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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...f the Cathayans........................................... 127 Idolatry of the Japanese................................................ 129 Fleet of t... ...mitted under any circumstances to take any gold away with them, of which these Japanese, Polo declares, possessed enormous quantities. So great, indee... ...ecipices high enough to prevent any attempt at scaling, and so abrupt in their descent, that for many miles not even the smallest wherry can find a sh... ...ck, Mansvelt sailed up the coast seeking for a proper point on which to make a descent, but everywhere the inhabitants were on their guard and present... ...eather bags containing fifty pounds of silver. These animals, sometimes called Peruvian sheep, were used among the Indians as beasts of burden, as the...

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...After researching 1,300's of natural cures and home remedies, spending months sifting through hundreds of reports and studies, and putting my findings to the test on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majority of natural...

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... first time a Naturopathic Doctor opens his vault to unveil the complete list of home remedies used by professionals Holistic Practitioners... The ... ...itioners... The God of heaven, who created us, has given us the simple things of nature for our healing. It is my prayer that this encyclopedia will... ...eases and disorders. Back in the old days, the pioneers were practical minded people. They knew how to make-do Encyclopedia of Home remedies for be... ... hundreds of reports and studies, and putting my findings to the test on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majority of ... ...cts of aging. Inhibits atrophy of thymus. 13. Maca- Lepidium meyenii Ancient Peruvian herb that increases vitality, strength and stamina. Invigorat... ...to have fewer apocrine sweat glands, such as older adults and people of Asian descent. Poor hygiene, of course, is another reason unpleasant smells ... ...ree days to aid in balancing the acidity/alkalinity of your system. Umeboshi (Japanese salt plum) can quickly balance the body's pH. These are avail... ...rowth of testes, testosterone levels. 8. Maca-Lepidium meyenii • Traditional Peruvian aphrodisiac and cure for impotence, infertility. • Increases ... ...s should be used preventively, rather than during acute attacks. 8. Use the Japanese beverage lisymachia or kinsenso tea, available from Japanese g...

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... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...nguillan(s); adjec- tive Anguillan Ethnic divisions: mainly of black African descent Beligion: Anglican, Methodist, and Catho- lic Language: English (... ...ian(s); adjec- tive Brazilian Ethnic divisions: Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, black, Amerindian; 55% white, 38% mixed, 6% black, 1% other Rel... ... 122,124,293 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 0.55% Nationality: noun Japanese (sing., pi.); adjective Japanese Ethnic divisions: 99.4% Japanes... ...20,739,218 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 2.54% Nationality: noun Peruvian(s); adjec- tive Peruvian 195 Peru (continued) Ethnic divisions:... ... (1985 presidential elec- tion) 48% APRA, 23% IU, 14% PPC, 5% AP Communists: Peruvian Communist Party- Unity (PCP-U), pro-Soviet, 2,000; other minor C...

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...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to... ...ph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lanter... ...a Rip-Van-Winkle fancy we have entertained, all the unfamiliarities of our descent from the mountain pass gather together into one fullness of convict... ...ts avenues on either side, ran in a bold curve, and with one great loop of descent, down the opposite side of the valley, and below crossed again on a... ...tle difficult to understand. He says I am one of the samurai, which sounds Japanese, “but you will be degraded,” he says, with a gesture almost of des... ...Chinese, the *The T rue-born Englishman. 200 A Modern Utopia Hindoos, the Peruvians, and all uncivilised people are repre- sented as the inferior rac...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...e woman was a savage, said they, and spoke no language. ‘Mais, vous savez,’ objected the fair sentimentalist; ‘Ils apprennent si vite l’Anglais!’ But ... ...t only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered. These points of similari... ... early opportunity to explain his situation. True, he was only an appointed chief when I beheld him; but somewhere else, perhaps upon some other isle,... ...see a building so antique still bright with novelty. The architect, a French lay brother, still alive and well, and meditating fresh foundations, must... ...e enter- tained me with a tale of one of his colleagues, Kekela, a missionary in the great cannibal isle of Hiva-oa. It appears that shortly after a k... ...ember. So, in the above story, the son was to pay the penalty for his father; so Mr. Whalon, the mate of an American whaler, was to bleed and be eaten... ...idalgo-like, and accept- ing salutations with a haughty lip. The hair (with the dan- dies of either sex) is worn turban-wise in a frizzled bush; and l...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

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... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ... moving and delightful, it does not matter whether it is as “trivial” as a Japanese print of insects seen closely between grass stems, or as spacious ... ...the further view of Etruria and Hanley had dropped out of sight with their descent. Before them, by the stile, rose a notice-board, bearing, still dim... ...Plattner began to clamber down the precipitous de- scent towards them. The descent was long and exceedingly tedious, being so not only by the extraord... ...s into its equable meadows; and thither indeed men came, a family or so of Peruvian half-breeds fleeing from the lust and tyranny of an evil Spanish r...

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...nt craft in your day, for aught I know; — square toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter box galliots, and what not; but take my word for it,... ...ef mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seeme... ...is called the Seychelle ground in the Indian ocean, or V olcano Bay on the Japanese Coast; yet it did not follow, that were the Pequod to visit either... ...oss. Probably the mother during an important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes caused the beach to gape. Over this lip, a... ...rink before the brackish fluid, but yesterday rafted off in casks, from the Peruvian or Indian streams. Hence it is, that, while other ships may have g...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s room,...

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ...f lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsenti- mental people so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaint... ...inct, a little loss of animal tough- ness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our u... ... his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and look- ing absolutely ... ...that a friend with whom he was talking of the self-control attained by the Japanese through their practice of the Buddhist discipline said:— “‘You mus... ...,’ said I, ‘is that possible?’ ‘Yes,’ replied he; ‘it is pos- sible to the Japanese, and ought to be possible to us.’ “On my way back I could think of... ...he Byss and the Abyss, and the eternal generation of the holy Trinity, the descent and original of the world and of all creatures through the divine w...