The Island Worlds of the Pacific OceanS. Carson Company, 1892 - 337 Seiten |
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... shore . Rebuilding his vessel there , he was the first , in our modern day , to sail on the great ocean waters . If gifted ... shores of Asia on the one hand , and the western coasts of the two great American continents . on the other ...
... shore . Rebuilding his vessel there , he was the first , in our modern day , to sail on the great ocean waters . If gifted ... shores of Asia on the one hand , and the western coasts of the two great American continents . on the other ...
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... shores of Washington Territory and Oregon , and along the coast of California , it turns south by west just off the harbor of San Francisco . Dividing again at this point , one stream flows by the Hawaiian Isles , and westerly among the ...
... shores of Washington Territory and Oregon , and along the coast of California , it turns south by west just off the harbor of San Francisco . Dividing again at this point , one stream flows by the Hawaiian Isles , and westerly among the ...
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... shores , and are hunted and slaughtered by thousands . An establish- ment or several of them , might be located here ... shore . Nuka - Hiva , the principal island , is about eighteen miles long from east to west , and ten miles . wide ...
... shores , and are hunted and slaughtered by thousands . An establish- ment or several of them , might be located here ... shore . Nuka - Hiva , the principal island , is about eighteen miles long from east to west , and ten miles . wide ...
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... shore , which went up almost perpendicular to a height , in some places , of 3,000 feet , towering above us like a huge giant . These heights faced us in the shape of a semi - circle , and to all appearances we lay in the middle of an ...
... shore , which went up almost perpendicular to a height , in some places , of 3,000 feet , towering above us like a huge giant . These heights faced us in the shape of a semi - circle , and to all appearances we lay in the middle of an ...
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... shores , forming a circle around , dotted with verdant islets . " The broken character of the surface is most strik- ing on Eimeo , yet all the islands afford scenes of grandeur unsurpassed in the Pacific . In the distant view , Eimeo ...
... shores , forming a circle around , dotted with verdant islets . " The broken character of the surface is most strik- ing on Eimeo , yet all the islands afford scenes of grandeur unsurpassed in the Pacific . In the distant view , Eimeo ...
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abundant Aleutian animal Asia Asiatic Atlantic Australia banana boat Borneo canal canoes Captain Caroline Chinese climate coast cocoanut color commercial coral crater cultivated discovered earthquake east Easter Island Eastern Archipelago eruption exports feet Fiji forests fruit growing Guinea hair harbor Hebrides height hundred Indian Ocean inhabitants island groups Isles islets Japan Japanese Java known lake land language latitude lava longitude Malay Malay race Micronesia miles long Molluccas mountain natives navigation nearly ocean currents Oceanica Pacific Islands Pacific Ocean Panama peaks pearl Phillippines plant Polynesian Ponape port portion principal race reef regions rivers sailing Sangir shell ship shores soil South America South Sea species square miles Straits Straits of Magellan streams Sumatra surface thousand tion trace trade tree tribes tropical twenty valleys valuable vast vegetation vessels volcanic voyage winds wrecks Zealand
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Seite 260 - State, has suffered in some of its departments, through the construction of two additional transcontinental railroads — the one to the north, and the other to the south, of the...
Seite 217 - Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake : — % ' Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field: Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail ; Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale...
Seite 11 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Seite 102 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Seite 190 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Seite 190 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it ? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Seite 190 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles.
Seite 190 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 147 - KOKU. — NIPPON.) Constitution and Government. THE system of government of the Japanese empire is that of an absolute monarchy. It was adopted in the year 1869, when the now ruling soverign overthrew, after a short war, the power of the formerly independent Daimios, or feudal nobles, reducing them to the position of simple tenants of the vast estates in their hereditary possessions.
Seite 265 - Some bark's broad bottom, to outride the storms, So large he built the raft ; then ribb'd it strong, From space to space, and nail'd the planks along; These formed the sides ; the deck he fashioned last ; Then o'er the vessel raised the taper mast, With crossing sail-yards dancing in the wind ; And to the helm, the guiding rudder joined; With yielding osiers fenced, to break the force Of surging waves, and steer the steady course. Thy loom, Calypso, for the future sails Supplied the cloth, capacious...