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...lked about the neighbor- ing streets. The early dusk of waning summer was coming on, but the heat was still very great. The pavements were hot even to... ... call that ‘real mean.’” “I suppose it’s all right,” said Lord Lambeth. “I want to see those pretty girls at Newport. You know, he told us the place w... ...ner list. They found a great deal of en- 18 An International Episode tertainment at the hotel, an enormous wooden structure, for the erection of whic... .... “My dear fellow,” said his companion, “you are very far gone.” PART II I n point of fact, as Percy Beaumont would have said, Mrs. Westgate disembark... ...heir opportunities for conversation were such only as were offered by the deferential London shopmen. Bessie Alden, even in driving from the station, ...

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...arts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and 5 Jules Verne Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length of sixty yards, if they attain that... ...hat it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun (perhaps because there was n... ...). The frigate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas. We were... ...kle which makes them so charming to the eye. The most beautiful are called virgin pearls, or paragons. They are formed alone in the tissue of the moll... ...an hour. But I saw noth- ing, not even the Island of Perim, with which the British Government has fortified the position of Aden. There were too many ... ...s Verne than 120 miles from Ireland. Was Captain Nemo going to land on the British Isles? No. To my great surprise he made for the south, once more co...

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...ad once been very terrible; there was a devil, who was also ex officio the British King’s enemy, and much denunciation of the wicked lusts of the fles... ...e basement and slept in the attics. The front of the house was veiled by a Virginian creeper that defied the Clayton air and clustered in untidy depen... ...g.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British employers were, of course, taking their loss out of their workpeopl... ...er, had we not achieved an atmosphere of whispering nearness, breached our virgin shyness with one another? Of course she was mine, of course I was he... ...gible confu- sions that were matter of fact to their fathers. Here were we British, forty-one millions of people, in a state of almost indescribably a... ...he sky of a magnificent sunrise, and an archipelago of gold-beached purple islands floated in a sea of golden green. The poppies too, swan-necked buds...

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...ers of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the Wes...

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...earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce o... ...especting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe,... ...ttacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in Greenland -- Castaways on the shor... ... navigators, the most intrepid explorers, and the most valorous adventurers in virgin fields, of which the annals of two thousand years afford any acc... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...plored a great extent of the coast from Hudson Bay on the north, and as far as Virginia on the south. Like his father, he was compelled to return to E... ..., and in an effort to reach it one of the vessels was wrecked near Cape de las Virgines. Two of the other vessels were severely injured, and that on w... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations...

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... 20 Belize 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bul... ...6 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34 Burkina 36 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Ca... ...ia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34 Burkina 36 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia ... ...6 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan e... ...74) 50 Christmas Island 52 Colombia 53 Comoros 54 iii Page (.'nnvjn 55 Cook Islands 57 Costa Rica 58 Cuba 59 Cyprus 61 Czechoslovakia 62 D Denmark 64... ...ances home; 26.4% unemployed (1984) Government Official name: Anguilla Type: British dependent territory Capital: The Valley Legal system: based on En... ... Antiguan Ethnic divisions: almost entirely of black African origin; some of British, Portuguese, Lebanese, and Syrian origin Religion: Anglican (pred... ...ian Ocean Terri- tory 31 British Indian Ocean Territory (continued) British Virgin Islands Type: colony administered by United Kingdom Capital: none ... ...ct to hurricanes and tropical storms Special notes: strong ties to nearby US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Population: 12,374 (July 1987), average an...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map a...

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...u will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. Engla... ...t of these Is lands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly li... ...go, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, and the stormy sea roared round them, just ... ...e back; this time, with eight hundred vessels and thirty thousand men. The British tribes chose, as their general in chief, a Briton, whom the Romans ... ...ef, a Briton, whom the Romans in their Latin language called —, but whose British name is supposed to have been Caswallon. A brave general he was, an... ...oman soldiers saw a great cloud of dust, and heard the rattle of the rapid British chariots, they trembled in their hearts. Besides a number of smalle... ..., he was crowned there, with a crown taken off the head of a statue of the Virgin Mary; and was then, according to the Irish custom of those days, car...

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... of the Algerian wars proposed to make a clean march to the capital of the British Empire at the head of ten thou- sand men; which seems a small quant... ... they flourished no trumpets, they positively guaranteed the safety of our virgins and coffers. Then the people, rather ashamed, abused the Press for ... ...d not hear my knock at your door.’ Now, could he trust her? The widow of a British officer killed nobly fighting for his country in India, was a perso... ... and tenacious Romfrey blood, he hated the title of Norman. We are English—British, he said. A family resting its pride on mere ancestry provoked his ... ... latter to the former. In India they sacrifice the wid- ows, in France the virgins.’ Roland proceeded to relate his adventure. Nevil’s inatten- tion p... ...elt the sunlight nor understood why column and campanile rose, nor why the islands basked, and boats and people moved. All were as remote little bits ... ...de- lights in his honesty, like the babe in its nakedness, the beau- tiful virgin in her innocence. So he does; but he discovers it’s time for him to ... ...evisham, Nevil.’ He drew a visionary sketch of quays, embankments, bridged islands, public buildings, magical emanations of patriotic architecture, wi... ...o-day our salt- water lake is as fine as the Mediterranean.’ ‘Omitting the islands and the Mediterranean colour, it is. I have often told you how I lo...

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... we passed St. Helena; was laid up for a time when we were off the Western Islands, but got out of bed to make his Land- fall. He managed to keep up o... ...of the fact that it was Bangkok), a bit of manoeuvring of mine amongst the islands of the Gulf of Siam had given him an unforgettable scare. Ever sinc... ...ree days’ run got out of a little barque of 400 tons somewhere between the islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam and Cape Otway on the Australian coast. I... ...aftiness and profound duplicity. The narrow seas around these isles, where British admirals keep watch and ward upon the marches of the Atlantic Ocean... ...on Bridge to the Albert Docks is to other watersides of river ports what a virgin forest would be to a garden. It is a thing grown up, not made. It re... ...er men there were ready and able to add to the trea- sure of victories the British navy has given to the nation. It was the lot of Lord Nelson to exal... ...all this glory. Exalt! the word seems to be created for the man. XLVII THE BRITISH NAVY may well have ceased to count its victories. It is rich beyond...

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... a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterl... ... that still lay in the black tangle beneath him; for to the naturalist the virgin forests of Borneo are still a wonderland full of strange ques- tions... ...ms,” he said. “Chiefly,” said I. “Anything new? I thought not. I did these islands twenty- five—twenty-seven years ago. If you find anything new here—... ...e green things… “I sold the bones to a man named Winslow—a dealer near the British Museum, and he says he sold them to old Havers. It seems Havers did... ...e the little river ran out to the sea; the thicker and deeper green of the virgin forest showed its course down the distant hill slope. The forest her... ...e little map fluttered and the voices sank. A fine story for two, stranded British wastrels to hear! Evans’ dream shifted to the moment when he had Ch... ...Did you call me a fool?” “Well, I’ve never been to a theatre in my life.” “Virgin soil.” “But I don’t know anything about it, you know.” “That’s just ... ...en death. China was lit glowing white, but over Japan and Java and all the islands of Eastern Asia the great star was a ball of dull red fire because ... ...shing by, and one had reached the sea—the limitless sea, with its thousand islands, its thousands of is- lands, and its ships seen dimly far away in t...

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...between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had... ...l right. He’s got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “S... ...ed officer of the regiment, an “unmixed” Bhil, a Companion of the Order of British India, with thirty-five years’ spotless service in the army, and a ... ...reat stars of those mild skies beheld her playing puss-in-the-corner among islands where whales are never found. All that while she smelt abominably, ... ...eh? All my men do it, and—I believe ‘em.’ “‘McRimmon,’ says I, ‘what’s her virginity to a lassie?’ “He puckered his dry face an’ twisted in his chair.... ... says he. ‘My God, the vara warld an’ a’ (But what ha’ you or me to do wi’ virginity, this late along?’ 190 Rudyard Kipling “‘This,’ I said. ‘There’s... ...uarter of the globe, beyond the most remote imagining of man—a place where islands were coloured yel- low and blue, their lettering strung across thei... ...ly that it was no good to hurry; but still he hurried desperately, and the islands slipped and slid under his feet; the straits yawned and widened, ti... ..., and when an officer once takes to old-maidism there is more hope for the virgin of seventy than for him. 247 The Day’s Work But fate sent the chang...

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...ays from Your Fathomless Deeps...........................................304 Virginia—The West..........................306 City of Ships................ ... Gray and Dim.....................................319 As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods...........................................320 Not the Pi... ...ic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! The compact! The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian! O all and each well loved by me! my int... ...age, and the hero, From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands, Long having wander’d since, round the earth having wander’d, Now... ..., forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? I hear the workman singing... ...and lock’d in its mountains, The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay, The clear sunn’d Mediterranean, an... ...ay of Biscay, The clear sunn’d Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The White sea, and the sea around Greenland. Leaves of Grass –W... ... of a sudden unlook’d for by defiles through the woods, gain’d at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns... ... he wrung his hands in anguish. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 310 Meanwhile the British manoeuvr’d to draw us out for a pitch’d battle, But we dared not ...

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... of the West and the spicelands of the East, the smiling Arcadias and blissful Islands of the Blest, — ha! ha! His laughter split the void and shocked... ... answered, beginning to unlace his moccasins; “and it ’s not hard to guess the British blood in his bed partner. As for the rest, they’re all children... ...ot many, and the world was very small. There were strange lands to the east, — islands like Akatan; so we thought all the world was islands, and did n... ...oon, when I put fish and oil in my kayak, and went away to the east. I saw many islands and many people, and I, who had lived on the edge, saw that the... ...er born. My father was white — as white as you. But you are Yankee, and he was British bred, and a gentleman’s son. And my mother was the daughter of ... ...the sun. There was no dust in the canyon. The leaves and flowers were clean and virginal. The grass was young velvet. Over the pool three cottonwoods s... ...ck out. Stamina and endurance were his to an extreme degree, and they were the virgin stamina and endurance of Youth. Sandel was certainly a coming ma... ... the ten score fighting tribes of Malaita. Mauki 353 More than his fear of the British government was Mauki’s fear of the all powerful Moongleam Soap ...

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...e greatly improved in that respect. They say the admiral’s reputation as a British sailor of the old school made him, rather his name, a great favouri... ...resaw in connection with the name of the once famous Countess Fanny in the British Isles. And thus are we stricken by the days of our youth. It is imp... ...his country, Lord Levellier sent word that he was down for a cornetcy in a British regi- ment of dragoons. Chillon came home from a garrison town, and... ...rted in dread, avoided with apprehension. Abrane let fly a mighty breath: ‘Virgin, by Jove!’ Success was a small matter to Gower Woodseer. He dis- pla... ...een fields,”’ he returned briefly. ‘The game here is child’s play.’ Urging Virgin Luck not to quit his initiatory table, the captain reluctantly went ... ...d in mantles for the night, he reported to Livia one of the great cases of Virgin Luck; described it, from the silver piece to the big heap of notes, ... ...ger warm, are colder than the deadliest catarrh wind scything across these islands. Of course she sat to left of him. In the line of the main road, he...

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...esh- old of womanhood ‘With household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty’ you might have supposed her some Hebe or young Aurora of th... ...s hurried across. ‘Senor Caballador,’ said the bishop, ‘in the name of the Virgin, I enjoin you to surrender your sword.’ ‘My lord,’ said Kate, ‘I dar... ... especially in the rainy season, the Ganges is the cock of the walk in our British orient. Else, as regards the body of water discharged, the absolute... ... a step above even that object which some four-and-twenty years ago in the British Museum struck me as simply the sublimest sight which in this sight-... ...heir interests, which has ever marked our too haughty and Caliph-Omar-like British gov- ernment, lay in the circumstance that the glasses of the ap- p... ...arful way that he did. But, again, we beg pardon, and entreat the earth of Virginia to lie light upon the remains of John Woolman; for he was an Israe... ...since, dukes or no dukes, to the rest of Christendom, to us of the Channel Islands you will always be transported felons.’ There is therefore a good r...

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... war against the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not b... ...ayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating dis- cussi... ...ce with an unrevolutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterly opposed. Walsh’s “World Rebuilt” is a good ex... ...retain the residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independent. The pra... ...Peru, Brazil are all of them also in America. Or else we have to call them Virginians, Californians, New Englanders, and so forth. Their legal and nom... ...licy towards the unfortunate Greek republicans, with her eyes on the Greek islands and Greece in Asia. Is it not time that these base imputations were... ...rs: isolation from militarist pressure for a century and a quarter, a vast virgin continent, plenty of land, freedom from cen- tralization, freedom fr...

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...bey, Mrs. Shonts,” said Sophie, feeling his unrest as he drank the loathed British tea. Mrs. Shonts smiled, and took them in hand. She wrote widely an... ...ild- ing pillars to keep ‘em out is purely a Cypriote trick, un- worthy of British bees. In the third, if you trust a Death’s Head, he will trust you.... ...me.” But Melissa had already risen clear, and was heading for a breadth of virgin white clover, which to an overtired bee is as soothing as plain knit... ...ayer Tong Huk & Co.) taking water and sinking in snow-storm South McDonald Islands. No wreckage re- covered. Messages and wills of crew at all A. B. C... ...nded, him both ways. You see, he had slaved and exposed slaves for sale in British territory. That meant the double fine if I could get it out of him.... ...le, and they threw up their heads and bayed at the sun; women, mothers and virgins, shrilled shriek upon mounting shriek, and slapped 165 Kipling the...

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...y any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep the whole length of Washington: Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue. But Pennsyl... ... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ..., perhaps, a little tinged with 21 Trollope Southern proclivities. On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a country- house called Arlington Heig... ...the river, and that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti... ...fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the British islands. Under such circumstances and with such a lesson, could it be expec... ...now go over that ques- tion again. I then divided the inhabitants of those islands into three classes—the white, the black, and the colored, taking a ...

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...nked at the Queen Elizabeth that it had its head-quarters in the Chan- nel Islands, and thence was a most formidable foe to mer- chant vessels on the ... ...irs, and a rugged woodcut of a very tall St. Ursula, with a crowd of pigmy virgins, not reaching higher than the ample hem of her petticoat. ‘Did Aunt... ...d would probably have decided against the syrup if it had been nothing but virgin honey. She was one who fully be- lieved that her dear Queen Jeanne h... ... his hat into the air, and was so near astonishing the donjon walls with a British hurrah, that Berenger had to put his hand over his mouth and strang...

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... Penobscot, having a more or less constant view of the river, and the Indian islands in it, for they retain all the islands as far up as Nickatow, at ... ...Oldtown. Learning that there were several wigwams here, on one of the Indian islands, we left our horse and wagon, and walked through the forest half ... ... to be gone a month. “Well, Louis, suppose you get to the Point [to the Five Islands, just below Mattawamkeag], to camp, we walk on up the West Branch... ... the country is virtually unmapped and unexplored, and there still waves the virgin forest of the New World. Chesuncook 51 Chesuncook A T 5 P. M., Se... ...e surface. Afterwards, the prevailing fences were log ones, with sometimes a Virginia fence, or else rails slanted over crossed stakes, — and these zi... ...th, but generally the north and northwest horizon about the St. John and the British boundary was comparatively level. Ansell Smith’s, the oldest and ... ...n wood sorrel), Aster acuminatus, Pyrola secunda (one sided pyrola),Medeola Virginica (Indian cucumber root), smallCircæa (enchanter’s nightshade), a...

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...ziness and spasms of fe- rocious activity produced by terror. But in these islands we muddled through. Nature gave us a longer credit than she gave to... ...e gave us a longer credit than she gave to France or Germany or Russia. To British centenar- ians who died in their beds in 1914, any dread of having ... ...galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum itself was saved only by a hair’s breadth. The sincerity of ... ... and even German engineering, as malignant abominations stand- ing towards British and French chemistry and so forth in the relation of heaven to hell... ...atre ever built could touch the fane at Rheims: no actress could rival its Virgin in beauty, nor any operatic tenor look otherwise than a fool beside ...

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... on the wandering foam: I and you! THE ROSE 37 I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and So... ...d him who sold tillage, and house, and goods, And sought through lands and islands numberless years, Until he found, with laughter and with tears, A w... ... THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY I I SAW a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. ... ...pire stood appalled: It dropped the reins of peace and war When that fierce virgin and her Star Out of the fabulous darkness called. II In pity for man... ...For children born of her pain. Children dazed or dead! When she in all her virginal pride First trod on the mountain’s head What stir ran through the ... ... say, At a beanfeast or a banquet, That all must hang their trust Upon the British Empire, Upon the Church of Christ. The ghost of Roger Casement Is b... ...themes? First that sea rider Oisin led by the nose Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams, Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose, Themes ...

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...rtholomew’s, procured for the Prince of Or- ange, the Admiral Coligny, the British Queen Elizabeth, and the Protestant princes of Ger- many, supplies ... ...o carry them into effect, he sought in person at Loretto the favour of the Virgin, and received the apostolic benediction in Rome at the feet of Cleme... ...w which he had made at Loretto and at Rome, to his generalissima, the Holy Virgin, to extend her worship even at the risk of his crown and life. With ... ..., and Chris- tian IV., defeated in Germany, had sought ref- uge in his own islands; but the Baltic checked the further progress of the conquerors. The... ...or the safe arrival of his fleet and his army. He landed his troops on the Islands of Wollin and Usedom; upon his approach, the imperial garrisons aba... ..., which outnumbered that of the enemy by 3000, and upon the promise of the Virgin Mary, who had appeared to him in a dream, and given him the stronges...

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...e seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Mic...

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...that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains sti... ...traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of C... ...ch a subject, are but a drop in the bucket. And we find in his book a vast virgin ignorance of the life and prospects of America; every view partial, ... ...t once was me) wading there in butterburrs; and wonder at the instancy and virgin freshness of that memory; and be pricked again, in season and out of... ...ached beyond its fences; over the top of the first brae the ground was all virgin, the world all shut out, the face of things unchanged by any of man’... ...ise in a large way of practice over both England and Scotland, nor had any British engineer anything approaching their experience. It was about this n... ... life, and humours the caprices of the tyrant. But the potentate, like the British in India, pays small regard to the character of his willing client,... ...but it is an old, insu- lar, home-bred staginess; not French, domestically British; not of to-day, but smacking of O. Smith, Fitzball, and the great a...