The Island World of the Pacific OceanS. Carson & Company, 1887 - 337 Seiten |
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... leaves to keep down the seeds . Bananas yield ripe fruit in nine months after planting , some of the introduced varieties coming to maturity in six months . This fruit attains a great size , especially the indigenous varieties , some of ...
... leaves to keep down the seeds . Bananas yield ripe fruit in nine months after planting , some of the introduced varieties coming to maturity in six months . This fruit attains a great size , especially the indigenous varieties , some of ...
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... leaves of the Ti ( Dracæna terminalis ) . They have a kind of fine mat plaited from thin strips of the leaves of a plant called Lau - ie . These mats are only used on important occasions , and they esteem them more highly than any ...
... leaves of the Ti ( Dracæna terminalis ) . They have a kind of fine mat plaited from thin strips of the leaves of a plant called Lau - ie . These mats are only used on important occasions , and they esteem them more highly than any ...
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... leaves and stems , and animal remains , add to the soil , and that accumulations of this kind are ceaselessly in progress ; that by this means , in the luxuriant swamp , deep beds of peaty earth are formed . So it is in the coral mead ...
... leaves and stems , and animal remains , add to the soil , and that accumulations of this kind are ceaselessly in progress ; that by this means , in the luxuriant swamp , deep beds of peaty earth are formed . So it is in the coral mead ...
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... leaf resembles that of the laurel , and the bark is of an olive color . The cloves grow at the end of small branches , in clusters of from ten to twenty , and the tree , according to the season , sends forth more on one side than the ...
... leaf resembles that of the laurel , and the bark is of an olive color . The cloves grow at the end of small branches , in clusters of from ten to twenty , and the tree , according to the season , sends forth more on one side than the ...
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... leaves are large , oblong and pointed ; its flowers hang in pale red clusters , not only from its branches , but also from its trunk and roots . Hence a cacao plantation has a singular and striking appear- ance , as Humboldt did not ...
... leaves are large , oblong and pointed ; its flowers hang in pale red clusters , not only from its branches , but also from its trunk and roots . Hence a cacao plantation has a singular and striking appear- ance , as Humboldt did not ...
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Seite 256 - 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 213 - 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 182 - 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 201 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Seite 98 - 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 182 - 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 182 - 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 182 - 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 270 - White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
Seite 143 - 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.