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...so much obscurity in the In- dian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful. Few men exhibit greater... ...pinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it. The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bo... ... the substantial difference which exists in the latter. The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and ... ...nders, were but the natural participators. They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly be... ...y, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible—an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors,... ...e danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the rem- nants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The reputation... ... into which he was heedlessly running, saved the rem- nants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The reputation earned ... ...ng of a summer sun. The 10 The Last of the Mohicans loyal servants of the British crown had given to one of these forest-fastnesses the name of Willi... ...or- tage with his savages, every yell and whoop from whom rang through the British encampment, chilling the hearts of men who were already but too muc...

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...ghty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the... ...gg, continuing to play despite the discussion. “But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,” replied Stuart; “suppose they stop the trains, ... ...he come directly from Brindisi?” “Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience,... ...ian peninsula. Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular... ...fficers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salarie... ... returning to his parish at Bombay; and a brigadier-general of the English army, who was about to rejoin his brigade at Benares, made up the party, an... ...ad unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger por- t... ...s at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra. But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand squ... ...CE The train had started punctually. Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose busin...

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...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained... ... that position. If not, let him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for ... ...ADE EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 3, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Samuel Wellers, private in Company B, Forty-ninth Pennsyl-... ...d their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly v... ...of the several organized Territories is gener- ally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. The m... ...rsements there were for the civil service $23,253,922.08, for pensions and Indians $4,216,520.79, for interest on public debt $24,729,846.51, for the ... ... you, for useful and varied infor- mation in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pert... ...o merchandise warehoused under bond the privilege of being exported to the British North American prov- inces adjoining the United States, in the mann... ... other ports, situated on the frontiers of the United States adjoining the British North American provinces, as may hereafter be found expedient, may ...

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...of meeting, and Sego, or Sago, the ordinary term of salutation used by the Indians of this region. There is a tradition which says that the neighborin... ...ngthen their alliances, and which refers the name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, howev... ...ffice of a smoke-house. In 1779 an expedition was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of th... ...ure maintenance. Major Effingham, in declin- ing the liberal offers of the British ministry, had subjected himself to the suspicion of having attained... ... I think, although I am an ignorant man about the great move- ments of the army, that his excellency would have been able to march against Cornwallis ... ...gain, there was a hole under your lee-quarter big enough to hold the whole British navy.” “Oh! for massy’s sake! and wa’n’t you afeard, Benjamin? and ... ...matter, can talk the language almost as well as myself, or any native-born British subject. Y ou’ve forgot your schooling, and the young mistress is a... ...that the eye cannot see the end of. There is food enough in it to keep the army of Xerxes for a month, and feathers enough to make beds for the whole ... ...gents among the different tribes of Indians, and sometimes officers in the army , who frequently passed half their lives on the edge of the wilderness...

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..., my sovereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at o... ...vereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at once, Ga... ...iving his letters from Benares—for his exclama- tion upon the death of the Indian chief—for his desire to marry his daughter: the woman I was wooing w... ...d a camp at Kanouge on the Jumna, where he exercised that brilliant little army which was speedily to perform such wonders in the Dooab. It will be as... ...r which was speedily to rage through some of the fair- est portions of the Indian continent. Shah Allum, the son of Shah Lollum, the descendant by the... ...ng rather as it appeared that they had any strength to fight a battle, the British Government, ever anxious to see its en- emies by the ears, by no me... ...rvice, and inflaming the minds of the various na- tive princes against the British East India Company. A number of these entered into Scindiah’s ranks... ...e entered into Scindiah’s ranks: one of them, Perron, was commander of his army; and though that chief was as yet quite engaged in his hereditary quar... ...y quarrel with Jeswunt Row Holkar, and never thought of an invasion of the British terri- tory, the Company all of a sudden discovered that Shah Allum...

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...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ... were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, that the British Government should not interfere; that at one 50 The Writings of Ab... ...50 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five time they struggled with the British Government to be permit- ted to exclude the African slave trade,—if... ...dinance for the government of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. ... ... original States. The same process in a few years was gone through with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same substantially with Michigan and... ...ent from the Confederation to the Constitution. Not only so, but I believe Indiana once or twice, if not Ohio, petitioned the Gen- eral Government for... ..., Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- ... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...your true friend and sincere well-wisher, A. LINCOLN. EARLY INFORMATION ON ARMY DEFECTION IN SOUTH TO D. HUNTER. (Private and Confidential.) SPRINGFIE...

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...et the captains of the rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces; a rough looking set of tarpaulins, without the alertness... ...to be summoned thence, like him, for apos tolic errands—were Custom House officers. Furthermore, on the left hand as you enter the front door, is a c... ...2 The Scarlet Letter opens on the road to Paradise. The greater part of my officers were Whigs. It was well for their venerable brotherhood that the n... ...ms the type whereby I recognise the man. As most of these old Custom House officers had good traits, and as my position in reference to them, being pa... ...ghs, with Ellery Channing; after talking with Thoreau about pine trees and Indian relics in his hermitage at Walden; after growing fastidious by sympa... ...been carried off to Halifax, when all the king’s officials accompanied the British army in its flight from Bos ton. It has often been a matter of reg... ...ried off to Halifax, when all the king’s officials accompanied the British army in its flight from Bos ton. It has often been a matter of regret with... ... would have af fected me with the same pleasure as when I used to pick up Indian arrow heads in the field near the Old Manse. But, one idle and rainy... ...orations which the white men used to contrive in order to take the eyes of Indians—I happened to place it on my breast. It seemed to me—the reader may...

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...ighbourhood, peons of the estancias, vaqueros of the seaboard plains, tame Indians coming miles to market with a bundle of sugar-cane or a basket of m... ...ity, and awe. The impious adventurers gave no other sign. The sailors, the Indian, and the stolen burro were never seen again. As to the mozo, a Sulac... ...ich was very often on his lips, “We never make mistakes.” To the Company’s officers it took the form of a severe injunction, “We must make no mistakes... ...er. His features were recognized by several deserters from the Dictatorial army amongst the rascally mob already engaged in smashing the windows of th... ...d, in the cafe, Luis, the mulatto, took good care not to show himself. The Indian girls, with hair like flowing black manes, and dressed only in a shi... ...ly, an Englishman who had turned up in Palermo after its evacuation by the army of the king, had given him a Bible in Italian—the publication of the B... ... army of the king, had given him a Bible in Italian—the publication of the British and Foreign Bible Society, bound in a dark leather cover. In peri- ... ...ng all day. And everywhere he had seen Englishmen in the front rank of the army of freedom. He respected their nation because they loved Garibaldi. Th... ...xactions of successive governments, nor the periodical raids of recruiting officers upon the population of paid miners they had created, could discour...

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...any chance of distinction. No need to say much of his mastering the picked Indian swordsmen in single combat: he knew their trick, and was quick to sa... ...nearly black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses. There are Nubians rath... ... to condemn Lord Ormont in his quarrel with the Commissioner of one of the Indian provinces, who had the support of the Governor of his Presidency and... ...arked. He dared to claim the countenance of the Commander-in- chief of the Army of India for an act disapproved by the India House. Other letters migh... ...R III THE TUTOR THERE WAS NO COUNTING now on Lord Ormont’s presence in the British gathering seasons, when wheatears wing across our fields or swallow... ...protect the girl. “Your name is Weyburn; your father was an officer in the army, killed on the battle-field, Arthur Abner tells me,” was her somewhat ... ...d you not enter the service?” “Want of an income, my lady.” “Bad look-out. Army or Navy for gentlemen, if they stick to the school of honour. The sede... ...fi- culty to persuade them!... and my own niece! whom I saw married at the British Embassy in Madrid, as I take good care to tell everybody; for it wa... ... the first English chaplain was to be found; that is not wonderful either. British Em- bassy, Madrid! Weyburn believed the ceremony to have been perfo...

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...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...hem with dismal gardens of dry cracked earth, where a few reedy sprouts of Indian corn seemed to be the chief cultivation, and which were guarded by h... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...- ging up the hideous perpendicular place, you were to find regi- ments of British grenadiers ready to plunge bayonets into your poor panting stomach,... ...nd foreign ministers and ambassadors may enjoy a dignified sine- cure; the army will rise to the rank of peaceful constables, not having any more use ... ...e heroism saved his island from the efforts of Mustapha and Dragut, and an army quite as fierce and numerous as that which was baffled before Gibralta... ...conquered in Egypt the remains of the haughty and famous French republican army, at whose appearance the last knights of Malta flung open the gates of... ...m Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from ships in the harbour, and yellow old Indians returning from Bundelcund, should think proper to be enthusiastic a... ...’clock bell rings. Sixty people sit down to a quasi- French banquet:thirty Indian officers in moustaches and jack- ets; ten civilians in ditto and spe...

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...s of the keenest interest; he marched in silence, surrounded by five young officers, each of whom respected the evident preoccupation of their leader.... ... The people were savages serving God and the King after the fashion of Red Indians. T o make this sketch of the struggle exact and true at all points,... ...the two officers. “It is time I should tell you that it is all up with the army in Paris. The Directory, in consequence of a disturbance in the Assemb... ...uld be if I allowed that ci-devant, who dares to come from London with his British gold, to trap me like a crow!” On learning these secret circumstanc... ...g insur- rection; and here we are, sure enough, caught in a trap.” “If the army doesn’t take things in hand and manage the government,” said Gerard, “... ... soldiers!” “No, no, commandant, it won’t come to that,” said Gerard. “The army, as you say, will raise its voice, and—provided it doesn’t choose its ... ...ua. “For the Gars, the leader sent to the Chouans and the V endeans by the British cabinet; his real name is Marquis de Montauran.” 80 The Chouans Th... ...her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, as it were... ...The Chouans Francine saw the long hedge undulating like one of those great Indian serpents of fabulous size and shape. Here and there, among the gorse...

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...was trot- ting downstairs on his commission. “Obedience is the soul of the army. We will go to our duty while Mrs. O’Dowd will stay and enlighten you,... ...e “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of Wandsworth Common,” and the “British Soldier’s best Bayonet,” which, bent upon awak- ening her before sh... ...on board confidentially that he was going to join the Duke of Wellington’s army, folks mistook him for a great personage, a commissary-general, or a g... ... may be said as a rule, that every Englishman in the Duke of W ellington’s army paid his way. The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation o... ...woke them in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the grea... ...ronged the town, and appeared in every public place, filled George’s truly British soul with in- tense delight. They flung off that happy frigidity an... ...ld-laced cap?” on which Becky replied, “that he was an officer in the East Indian service.” But Rawdon Crawley rode out of the ranks of his company, a... ... sum, as George’s guardian, Dobbin proposed to put out at 8 per cent in an Indian house of agency. Mr. Sedley, who thought the Major had some roguish ... ...y dear, old silly man; and that you shall be an Irish Secretary, or a West Indian Gov- ernor: or a Treasurer, or a Consul, or some such thing.” “Posti...

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...Dabney’s estate to play with, and they explored it with the stealth of Red Indians and the accuracy of burglars. They could enter either by the Lodge-... ...t attempt to deny it! Ye did. Silence, Sergeant!” T wenty-one years in the army had left their mark on Foxy. He obeyed. “Now. March!” The high Lodge g... ...t us tea when we were moral lepers. Foxy has a heart. Foxy has been in the Army, too.” “I wish I’ d ha’ had you in my company, young gentlemen,” said ... ...was the moving spirit of the game, as befitted a senior who had passed his Army Preliminary and hoped to enter Sandhurst next spring. Aladdin came to ... ...inks too. Let’s come out an’ smoke. Here’s a treat.” Stalky held up a long Indian cheroot. “‘Bagged it from my pater last holi- days. I’m a bit shy of... ...out Fat-Sow, of course. What’s Crandall done. sir?” “I’ve brought over an Indian paper that his mother sent me. It was rather a—hefty, I think you sa... ...ake’s sake, but in no way made too much of. But when the real subalterns, officers and gentlemen full-blown— who had been to the ends of the earth an... .... If Mr. Martin had not yet faced an audience of this particular class of British youth, the Head had no doubt that he would find it an interesting e... ...onment, or upon the high seas; or that seventy-five per cent. were sons of officers in one or other of the services—Willoughbys, Paulets, De Castros, ...

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...s, and Plato has the added glory of that acquired beauty, that bust of the Indian Bacchus which is now indissolubly 6 The New Machiavelli mingled wit... ...y waggons along the great military road to the beleaguered fortress on the Indian frontier beyond the worn places that were dismal swamps. And there w... ...gnificently en- gineered ascent to a fortress on the cliffs commanding the Indian reservation. My games upon the floor must have spread over several y... ...ot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I remember rightly , converted them into Army sausage by means of a portion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My... ...as a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I... ...orant and wretched and the under-equipped and under-staffed Na- tional and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rival... ...eyes, now the hoardings flamed with election plac- ards, now the Salvation Army and now the unemployed came trailing in procession through the winter-... .... But we ought to get in some German, you know,—for those who like it. The army men will be wanting it some of these days.” He referred to the organis... ... social phenomenon, the German official, so differ- ent in manner from the British; and when one woke again after that one had come to Bale, and out o...

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...tional, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in co... ...uch title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here presen... ... us to that joint-stock ve- hicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ...like case, might do? Or how would Monsieur Ude prosper among those Orinoco Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow-nests, on the branches of... ...r military chest insol- vent, forage all but exhausted; and that the whole army is about to mutiny, disband, and cut your and each other’s throat,—the... ...ssed? Kings sweated down (ausgemergelt) into Berlin- and-Milan Customhouse-Officers; the World well won, and the World well lost; oftener than once a ... ...is Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo- Jumbo and Indian Pawaw be utterly abolished. For all things, even Celestial Luminarie... ...t. Have them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere,... ...sing: all this you cannot see, but only imagine. I say, there is not a red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole...

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... story of supernatural terror. About the end of the American war, when the officers of Lord Cornwallis’s army, which surrendered at Y orktown, and oth... ... About the end of the American war, when the officers of Lord Cornwallis’s army, which surrendered at Y orktown, and others, who had been made prisone... ... see whether you have mended your shooting since you have been amongst the Indians of the back settlements.” The General gladly accepted his friendly ... ... of late years distinguished themselves as rear- ing up and supporting the British school. Enough has been said and sung about “The well-contested gr...

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...ntly he saw a deer, followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, a... ...Presently another open carriage brought the Grand Duke of Baden, a stately man in uniform, who wore the hand- some brass-mounted, steel-spiked helmet ... ...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ...g! It was just the time for a tramp through the woods and mountains. We were all dressed alike: broad slouch hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks... ... run across you in Italy, you hunt me up in London before you sail.’” The next item which I find in my note-book is this one: “The fact that a band of... ...nt leisure, and that we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people thi... ...n the matter of numbers. It is rather a striking one, too. I have not distorted the truth in saying that the facts in the above item, about the army a... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ...

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...l not be troubled to favour you with a taste of it, or, by Bacchus and his Indian nymphs, I should speedily behold you jumping like peas in a pan, lik... ...nnot trust him. I do not. But, if we make such a tide in Lombardy that his army must be drawn into it, is such an army to be refused? First, the tide,... ...t will not accept it for its loath- someness. There were Englishmen in the army of Austria. Could one of them be this one whom she had cared for when ... ...ous Sardinian monarch with such assurances of devotion, that a Piedmontese army would be at the gates when the banner of Austria was in the dust. Amon... ... a sturdy hind-foot, daring her foes as from a rock of defence. A group of officers, of the cavalry, with a few infantry uni- forms skirting them, wer... ...pping iced lemonade or coffee, and talking the common talk of the garrison officers, with per- haps that additional savour of a robust immorality whic... ...lent outstretched feet. Itinerant street music twittered along the Piazza; officers walked arm-in-arm; now in moon- light bright as day, now in a shad... ...ia him; he was accustomed to inquire of Angelo’s condition, and praise the British doctor who was attending him gratu- itously. “I wish I could get hi...

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...ucted the field operations by orders delivered through aides de camp. Tom’s army won a great victory, after a long and hard fought battle. Then the d... ...illage; for the village itself; for the county; for the State; for the State officers; for the United States; for the churches of the United States; f... ...he churches of the United States; for Congress; for the Presi dent; for the officers of the Government; for poor sailors, tossed by stormy seas; for ... ... years, all war worn and illus trious. No — better still, he would join the Indians, and hunt buffaloes and go on the warpath in the mountain ranges... ...eart gave a great bound. The next instant he was out, and “going on” like an Indian; yelling, laughing, chas ing boys, jumping over the fence at risk... ... in a new device. This was to knock off being pi rates, for a while, and be Indians for a change. They were attracted by this idea; so it was not lon... ... of Rome were laid when Christ was crucified; when the Conqueror created the British empire; when Columbus sailed; when the massacre at Lexington was ...

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...ws as to the advancement of knowledge and status for the whole body of the officers of the mercantile marine. He organised for us courses of professio... ...r. Nicholas B., sub-lieutenant of 1808, lieu- tenant of 1813 in the French Army, and for a short time Officier d’Ordonnance of Marshal Marmont; afterw... ...nt; afterwards Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish Army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by th... ...orable retreat from Moscow that Mr. Nicholas B., in company of two brother officers—as to whose morality and natu- ral refinement I know nothing—bagge... ... retreat, they could not suspect the presence of stragglers from the Grand Army. The three offic- ers had strayed away in a blizzard from the main col... ...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ...e the trees of the square with all their leaves gone were like tracings of indian ink on a sheet of tissue paper. It was one of those London days that... ...but I had thought to myself that if I was to be a seaman then I would be a British seaman and no other. It was a matter of deliberate choice. He nodde...