The Island World of the Pacific OceanS. Carson & Company, 1887 - 337 Seiten |
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... the Islands of the Pacific . TONGA , OR FRIENDLY ISLANDS . To the south and west of the Society group lie the Tonga or Friendly islands , nearly one hundred in number , and , like nearly all isles in this 36 THE ISLAND WORLD.
... the Islands of the Pacific . TONGA , OR FRIENDLY ISLANDS . To the south and west of the Society group lie the Tonga or Friendly islands , nearly one hundred in number , and , like nearly all isles in this 36 THE ISLAND WORLD.
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... hundred ; some authorities state as high as one hun- dred and fifty ; with a total landed area of but 1000 square miles . They were discovered by Tasman in 1643 , and visited by Captain Cook many years after- ward , who gave them the ...
... hundred ; some authorities state as high as one hun- dred and fifty ; with a total landed area of but 1000 square miles . They were discovered by Tasman in 1643 , and visited by Captain Cook many years after- ward , who gave them the ...
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... hundred yards from the beach when the na- tives fell upon the missionaries , killing them all in the most barbarous manner , and in full view of the occu- pants of the boat . LOYALTY ISLANDS . South and westerly from the New Hebrides 42 ...
... hundred yards from the beach when the na- tives fell upon the missionaries , killing them all in the most barbarous manner , and in full view of the occu- pants of the boat . LOYALTY ISLANDS . South and westerly from the New Hebrides 42 ...
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... hundred , export consid- erable quantities of cocoanut - oil . The Loyalty Island- ers are classed as Melanesian ; the several islands have each its separate language , and in Uvea the one tribe uses a Samoan , and the other a New ...
... hundred , export consid- erable quantities of cocoanut - oil . The Loyalty Island- ers are classed as Melanesian ; the several islands have each its separate language , and in Uvea the one tribe uses a Samoan , and the other a New ...
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... atolls may contain a greater number of people than mentioned , as the population seems very dense . This is accounted for by the small width of the atolls , ranging from a few hundred yards wide OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN 47.
... atolls may contain a greater number of people than mentioned , as the population seems very dense . This is accounted for by the small width of the atolls , ranging from a few hundred yards wide OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN 47.
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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.