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...ights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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...THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO THE SEA AND THE OBSTACLES WHICH STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGE... ...MPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Centur... ...Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commer... ... human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great p... ...t the door of knowledge -- Tales of goblins damned -- The hand of Satan on the sea - - Beliefs of the middle ages -- The awe of boundless perspective ... ...decided to whom is due the honor of discovering New Guinea, Java, Sumatra, the Celebes, or the Continent of Australia. The Chinese certainly had knowl... ... of November, and five days later anchored at Crab Island, which is one of the Celebes. This island was found to be uninhabited, but afforded abundanc... ... known to seize people in their boats." From Ceram, Bougainville sailed to the Celebes, and thence to Java, stopping, however, at several other island...

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...o, Egiptujo, Palestino, Francujo, Belgujo. Unua prez. de ES de Southend-on-Sea, 1926. Unua sekr. de Rotaria E Amikaro, 1928. Unua prez. de Interligo T... ...ton. Parto de la eksiĝintaj anoj starigis en 1930 la Socialista E-asocion (SEA), kiu pretendis daŭrigi la tradicion de LEA, akceptante kiel membrojn ĉ... ... deĝiaj membroj forlasis la asocion kaj starigis la Socialistan E Asocion (SEA); alia parto restis sen nacia kunligo. Proks. samtempe komenciĝis en SA... ... Reformklubo de S. Kasisto de la fama S. Wednesday Kriketa Klubo. Prez. de SEA dum 14 jaroj. Prez. de EF de Y orkshire, 1921. Prez. de BEA, 1922-31; n... ...sto. Nask 16 jul. 1903, mortis 9 marto 1932. E-isto de 1925. Komitatano de SEA (Shanghai). Propagandis energie en Chinking kaj organizis tie asocion. ... ...dis kaj red. La Pioniroĝis sia foriro el H. en 1907. Del. de UEA en Totok (Celebes), Tokyo, Osaka, kaj nun en Sandakan, Norda Borneo. Artikoloj kaj ra...

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...g 20 March 1984, $210 million, about 63% of central government budget Ionian Sea Sec rtf ionil map V Geography Total area: 28,750 km 2 ; land area: 27... ... Land boundaries: 716 km total Coastline: 362 km Maritime claim: Territorial sea: 15 nm Boundary disputes: none; Kosovo question with Yugoslavia; Nort... ...tion Special notes: strategic location on Strait of Otranto linking Adriatic Sea to Mediter- ranean Sea Population: 3,085,985 (July 1987), average ann... ...ending 31 December 1986, 1 billion leks; 10.6% of total budget Mediterranean Sea Set rt|ioiul mip VII Geography Total area: 2,381,740 km 2 ; land area... ...and boundaries: 6,260 km total Coastline: 998 km Maritime claim: Territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: arid to semiarid; mild, wet winters with hot, dry sum... ...ra 5,471 km, Java and Madura 820 km, Kalimantan portion of Borneo 10,460 km, Celebes 241 km, and Irian Jaya 4,587 km Pipelines: crude oil, 2,450 km; r... ... Apard^ 'Luzon South MAN China Sea Philippine Sea Mindanao Set refioiulmaplX Celebes Sea Geography Total area: 300,000 km 2 ; land area: 298,170 km 2 ...

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...Excerpt: In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the...

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........... 53 THE CRAB THAT PLAYED......................................................................................................... 64 WITH THE SEA ............................................................................................................................. 64 THE CAT THAT WALKED............................................................................

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................................................................. 64 WITH THE SEA .......................................................................... ...ies Just So Stories by Ruyard Kipling HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT I N THE SEA, once upon a time, O my Best Be- loved, there was a Whale, and he ate f... ...e really truly twirly- whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth—so! Till at last there was only one small fish le... ...h his mouth—so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’... .... ‘Nice but nubbly.’ ‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail. ‘One at a time is enough,’ said the ‘Stute Fish... ...d fallen in the sea, and they became the most beautiful islands of Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and the rest of the Malay Archi- pelago, and you ca...

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...ds. Once before, some three years ago, when I published “The Mirror of the Sea,” a volume of impressions and memories, the same re- marks were made to... ...stood the kind of thrift they recommend. I wanted to pay my tribute to the sea, its ships and its men, to whom I remain indebted for so much which has... .... Having matured in the surroundings and under the special con- ditions of sea life, I have a special piety toward that form of my past; for its impre... ...giance, I may safely say that through the blind force of circumstances the sea was to be all my world and the merchant service my only home for a long... ...or a long succession of years. No wonder, then, that in my two exclusively sea books— ”The Nigger of the Narcissus,” and “The Mirror of the Sea” (and ... ...ous ghosts. I had heard of him in a place called Dongola, in the Island of Celebes, when the Ra- jah of that little-known seaport (you can get no anch... ... my canvas sling?—he’s carried it off. I want it now, at once, to land two Celebes cows.” Since Dongola we had on board a pair of the pretty little is...

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...ds. Once before, some three years ago, when I published “The Mirror of the Sea,” a volume of impressions and memories, the same re- marks were made to... ...ood the kind of thrift they recommended. I wanted to pay my tribute to the sea, its ships and its men, to whom I remain indebted for so much which has... ...le. Having matured in the surroundings and under the special conditions of sea-life, I have a special pi- ety towards that form of my past; for its im... ...ance, I may safely say that through the blind force of cir- cumstances the sea was to be all my world and the merchant service my only home for a long... ... a long succes- sion of years. No wonder then that in my two exclu- sively sea books, “The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’” and “The Mirror of the Sea” (and... ...ous ghosts. I had heard of him in a place called Dongola, in the Island of Celebes, when the Rajah of that little-known seaport (you can get no anchor... ...t my canvas sling—he’s carried it off. I want it now, at once, to land two Celebes cows.” Since Dongola we had on board a pair of the pretty little is...

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...ame out on the verandah for the first look westward, Sumatra way, over the sea, she seemed as fresh and sparkling as a dewdrop. But a dewdrop is evane... ...hands with tapering fingers. I don’t know whether she was actually born at sea, but I do know that up to twelve years of age she sailed about with her... ...ounding-board) was really astonishing. It thundered sweetly right over the sea. Jasper Allen told me that early of a morning on the deck of the Bonito... ...at Allen was sweet on his girl; the fowls of the air and the fishes of the sea, most of the traders in the Archi- pelago, and all sorts and conditions... ...was then all black and enigmatical, and very dirty; a tarnished gem of the sea, or, rather, a neglected work of art. For he must have been an artist, ... ...had to put up a few to help me in and out of the rivers. Early this year a Celebes trader becalmed in a prau was watching him at it. He steamed the gu... ...up Ternate altogether, steamed north in view of the mountain- ous coast of Celebes, and then crossing the broad straits took up her station on the low...

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... gnant moments. Neither in my mind nor in my heart had I then given up the sea. In truth I was clinging to it desperately, all the more desperately be... ...f an experience that, both in thought and emotion was unconnected with the sea, and I suppose that part of my moral being which is rooted in consis- t... ...as perpetuated in the game of poker—which became popular in the capital of Celebes from that time—and in a power- ful cocktail, the recipe for which i... ...annon. Through the big windows and the open doors the salt dampness of the sea, the vague smell of mould 11 Joseph Conrad and flowers from the garden... ...deep as an abyss; discreet as the grave. 15 Joseph Conrad CHAPTER TWO THE SEA, perhaps because of its saltness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet ... ...hens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants’ soul. The old sea; the sea of many years ago, whose servants were devoted slaves and went...

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...ween the lines of those short para- graphs—sunshine and the glitter of the sea. A strange name wakes up memories; the printed words scent the smoky at... ...ets scattered through the calm of noonday lie upon the level of a polished sea, like a handful of emeralds on a buckler of steel. There are faces too—... ...hold that, shaped like a young moon, lay ignored between the hills and the sea. From the deck of our schooner, anchored in the middle of the bay, he i... ...ed only by the sky. And really, looking at that place, landlocked from the sea and shut off from the land by the pre- cipitous slopes of mountains, it... ...re tortuously than any man of his race I knew. He was an adventurer of the sea, an outcast, a ruler—and my very good friend. I wish him a quick death ... ...erred to talk of his native country—a small Bugis state on the is- land of Celebes. I had visited it some time before, and he asked eagerly for news. ...

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... did; then he drew back, thinking that now its course was free down to the sea, and he envied the lot of that inanimate thing now growing small and in... ...kness. As he lost sight of it altogether he began to wonder how far out to sea it would drift. Would the current carry it north or south? South, proba... ...rent carry it north or south? South, probably, till it drifted in sight of Celebes, as far as Macassar, perhaps! Macassar! Almayer’s quickened fancy d... ...n or desperate cut-throats, recognised as “the Rajah-Laut”—the King of the Sea. Almayer had heard of him before he had been three days in Macassar, ha... ...r! That was the fact placing old Lingard so much above the common crowd of sea-going adventurers who traded with Hudig in the daytime and drank champa... ...nd barely escaping with life from the cruel grip of this sunny and smiling sea; others got discouraged; and for many years the green and peaceful-look...

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...rto Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria — Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul’s Rocks, non-volcanic — Sin- gular Incr... ...bits of a Diodon — Pelagic Confervae and Infusoria — Causes of discoloured Sea. After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her M... ...ape de Verd archipelago. The neighbourhood of Porto Praya, viewed from the sea, wears a desolate aspect. The volcanic fires of a past age, and the sco... ...f this climate, is one of great interest; if, indeed, a person, fresh from sea, and who has just walked, for the first time, in a grove of cocoa-nut t... ...ntering the harbour, a perfectly horizontal white band, in the face of the sea cliff, may be seen running for some miles along the coast, and at the h... ...pelago, but all speak the same language: we saw the inhabitants of Borneo, Celebes, Java, and Sumatra. In colour they resemble the Tahitians, from who...

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...s, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some sea- son or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical inc... ...rtant part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical sea- sons of extreme cold or drought, I believe to be the most effective of... ...-water basins, taken together, make a small area compared with that of the sea or of the land; and, consequently, the competition between fresh-water ... ...the coast. So with insects, Wollaston is convinced that residence near the sea affects their colours. Moquin- Tandon gives a list of plants which when... ...colours. Moquin- Tandon gives a list of plants which when growing near the sea-shore have their leaves in some degree fleshy, though not elsewhere fle... ...his head in regard to the great Malay Archipelago, which is traversed near Celebes by a space of deep ocean; and this space separates two widely disti...

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..., dug from the bowels of the earth, and brought to him, perhaps, by a long sea and a long land-carriage, all the other utensils of his kitchen, all th... ...of industry than what land-carriage alone can afford it, so it is upon the sea-coast, and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every ... ...but the coun- try which lies round about them, and separates them from the sea-coast, and the great navigable rivers. The extent of the market, theref... ...h American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the sea-coast or the banks of the navigable rivers, and have scarce anywhere ex... ...irst civilized, were those that dwelt round the coast of the Mediterranean sea. That sea, by far the greatest inlet that is known in the world, having... ...of China and Japan, of Tonquin, Mal- acca, Cochin-China, and the island of Celebes, are frequently to be seen in its port. Such advantageous situation...

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...having her title. Miss Dunstable swore that she would wed none but a South Sea Islander; and to Mark was offered the income and duties of Bishop of Sp... ...t the mouth speaketh. But he spoke to an impatient listener. ‘D— the South Sea Islanders, ’ said Mr Sowerby. ‘You’ll have it all your own way in a few... ...gs? And then, when he had duly marked the path of the line through Borneo, Celebes, and Gilolo, through the Macassar Strait and the Molucca passage, M... ... of civilization—yes, my friends, the process of civilization? These South Sea islanders have all that a kind Providence can bestow on them; but that ... ...mething about Sundays, I believe. ’ ‘She hoped you would not put the South Sea Islanders up to Sabbath travelling, ’ said Mr Sowerby. ‘And specially b... ...ybody except the country publicans, and had of course destroyed the London sea- son among other things. Mrs Harold Smith had only just managed to catc...