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...ights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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...THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO THE SEA AND THE OBSTACLES WHICH STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGE... ...MPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Centur... ...Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commer... ... human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great p... ...ers........................................ 64 Zichmni landing on the shore of Labrador................................. 66 Trireme of India............. ...Bjarue, continued sail, and on his return passed the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, and at last made land at the port in Greenland. While it is i... ...est evidence obtainable is favorable to the claim that he reached the coast of Labrador; though this would have been hardly possible in a two weeks' s... ...o well to the description of that upon which Zichmni is said to have landed as Labrador, and certainly in no wise answers to that of Greenland. It see... ...nds islands, and every stream of water, however small, was to them a river. In Labrador there are several rivers, and three of considerable size, whil...

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...a la obra de Sarmiento. Hay una acción solapada pero permanente contra ellas, sea en forma de cobardes atentados contra sus monumentos, intentando, ... ...de se ejerce la soberanía de nuestras leyes y de los poderes administradores. Sea, pues, esta obra, testimonio de un esfuerzo intelectual que, más a... ...a la obra de Sarmiento. Hay una acción solapada pero permanente contra ellas, sea en forma de cobardes atentados contra sus monumentos, sea intentan... ...a política que hace el que contraria la voluntad de don Juan Manuel de Rosas, sea por eso calificado de traidor a la patria...”; y en La Crónica del... ...ente a cualquier propósito centralizador, y la movilidad social y política, o sea la conversión del Estado colonial en todo lo que concernía a la li... ...e grandes desgracias, hacía de aquellos parajes una Siberia o una tierra del Labrador, inhospitalaria para el hombre blanco. Yo prometí a Mebon lo...

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...riend, her family and house her rewards in this life she has made across the sea. A British citizen of many years, yet still the voice betrays an acce... ... seas, on a trip across the Baltic with friends from school, thrown into the sea, all possessions gone, but Swedish rescuers arrive in time, fishing h... ...ge bonds. A successful career at an end, retiring to a spacious house by the sea with Peggy, his wife, and Jasper, the dog, a wonderful, lovable Labra... ...e by the sea with Peggy, his wife, and Jasper, the dog, a wonderful, lovable Labrador, to lead a life of leisure, worry-free, for there are no childre...

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...laying third, iiiiido several pretty stops and Coutinnod on page 4. BARREN LABRADOR TROY CONCERT Lecture by Dr. Grenfell on a Little- Kncwn Land iJeta... ...tious witticisms, which showed in part that even a region of hardship like Labrador, is by no means Vje- reft of the bright side of life. Dr. Grenfell... ...ty years ago to act 88 medical missionary among the fishermen in the North Sea, pur- suing this vocation by cruising among them. He soon left this wor... ...hem. He soon left this work, however, and restricted his field to only the Labrador coast. Here his work lay mostly among English-speaking fishermen, ... ...nevitably be accimiplished. The first evil which Dr, (irenfell attacked in Labrador was the saloon. This he claimed to be the source and cause of most... ...hormen's produce, and allow him to buy what he wants himself. The coast of Labrador ooi^ti- Continued on page 5. Next Musical Clubs at Troy Wednesday ... ...ea," will bo ilhistraterl with actual missionary experiences in tjie south sea islands. MONDAY, APRIL 8 p, m,—Triaf.s for iuterclass de biite, 'Techui... ...n ice-jams and the many other natural causes for in- jury in a life on the sea. His mission meetings he leads him- self whenever he is present, but in... ...h- ards, Taylor, Westbrook, Wood. AMONG THE CANNIBALS Missions in theSouth Sea Described by Dr. Pratt The fifth of Dr. Pratt's series of lectures on "...

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...e in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening ...

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... as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but ... ...t our ocean steamer was in sight. There she lay in mid-river, at the T ail of the Bank, her sea-signal flying: a wall of bulwark, a street of white de... ...editerranean, so there is a free or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. They catch a twang in a New England Port; from a cock... ...n’s place of birth. So it was with Mr. Jones. I thought him a Scotsman who had been long to sea; and yet he was from Wales, and had been most of his l... ...ile their elders were still ceremoniously manoeuvring on the outskirts of acquaintance. The sea, the ship, and the seamen were soon as familiar as hom... ...he sleigh bells, and you shall fancy yourself in some untrodden northern territory—Lapland, Labrador, or Alaska. Or, possibly, you arise very early in...

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... viathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” —Isaiah “And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of thi... ...ottomless gulf of his paunch.” —Holland’ s Plutarch’ s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whal... ...ns of land.” —Holland’ s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, ... ... towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian. “The True History.” “He visi... ...this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gud- geon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps.” — Monta... ...and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador. They had just landed from their boat, and this was the first hous... ...ver, never mind of how long stand- ing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island. The liquor soon mounted ... ...d would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador. As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten one, t...

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...eviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” Isaiah. “And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of thi... ...e bottomless gulf of his paunch.” Holland’s Plutarch’s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whale... ...pens of land.” Holland’s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, ... ... towards us, open mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” Tooke’s Lucian. Extracts 5 “The True History.... ...this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps.” MONTAINGE... ...and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador. They had just landed from their boat, and this was the first house... ...soever, never mind of how longstanding, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice island. The liquor soon mounted ... ...d would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador. As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten one, t...

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...I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old sea-faring men Came to me now and then, With their sagas of the seas. – Lon... ...pling he opened his eyes, he perceived that he was still on the top of the sea, for it was running round him in silver- coloured hills, and he was lyi... ...r.” With a swift jerk he sculled the flickering boat-head on to a foamless sea that lifted her twenty full feet, only to slide her into a glassy pit b... ...us quarter-deck. The swell had passed in the night, leav- ing a long, oily sea, dotted round the horizon with the sails of a dozen fishing-boats. Betw... ...more’n covered our dunnage to now .” “Where are the fish, though?” “In the sea they say , in the boats we pray ,” said Dan, quoting a fisherman’ s pro... ..., Harvey’ s ears tingled at the comments on his rowing. Every dialect from Labrador to Long Island, with Por- tuguese, Neapolitan, Lingua Franca, Fren...

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...did it 4 Chance with considerable energy and then turned to us. “If we at sea,” he declared, “went about our work as people ashore high and low go ab... ...iness on shore would ever arrive into port.” Since he had retired from the sea he had been astonished to discover that the educated people were not mu... ...om this point the conversation took a special turn relating exclusively to sea-life. On that subject he got quickly in touch with Marlow who in his ti... ...bject he got quickly in touch with Marlow who in his time had followed the sea. They kept up a lively exchange of reminiscences while I listened. They... ...ood ships, with no care in the world but not to lose a watch below when at sea and not a moment’s time in going ashore after work hours when in harbou... ...tastic schemes: a harbour and docks on the coast of Patagonia, quarries in Labrador—such like specula- tions. Fisheries to feed a canning Factory on t... ...owing millions of other people’s thrift into the Lone V alley Railway, the Labrador Docks, the Spotted Leopard Copper Mine, and other gro- tesque spec...

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...he gap it made seemed to close as quickly over his memory as the murderous sea above his living frame. Hereafter men will lament that his tran- scende... ... principal occupation. At night, when the unclouded moon shone on the calm sea, he often went alone in his little shallop to the rocky caves that bord... ...avourable wind, and I remained awaiting his return by the breakers of that sea which was about to engulf him. He spent a week at Pisa, employed in kin... ...leasures and of his fate, to return to us. We waited for them in vain; the sea by its rest- less moaning seemed to desire to inform us of what we woul... ... 25 Shelley rounding villages, and our immediate vicinity to the troubled sea, combined to imbue with strange horror our days of un- certainty. The t... ...Where the first wave had more than half erased The track of deer on desert Labrador; Whilst the wolf, from which they fled amazed, ‘Leaves his stamp v...

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... and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-works, and a great, ugly sea of workmen’s houses, and then drainage, and the water van- ished out of... ...pshots still survive to record that incident. His assistant struggles in a sea of aggressive young men carrying note-books or upholding cameras and we... ... dis- carded when that gentleman had thought he must needs plunge into the sea. Bert bawled out half angry, half rueful, “Y ou might have said you wer... ...n the white wrapper of a Desert Dervish, was running along the edge of the sea. Mr. Butteridge was knee-deep in the water, bawling im- mensely. The la... ...eet grappled air-fleet, cities blazed and men died in multi- tudes; but in Labrador one might have dreamt that, except for a little noise of hammering... ...don, sir?” asked Bert. “Heaven knows ….” He said no more for a time. “This Labrador seems a quiet place,” he resumed at last. “I’m half a mind to stay... ...rld-war had lasted two weeks—by the time, that is, that mast was rigged in Labrador—there was not a city or town in the world outside China, however f... ...wireless telegraphy long before the Zeppelin had located his encampment in Labrador. By his direction the German air- fleet, whose advance scouts had ... ...r- der to land the wounded and take aboard explosives; for she had come to Labrador with her magazines empty, it being uncertain what weight she might...

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...things that make and pass, striving upon a hidden mission, out to the open sea. To Frederick Soddy’s INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM This story, which owes l... ...and carved wood, made pottery, paddled down his river until he came to the sea, discovered the wheel and made the first roads. But his chief activity ... ...tine and the field,’ thought Holsten, ‘there have also been wonder and the sea.’ He turned his head and looked up over the back of the seat at the gre... ...and the gradual cleansing of the Lon- don atmosphere as the smoke-creating sea-coal fires gave place to electric heating. The building of laboratories... ...the crowing of cocks…. The sky above the indistinct horizons of this cloud sea was at first starry and then paler with a light that crept from north t... ...ended to a small difficulty in connection with the Moravian schools in the Labrador country and in Greenland that Gar- dener knew would interest him. ...

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...Hengist and dumpy Horsa, quitting ledger and coronet, might recur to their sea bowlegs and red-stubble chins, might take to their tarpau- lins again; ... ...ale on the voluptuous indolence of a man drawn along by Nereids over sunny sea- waves to behold the birth of the Foam-Goddess? ‘ According to Carling,... ...n and the earth of the works of man, speaking a grander tongue than barren sea or wood or wilderness. Just a moment; it goes; as, when a well-attuned ... ...said of little Nesta once, that she had a nature pure and sparkling as mid-sea foam. Happy he who wins her! But she was one of the young women who are... ...n the great wave surgent at her eyes. Victor was like a swimmer in morning sea amid the excla- mations encircling him. He led through the straight pas... ...aws Mr. Semhians aside. Blushing over his white necktie, like the coast of Labrador at the transient wink of its Jack-in-the-box Apollo, Mr. Semhians ...

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...RIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause..............................13 Eidolons....................................

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..........9 As I Ponder’d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin’d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands............................... ...................253 A Broadway Pageant.........................253 BOOK XIX. SEA DRIFT ................257 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking .......... ................274 Patroling Barnegat............................276 After the Sea Ship.............................277 BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE ..278 A... ...............461 That Music Always Round Me..........461 What Ship Puzzled at Sea..................462 A Noiseless Patient Spider.................462 O... .......522 Election Day, November, 1884..........526 With Husky Haughty Lips, O Sea!.....527 Death of General Grant.....................528 Red Jacket (F... ...e inner passes of the woods, In vain the razor bill’d auk sails far north to Labrador, I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cl...

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......................................................... 122 THE GIFT OF THE SEA .......................................................................... ............................................................... 164 The Deep-Sea Cables ................................................................... ..................................................................... 227 THE SEA-WIFE ..................................................................... ...t Windsor, It’s safest to let ‘er alone: For ‘er sentries we stand by the sea an’ the land Wherever the bugles are blown. (Poor beggars! — an’ d... ...L ALA A A A AY Y Y Y Y By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ eastward to the sea, There’s a Burma girl a-settin’, and I know she thinks o’ me; For the w... ...e guards the Redskin’s dry reserve. His easy unswept hearth he lends From Labrador to Guadeloupe; Till, elbowed out by sloven friends, He camps, at ...

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...s, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some sea- son or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical inc... ...rtant part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical sea- sons of extreme cold or drought, I believe to be the most effective of... ...-water basins, taken together, make a small area compared with that of the sea or of the land; and, consequently, the competition between fresh-water ... ...the coast. So with insects, Wollaston is convinced that residence near the sea affects their colours. Moquin- Tandon gives a list of plants which when... ...colours. Moquin- Tandon gives a list of plants which when growing near the sea-shore have their leaves in some degree fleshy, though not elsewhere fle... ...Mountains, in the United States of America, are all the same with those of Labrador, and nearly all the same, as we hear from Asa Gray, with those on ... ...llied to the plants of northern Scandinavia; those of the United States to Labrador; those of the mountains of Siberia to the arctic regions of that c...

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...ver Design: Jim Manis; Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) 1518 94: Christ at the Sea of Galilee Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania State University The Penns... ...Which in different places are part absorbed by the earth, Part reach the sea, and being received within the plain Of its freer waters, beat the sh... ...and now going off with a clatter and a whistling like riggers straight for Labrador, flying against the stiff gale with reefed wings, or else circling... ...is, that as an arrowe, clere Through T roy rennest, aie downward to the sea”;— and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much ab... ... Human life is to him very much like a river, “renning aie downward to the sea.” This was his observation. His honor made a great discovery in bailmen... ... least minnow that lies on the ice as bait for pickerel, looks like a huge sea fish cast up on the shore. In the waters of this town there are about a...

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...f barbed wire or construct a trench to defy shrapnel. Suppose in the North Sea we got a surprise like that, and fished out a parboiled, half-drowned a... ...ger shelter and degenerate behind these blue backs. And the keenest men at sea are none the worse for having keen men on land behind them. Are we an a... ...ng I flew. I spent about ten or fifteen minutes in the air; we went out to sea, soared up, came back over the land, circled higher, planed steeply dow... ...d, above all, wouldn’t the pitching and toss- ing make them quite horribly sea-sick? I have always been a little haunted by that last dread. It gave a... ...ff for the first time down an ice run. I thought I should very probably be sea-sick—or, to be more 12 An Englishman Looks at the World precise, air-s... ...pon the New Zealand sheep farm, to the young Hindu, to the trapper under a Labrador tilt, to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the se...

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...stern, to prevent the boat from being wrecked, as a helmsman in the roughest sea. The philosophy of our progress was something like this: when the run... ...this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea monsters, — how all history, indeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mer... ... Ktaadn is 5,300 feet, or a little more than one mile above the level of the sea, — and he adds, “It is then evidently the highest point in the State ... ...eached the larger lakes, and detain us; for a moderate wind produces quite a sea on these waters, in which a batteau will not live for a moment; and o... ...n the eastern part of Massachusetts, grew abundantly between the rails, — as Labrador tea, Kalmia glauca, Canada blueberry (which was still in fruit, ... ...ain herb which grew in low ground, which he did not find there, and Ledum, or Labrador tea, which I have since found and tried in Concord; also hemlock... ...hite throated sparrow rang loud and clear. There grew the side saddle flower, Labrador tea, Kalmia glauca, and, what was new to me, the Low Birch (Betu... ..., spruce like, but we found it to be the Pinus Banksiana, — “Banks’s, or the Labrador Pine,” also called Scrub Pine, Gray Pine, &c., a new tree to us.... ...s: some willows, Kalmia glauca (pale laurel), Ledum latifolium and palustre (Labrador tea), Ribes lacustre (swamp gooseberry), and in one place Betula...

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... always to destroy movement. It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their m... ...pe of striking his shoulder and overthrowing him. Mackenzie hounds, Eskimo and Labrador dogs, huskies and Malemutes — all tried it on him, and all fai... ...ing at each other. And then, just as suddenly, like the sun rising on a stormy sea, they would begin to laugh. This would always culminate with the ma...