this cemetery suggests the hand of the national Government. The Government’s w... ...The battered remnant of the marble monument has been removed to the National Cemetery. On the road, a quarter of a mile townward, an aged col ored ma... ...chitecturally graceful and shapely; they face the walks and driveways of the cemetery; and when one moves through the midst of a thousand or so of the... ...ed. In fact a grave yard, Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 329 if the mounds were above water, would be appreciated. The river here is known on... ...ver. T roy, or a portion of it, is situated on and around three large Indian mounds, circular in shape, which rise above the present wa ter about twe... ...nd are about two hundred yards apart. The houses are all built between these mounds, and hence are all flooded to a depth of eighteen inches on their ...

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...hem with dismal gardens of dry cracked earth, where a few reedy sprouts of Indian corn seemed to be the chief cultivation, and which were guarded by h... ...ith a mother to bewail his loss, another we buried in the dismal lazaretto cemetery. * * * ONE IS BOUND to look at this, too, as a part of our journey... ...m Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from ships in the harbour, and yellow old Indians returning from Bundelcund, should think proper to be enthusiastic a... ...vils are now cured and forgotten. This is written off the leaden flats and mounds which they call the Troad. It is stern justice alone which pro- noun... ...the coast of Troy was in sight, and the tomb of Achilles— a dismal-looking mound that rises in a low dreary barren shore—less lively and not more pict... ...been cultivation here two thousand years ago. The mountains, or huge stony mounds environing this rough 102 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand... ...’clock bell rings. Sixty people sit down to a quasi- French banquet:thirty Indian officers in moustaches and jack- ets; ten civilians in ditto and spe...

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...es water is brought down the mountains in bamboo pipes, perforated for the sake of sweetness. With the Highland comparison in my mind, I was struck to... ... that of the living, and the dead multiply and the living dwindle at so swift a rate. Conceive how the remnant huddles about the embers of the fire of... ...In front and beyond, a strip of green down 49 Robert Louis Stevenson loses itself in a low wood of many species of acacia; and deep in the wood a rui... ...s chief adornment. He was naturally ignorant of English history, so that I had much of news to communicate. The story of Gordon I told him in full, an... ...ead of yachts in the Sunday papers, and being fired with the desire to see one. Captain Chase, they called him, an old whaler-man, thickset and white-... ...y’s ride, for instance, we encountered a petty chief, who in- quired (of course) where we were going, and suggested by way of amendment. ‘Why do you n... ... other shells are white like lime, or faintly tinted with a little pink, the palest possible display; many of them dead besides, and badly rolled. On ... ...ees of life on a pleasure party. On the morning of 17th September the sufferer died, and, 131 Robert Louis Stevenson time pressing, he was buried the... ...d as the sun was setting, he found himself by the grave alone. It was not yet dark, rather the hour of the afterglow, when he was aware of a snow-whit...

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...decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” “There is the... ... portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans. The Pacific Ocean extends fro... ...d in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean. It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time ... ...h a pickaxe that he took from his belt. I understood all! This glade was a cemetery, this hole a tomb, this oblong object the body of the man who had ... ...en filled in with the rubbish taken from the ground, which formed a slight mound. When this was done, Captain Nemo and his men rose; then, approaching... ...?” “Yes, M. Aronnax.” “And he rests now, near his companions, in the coral cemetery?” 133 Jules Verne “Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us. We ... ...is hands, he tried in vain to suppress a sob. Then he added: “Our peaceful cemetery is there, some hundred feet below the surface of the waves.” “Your...

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... walls may remain almost complete; but else where may be only a shapeless mound, cumbrous with its very strength, and overgrown, through long years o... ...ghs, with Ellery Channing; after talking with Thoreau about pine trees and Indian relics in his hermitage at Walden; after growing fastidious by sympa... ... would have af fected me with the same pleasure as when I used to pick up Indian arrow heads in the field near the Old Manse. But, one idle and rainy... ...orations which the white men used to contrive in order to take the eyes of Indians—I happened to place it on my breast. It seemed to me—the reader may... ...arliest practical necessi ties to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with t...

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... of it was held in her hand. On the upper part of the arm, a device of Our Lord on the Cross, with stars surrounding the head of the Cross, and one la... ...ers who had recently come home from India. There were men of Havelock’s among them; there were men who had been in many of the great battles of the C... ...have in my iron safe, nearly four hun- dred pounds of theirs; the agents have nearly a hundred The Uncommercial Traveller 75 pounds more and many of ... ...landsmen, with loose papers, and with pens and inkstands, pervade it; and the general appearance of things is as if the late Mr. Amazon’s funeral had ... ...ws. As I stand peeping in through the iron gates and rails, I can peel the rusty metal off, like bark from an old tree. The illegible tombstones are a... ...nt to Charon for his boat, the man (aged about thirty) plies his task. The machine would make a regulation oar while the man wipes his forehead. The m... ...se at once gentle, disinterested, and de- termined, my friend—Mr. Kindheart—obtained access to the mourner, and undertook to arrange the burial. There... ...gation of a garden, the unintelligible Upholsterer, admiring. It matters little now. Coaches of all colours are alike to poor Kindheart, and he rests ...

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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... ... etching: lustrous slide of ice, snow in the crevices of a boggy bank, the mound of a muskrat house, reeds in thin black lines, arches of frosty grass... ...ble; shad- ows from immense cumulus clouds were forever sliding across low mounds; and the sky was wider and loftier and more resolutely blue than the... ... skimming the lake, instantly vanishing. They drove home under the sunset. Mounds of straw, and wheat-stacks like bee-hives, stood out in startling ro... ...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... ...hamp Perry, in his rusty forage-cap, along the spring-powdered road to the cemetery. She met Guy; she found that she had nothing to say to him. Her he... ..., talking to himself, trying to avoid observation, creeping at last to the cemetery. Once Carol followed him and found the coarse, tobacco-stained, un...

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...make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells. I have often wondered since why he should have carried about... ...hem mountings for the fear of Benjamin Gunn. Ah! And there’s the cetemery”—cemetery, he must have meant. “You see the mounds? I come here and prayed, ... .... Ah! And there’s the cetemery”—cemetery, he must have meant. “You see the mounds? I come here and prayed, nows and thens, when I thought maybe a Sund... ...ars to have taken effect. In a moment, the four pirates had swarmed up the mound and were upon us. The head of Job Anderson, the boatswain, appeared a... ...and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half- bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive...

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...hese wild pets of nature dreaded him no more in his buoyant life than if a mound of soil and grass and flowers had long since cov- ered his dead body,... ...ch. As they went out, the sacristan stopped them, and proposed to show the cemetery of the convent, where the deceased members of the fraternity are l... ..., as well as the sculptor, would gladly have escaped a visit to the famous cemetery of the Cappuccini. But Miriam’s nerves were strained to such a pit... ...w her companion along with her, whispering encouragement as they went. The cemetery is beneath the church, but entirely above ground, and lighted by a... ...ds; there, too, were fields of every kind of grain, among which, waved the Indian corn, putting Kenyon in mind of the fondly remembered acres of his f... ... converted into rustic habitations, from the windows of which hang ears of Indian corn. At a door, that has been broken through the massive stonework ... ...t, and crush you down as with the heaped- up marble and granite, the earth-mounds, and multitudi- nous bricks of its material decay. It might be suppo... ...nt tomb. As they stand now, these structures are immensely high and broken mounds of conglomerated brick, stone, pebbles, and earth, all molten by tim...

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...ombstone, the two children 4 were in the daily habit of using the dismal cemetery as their play ground. In their graver moods they spelled out the ... ...nd seek among the slate and marble, and tumbled laugh ing over the grassy mounds which were too eminent for the short legs to bestride. On the whole,... ..., except for the convenience of its position close to the seldom disturbed cemetery, was hardly worthy to be haunted. As I remember it, (and for aught... ...s with some of the shipmasters of the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this... ...nah set before him, preparing it, it might be, with a sympathy of her East Indian part towards him. Well, Doctor Grimshawe easily got at what seemed t... ...have been little more than a boy. A wild fellow this, I doubt.” “It was an Indian bullet,” said the patient, still fancying himself gone astray into t... ... to desire a monument of any kind, but were content to let their low earth mounds subside into the level, where their memory had waxed so faint that n... ...ll do this, and so much time, at least, had elapsed since the first little mound was piled up in the virgin soil. Old tombs there were too, with numer...