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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...tion Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...regretted that 93 Yo n g e Coleridge Patteson devoted himself to the more remote fields abroad? I think we shall find that his judgment was right. Al... ... care of the first Bishop the multitudinous islands scattered in the South Pacific. The technical bounds of the diocese were not defined; but mat- te... ...ourney by land, no small proof of the confi- dence inspired by so recent a mariner. He was sorry to lose the sight of the further visitation, and in h... ...be “settled” (if I live) on some one of the countless islands of the South Pacific, looking after a kind of Protestant Propaganda College for the educ... ...Yo n g e tal circumstances can confine it, it recognises no human ideas of nationality, or place, or time, but embraces like the dome of heaven all th... ..., and the immediate danger of error going uncondemned—a point on which his remote life perhaps hardly enabled him to judge. All these long letters and... ...o quite relieved me from my duties as skipper, and I have no trouble about marine stores, ship- ping seamen, navigating the vessel now. I cannot be to...

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...nd spoils they have acquired, may be, above all things, desirous to have a pacific and justice-loving prince, to lead them to good order and quiet? Bu... ... farther use of the priests, and that was to give people directions in the national usages at funeral rites. 114 V olume One Numa taught them to rega... ... peace are to be preferred before those of war. For this Janus, whether in remote antiquity he were a demi- god or a king, was certainly a great lover... ...softened and charmed into a peaceful temper by the just and mild rule of a pacific prince, but even 123 Plutarch’s Lives the neighboring cities, as i... ...mand Greece, thus, as Plato says, from steady soldiers he turned them into mariners and seamen tossed about the sea, and gave occasion for the reproac... ...hey should instantly Yet out with two hundred galleys to encompass all the islands, and enclose all the straits and passages, that none of the Greeks ... ...hemistocles. He was also burdensome to the confederates, sailing about the islands and collecting money from them. Herodotus says, that, requiring mon... ...turners; those again that conveyed them to the town for use, merchants and mariners and ship- masters by sea, and by land, cartwrights, cattle-breeder... ...s yet more than in other points we may well believe it to be unlike us and remote from us. Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus...

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...And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” —Waller’ s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Common- wealth o... ..., Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To insect millions peopling ev... ...ct millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through that waste And trackless re- g... ...speak a monument for her first love, who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago.” —Ibid. “No, Sir, ’tis a Right... ...et, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large sperm whale in the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New ... ... By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ing free; Now brigh... ...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ...ments; but as for me, I am tormented with an ev- erlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ig... ...ed glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from this wide world’s remotest nooks. Pro- jecting from the further angle of the room stands a da...

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..., And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or ... ...e, Fishes of every color, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To insect millions peopling ev... ...ect millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instinct through that waste And trackless region... ...” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was piping free; Now bright,... ...itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons,... ...thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” Report of Da... ...cements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on bar barous coasts. Not ... ...ked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from this wide world’s remotest nooks. Projecting from the further angle of the room stands a dark... ...ZA, Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the Off shore Ground in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839. THIS MARBLE Is here placed by their surviving...

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...he Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope—a spread of forty five degrees of longitude. The Mississipp... ...rom Delaware, and from Itaska, and from the moun tain ranges close upon the Pacific, with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, his task finished, his pr... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...nt and lonely one. Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those remote “points;” instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and ... ... I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the win... ...ad a note book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, “points,” bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc.; but the informa tion was to be found only... ...upon the yawl’s lantern as it glides out into the gloom and dims away in the remote distance. One trip a pretty girl of sixteen spent her time in our ... ...—left him at the wheel, at the foot of 63, to run off the watch. The ancient mariner went up through the chute, and down the river outside; and up the... ...county seat of a great and impor tant county; town with a big United States marine hospital; town of innumerable fights—an inquest every day; town wh...

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...r an hour or so to take any trouble about the matter, I found myself on a swing-bridge looking down at some dark locks in some dirty water. Over again... ...RCANTILE JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack,... ...ectable cookery of potatoes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or... ...-lane to T ower-street, and thereabouts, there was often a subtle flavour of wine: sometimes, of tea. One church near Mincing-lane smelt like a druggi... ...n a bundle. The old man is a weak old man, and appeared to me to get the bed down the kitchen stairs by tumbling down with and upon it. They make thei... ...it. The drums upon the heights have gone to bed, or I know they would rattle taunts against me for having my unsteady footing on this slippery deck. T... ... in the presence of witnesses. This hand- some proposal I modestly declined, and he then embraced me, and we walked away conversing. We conversed resp... ...ear to be very much astonished by what they find on these native shores of ours. Possibly the parrots don’t know, possibly they do, that Down by the D... ...by what they find on these native shores of ours. Possibly the parrots don’t know, possibly they do, that Down by the Docks is the road to the Pacific...

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...om failed to charm forth my mite. You Scotch, who are so proud of your own nationality, must make due allow- ance for that of other folks. On the next... ... house.’ ‘It is an ancient descent,’ said I, looking with respect upon the monument. ‘I am sorry the arms have been defaced.’ It was perhaps impossibl... ...nly by a speedy return to Edinburgh, or at least by a removal to some more remote part of Scotland, that he can escape the machinations of those whose... ...en on the verge of the water, resem- bling one of those fog-banks on which mariners are said to gaze, uncertain whether it be land or atmospherical de... .... I could distinguish the brewhouse and the barn, and I heard, from a more remote building, the lowing of the cattle, and other rural sounds, announci... ...attained; since it is well known that, in Scotland, where there is so much national music, the words and airs of which are generally known, there is a... ...women also, who had been trepanned, and concealed in solitudes and distant islands in order to serve some temporary pur- pose, such violences had been... ... was the less matter.’ ‘Peace! prithee, peace, Job Rutledge,’ said honest, pacific Mr. Trumbull. ‘I wish thou couldst remember, man, that I desire to ... ...ou a repeating frigate between Summertrees and the laird! Tell that to the marines—the sailors won’t believe it. But you are right to be cautious, sin...

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...d like a turkey cock, “I as- sure you that Alan rides like—” “Like a horse marine,” said Norman. Hector and Harry both looked furious, but “June” was ... ... children will be very wild and ig- norant, and you don’t like that at the National School.” “Oh, but they are in such need, besides there will be no ... ...A tale Would rouse adventurous courage in a boy, And make him long to be a mariner, That he might rove the main. —Southey. ETHELDRED had the satisfact... ...eneath a blue cap and gold band, or, perchance, on the coral shoals of the Pacific. It was one of the quiet afternoons, when all the rest were 273 Yo... ...be a long time before I come back. They think we shall have orders for the Pacific.” “Y ou will come home our real lion,” said the doctor. “How much y... ...lp it. You know he had come before—” Any reproach to her had been entirely remote from his thoughts, and he was at once on his knee beside her, soothi... ...ng to Calcutta, he had fallen in with a party about to explore the Asiatic islands and he had accompanied them, as well as going on an expedition into... ...d, in fact, never rested till he had estab- lished a mission in his former remote station; and his brown godson, once a Brahmin, now an exemplary cler... ...ng to be tried by court-martial for liv- ing with the King of the Cannibal Islands.” “Aubrey says he had a desert island, with Jennings for his man Fr...

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...Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in the Pacific. But this was not all. More than half the seamen remaining were mor... ...me after his liberation, to leave the ves- sel clandestinely at one of the islands, but was brought back ignominiously, and again shut up. Being set a... ... up in the lawless ports of the Spanish Main, and among the savages of the islands. Like galley-slaves, they are only to be governed by scourges and c... ...n, who are occasionally found quite at home upon the savage islands of the Pacific. And, glancing at their hard lot in their own country, what marvel ... ...lors. In the middle of all were two square, wooden columns, denominated in marine architecture “Bowsprit Bitts.” They were about a foot apart, and bet... ...as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner. Within a few years past, missionaries from the Society group have ... ...th the listless, slovenly behaviour of these men; there was nothing of the national vivacity in their movements; noth- ing of the quick precision perc... ... women in the entire Society group. In short, 204 Omoo the village was so remote from the coast, and had been so much less affected by recent changes... ...description. The people of Tamai were nominally Christians; but be- ing so remote from ecclesiastical jurisdiction, their religion sat lightly upon th...

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...y to convey their sound to a stranger. In several works descriptive of the islands in the Pacific, many of the most beautiful combinations of vo- cal ... ...ir sound to a stranger. In several works descriptive of the islands in the Pacific, many of the most beautiful combinations of vo- cal sounds have bee... ... important events lately occurring at the Sandwich, Marquesas, and Society Islands, have been regarded in America and England, and indeed throughout t... ...841, sailed from New Bedford harbour in the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific Ocean and the sperm fishery. He has left very little direct informa... .... Y our delightful books carry the imagi- nation into a maritime period so remote that, often as you have been in my mind, I could never satisfy mysel... ...ed by the Commodore, hat in hand, and passing along the quarter- deck, the marine guard presented arms, while the band struck up ‘The King of the Cann... ...ioned spouse that the tailors of the fleet had evinced the gaiety of their national taste. She was habited in a gaudy tissue of scarlet cloth, trimmed... ...ey were first beheld by white men. The hostile clans, residing in the more remote sections of the island, and very seldom holding any communication wi... ... occasion I have been told that a considerable de- tachment of sailors and marines from the frigate Essex, ac- companied by at least two thousand warr...

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.... Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigat... ...days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to... ...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... ...ng all other suggestions, it becomes necessary to admit the existence of a marine animal of enormous power. “The great depths of the ocean are entirel... ... entirely unknown to us. Soundings cannot reach them. What passes in those remote depths—what beings live, or can live, twelve or fifteen miles beneat... ...g kinds, we must necessarily seek for the animal in question amongst those marine beings already classed; and, in that case, I should be disposed to a... ...alifornia to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean. The excitement caused by this news was extreme. The ship was... ...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... ...ing to the black or brown the care of forming gardens and parterres in the remote beds of the ocean. We had quitted the Nautilus about an hour and a h...

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...h. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit’s schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four tons register; sailed from San Fran- cisco towards the end of June 188... ...old life of the house and sick-room, I set forth to leeward in a trading schooner, the Equator, of a little over seventy tons, spent four months among... ...ense of its seduction, and to describe the life, at sea and ashore, of many hundred thousand persons, some of our own blood and language, all our cont... ... they were cannibals; the Directory (my only guide) was full of timid cautions; and as for the trader, whose presence might else have reas- sured me, ... ...licity of British ships, and the nearness of the States on the one hand and the colonies on the other, it may be called, and will almost certainly bec... ...t Louis Stevenson This proneness to suicide, and loose seat in life, is not peculiar to the Marquesan. What is peculiar is the wide- spread depression... ...I was aware of land again, not only on the weather bow, but dead ahead. I played the part of the judicious landsman, holding my peace till the last mo... ...ore at Taiaro, the Casco sailed by under the fire of unsuspected eyes. And one thing is surely true, that even on these ribbons of land an army might ... ... unpopularity of a late Vice-Resident had be- gun the movement of exodus, his native employes resign- ing court appointments and retiring each to his ...

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...en so tried among the inconstant squalls and currents, so often sailed for islands in the air or lain becalmed with burning heart, that they will risk... ...the busiest is now and again arrested by a great sunset; and you may be as pacific or as cold-blooded as you will, but you cannot help some emotion wh... ...ts are spoken of in hyperbolical terms of praise, and honoured with public monuments in the streets of our commercial centres. This is very bewilderin... ...rities a very peculiar attitude, to- wards the nobler and showier sides of national life. They 40 Robert Louis Stevenson will read of the Charge of B... ... in the tempered daylight of an olive-garden; and something significant or monumental in the grouping, something in the harmony of faint colour that i... ...st, such as a man may feel when he pictures to himself the fortunes of his remote descendants, or the robust old age of the oak he has planted over-ni... ...of making it fast; and yet, unless it be some marti- net of a professional mariner or some landsman with shat- tered nerves, every one of God’s creatu... ...y in the grave. It was by a hazard that we learned the conduct of the four marines of the Wager. There was no room for these brave fellows in the boat...

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...cotland near Peterhead, and the Valkyria turned her lead towards the Faroe Islands, passing between the Orkneys and Shetlands. Soon the schooner encou... ...ulty. On the 8th the captain made out Myganness, the southernmost of these islands, and from that moment took a straight course for Cape Portland, the... ... Finsen, whose appearance was as military, and disposi- tion and office as pacific, as the Governor’s. As for the bishop’s suffragan, M. Picturssen, h... ...danger of the faithful worshippers. On a neighbouring hill I perceived the national school, where, as I was informed later by our host, were taught He... ...lence reigned in all this little world at the arrival of the soup, and the national taciturnity resumed its empire even over the children. The host se... ...ocks of the transition or silurian* system. “It is evident,” I cried, “the marine deposits formed in the second period, these shales, limestones, and ... ...under, and I could hear its sounding undulations rolling far away into the remote recesses of the abyss. Whence could this noise proceed? It must be f... ...o take sound- ings just here! He has disturbed some monstrous beast in its remote den, and if we are not attacked on our voyage— I look at our guns an... ...the sea. We stood amazed, thunderstruck, at the presence of such a herd of marine monsters. They were of supernatural dimensions; the smallest of them...

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...in Christie’s catalogue as follows: “A nude woman, a native of the Society Islands, is lying on the ground beside a brook. Behind is a tropical Landsc... ... Strickland, it may seem unnecessary that I should write more. A painter’s monument is his work. It is true I knew him more intimately than most: I me... ...lle, who fled from that city on the approach of the Germans, is now in the National Gallery at Stockholm. The Swede is adept at the gentle pastime of ... ...ckneyed phrase, here he found himself. It would seem that my visit to this remote is- land should immediately revive my interest in Strickland, but th... ...across the sky . Then the wind dropped, and the sea was calm and blue. The Pacific is more desolate than other seas; its spaces seem more vast, and th... ...ric of a magic wand. With its jagged outline it is like a Monseratt of the Pacific, and you may imagine that there Polynesian knights guard with stran... ..., and, like a true Englishman, rejoicing in the spirit of the Mer- cantile Marine. There were often odd jobs to be got about the fish-market. Once the... ...etting out with I know not what fancies in his lonely soul for the unknown islands which fired his imagination. I liked the picture of him starting at... ... I had lately heard about Strickland forced on my attention. Here, on this remote is- land, he seemed to have aroused none of the detestation with whi...

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...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... ...tion of smoke-plumed chimneys, house-roofs, win- dow-panes, weather-vanes, monument and pedimental mon- sters, and omnibus umbrella. One would fair be... ...lash to the end of time if we persist in regarding the Spirit of Life as a remote Externe, who plays the human figures, to bring about this or that is... ...our yoked oxen, cab horses, beaten dogs; we have on large patches of these Islands, a Saxon popu- lation, much wanting assistance, if they are not to ... ...e secret, for redemption; if not for preservation. Victor descended on his marine London to embrace his girl, full of regrets at Fredi’s absence from ... ...o be deadened in her cold wide look; as when the storm-wind banks a leaden remoteness, leaving blown space of sky. The colonel said: ‘No, that’s not t... ...for his Rival Tongues,—and the last number was funny, with Semhians on the Pacific, impressively addressing a farewell to his cricket- bat, before he ... ...ling, threatening excess of population 392 One of Our Conquerors in these Islands, in Europe, America, all over our habitable sphere. Now that Mrs. B...

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...d for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling ... ...tely liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and t... ...OK, RAG AND BOTTLE WAREHOUSE. Also, in long thin letters, KROOK, DEALER IN MARINE STORES. In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill ... ...and a half ), is the child who contributed two and nine pence to the Great National Smithers T estimonial. Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence ... ...e young gentleman (to whom she perfectly remembered that she was allied by remote consanguinity) and trusted that he would ever do his duty in any hon... ...ng so close to it, and though there is very little else, heaven knows. The marine store merchant holds the light, and the law stationer conducts the ... ...o idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual des titution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco nuts ... ...mallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods. Her systematic manner of flying at her and pouncing on he... ...ter meadows are fresh and green, and the stream sparkles on among pleasant islands, murmuring weirs, and whispering rushes; not only does the stillnes...

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...d for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling ... ...tely liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and t... ...OK, RAG AND BOTTLE WAREHOUSE. Also, in long thin letters, KROOK, DEALER IN MARINE STORES. In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill ... ...and a half ), is the child who contributed two and nine pence to the Great National Smithers T estimonial. Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence ... ...e young gentleman (to whom she perfectly remembered that she was allied by remote consanguinity) and trusted that he would ever do his duty in any hon... ...ng so close to it, and though there is very little else, heaven knows. The marine store merchant holds the light, and the law stationer conducts the ... ...o idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual des titution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco nuts ... ...e, and darkened the old brasses in the pavement and the time and damp worn monuments, and rendered the sunshine in the little porch, where a monoto n... ...mallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods. Her systematic manner of flying at her and pouncing on he...

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... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ckles, and will spread, by a quiet but resistless influ- ence, through the islands of the seas to other lands, where the appeals of De T ocqueville fo... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...e form of the shores of the Atlantic Ocean; the other is parallel with the Pacific. The space which lies between these two chains of mountains contain... ...ad hitherto been hidden in the deep abyss.* Here and there appeared little islands perfumed with odoriferous plants, and resem- bling baskets of flowe... ...St. Lawrence to the delta of the Mississippi, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, these savages possessed certain points of resemblance which ... ... distant from Behring’s Strait, which allows of the supposition, that at a remote period they gave inhabitants to the desert continent of America. But... ... distant from Behring’s Strait, which allows of the supposition, that at a remote period they gave inhabitants to the desert continent of America. But... ...erently situated. *See the details in the Budget of the French Minister of Marine; and for America, the National Calendar of 1833, p. 228. [But the pu...

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...nd the expan- sion of horror attending them, had risen to the dignity of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the myste... ...literature, and illustrated by a plate. It occurs in a Dutch voyage to the islands of the East. The subject of the torment in that case as a woman who... ...ives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary experience, and through, a state of society so fav... ... the dispute threw the decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred, I belie... ...n. But Lord Altamont was firm in resisting this petition at that time. The remote consequence was, that by way of redressing the violated equi- libriu... ...th the English suitors, who were not the feeble voluptuaries of the Ionian Islands, that suffered themselves to be butchered as unresistingly as sheep... ...ese arid Hebrew studies, I read to her, with a beating heart, “The Ancient Mariner.” It had been first published in 1798; and, about this time (1801),... ...once established, would offer a ready opening to some measure of permanent pacification, it could not be surprising that the natural hopefulness of th... ..., and to the weight which such alli- ances would procure them in a general pacification. And hence, in the war which both combined to make upon the fo...

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...eemed to drift away imperceptibly out of this world and time, and into some remote era and old forgotten country; and so he gradually wove such a spe... ...nt derision — “Sir Kay, forsooth! Oh, call me pet names, dearest, call me a marine! In twice a thousand years shall the unholy inven tion of man la... ...at the idea. He couldn’t comprehend it; couldn’t take it in; couldn’t in any remote way conceive of it. Well, to the king, the nobles, and all the nat... ...soon as they got permission. CHAPTER XVII. A ROYAL BANQUET MADAME, SEEING ME PACIFIC AND UNRESENTFUL, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excus... ...ast was the success of it. Not right off, of course, for the native of those islands does not, as a rule, dissolve upon the early applications of a hu... ...n full canonicals. Conspicuous, both for location and personal outfit, stood Marinel, a hermit of the quack doctor species, to introduce the sick. All... ...itude of this stroke, consider these other figures: the annual expenses of a national government amount to the equivalent of a contribution of three d... ... Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 162 populations of the British Islands amounted to something less than 1,OOO,OOO. A mechanic’s average ... ...average wage was 3 cents a day, when he paid his own keep. By this rule the national government’s expenses were $90,000 a year, or about $250 a day. ...

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...t the flower-beds of suburban gardens; I would discover I was peering into remote and mysterious worlds ruled by an or- der logical indeed but other t... ...be done in a little space through the panes of his Win- dow in Thrums. The National Observer was at the climax of its career of heroic insistence upon... ...cattered. Then came the generous opportunities of the Yellow Book, and the National Observer died only to give birth to the New Review. No short story... ...,” he said. “Minnie!” he shouted hoarsely in the hall. “Yes, dear,” came a remote voice. “Had I anything in my hand when I spoke to you, dear, just no... ...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—... ...lete, was washed ashore near Torquay, and a few days later a boat from the Marine Bio- logical station, engaged in dredging off Plymouth, picked up a ... ...ed the sea. So the star, with the wan moon in its wake, marched across the Pacific, trailed the thunder-storms like the hem of a robe, and the growing... ...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 ... ...all the fish floating dying even as far as Guayaquil; everywhere along the Pacific slopes there were land-slips and swift thawings and sudden floods, ...

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................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ... 21.) faltered out a dismissal: dismissal of his last substantial man, but pacification of his scarlet-woman. Thus D’Aiguillon rose again, and culmina... ...; richer than Golconda and the treasures of the world! In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk; the Dead all slumbering round it,... ... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ... its axis; Life, like a spent steed, is panting towards the goal. In their remote apartments, Dauphin and Dauphiness stand road- ready; all grooms and... ...but the Fortunatus’ Purse he has not. Sanguine Controller-General! a whole pacific French Revolution may stand schemed in the head of the thinker; but... ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...iend, Crispin-Catiline d’Espremenil. He is returned from the Mediterranean Islands, a redhot royalist, repentant to the finger-ends;—unsettled-look- i... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singu- lar...

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...1.) faltered out a dismissal: dis- missal of his last substantial man, but pacification of his scarlet-woman. Thus D’Aiguillon rose again, and culmina... ... Parisiorum or Barisiorum) has paved itself, has spread over all the Seine Islands, and far and wide on each bank, and become City of Paris, sometimes... ...; richer than Golconda and the treasures of the world! In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk; the Dead all slumbering round it,... ... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ... its axis; Life, like a spent steed, is panting towards the goal. In their remote apartments, Dauphin and Dauphiness stand road-ready; all grooms and ... ...but the Fortunatus’ Purse he has not. Sanguine Controller-General! a whole pacific French Revolution may stand schemed in the head of the thinker; but... ...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...iend, Crispin-Catiline d’Espremenil. He is returned from the Mediterranean Islands, a redhot royal- ist, repentant to the finger-ends;—unsettled-looki... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singular (...

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...ce; but already—dating from some secret hour—al- ready in motion upon some remote line of approach. This feeling I could not assuage by sharing it wit... ...re to a much greater distance than usual. Even on such a day, however, the remote distance was hazy and indistinct, and at any other season I should h... ... direction of the public minister who presided over that department of the national administra- tion, no person could be admitted to an interview with... ...ughout the year in which the prisoners were al- lowed to celebrate a great national event: and in those days of relaxed prison management the utmost l... ...s and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary... ...ter that ever plagued me was always fresh; now hers was a present from the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic... ...ailors say, under easy sail, going, in fact, just whither and just how the Pacific breezes suggested in the gentlest of whispers. All right behind, wa... ...g to her. The condition of Kate is exactly that of Coleridge’s ‘An - cient Mariner.’ But possibly, reader, you may be amongst the many careless reader... ...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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...e of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of priv... ...respect able when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments... ...of the battles had occurred at sea, and the physical reminders of war seemed remote to the group assembled at the Capitol. In little more than a year,... ...n. I need not call into view the unlawful ness of the practice by which our mariners are forced at the will of every cruising officer from their own ... ...emolish us as a nation. Our distance from Europe and the just, moderate, and pacific policy of our Government may form some security against these dan... ...le to withdraw it. The great inter ests which the United States have in the Pacific, in commerce and in the fisheries, have also made it neces sary ... ... the parade and the inaugural ball later that day, John Philip Sousa led the Marine Corps band. The ball was held at the Smithsonian Institution’s new... ...citizens domiciled for purposes of trade in all countries and in many of the islands of the sea demand and will have our adequate care in their per s... ...s ago, the Congress has indi cated no form of government for the Philippine Islands. It has, however, provided an army to enable the Execu tive to s...

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...g about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national or local that I could lay my hands upon. Now that I have got my Ge... ... to every yawning audience that I can gather. I am grown most insufferably national, you see. I fancy it is a punishment for my want of it at ordinary... ...an think of these three deep- breasted women, living out all their days on remote hill- tops, seeing the white dawn and the purple even, and the world... ...to-night. Public servant – New Zealand. Telling us all about the South Sea Islands till I was sick with desire to go there: beautiful places, green fo... ... me about them also; it is a horrid thing for a fond architect to find his monuments received in si- lence. – Yours, R. L. S. 81 The Letters of R. L.... ...too long – but the trunk is the fun of it – everybody steals it; burglary, marine fight, life on desert island on west coast of Scotland, sloops, etc.... ...s and sand and distant hills and a bay all filled with real water from the Pacific. You will perceive that no ex- pense has been spared. I now live wi... ...to king- dom come. This is a lovely place, which I am growing to love. The Pacific licks all other oceans out of hand; there is no place but the Pacif... ...is jimmy: did I not beseech you I know not how often to find me an ancient mariner – and you, whose own wife’s own brother is one of the ancientest, d...

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...unghole with a drawbridge for the more easy caguing: or the fashion of the mariners, for the greater solace and comfort of his kidneys: or that of the... ... visits unto learned men, or to such as had been travellers in strange and remote countries. When it was full night before they retired them- selves, ... ...l take into your hands Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, Corsica, with the other islands of the Ligustic and Balearian seas. Going alongst on the left hand,... ...e we will sail eastwards, and take Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclade Islands, and set 115 Rabelais upon (the) Morea. It is ours, by St. Trenian... ... exercise, only 190 Gargantua & Pantagruel now and then he would see some mariners and lightermen a-wrestling on the quay or strand by the river-side... ...at which makes the leagues in Brittany, Delanes, Ger- many, and other more remote countries so long. Other men give other reasons for it, but this see... ...out all manner of wickedness and deformity. For proof whereof the wise and pacific Solomon could no better represent the un- speakable perfection of t... ...med unto himself the title of Law-strife-settler. He was likewise in these pacificatory negotiations so active and vigilant—for, Vigilantibus jura sub... ...gentler en- emies than they were before; but since the denunciation of the national Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly 602 Gargantua & Pant...

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...said they. Nevertheless, Gisco continued, the Republic had respected their national divisions, their customs, and their modes of worship; in Carthage ... ...were disciplined in 25 Flaubert regular troops, and the rest according to nationality or their own fancy. The Greeks ranged their tents of skin in pa... ... Hanno, he whose slackness had assisted to lose the battle of the Aegatian islands; and as to his victory at Hecatompylos over the Libyans, even if he... ...gether with the Iberians, Lusitanians, and the men of the West, and of the islands; all those who spoke Greek had asked for Spendius on account of his... ...coes all round the basin. On an island in the centre stood a house for the marine Suffet. The water was so limpid that the bottom was visible with its... ...gain, “’Tis we! ’tis we! and you too are vanquished!” No one excepting the marine Suffet might enter the admiral’ s house. So long as there was no pro... ...hen, signing to her to walk with precaution, he drew her by the arm into a remote apartment. The Negress threw herself upon the floor to kiss his feet... ...pations. Behind pressed a tattered populace. They lived without employment remote from the apartments, slept at night in the gardens, ate the refuse f... ... with two belts, he fixed it on the horns at the end of a pole in token of pacific intentions. The Carthaginian disap- peared. They waited. At last in...

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..., and would have kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating wa... ...and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case— the guillotine locked up.’ The other man spat s... ...The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up... ... time had said no more. She rose with the rest, and silently withdrew to a remote corner of the great room, where she sat herself on a couch in a wind... ...e some word for you to read, but to which he could give no shape. The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circums... ...r brother, he would have felt, even if he had not naturally been of a most pacific disposition, that to wag his tongue or lift his hand against that s... ...o; and among those flapping articles was sitting in a chair, like the last mariner left alive on the deck of a damp ship without the power of furling ... ...trees, the luxuriant grass diversified with wild flowers, the little green islands in the river, the beds of rushes, the water-lilies floating on the ... ...ow the bar itself, with a shallow break of sea over it, looked like a lazy marine monster just risen to the surface, whose form was indistinctly shown...

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... been considered heavy ground by most hunting-men, and through some of the remoter streets none but light weights could have lived long. This was the ... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ... secession. The bounty to fishermen was given to create sailors, so that a marine might be provided for the nation. I need hardly show that the nation... ...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 ... ...is scope enough for all that man- hood can do between the Atlantic and the Pacific, even though those hot, swampy cotton fields be taken away; even th... ... American citizens stretch from the States on the Atlantic to those on the Pacific. There is a population of thirty million souls. At the present mo- ... ...t to the country also. In France all let- ters are delivered free. However remote may be the posi- tion of a house or cottage, it is not too remote fo...

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...he opportunity to go as cabin boy in a whale ship, and sailed away for the Pacific. Henry remained at home in the village. At eigh teen George was a ... ...en gay and frisky. It was reveling in a fantastic and joyful episode of my remote boyhood which had suddenly flashed up in my memory—moved to this by ... .... By and by Circumstance and the Sacramento Union sent me to the Sandwich Islands for five or six months, to write up sugar. I did it; and threw in a... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...by week and month by month, on the journey, and by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it left. It was no longer a fresh e... ... a rock. Russia is very cold and tyrannical. Sicily is one of the Sandwich Islands. Hindoostan flows through the Ganges and empties into the Mediter ... ...a great white cloud rest ing upon a black speck. Once more. A race in the Pacific: Our antagonist was in her best trim. Being clear of the point, the... ...Boatswain! BOATSWAIN. Here, master; what cheer? MASTER. Good, speak to the mariners: fall to ‘t, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, besti... ...fall to ‘t, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir! ( Enter Mariners .) BOATSWAIN. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare,...

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...nt indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let ... ...hey observed the danger which immediately threat- ened the former and more remotely the latter; and being pursuaded that ample security for both could... ...nd the cabals of a third,*** had in the contemporary policy, ferments, and pacifications, of a con- siderable part of Europe, are topics that have bee... ...red and alienated from each other. The genius of republics (say they) is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of me... ...ave a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility or jus- tice? Have republics in pr... ...falls within the first descrip- tion. An insular situation, and a powerful marine, guarding it in a great measure against the possibility of foreign i... ..., and would possess all the means, requisite to the creation of a powerful marine. Impressions of this kind will naturally indicate the policy of fost... ... and would let us into the enjoyment of privileges in the markets of those islands elsewhere, from which our trade would de- rive the most substantial... ...the dominion of Spain. This situation and the vi- cinity of the West India Islands, belonging to these two pow- ers create between them, in respect to...

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...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...osition was reached. One of these officers was a Lieutenant Semmes, of the Marine Corps. I think Captain Gore, and Lieutenant Judah, of the 4th infan-... ...o have reached it. CHAPTER XIV RETURN OF THE ARMY—MARRIAGE— ORDERED TO THE PACIFIC COAST— CROSSING THE ISTHMUS—ARRIVAL AT SAN FRANCISCO MY EXPERIENCE ... ...or, and in the following spring the entire 4th infantry was ordered to the Pacific Coast. It was decided that Mrs. Grant should visit my parents at fi... ... three days’ bombardment by the navy an assault was made by the troops and marines, resulting in the capture of the place, and in taking 5,000 prisone... ...ment was certain if he refused longer to obey my order, and being somewhat remote (even if he was not protected altogether from the consequences of hi... ...g us all the North-west north of that river. A few points in Louisiana not remote from the river were held by the Fed- eral troops, as was also the mo... ...th, Washington and New Berne in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris islands, Hilton Head, Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in South Carolina and Geo... ...h, Washington, and New Bern, in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris Islands, Hilton Head, Fort Pulaski, and Port Royal, in South Carolina; Fern...

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...estricted. It is not difficult to perceive why. Maupassant is an intensely national writer. He is so intensely national in his logic, in his clearness... ...d the destinies of nations; neverthe- less, in its grandeur it has all the remoteness of an ideal. History preserves the skeleton of facts and, here a... ...ay be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a cutter, and the pearl-divers are replaced by... ...name was not in the mouths of all men. Far from it. He seemed stealthy and remote. There was about that figure the scent of the far East, like the pec... ...oes not pay. There had been a book written on that theme—an attempt to put pacificism on a material basis. Noth- ing more solid in the way of argument... ...d, dotting the duskiness of water and clouds in the Eastern board: tops of islands fringing the German shore. While I was looking at their antics amon... ...o keep it whole to an ad- vanced age. You find them in mysterious nooks of islands and continents, mostly red-nosed and wa- tery-eyed, and not even am... ...he Titanic disaster the small tribute of a blush. I ask myself whether the Marine Department of the Board of Trade did really believe, when they decid... ...than ever before. She was a ship commanded, manned, equipped—not a sort of marine Ritz, proclaimed unsinkable and sent adrift with its casual populati...