The Island World of the Pacific OceanHoward & Pariser, 1885 - 337 Seiten |
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... America , in the interests of the corporation , there are no accounts of practical commercial operations entered into in the Pacific by this company . True , they had some valua- ble privileges from the English Government , as well as ...
... America , in the interests of the corporation , there are no accounts of practical commercial operations entered into in the Pacific by this company . True , they had some valua- ble privileges from the English Government , as well as ...
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... America , made it an easy matter to fund the $ 50,000,000 . Meantime , the company was using every influence to establish and enlarge its credit , and though partially opposed in its schemes by many of the great statesmen and financiers ...
... America , made it an easy matter to fund the $ 50,000,000 . Meantime , the company was using every influence to establish and enlarge its credit , and though partially opposed in its schemes by many of the great statesmen and financiers ...
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... America . When baked in this way , the bread - fruit can be kept for several months . many ar The timber of the tree is used to make ticles of furniture , and the trunk often formed into canoes , etc. ISLAND GROUPS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN ...
... America . When baked in this way , the bread - fruit can be kept for several months . many ar The timber of the tree is used to make ticles of furniture , and the trunk often formed into canoes , etc. ISLAND GROUPS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN ...
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... America .. 1634 12 S 47 18 S 166 25 E 178 30 E 122,582 476,000 England . 300 Lying near the Coast . 35,000 30,000 Chile and Peru . Austral .... 20 22 Kermadec ..... 630 Gilbert . OS 33 o S 178 o S 28 o S143 o W 153 o W 1,500 50 W 180 o ...
... America .. 1634 12 S 47 18 S 166 25 E 178 30 E 122,582 476,000 England . 300 Lying near the Coast . 35,000 30,000 Chile and Peru . Austral .... 20 22 Kermadec ..... 630 Gilbert . OS 33 o S 178 o S 28 o S143 o W 153 o W 1,500 50 W 180 o ...
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... America have begun the services of the day . Micronesia is a subdivision of Polynesia , the gen eric name for the myriad islands scattered over the broad Pacific Ocean . It is composed of four groups— the Gilbert or Kingsmill Islands ...
... America have begun the services of the day . Micronesia is a subdivision of Polynesia , the gen eric name for the myriad islands scattered over the broad Pacific Ocean . It is composed of four groups— the Gilbert or Kingsmill Islands ...
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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...
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 67 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove ; Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
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.