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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...ite man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instructions while dying -- Finding of a skeleton i... ... Caught by a terrible storm and driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands... ...diles with serpents -- Descriptions which he gives of the creatures -- How the natives capture them -- The Tartar robbers -- Means they employ to prev... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ... or to perform any other labors which he might desire. The country was densely populated, and Cortez was offered such aid that in a short while a suff... ...pulation was not less than 500,000 souls, the adjacent district was numerously populated, and every advantage was upon the side of the Mexicans for an... ...e Philippines, first anchoring off the shore of four islands that were thickly populated. But it was not deemed prudent to venture on shore, as the ap...

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...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ture, too, is valuable or not valuable at different times and in different places. Bribery in one situation is OK, in another it is not. ―Pe... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...Did Moses actually exist? Could he write? If he wrote did he write in his native tongue of Egyptian? If he wrote in Egyptian did he write the Pentat... ...ristianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in lait... ...e gods or goddesses, such as gods of the harvest, hunt, or war. ―The native Americans in North America were generally pantheistic, while the Sou... ...special interest groups, like oil companies, farmers, unions and even the Native Americans. We admit that large campaign contributions can make the ... ...s of every child under 18 are given $150 a month, and in the more sparely populated areas an additional $50. There are also substantial tax deduction...

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...d the perimeters of these male territories, and come running in to see if the native pride is weak enough to be chased or killed off. The entire lif... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ... When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It was a ver... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ... are some of the factors involved in why we first packed ourselves into denser populated areas; rather than spreading out. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS ... ...ame from. The coast of the Namib-Bi-man Desert is called the Skeleton Coast: populated by ships wrecked by the fogs, treacherous currents, and weste... ...ntinual strife between tribes, villages, and bands, regardless of how sparsely populated the area is. Was warfare a training ground for developing h... ...at corporation… even if you live in Tahiti and the plant you are raising is a native-grown plant on that island. Even if that plant has existed ther...

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... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...Not only because he had been newly appointed, but primarily because he was an American Cardinal, and the mood in the Vatican was to return the Papac... ...he had spoken to his father, his proper Italian turned automatically into his native Sicilian dialect. Father Antonio walked directly through the ... ...co he could lead his double life. He loved being close to the people, and his native language, which for the most part he had kept hidden. The warm ... ...ardens to a blue tranquil ocean. Aside from the women, and being close to his native language, it was the ocean that calmed his mind and body and re... ..."Do you think, over the years, that I have not recruited many friends in high places? You taught me well, Uncle." "That scares me, Michael." "It ... ..." "These drug dealers are very sophisticated. They've got political moles in places you wouldn't believe," Radcliff said. "I'm sure that Michael ha... ...egan casting long shadows, as the motorcade wound its way through the densely populated city. Military soldiers were posted all along the route. Whe...

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...l homes for the excess world population? 5 —“Not at all. There are a few places on Mars and Venus that might be suitable for underground cities. ... ... Poland or Venezuela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,00... ...-century. Thank goodness for the nearly 50 countries that are reducing their native populations. Countries like Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea... .... The politically correct idea that Jews and Asians should be kept in lowly places has given way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outper... ...ough to go around and give everyone the equivalent income of today’s average American or Brit. The other day I mentioned the wealth of the world when... ...urg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would they stand st... ...alent number of roads for a world population of 50 billion, if the sparsely populated U.S. kept an equivalent percentage of people it would have near... ...gladesh killing over a million people, still Bangladesh is the most densely populated large country in the world with over 1000 people per square ki... ...ive to make the world a better place. “I’m driven by that ancient Native American reminder that ‘We have not inherited this world from our...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...roquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, natives of Colombia and Peru, the Carib in the Lesser Antilles (... ...rom Popayan, Colombia, the denizens of the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Ce... ...T be different or even that it is desirable that it should be different. In an over-populated world, sterility might be the desirable thing - or eve... ...upled with a growing paranoia and siege mentality in an increasingly hostile world, populated by hackers, criminals, terrorists, and plain whackos. ... ...ory kin (that belong to the same matriline or patriline). In certain societies (the Native American or the Chinese) it is sufficient to carry the sa... ...redictions yielded by the theory) leads to a proliferation of categories, each one populated by sparse specimen. Species and genera abound. The wor...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...roquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, natives of Colombia and Peru, the Carib in the Lesser Antilles (... ...rom Popayan, Colombia, the denizens of the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Ce... ...T be different or even that it is desirable that it should be different. In an over-populated world, sterility might be the desirable thing - or eve... ...upled with a growing paranoia and siege mentality in an increasingly hostile world, populated by hackers, criminals, terrorists, and plain whackos. ... ...ory kin (that belong to the same matriline or patriline). In certain societies (the Native American or the Chinese) it is sufficient to carry the sa... ...redictions yielded by the theory) leads to a proliferation of categories, each one populated by sparse specimen. Species and genera abound. The wor...

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...r BAILLE, Governor and President of Executive Council (since 1983) Suffrage: native born, resident before separation from St. Christopher and Nevis, o... ...ces Member of: FAO, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDE Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTER... ....1% Anglican, 26.0% Roman Catholic, 24.3% other Christian Language: English, native languages Infant mortality rate: 10/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: ... ... Europe, DAC, ECE, EFTA, EMA, ESRO (ob- server), FAO, GATT, IAEA, IDE Inter- American Development Bank, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, In... ...ICOM, CDB, Common- wealth, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IDE Inter-American De- velopment Bank, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAS, PAHO... ...ystem of urban facilities in Djibouti and radio-relay sta- tions at outlying places; 7,300 telephones (2.4 per 100 popl.); 2 AM, 1 FM, 2 TV stations; ... ...io Muni, primarily Fang; less than 1,000 Europeans, mostly Spanish Religion: natives all nominally Christian and predominantly Roman Catholic; some pa... ...ronment: mountainous interior is isolated, nearly inaccessible, and sparsely populated; late spring droughts often followed by severe flooding Special... ...ern Sahara question with Mauritania; Spain controls two coastal presidios or places of sover- eignty (Ceuta, Melilla) Climate: Mediterranean, becoming...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...talked over their liquor as men who had power and unquestioned ac- cess to places of trust and profit. The magazine writer discussed theories of gover... ...onshire; deli- cate and of gracious seeming those who live in the pleasant places of London; fascinating for all their demureness the damsels of Franc... ... It needs no little golden badge swinging from the watch-chain to mark the native son of the golden West, the country- bred of California. Him I love ... ... The press complains of the waywardness of the alien. The Irishman and the native Californian in their hours of discontent use the revolver, not once,... ...wned on me for a ten-cent piece. Later he took it upon himself to pity the natives of India. “Heathens,” he called them—this woolly one, whose race ha... ...lings for half- crown cigar-cases. When the country fills up to a decently populated level a few million people who are not aliens will be smitten wit...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...ng locked doors, and on forcing a passage into all kinds of out of the way places where there is no thor oughfare; sending wild stewards, with elfin ... ...ce of things left far away; put on the well remembered aspect of favourite places dearly loved; and even people them with shadows. Streets, houses, ro... ...ful operation among us for some years past. America, as a new and not over populated country, has in all her prisons, the one great advantage, of bein... ...venge themselves upon the decent old restraints of home), they surpass any native specimens that came within my range of observation: and I often grew... ...rospect, we took possession of our new quarters with much pleasure. If the native packets I have already described be un American Notes – Dickens 16... ...ter of this river while we were upon it. It is considered wholesome by the natives, and is something more opaque than gruel. I have seen wa ter like ...

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...been from year to year elected; when we remember the position of the newly populated States from which the members have been sent, and the absence thr... ...ians than can that of the Havana to the men of Cuba, or of Calcutta to the natives of India. It has been a repetition of the old story, told over and ... ...use the white man could not work under the tropical heats, and because the native Indian would not work. The latter people has been, or soon will be, ... ...are his virtues. Dirt, dis- honesty, and morning drinks are his vices. All native American women are intelligent. It seems to be their birthright. In ... ...ates should take a part. Now there are thirty-four States. The territories populated by American citizens stretch from the States on the Atlantic to t... ...f that manumission shall reach the mil- lion of whites by whom Virginia is populated; or if not that million in its integrity, then that other million...

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...ation, my own appearance was calculated to excite curiosity. A robe of the native cloth was thrown over my shoulders, my hair and beard were uncut, an... ... short tacks until morning, we then ran in and sent a boat ashore with the natives who had brought me to the ship. Upon its return, we made sail again... ...ere said to be unsound; the stand- ing rigging was much worn; and, in some places, even the bulwarks were quite rotten. Still, she was tolerably tight... ...fres, and the quality of the coffee to be drunk in Muscat; and about these places, and a hundred others, he had more anecdotes than I can tell of. The... ...se articles, they merely wore the ordinary costume of their race—a slip of native cloth about the loins. Indecorous as their behaviour was, these wor... ...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ... pair must have scampered off to the inte- rior since it is now so thickly populated by their wild prog- eny. The herds are the private property of Qu...

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... not,” he said, “certainly like going to the play, or any of those sort of places,” but he did not like the idea of going at all. Do you think that th... ...eet high, by little holes which we cut with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter-... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...e Samoan or Navi- gators’ Islands, in which were educated young men of the native races to be sent to the isles to prepare the way for white men. Very... ...te man. Moreover, the language was no easier to them than to him, as their native speech is entirely different from the Melanesian; which is besides b... ...uld be impossible, besides which he knew that no Church takes root without native clergy, and he therefore intended bringing boys to New Zealand, and ... ...hat a tropical climate and primeval forests, etc., can bestow, and thickly populated with an in- telligent and, as I imagine, tolerably docile race, o... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...ad been away from France five years, would not be sorry to set foot on his native soil again. Perhaps they would go as far as Paris, and it would do h... ...mbay. Two men were promenading up and down the wharves, among the crowd of natives and strangers who were sojourn- ing at this once straggling village... ...rved up to him, the land- lord especially recommended a certain giblet of “native rab- bit,” on which he prided himself. Mr. Fogg accordingly tasted t... ...the Cani, one of the branches of the Ganges. The guide avoided in- habited places, thinking it safer to keep the open country, which lies along the fi... ...rt of four-wheeled carriage, drawn by two horses, in which they took their places and were driven away. No one spoke during the twenty minutes which e... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ... and several hotels adorned with pavilions. The place did not seem thickly populated. The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the ...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...n Eu- rope, therefore, that it should insist upon and secure respon- sible native ownership of every newspaper and news and book distributing agency, ... ...won- derful an opportunity for a cleaning-up and sweeping-out of those two places, and for a profitable new start in British education. The cessation ... ..., must be either reduced to the po- sition of a study supplementary to the native tongue, or brought up to an honest level of efficiency. French and G... ...actories—there is a not inconsiderable list of dead and wounded from those places—have killed for ever the poor argument that women should not vote be... ...g ambitions and traditions, it is fairly obvious that such interna- tional places would be best under the joint control of, and form a basis of union ... ...are powerful links. But both France and Britain are old countries, thickly populated, with a great and ancient finish and completeness, full of im- pl...

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...is not a fictitious name nor place in the whole volume; but that names and places are literally given, and that every transaction therein described ac... ...im the tribute of their admiration; when he accomplishes this elevation by native energy, guided by prudence and wisdom, their admiration is increased... ...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...rism—if slavery can be honored with such a distinction—vault into the high places of the most advanced and painfully acquired civilization. Ward and G... ...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...nly would his own history have had another termina- tion, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist th... ... po- sition he has described in the following words: “Aliens are we in our native land. The fundamental prin- ciples of the republic, to which the hum... ...county town of that county, there is a small district of coun- try, thinly populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn... ...only too much credit, not to my admitted Anglo-Saxon paternity, but to the native genius of my sable, unprotected, and unculti- vated mother—a woman, ...

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...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...witchback that followed the ups and downs of the ruins. It is not in these places that one must look for the real destruction of modern war. The real ... ... eye, mountains as high as Snowdon. But the Italians of such beautiful old places and Vicenza, Marostica, and Bassano could watch the Austrian shells ... ... man enterprises and German political influence against the development of native Italian business; that their merchants are not bona-fide individuals... ... always to be happening in this incredible war. This man was, I suppose, a native officer of some cav- alry force from French north Africa. He was a h... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ... not accustomed to read books or talk shop, in the Boer war. In the thinly populated war region of South Africa the difficulties of forc- ing entrench... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ...mous dis- traction from thought. And against thought there also fights the native indolence of the human mind. The human mind, it seems, was originall...

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... in any way concerned in public life to feel that the highest ambition any American can possibly have will be gratified just in proportion as he raise... ...ong men of great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American ... ...ncoln: V ol One the leader, Lincoln, at least should remain a real, living American. No matter how clearly, how directly, Lincoln has shown himself in... ...ublic utility of internal improvements. That the poor- est and most thinly populated countries would be greatly benefited by the opening of good roads... ...and join mine, this being the case it was agreed that they should exchange places and answer to each other’s names—as it was ex- pected we all would b... ...trees upon every road- side, and in numbers almost sufficient to rival the native Spanish moss of the country as a drapery of the forest. Turn then to... ...o the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? Never! Towering... ...bled away that temple must fall unless we, their descendants, supply their places with other pillars, hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason. Pass...

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...ng the rulers of states and the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifest... ...be as that….’ By that phrase he meant a kind of clairvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its h... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ... was a great man, was he? Well, in a law-court great men were put in their places. ‘We want to know has the plaintiff added anything to this 35 H G W... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ..., from the people who were emerging from the small theatres and other such places of entertain- ment which abounded in that thoroughfare. This was an ... ...ut I saw how inevitable that was, how certainly if the richest had changed places with the poorest, that things would have been the same. What else ca... ...nished, industry was completely disorganised and every city, every thickly populated area was starving or trembled on the verge of starvation. Most of...

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...HIS VOLUME will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the sub ject of its author’s reminiscences, from the Auth... ...s. This Book is a series of faint reflections—mere shadows in the water—of places to which the imaginations of most people are attracted in a greater ... ...scavengered qualities of a for eign town, seemed grafted, there, upon the native miseries of a manufacturing one; and it bears such fruit as I would ... ...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...and slept with, by an old man named Antonio, and his son; two burnt sienna natives with naked legs and feet, who wear, each, a shirt, a pair of trouse... ...he wet cold mist that enshrouded the town; and, before noon, the driver (a native of Mantua, and sixty years of age or thereabouts) began to ask the ... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...locked up nightly, when the clock strikes eight—a miserable place, densely populated, and reeking with bad odours, but where the people are industriou...