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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 ... ...es which they offered were skins of foxes, deer, coons, martens, polecats, sea-otters, bows, arrows, spears, wooden visors of hideous features, and c...

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... In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hi...

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...the Autumnal Moon A Mathematical Problem To the Rev. George Coleridge I II III IV Sonnet: On Quitting School for College Sonnet: To the River Otter On a Discovery Made Too Late The Eolian Harp Lines in the Manner of Spenser Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Bi...

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...y 33 nature’s balance. “In 1991, an orca—a killer whale—was seen eating a sea otter. o rcas and otters usually coexist peacefully. So, what hap- pen... ... nature’s balance. “In 1991, an orca—a killer whale—was seen eating a sea otter. o rcas and otters usually coexist peacefully. So, what hap- pened? ... ... herring were also declining. o rcas don’t eat those fish, but seals and sea lions do. And seals and sea lions are what orcas usually eat, and thei... ... and their popula- tion had also declined. So deprived of their seals and sea lions, orcas started turning to the playful sea otters for dinner. So ... ...d of their seals and sea lions, orcas started turning to the playful sea otters for dinner. So otters have vanished because the fish, which they ne... ...hey never ate in the first place, have vanished. Now, the ripple spreads, otters are no longer there to eat sea urchins, so the sea urchin populati... ...ave vanished. Now, the ripple spreads, otters are no longer there to eat sea urchins, so the sea urchin population has exploded. But sea urchins li... ...hey in turn attack the perch and herring that were food for the seals and sea lions. with the decline in the population of sea lions and seals, the... ... decline in the population of sea lions and seals, the orcas must turn to otters.” 34 B ail Yourself o ut Thus, true health and well being are achie...

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...ty years ago to act 88 medical missionary among the fishermen in the North Sea, pur- suing this vocation by cruising among them. He soon left this wor... ...ea," will bo ilhistraterl with actual missionary experiences in tjie south sea islands. MONDAY, APRIL 8 p, m,—Triaf.s for iuterclass de biite, 'Techui... ...n ice-jams and the many other natural causes for in- jury in a life on the sea. His mission meetings he leads him- self whenever he is present, but in... ...h- ards, Taylor, Westbrook, Wood. AMONG THE CANNIBALS Missions in theSouth Sea Described by Dr. Pratt The fifth of Dr. Pratt's series of lectures on "... ...uence, and this is not- ably true in tlie case of the Islands of the South Sea. Attempts were made by Scottish missionaries to establish missions in t... ...ague. In the direction of compromise, two solutions of the difficulty were ottered: (1) the awarding to Will- iams of two forfeit games with correspon... ...t Longwood. In the drawings fordoubles, which will probably be played this otter- noon, S. J. and T. K. Thompson '08 are poired against Budlong and Py...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sic... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne PART ONE CHAPTER I A SHIFTING REEF T HE YEAR 1866 was si... ...airly conclude that this mysterious being sur- 4 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea passed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, ... ... over all. Now the largest whales, those which frequent those parts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and 5 Jules Verne Umgullich islands, hav... ...ths of the seas. The two strangers, with caps made from the fur of the sea otter, and shod with sea boots of seal’s skin, were dressed in clothes of a... ...a creature fell stunned at some distance from us. It was a magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine quadruped. This otter was f... ...f cold perspiration. “Let us reflect,” said I, “and take our time. Hunting otters in submarine forests, as we did in the Island of Crespo, will pass; ... ...out sixty feet. I returned to my room, clothed myself warmly—sea boots, an otterskin cap, a great coat of byssus, lined with sealskin; I was ready, I ...

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...fy the pleasant part of it, because though it is known I can be serious at sea sonable times, yet the whole Discourse is, or rather was, a picture of... ...to do all my business, and then bestow another day or two in hunt ing the Otter, which a friend, that I go to meet, tells me is much pleasanter than ... ...to morrow morning we The Compleat Angler — Walton 8 shall meet a pack of Otter dogs of noble Mr. Sadler’s, upon Amwell Hill, who will be there so ea... ...ey destroy so much; indeed so much, that, in my judgment all men that keep Otter dogs ought to have pen” signs from the King, to encourage them to des... ...s from the King, to encourage them to destroy the very breed of those base Otters, they do so much mischief. Venator. But what say you to the Foxes of... ... ark by Noah, to give him notice of land, when to him all ap peared to be sea; and the Dove proved a faithful and comfortable messenger. And for the ... ...ay in commendations of the earth? That puts limits to the proud and raging sea, and by that means preserves both man and beast, that it destroys them ... ... it destroys them not, as we see it daily doth those that venture upon the sea, and are there shipwrecked, drowned, and left to feed Haddocks; when we... ...o pass by the miraculous cures of our known baths, how advantageous is the sea for our daily traf fick, without which we could not now subsist. How d...

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... not to ruffle the air with his voice; “You will frighten it—” “What?” “An otter, my good gentleman. If it hears us it’ll go quick under water. I’m ce... ...es a fish, it is after that! But my boy will grab it as it comes back. The otter, don’t you know, is very rare; it is scientific game, and good eating... ...en years of age, who was lying on his stomach and making signs towards the otter to let his master know he kept it well in sight. Blondet, completely ... ... perfectly stupid expression of his face. “In my young days we had lots of otters,” whispered the old fellow; “but they’ve hunted ‘em so that if we se... ...oves curiosities,—so, as I was saying, hearing of my tal- ent for catching otters, for I know ‘em as you know your alphabet, he says to me like this: ... ...his hot-beds sup- plied him with pine-apples, nectarines, and peas, out of sea- son. He brought bunches of strawberries to Madame Soudry with pride wh...

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... not remember that it was Midsummer Morn- ing. They only wanted to see the otter which, old Hobden said, had been fishing their brook for weeks; and e... ...t of the night mist still fumed off the water. They picked up the chain of otter’s foot- prints on the mud, and followed it from the bank, between the... ... questing like a puzzled hound. ‘The dew’s drying off, and old Hobden says otters’ll travel for miles.’ ‘I’m sure we’ve travelled miles.’ Una fanned h... ...se, now, you wanted to magic me into something— 10 Rewards and Fairies an otter? Could you?’ ‘Not with those boots round your neck.’ ‘I’ll take them ... ...ed between two vows of burning adoration. Oh, poor Philip! His admirals at sea—no less than three of ‘em—have been boarded, sacked, and scuttled on th... ...are at peace with Spain. Where did you break your Queen’s peace?” ‘“On the sea called the Spanish Main, though ’tis no more Spanish than my doublet,” ... ...w that warmed Gloriana’s already melting heart! She would never suffer any sea to be called Spanish in her private hearing. ‘“And why was I not told? ... ...showed ‘em again that there could be only one end to it—quick death on the sea, or slow death in Philip’s prisons. They asked no more than to em- brac... ...eat heaving play of dolphins and a Neptune or so rein- ing in webby-footed sea-horses, and Arion with his harp high atop of them. It was twenty-three ...

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...he gap it made seemed to close as quickly over his memory as the murderous sea above his living frame. Hereafter men will lament that his tran- scende... ... principal occupation. At night, when the unclouded moon shone on the calm sea, he often went alone in his little shallop to the rocky caves that bord... ...avourable wind, and I remained awaiting his return by the breakers of that sea which was about to engulf him. He spent a week at Pisa, employed in kin... ...leasures and of his fate, to return to us. We waited for them in vain; the sea by its rest- less moaning seemed to desire to inform us of what we woul... ... 25 Shelley rounding villages, and our immediate vicinity to the troubled sea, combined to imbue with strange horror our days of un- certainty. The t... ...Shelley He grew dull, harsh, sly, unrefined, As when he tramped beside the Otter. 26. 26. 26. 26. 26. In the death hues of agony Lambently flashing fr... ...let us hunt these ugly badgers down, These stinking foxes, these devouring otters, These hares, these wolves, these anything but men. Hey, for a whipp...

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... toward the ground, As doth a shape one half-hour drowned, And heaved from sea with mast and spar, All dark of its immortal star. And on that tender h... ... heart.’ THE OLIVE BRANCH A dove flew with an Olive Branch; It crossed the sea and reached the shore, And on a ship about to launch Dropped down the h... ...s revelry T o see her dashing from her sides The rough, salt kisses of the sea. And forth into the bursting foam She spread her sail and sped away, Th... ...t my passion glows, As a skylark to the sky Up into thy breast I fly; As a sea-shell of the sea Ever shall I sing of thee. 24 THE WILD ROSE AND THE S... ...s of maiden May. SONG The moon is alone in the sky As thou in my soul; The sea takes her image to lie Where the white ripples roll All night in a drea... ...irius glows. Come, in the season of opening buds; Come, and molest not the otter that whistles Unlit by the moon, ‘mid the wet winter bristles Of will...

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...taken by men of the same Viking blood a little altered. (2) “West over the Sea” is the word for the British Isles. (3) See T odd (J. H.). “War of the ... ...sson of Orkney, who had long been the terror of the western seas, “fared a sea-roving” and scoured the western coast of England, Man, and the east of ... ...and. The whole coast of Europe, even to Greece and the shores of the Black Sea, the northern shores of Africa, and the western part of Asia, felt the ... ...re the earth ‘’twas the morning of time, when yet naught was, nor sand nor sea was there, nor cooling streams. Earth was not found, nor Heaven above; ... ...waters, of his flesh earth was made; they set the earth fast, and laid the sea round about it in a ring with- out; of his bones were made rocks; stone... ...a mighty man and z wealthy: and his first son was named Fafnir, his second Otter, and I was the third, and the least of them all both for prowess and ... ...whereof I could make matters that availed somewhat. Other skill my brother Otter followed, and had another nature withal, for he was a great fisher, a... ...reat fisher, and above other men herein; in that he had the likeness of an otter by day, and dwelt ever in the river, and bare fish to bank in his mou... ...ur father, and that availed him much: for the most part he kept him in his otter-gear, and then he would come home, and eat alone, and slumbering, for...

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...Brahmin as Purun Dass lost caste by crossing 23 Rudyard Kipling the black sea. In London he met and talked with every one worth knowing—men whose nam... ...n went out like the light of a lighthouse shut off twenty miles across the sea; till the eyes dropped, and the big head with them—dropped lower and lo... ... who told me, that in Calcutta of the South all the jackals were as fat as otters in the Rains,” said the Jackal, his mouth watering at the bare thoug... ...hast spoken with?” Kaa rolled slowly in the water like a steamer in a beam sea. “Three or four moons since,” said he, “I hunted in Cold Lairs, which p... ... blos- som, beaches of fine gravel and rounded stones run down to the open sea, and polished boulders and streaked rocks lift up above the granulated ... ...in a few weeks, and the wild winter locks down again on the land; while at sea the ice tears up and down the offing, jamming and ramming, and splittin... ...snapped a dhole. “Here is tainted water!” Mowgli had dived forward like an otter, twitched a strug- gling dhole under water before he could open his m...

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...ng the fantastic fash- ion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the Red Sea. As he passed among the busy crowd, Fix, according to habit, scrutinise... ...rteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other end of the Red Sea, and she has to take in a fresh coal supply.” “And does she go from Sue... ...r from here?” asked Passepartout. “Pretty far. It is a ten days’ voyage by sea.” “And in what country is Bombay?” “India.” “In Asia?” “Certainly.” “Th... ...onger, the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of the Red Sea. Chapter IX IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS ... ...anged their toilets twice a day; and the hours were whirled away, when the sea was tranquil, with music, dancing, and games. But the Red Sea is full o... ...from whom he purchased a dress of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otter-skin pelisse, for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy-five pound...

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...deedes of armes is set, To hunt out perils and aduentures hard, By sea, by land, where so they may be met, Onely for honour and for hig... ... the sky Both Sunne and Moone, and make them him obay: The land to sea, and sea to maineland dry, And darkesome night he eke could turn... ... And for his warlike feates renowmed is, From where the day out of the sea doth spring, Vntill the closure of the Euening. From thence... ...tinesse Ireland subdewd, and therein fixt his throne, Like a swift Otter, fell through emptinesse, Shall ouerswim the sea with many one... ...e, Like a swift Otter, fell through emptinesse, Shall ouerswim the sea with many one Of his Norueyses, to assist the Britons fone. The ... ...shall a third both these, and thine subdew; There shall a Lyon from the sea bord wood Of Neustria come roring, with a crew Of hungry wh...

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...or some time Victorine stood looking down at the great expanse of land and sea, then faced about with an impatient exclamation. On Sundays all the wee... ...l lum- ber, of coffee, of tar, of bilge, and the brisk, nimble odor of the sea. T ravis was delighted, her little brown eyes snapping, her cheeks flus... ...bright sunlight upon the deck outside. “I began life,” he said, “as a deep-sea diver—began pretty young, too. I first put on the armor when I was twen... ... Listen.” “‘Bachelor, thirty-nine, sober and industrious, retired 52 Blix sea captain, desires acquaintance respectable young woman, good house-keepe... ... brook-trout up to the rigid eigh- teen-ounce lance of the king-salmon and sea-bass; showcases of wicked revolvers, swelling by calibres into the thir... ...tory in itself; while the robbery of thirty thousand dollars’ worth of sea-otter skins from a Russian trad- ing-post in Alaska, accomplished chiefly t...

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...either side delicately moulded doors gave on to wool-lumbered rooms, whose sea-green mantelpieces were adorned with nymphs, scrolls, and Cupids in low... ...t heard of it;” said the stranger, turning on her. “I’ve been out with the otter-hounds all day. It was a splendidly sportin’ thing “ “Did you—er—kill... ...a tree still,” said the tall maiden frankly. “You ought to go out with the otter-hounds, Mrs. Chapin. I believe they’re drawing your water next week.”... ...et won From Proteus by Cyrene’s son How the dank sea-god sowed the swain Means to restore his hives again ... ... the glare of Sheerness Double Light. The gale will have us over the North Sea in half-an-hour, but Captain Purnall lets her go composedly—nosing to e... ...is added once or twice the rattle of hail—hail that will never fall on any sea. Slow we must or we may break our back, pitch-poling. “Air’s a perfectl... ...astic fluid,” roars George above the tu- mult. “About as elastic as a head sea off the Fastnet, ain’t it?” He is less than just to the good element. I...

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...ite fog. Once or twice when it tried to lift, we saw a glimpse of the oily sea, the flitting vision of a junk’s sail spread in the vain hope of catchi... ...nishing,’ said the man from Saigon, ‘how many true stories are put down as sea yarns. It makes a man almost shrink from telling an anecdote.’ ‘Oh, ple... ... The way he told his tale was this. The tramp had been creeping along some sea or other with a chart ten years old and the haziest sort of chronometer... ...she had done all the mis- chief. After that, I was a mile and a half under sea, trying to go to sleep as hard as I could. Some one caught hold of my h... ... of the boat away in the offing, there was neither stick nor string on the sea to show that the Hespa had been cut down.” ‘And what do you think of th... ...ed-hot dottel of his pipe on the back of the hairy fist. ‘They say ‘Ell’s ‘otter than that,’ said he, as Mulvaney swore aloud. ‘You be warned so. Look...

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...nce to make his mind easy. Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea-beach, and were liable to be flooded by the tides, which rise with grea... ...projection of rock, which formed one side of a small and placid bay on the sea- shore. The modern mansion was placed lower, though closely adjoining, ... ...lower, though closely adjoining, and the ground behind it descended to the sea by a small swelling green bank, divided into levels by natural terraces... ...he same time, the pleasing idea, that it was sequestered and solitary. The sea-coast, which Mannering now saw in its extent, cor- responded in variety... ...ted with small bays, where the land sloped smoothly down, or sent into the sea promontories covered with wood. A scene so different from what last nig... ... found in a gipsy town. They understood all out-of-door sports, especially otter-hunt- ing, fishing, or finding game. They bred the best and boldest t... ...he scent would lie this morning primely.” Out they sallied accordingly for Otterscopescaurs, the farmer leading the way. They soon quitted the little ... ...ht was gallantly consumed in dancing to their music. 180 Guy Mannering An otter-hunt the next day, and a badger-baiting the day after, consumed the t... ...yhole as if he had been listening for 332 Guy Mannering the blowing of an otter, and having satisfied himself that there were no eavesdroppers, retur...

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... a small beach, shut in on each side by warehouses, but with a view of the sea. Mrs. Carey stood for a few minutes and looked 25 W. Somerset Maugham ... ...r Street, and she went to see them on her evenings out. Her stories of the sea touched Philip’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour g... ... knew not why, and afterwards when he thought of them found himself all at sea. There was a boy called Luard between whom and Philip a friendship had ... ...e shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all this, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer , be... ... with stories of his immorality . The Vicar of Surle, a tiny hamlet by the sea, was to be seen every evening in the public house a stone’s throw from ... ...own in his carriage. He thought only of the future. He had written to Mrs. Otter , the massiere to whom Hayward had given him an introduction, and had... ...fort, and in a new street that led out of the Boulevard Raspail found Mrs. Otter. She was an insignificant woman of thirty , with a provincial air and... ...be careful. “ We live just as we would if we were in En- gland,” said Mrs. Otter’s mother, who till then had spoken little. “When we came here we brou... ...r. The piano was draped in Liberty silk and so was the chimney-piece. Mrs. Otter followed his wander- ing eye. “In the evening when we close the shutt...

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... of amusing myself in a way I cared not for, I turned my steps towards the sea, or rather the Solway Firth which here separates the two sister kingdom... ...h. Indeed, the whole open ground of this district, where it approaches the sea, has, except in a few favoured spots, the same uniform and dreary chara... ...tance diminishes her size and as the level sunbeams begin to sink upon the sea. She is taking her quiet journey to the Shepherd’s Bush. Then, stoutly ... ...t then, before I give, as the proverb hath it, “My own fish-guts to my own sea-maws,” I must, for the sake of my own char- 148 Redgauntlet acter, be ... ... for the sake of my own char- 148 Redgauntlet acter, be very sure that my sea-maw can pick them to some purpose. What say ye?’ ‘I am so far,’ answere... ...wet the dry one with a ducking,’ answered another voice. ‘Where is the sea-otter, John Davies, that destroyed more fish than any sealch upon Ailsa Cra...