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...tionals they?ve contributed reflect all aspects of the writing life: basic motivation, rejection, publishing and succeeding. Spend some time with the writers you love and discover what words they write by. www.robinbayne.com...

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...Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.” “Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,... ...n years ago. Since then I’ve written my life story, which was displayed in a women’s magazine in 2003 and is currently featured on several web sites; ... ...he Message used: “like a custom- made piece of jewelry.” I’m one of the rare women who does not particularly like or wear much jewelry. But, those pie... ... with God. 109 But the main thrust of Wilson’s message targeted the men and women who don’t have a tribe, whose spouses, families, or friends don’t s... ... to my life, share my dreams, and give my Divine Muse all the credit. Like a native storyteller, I spread word of publishing triumphs and conference k... ...a writer of devotions, personal essays and Christian fiction, is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, past president of the local chapter, ... ...cluding the Middletown Journal and Journal News (daily newspapers), Bassics, American Songwriter, CCM Magazine, HM Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Living... ...atures for magazines such as Shenandoah Living, Health Quest, Smart Cooking, Native People Magazine and she is currently working on a fiction book. Cy... ...ung Ladies Christian Fellowship (www.ylcf.org). 176 Donna (D.H.) Parker , a native of the Missouri Ozarks, writes family-rated fiction. She and her ...

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...oot above his clustered knees and place it gingerly between two bursting bags. Moustachioed women wipe milky exudation from upper lips with blotted ... ...on and expostulates. "It's not reasonable, your decision. Today, you never know. Even their women are into killing, I saw it with my own eyes in Leb... ...re's a flood of casualties. Our injured. Our corpses. Your injured. Your corpses. Children, women, shreds, all full of blood…" – She pauses – "Why d... ...ught along the spraying waves and the caressing breeze, a gift to Uzi, and a reminder. The native kids just followed us, their eyes azure, their ski... ... friends and recounted some futile anecdotes. The ceremony held by the municipality in the Writers Hall was open to the public. I said to Nomi: "... ...e" – Dani is soft-spoken even when his words are not. That evening, Nomi and I went to the Writers' Hall. A woman with anorectic eyes compared our ... ...ary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel (1978). Hundreds of professio...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ... him rice and Korean pizza and the father who wanted to introduce him to his native country by teaching him the sounds of Korean letters were glad to ... ...xperiences of their petty and selfish lives to compare others with. In Japan women who left their children locked up in hot cars were rarely accused o... ... was reading for the most part. He wished that his family had taught him his native language. Here he often felt like a handicapped moron. If he were ... ...He had hardly looked at them lustfully while in America. Occasionally Korean women also got his attention but not as much as American women. He had tr... ... and off they went to his hotel room. What was it? A strong yearning for his native land and the man he might have been had he not been replanted in A... ... out with a baby in his arms. He wore an undershirt and boxer underwear. The women cooked. Then, after they served Sang Huin a second helping of kimch...

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...n greater than the joys and challenges of parenthood. The liberation of women around the world has allowed them to run from their homes and compet... ...ulation. The attempt at eugenics was aimed at getting the highly educated women, those who were having fewer children, to become 5 multiple moth... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...vel workers that are being popped out of the willing wombs of Third World women. For Japan it is a godsend as a way of substituting for the unborn wo... ...wish to keep their populations as ethnically pure as possible while their native populations are reducing and their perceived economic needs are inc... ...o our part to reduce world population. So while we lament the loss of our natives, we were never ethnically pure. Like Singapore we were Chinese, Ind... ...e regions will call it genocide. But aren‟t you worried about losing your native population?” —“Certainly we are saddened by the state of the...

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...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...r is unethical, but this war is ethical. Abortion is unethical, denying a women‘s freedom to control her own body and her own pregnancy is similarly ... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...icans have one of the highest abortion rates in the world at 51 per 1,000 women of child bearing age. Why are they saying one thing while doing some... ...w how true it is but I‘ve read in the popular press that 70% of Brazilian women use artificial contraception.‖ --―Father, I was lecturing in... ...Did Moses actually exist? Could he write? If he wrote did he write in his native tongue of Egyptian? If he wrote in Egyptian did he write the Pentat... ...e gods or goddesses, such as gods of the harvest, hunt, or war. ―The native Americans in North America were generally pantheistic, while the Sou... ...special interest groups, like oil companies, farmers, unions and even the Native Americans. We admit that large campaign contributions can make the ...

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.... If Adler said we need to overcome our feelings of inferiority, we can find ample evidence of that need in the West. But is it true among the native... ...d name the organ 14 several inches lower as the path to a man‘s heart. Women ... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...part of the power package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was chided for dating beautiful women ... ...s true from mice to men. Get your power through politics, money, beauty or celebrity and you‘ll get enough sex!‖ —―Generally true, Con. Women ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ... pointing out that people can feel and act for their country in a positive way. Immigrants often love their adopted country far more than the native... ..., for example, Bretons, Basques, Walsers, Cornishmen, Eskimos and many other ethnic groups take pride in their ethnicity. In North America the Native...

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... were fixed on how soon he could get a car and get his own place, what the women would be like at his school, and whether he would get laid. He had pl... ... summer job at The Toronto Star. It is amazing there – I get to see famous writers all the time. When the presses are going it’s like thunder rumbling... ...erstand the connection between the ac- tions of two demented criminals and Americans in general, but it didn’t occur to her to challenge Roger’s wisdo... ... rocate as a hostess. One day, she noticed the sidelong, pitying looks the women exchanged when she spoke, and realized they knew she was making thing... ...b, and even her expected book revenue. “We won’t count on that,” he said. “Writers don’t make much, in my experience. We’ll get what we can out of him... ... as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to Toront... ...ith the cat and mouse games that so CHAPTER 9 49 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE many women played, and he liked Lacey’s quick, open response. ON SATURDAY a limo... ...dding writ- ers and sometimes worked there herself, reveling in the imagi- native minds of the young people. Jake and Lacey’s children became close fr... ...r Conrad Black was guilty, what Tony Blair would do in retirement, whether Americans would ever elect an African-American president, and on and on, wi...

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...ove by D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHA... ... at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced young people, anybody who is openly ... ...y syllable distinctly. She looked at the cover, to verify herself. ‘An old American edition,’ said Birkin. ‘Ha!—of course—translated from the French,’... ...y. There was about him a curious, and almost godlike air of simplicity and native directness. He reminded her of an ap- parition, the young Hermes. ‘B... ...iked the West Afri- can wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of me- chanical motion i...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...only for one time be as unconscious of the eyes upon them as blind men and women are, what secrets would come out, and what a worker of hypocrisy this... ...ms, seated, calmly, and quite as a matter of course, among a throng of mad women, black and white, were the physician’s wife and another lady, with a ... ...ng them (if any) who had not acquired the art within the prison gates. The women, all in one large room, were employed in making light clothing, for N... ...venge themselves upon the decent old restraints of home), they surpass any native specimens that came within my range of observation: and I often grew... ...rospect, we took possession of our new quarters with much pleasure. If the native packets I have already described be un American Notes – Dickens 16... ...ter of this river while we were upon it. It is considered wholesome by the natives, and is something more opaque than gruel. I have seen wa ter like ...

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...of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his ... ...idence to style it), and of abusing the female sex. I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among themselves; for some of the... ... while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curios ity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they c... ...e. I took all possible methods to cultivate this favourable disposition. The natives came, by de grees, to be less apprehensive of any danger from me... ... and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of concupis... ...iged to dress themselves, al though their quality be ever so great; and the women attendant, who are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform on... ... he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in En gland do at the sight of a toad or a spider. However, when s... ...; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound. However, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised... ...ies I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a f...

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...re 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 harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...ty in England, where (in company) the men are the pointed talkers, and the women conversationally fair Circassians. They are, or they know that they s... ...ion, unbuttoned, and a laugher. We know that he could be chivalrous toward women, notwithstanding the per- plexities he brought on them, and this the ... ... is faced, and that is all. The position is one of the battles incident to women, their hardest. It asks for more than justice from men, for generosit... ...encourage it?—or only when presented by dead hands? Worse than that alter- native dirty drab, your recurring rose-pink is rebuked by hid- eous revelat... ...tic satisfaction on hearing that the faces most admired by him were of the native isle. He looked upon one that came whirling up to him on a young off... ...vanishing before him. He shouted; he hoped to obtain directions from these natives: the moon was bright, the gravestones legible; but no answer came b... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...that class of per- sons—since, greatly improved through the agency of good women. 5 Charles Dickens POSTSCRIPT AT A PUBLIC DINNER given to me on Satu... ...ing quite impossible that any differ- ence of opinion can take place among women without every woman who is within hearing taking active part in it, t... ...ect to; it’s the ways of this chap. Nothing’s good enough for him; all the women is dying for him he thinks, and is overpaid if he winks at ‘em; and a... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...of stout, bottles of wine, bottles of ale, and divers other strong drinks, native and foreign. All this was highly agreeable to the two Miss Pecksniff... ...ge name in my ears, believe me. In some cases I could name to you, where a native writer has ventured on the most 260 Martin Chuzzlewit harmless and ... ...st people who travel, have become more than ever attached to your home and native country,’ said Martin, eyeing him curiously. ‘To my home—yes,’ rejoi...

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...e generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his c...

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...ges whom tradition told about; and here, mixed up with successive crops of native born Ameri cans, had been ministers, captains, matrons, virgins goo... ...tematic inquiry in reference to his previous life, his education, even his native land—assisted the impression which his peculiarities were calculated... ...ies were calculated to make. He was evi dently not a New Englander, nor a native of any part of these Western shores. His speech was apt to be oddly ... ...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ...t of every window in those dusky , mean wooden houses were thrust heads of women old and young; forth out of every door and other avenue, and as if th... ...t my business in life does not lie with grown up and consolidated men and women; and so, not to be useless in my day, and to gain the little that my ... ...nd had all the man ners and pre eminently uncriticisable tenets proper to women at her early age. She had made respectable advancement in study; that...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate...

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...ndness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chanc... ...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...frica, with a view to the general cultivation of the coffee berry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of ou... ...fifty to two hundred healthy families cultivating coffee and educating the natives of Borrioboola Gha, on the left bank of the Niger.” As Ada said no... ...he told us a great deal that was interesting about Borrioboola Gha and the natives, and received so many letters that Richard, who sat by her, saw fou... ... ment to a silver tea pot. They took a multitude of titles. They were the Women of England, the Daughters of Brit 103 Bleak House – Vol. One ain, t... ...little pond like a large dirt pie. At the doors and win dows some men and women lounged or prowled about, and took little notice of us except to laug... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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...ndness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chanc... ...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...frica, with a view to the general cultivation of the coffee berry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of ou... ...fifty to two hundred healthy families cultivating coffee and educating the natives of Borrioboola Gha, on the left bank of the Niger.” As Ada said no... ...he told us a great deal that was interesting about Borrioboola Gha and the natives, and received so many letters that Richard, who sat by her, saw fou... ... ment to a silver tea pot. They took a multitude of titles. They were the Women of England, the Daughters of Brit 103 Bleak House – Dickens ain, th... ...little pond like a large dirt pie. At the doors and win dows some men and women lounged or prowled about, and took little notice of us except to laug... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...sidents I found none who spoke of their city with affec- tion. The men and women of Boston think that the sun shines nowhere else; and Boston Common i... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...ut of 1500 men, one-half had gone to fight the Southern battles! Among the women of Alexandria seces- sion would have found but few opponents. It was ... ...than his Northern brother; and this difference is quite as strong with the women as with the men. It may therefore be understood that secession would ... ...ians than can that of the Havana to the men of Cuba, or of Calcutta to the natives of India. It has been a repetition of the old story, told over and ... ...use the white man could not work under the tropical heats, and because the native Indian would not work. The latter people has been, or soon will be, ... ...are his virtues. Dirt, dis- honesty, and morning drinks are his vices. All native American women are intelligent. It seems to be their birthright. In ...

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...story EIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE IN SAMOA CHAPTER I – THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE T HE STORY I HAVE TO TELL is still going on as I write; the characte... ...y mails and telegraphs and iron warships, the ideas and the manners of the native actors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, churc... ...nfluence; but it is limited. Impor- tant matters are debated in a fono, or native parliament, with its feasting and parade, its endless speeches and p... ...he skirmishers will be exchanging the useless volleys of barbaric warfare. Women are also respected; they are not fired upon; and they are suffered to... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ed by guards in uniform; smiling policemen with their pewter stars; girls, women, crowds of cheerful children. And he will have asked himself with som... ... squalor of degradation. They are now unspeak- ably improved, both men and women. T o-day they must be called a more than fairly respectable populatio... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America...

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...evolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of men and women of great distinction who were his progenitors; and had witnessed the ... ...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...heir Discovery – Forests of North America – Prairies -Wandering T ribes of Natives – Their out- ward appearance, manners, and language – T races of an... ...streams issuing from the mountains fall from all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The India... ...are equal and free. At the period when Europeans first came among them the natives of North America were ignorant of the value of riches, and indiffer... ...ve to many of them.” The emigrants were about 150 in number, including the women and the children. Their object was to plant a colony on the shores of... ...as taken. This feeling pervades the most trifling habits of life; even the women frequently attend public meetings and listen to political harangues a...

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...ture, had we but known it, were a mark of the passage of whites; and we might have approached a hundred islands and not found their parallel. It was l... ...contained two men: one white, one brown and tattooed across the face with bands of blue, both in immaculate white European clothes: the resident trade... ... a mighty fine ship,’ said he, ‘to have no money on board!’ I own I was inspired with sensible repugnance; even with alarm. The ship was mani- festly ... ...e) was full of timid cautions; and as for the trader, whose presence might else have reas- sured me, were not whites in the Pacific the usual instigat... ...epeating mirrors of the tiny cabin, brought us a hundred visitors. The men fathomed out her dimensions with their arms, as their fathers fathomed out ... ...the cooked bread- fruit fills the air, and perhaps the lamp glints already be- tween the pillars and the house, you shall behold them si- lently assem... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i...

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...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ...l and Home Library, as ‘ A Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life... ...mmo- dious harbour which there is in one of the islands; but a fear of the natives, founded on the recollection of the dreadful fate which many white ... ...lands from heathenism. The usage they have in every case received from the natives has been such as to intimidate the boldest of their number. Ellis, ... ...urning home, toiling and sweat- ing, with a bundle of it, under which most women would have sunk. T o tell the truth, Kory-Kory’s mother was the only ... ...in the valley. In this secluded abode of happiness there were no cross old women, no cruel step-dames, no withered spinsters, no lovesick maidens, no ... ...ining hills, and then a burst of voices in the same direction. At this the women who had congregated in the groves, set up the most violent clamours, ...