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... Audrey Blankenhagen 24 recovered,’ replied Helen confidently, glad that she had specialised in tropical diseases. Her next test was a young blond... ...books about this vast black continent, so much of which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the peo... ...to the remote Afghan mountains to barter for her husband’s life is truly in the spirit of our own Flora MacDonald. Lassie, you had us all worried si... ...len, at her wit’s end, remembered Dr. Patel at the clinic. The Parsi physician had specialised in tropical diseases and poisoning from snake bites a...

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...exquisite scarlet robins, and the pretty goldfinches. The rich Tasmanian flora Having a temperate climate and good rains in mountainous ar... ...e some allergy. Cinnamon Cinnamon is the herb of seduction. It only grows in tropical area but you can buy it anywhere. It is very good to trea... ...nd vitamins A and C. It is better fresh. Pepper Though pepper mainly grows in tropical regions, you can buy any kinds of pepper anywhere. Pepper... ...iotics are side effects; they cause yeast infections and destroy the intestinal flora. Fortunately, the following preparation contains natural ant...

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...rious bombardment -- An expedition against Panama -- Forcing a way through the tropical growth of Central America -- Storming a fortress -- An act of ... ...uries. -- An expedition up Chagres River -- 1200 men exposed to the dangers of tropical floods and starvation -- Perils encountered from alligators --... ...mals in shallow graves -- A dance with Samoyed girls -- Into an unknown sea -- Tropical birds in the Arctic region -- Some strange facts -- Remarkable... ... many kinds, such as are generally to be found only in the high temperature of tropical countries; so that the rude and savage peoples of Greenland, s... ... are three images of the same vessel, two in the water and one in the air. The tropical seas are full of optical wonders. The Arctic Region abounds wi... ...of Captain Markham is chiefly interesting from the observations he made on the flora and fauna of that region. THE OVERLAND JOURNEY OF SCHWATKA. Vario...

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...LE Australia is an island continent, the driest and most ancient land. Her flora and fauna have adapted to low rainfall. Likewise her native people, w... ...lia there are contrasting regions. The dramatic wet and dry seasons of the tropical north, the temperate southern woodlands and grassy tablelands, for... ...e creation myth of the Wunambal and related tribes in the Kimberley in the tropical northwest of Western Australia, while demonstrating some regional ... ...g is united with the physical world. Creation is on a grander scale in the tropical Kimberley myth of the Wunambal than in the desert myth of Jarapiri... ...ol- ic combination as are Ungud and Walanganda. In both places, desert and tropical, Aborigines identify with 152. For fuller accounts of the painting...

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...H MiniHter and the Church's Croud'' William Mansfield Clark ' 'Joiichim of Flora" Oeorge Burwell Dutton 'The Old Tentament as Literature" CharleH BoII... ...may they see tbe error of their ways! To begin with the prose. "Joachim of Flora." the Graves prize essay, has a subject oi-iasaer interest, away "fro... ...isible, our in- terest would be heightened. Why didn't we get a glimpse of Flora? "Death Mountain" embodies many elements of the ideal short story. We... ...ay they see the errc^ of their ways'. To begin with lis prose, "Joachim of Flora," tl* Graves prize essay, has a subjer of lesser interest, away from ... ...visible, our in terest would be heightened. Wh; didn't we get a glimpse of Flora? "Death Mountain" embodie many elements of the ideal shor story. We d... ...n Central America, along the west coast of South America, and in extensive tropical regions of the eastern hemisphere. Fossil re- mains of the flaming... ...then- set out to find another oolony and on the way was caught in a severe tropical storm, in which 6 inches of rain fell in three hours, and when he ... ...f its aquatic representatives. To the interested throng which enduretl the tropical climate of the tank-room there was furnished pniple evidence that ...

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...ving the Gulf of Bengal, where it is warmed by the perpendicular rays of a tropical sun, crosses 69 Jules Verne the Straits of Malacca along the coas... ...forest seemed covered with sharp blocks, difficult to avoid. The submarine flora struck me as being very perfect, and richer even than it would have b... ...ing very perfect, and richer even than it would have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where these productions are not so plentiful. But for some ... ...nimals for plants; and who would not have been mistaken? The fauna and the flora are too closely allied in this submarine world. These plants are self... ..., and ferns. But, without noticing all these beautiful specimens of Papuan flora, the Canadian abandoned the agreeable for the useful. He discovered a... ... search for eatable vegetables, and one of the most useful products of the tropical zones fur- nished us with precious food that we missed on board. I... ...n the evening, before that fleeting twi- light which binds night to day in tropical zones, Conseil and I were astonished by a curious spectacle. It wa... ...At six o’clock it became suddenly daylight, with that rapidity peculiar to tropical regions, which know neither dawn nor twilight. The solar rays pier... ...resque heap of rocks and carpeted with all the thick warp of the submarine flora. At first it seemed very dark to me. The solar rays seemed to be exti...

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...scene. The umbrageous shades where the in- terview took place—the glorious tropical vegetation around—the picturesque grouping of the mingled throng o... ...limb. His natu- rally dark complexion had been deepened by exposure to the tropical sun, and a mass of jetty locks clustered about his temples, and th... ...scry the ridge we intended to mount looming dimly through the mists of the tropical 56 Typee shower, and distant from us, as we estimated, something ... .... His aspect was imposing. The splendid long drooping tail-feathers of the tropical bird, thickly interspersed with the gaudy plumage of the cock, wer... ...nions were in the habit of ornamenting themselves with similar appendages. Flora was their jeweller. Sometimes they wore necklaces of 109 Melville sm... ...aving chaplets and necklaces, one would have thought that all the train of Flora had gathered together to keep a festival in honour of their mistress.... ...s beauty was indescribable. All around its banks waved luxuriant masses of tropical foliage, soaring high above which were seen, here 154 Typee and t...

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...othed with immense vegetable forms, the product of the double influence of tropical heat and con- 98 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth stant moi... ... known hitherto, and did they claim a place of their own in the lacustrine flora? No; when we arrived under their shade my surprise turned into admira... ...s. “Wonderful, magnificent, splendid!” cried my uncle. “Here is the entire flora of the second period of the world—the transition period. These, humbl... ...ed. Y ou might have thought yourself under the rays of a vertical sun in a tropical region at noonday and the height of summer. No vapour was visible....

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...t of so gross, so cold-blooded, and so black-hearted a villain, that I had a mind to have cast my brief upon the table. I was then boiling against the... ... after the ball – he was none the wiser, he could not suppose himself to be remarked by these entrancing la- dies. At the ball itself my Lord Muirfell... ...face of expectation, none that was mobile, none into which the rhythm and poetry of life had entered. “O for a live face,” he thought; and at times he...

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...of the sun, bears cultivation and shows the native growth of the Norwegian flora. Here the expanse of the fiord is broad enough to allow the sea, dash... ... are shaded endlessly; in short, where blend all colors, all perfumes of a flora whose wonders are still ignored. Widen the boundaries of this limited... ...they stood in the shadow of that Presence as beneath the burning rays of a tropical sun, fearing to raise their eyes lest the light should blast them....

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... a politician in this extra-mundane sphere—presiding at public meetings, drafting proclamations, receiving mis-addressed letters that have been carrie... ..., comme vous voulez; Prince Charlie; Earl Marischal; Master of Ballantrae; and a spy, and Dr. Archie Campbell, and a few nondescripts; then, of women... ...th one Kitchener, a brother of the Colonel’s. Dined in the billiard-room, discovered we had forgot to order oatmeal; whereupon, in the moonlit evening...

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... other,’ said Mary, gath- ering her work up, with the dread of one used to tropical dews. ‘Are not you coming in?’ ‘When I can persuade myself to writ... ...notion: he already beheld Waverley in his beloved Yeomanry suit, Isabel as Flora, Clara as Davie Gellatley—the character she would most appreciate. Is... ...e been!’ She sat passive while Lady Conway and Louis decked up a scene for Flora MacIvor; but presently it appeared that the Waverley of the piece was...

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...dian. The practitioner was not red, he was scarlet. His face, like certain tropical portions of the 53 Balzac globe, was fissured, here and there, wi... ... art that a passing traveller thinks he beholds some natural effect of the tropical vegetation. In 1793 there were three brothers of the name of Mouch... ...ttle man with a dapple-gray head, devoted himself in turn to Themis and to Flora,—in other words, to legislation and a greenhouse. For the last twelve...

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...a man that dog has, and is master of a bull, and the mother I used to call Flora; but now I calls her Aroarer, for she’s too old to bite. Haw, haw!” B... ...ery warm and impetuous nature, re- sponded to their affection with quite a tropical ardour. And if the truth may be told, I dare say that she too had ...

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...he seventeenth, Marion Delorme to the sixteenth, Imperia to the fifteenth, Flora to Republican Rome, which she made her heir, and which paid off the p... ...omino. Though they walked apart, these two beings suggested the figures of Flora and Zephyr as we see them grouped by the cleverest sculptors; but the... ...the most beautiful bouquet to be had in Paris. It is winter, so try to get tropical flowers.” The Baron went downstairs and told his servants to go to...

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...globe would cause their waters to rush either to- wards the Pole or to the tropical sea. The second region is more varied on its surface, and better s... ...globe would cause their waters to rush either to- wards the Pole or to the tropical sea. The second region is more varied on its surface, and better s... ...ulation follows its retro- grade course, and returns with it towards those tropical re- gions from which it originally came. However singular this fac... ...- ticularly dangerous in those regions which are exposed to the beams of a tropical sun. Europeans would not find it easy to cultivate the soil in tha... ...tropics, produces an incredible profusion of climbing plants, of which the flora of the Antilles alone presents us with forty different species. Among...

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...was thin and dark and not at all pretty, having features that suggested some tropical bird—a long beak like nose, small, quickly moving eyes and a mou... ...e very soon.” “And who’s the young lady?” “A member of the aristocracy; Lady Flora, Lady Felicia—something of that sort.” “I’m very glad,” Isabel said...

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...s thin and dark and not at all pretty, having features that suggested some tropical bird—a long beak-like nose, small, quickly- moving eyes and a mout... ... very soon. “And who’s the young lady?” “A member of the aristocracy; Lady Flora, Lady Felicia— something of that sort.” “I’m very glad,” Isabel said....

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...ick. One window of excellent clothes for men, interspersed with collars of floral pique which showed mauve daisies on a saffron ground. Newness and an... ...e snow was too deep for his motor he went off on country calls in a shiny, floral, steel-tipped cutter, only his ruddy nose and his cigar emerging fro... ... the snow, it turned the woods ashore into crystals of fire. The night was tropical and voluptuous. In that drugged magic there was no difference betw... ...he whitewashed walls of the dress- ing-rooms the pencil inscriptions: “The Flora Flanders Com- edy Company,” and “This is a bum theater,” and felt tha... ...the rooms which Mrs. Swiftwaite had taken in the old Luke Dawson house, on Floral Avenue. With none of the spiritual preparation which normally preced...

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...a man that dog has, and is master of a bull, and the mother I used to call Flora; but now I calls her Aroarer, for she’s too old to bite. Haw, haw!” B... ...ery warm and impetuous nature, re- sponded to their affection with quite a tropical ardour. And if the truth may be told, I dare say that she too had ...

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... meet, as sensible of the deep silence and sketching the dense overhanging tropical growth as accurately as if I were there. I don’t know that it’s of... ...mong the bushes and tripping along the paths, as rosy and pretty as one of Flora’s attendants instead of my maid, saying, “Oh, if you please, miss, wo...

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...Rondon Scientific Expedition co-named after its leader, Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon. The book describes all of the scientific discovery, scenic tropical vistas and exotic flora, fauna and wild life experienced on the expedition. One goal of the expedition was to find the headwaters of the Rio da Duvida, the River of Doubt, and trace it north to the Madeira and thence...

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...ful nature are far from uncommon cannot be disputed. Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by dif... ...s which vary most, by tabulating all the varieties in several well- worked floras. At first this seemed a simple task; but Mr. H. C. Watson, to whom I... ...their compatriots. If the plants inhabiting a country and described in any Flora be divided into two equal masses, all those in the larger genera bein... ...ess modification and less extermination. Hence, perhaps, it comes that the flora of Madeira, according to Oswald Heer, resembles the extinct tertiary ... ...nd perma- nent varieties. Thus the species of shells which are confined to tropical and shallow seas are generally brighter-coloured than those confin... ...me: species from an arctic or even from a temperate region cannot endure a tropical climate, or conversely. So again, many succulent plants can- not e... ...r domestic animals from several wild stocks: the blood, for instance, of a tropical and arc- tic wolf or wild dog may perhaps be mingled in our domest... ... glacial climate, whereas the living species are now all tropi- cal or sub-tropical in their habits, ought not to be looked at as anomalies, but merel... .... Even at this day, if the Malay Archipelago were converted into land, the tropical parts of the Indian Ocean would form a large and perfectly en- clo...

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... and there’s dai- sies, and there’s’—the turnkey hesitated, being short of floral 72 Charles Dickens nomenclature—’there’s dandelions, and all manner... ... and interest which Mrs Flintwinch had fanned on the night of his arrival. Flora Casby had been the beloved of his boyhood; and Flora was the daugh- t... ... direction. Nothing came of the cross-cut. It led no further. ‘My daughter Flora,’ said Mr Casby, ‘as you may have heard probably, Mr Clennam, was mar... ...ittle craft. 150 Charles Dickens The return of Mr Casby with his daughter Flora, put an end to these meditations. Clennam’s eyes no sooner fell upon ... ...ing in effect, ‘Be good enough to throw it down and dance upon it. This is Flora.’ Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of br... ...nventional and worldly and very shocking, but unless we are Savages in the Tropical seas (I should have been charmed to be one myself—most delightful ...

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... and there’s dai- sies, and there’s’—the turnkey hesitated, being short of floral 72 Charles Dickens nomenclature—’there’s dandelions, and all manner... ... and interest which Mrs Flintwinch had fanned on the night of his arrival. Flora Casby had been the beloved of his boyhood; and Flora was the daugh- t... ... direction. Nothing came of the cross-cut. It led no further. ‘My daughter Flora,’ said Mr Casby, ‘as you may have heard probably, Mr Clennam, was mar... ...ittle craft. 150 Charles Dickens The return of Mr Casby with his daughter Flora, put an end to these meditations. Clennam’s eyes no sooner fell upon ... ...ing in effect, ‘Be good enough to throw it down and dance upon it. This is Flora.’ Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of br... ...nventional and worldly and very shocking, but unless we are Savages in the Tropical seas (I should have been charmed to be one myself—most delightful ...

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...J. Hooker, in his great work on the Botany of the Southern Hemisphere. The Flora of the Galapagos Archipelago is the subject of a separate memoir by h... ...late aspect. The volcanic fires of a past age, and the scorching heat of a tropical sun, have in most places rendered the soil unfit for vegetation. T... ...r-fowl. The often repeated description of the stately palm and other noble tropical plants, then birds, and lastly man, taking possession of the coral... ...e first inhabitants of newly formed oceanic land. The smallest rock in the tropical seas, by giving a foundation for the growth of innumerable kinds o... ...turned to the landing-place; but, before reaching it, I was overtaken by a tropical storm. I tried to find shelter under a tree, which was so thick th... ...he cabinets of Europe can, as yet, boast only of the larger spe- cies from tropical climates. It is sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomolo... ...men, now in extreme old age. The zoology of Patagonia is as limited as its flora.* On the arid plains a few black beetles (Heteromera) might be seen s... ...looking little weeds would have better become an arctic than an equatorial Flora. The brushwood appears, from a short distance, as leaf- less as our t... ...oker will soon publish in the “Linnean Transactions” a full account of the Flora, *Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. xvi. p. 19. 433 Charles Darwin a...

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...ir.” “Though, of course, all this would be far better than ex- posing that tropical-natured Spanish butterfly to meeting the subject of a grand passio... ...ell,” said Elvira, “there were the Folliots. We met them at Nice, and Lady Flora did ask me the other day , but Mrs. Brownlow does not like them, and ... ...hat was known was that she had left Mrs. Evelyn and gone to stay with Lady Flora Folliott, a flighty young matron, who had been enraptured with her be... ...ng— “Intercepted! Poor fellow! Hardly necessary , if possible, though Lady Flora might wish to catch her for Clanmacnalty. Has the miserable imp reall... ...whose beard was blue, though in ordinary life red, inasmuch as he was Lady Flora’s impecunious and not very reputable Scottish peer of a brother. That... ... He says his dress is from a portrait of his ances- tor, Sir Somebody; and Flora declares his only ancestor must have been the Fat Boy! And he thought...

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...: Wade and (5) Burt. II. THE HEROIC AGE (1) Duncan Forbes of Culloden. (2) Flora Macdonald. (3) The Forfeited Estates; including Hereditary Jurisdicti... ... growth of the taste for Highland scen- ery. I have to touch upon Rob Roy, Flora Macdonald, the strange story of Lady Grange, the beautiful story of t... ...covery, the manly proportions of the voy- ager, and the fine impression of tropical scenes and the untrodden waste, so aptly rendered by the hartis. I...

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...d take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the “Wreaths” and “Flora’s chaplets” of the bookshops; yet ordinarily, whether we are too clum... ... bald, dazzling white and deadly cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates. All changes pass without violence, by reason of the two ... ...he thinnest exter- nal plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in. How far off yet is the trilobit...

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...g of a house; but the season be- ing summer, and the house surrounded with tropical flow- ers, the lady preferred it (in spite of its loneliness) to t... ... America to ancestral graves: yet still the Pomona of Earth, yet still the Flora of Earth, does not become superan- nuated, but blossoms in everlastin...

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...lness. Shallower but also louder, there is magnetic D’Espremenil, with his tropical heat (he was born at Madras); with his dusky confused violence; ho... ... find their heads still uppermost, are home: only Moreau de Saint- Mery of tropical birth and heart, of coolest judgment; he, with two others, shall s... ...o many a Deputy, in his offi- cial Apartment, in the Pavillon ci-devant of Flora; rejoices in the bright-looking multitudes, in the brightness of leaf...