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...His retinue of 10,000 persons -- His extraordinary riches and how his store of gold was collected -- The wisdom and generosity of the Emperor -- The K... ... the poor -- The first use of coal as fuel 102- 117 CHAPTER IX. In the land of Gold and ugly beasts. -- Polo confounds crocodiles with serpents -- Des... ...when captured -- A country in which infants are attended by their fathers -- A gold and silver monument set over the body of a King -- Its dazzling be... ...ttack by the natives -- Cannibalism -- Departure from New Zealand -- Among the Australians -- Australian Boomerang throwers - - Game found in Australi... ...ia -- Timidity of the natives -- An accident to the ship -- Curious customs -- Australian lance throwers -- A surprising thing seen on the New Guinea ... ...7 An attack by the natives................................................ 439 Australian Boomerang dancers.............................................. ...t of the Admiral's ship; then, in order, march the sailors and soldiers of the Victoria, with their priest following in the rear; then a sacred relic ... ... man with the surly, evil look, and long black hair is Luis de Mendoza, of the Victoria, that the tall man with pointed beard and golden armor is the ... ...y went forth, perhaps to die for him. In a few moments they were alongside the Victoria, and the volunteer leader, one Carvalho, called out that he ha...

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...se for them once they stood up on two feet and became the dominant species of Australia. But they did not lose their tails as we did. That kept th... ... they did not lose their tails as we did. That kept them from overpopulating Australia. By scavenging the leftovers of carcasses that were mostly... ...ain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of the animals ... ...f all uses of human tools? Why are jewels more valuable and sacred than even gold? Because the making of jewels uses the oldest, most obsolete, t... ...oot of all human evil, and of all human corruption. Before we ever lusted for gold, or fame, or knowledge or power: we lusted for the opposite sex. ... ...nge to an apple does not automatically connect them to each other. Adding one gold piece to another gold piece does not connect them to each other. ... ... phonographs: obediently listening to the voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. ... ...dolized? By the invention of the Victrola. The invention first used by Queen Victoria to control her subjects: which produced the radio. ‘His mast... ...e was it that the men who won the war went unpaid and starved to death? Queen Victoria did even worse than that: after her faithful small English Na...

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...m under his cloak and laid it on the table. “There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in notes,” he said. Holmes scribbled a receipt u... ...ooking even more flurried than before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from his pocket and looked at it earnestly, ‘Drive like the ... ...ter day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my week’s work. It was the same next week, and th... ...est landed proprietor in that part is a Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned some years ago to the old country. One of the fa... ...e held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was also an ex Australian. The men had known each other in the colonies, so that it wa... ...ered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive who had known dad in the old days in Victoria.” “Ha! ln Victoria! That is important.” “Yes, at the mines.” “... ...f whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But ‘Cooee’ is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used between Australians. There is a s... ...m his pocket and flattened it out on the table. “This is a map of the Colony of Victoria,” he said. “I wired to Bristol for it last night.” He put his ... ...took it up and glanced at it. “Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic engineer, 1 6A. Victoria Street (3d floor).” That was the name, style, and abode of my m...

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...ng this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wrec... ... stood on the shore, looking in his kind wholesome face as it turned to the spot where the boat had been. The divers were down then, and busy. They we... ...vers were down then, and busy. They were ‘lifting’ to-day the gold found yesterday—some five-and-twenty thousand pounds. Of three hundred and fifty th... ...reigns there would be, of course; indeed, at first sover- eigns had drifted in with the sand, and been scattered far and wide over the beach, like sea... ...th little or no aid from the imagination, could yet see how the bodies had been turned, and where the head had been and where the feet. Some faded tra... .... Some faded traces of the wreck of the Australian ship may be discernible on the stone pavement of this little church, hundreds of years hence, when ... ...was not there. There is no doubt about it. There was no such thing in that building, that Sunday evening. I have been told since, that the lowest part... ...those who are put in authority over us. Any animated description of a modern battle, any private soldier’s letter published in the newspapers, any pag... ...when I was last in a hospital like this, ‘Sir, I can frequently fly.’ I was half ashamed to reflect that so could I—by night. Said a woman to me on th...

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...icks concealing the most devious and enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper. Among these rocks a number of survivors from a Noah’... ...es near Bromstead Station. They were big clumsy residences in the earliest Victorian style, interminably high and with deep damp basements and downsta... ...nt chiefly crude and ridiculous aspects. The distrust of government in the Victorian days was far too great, and the general intelli- gence far too lo... ...re the cattle waded and drank. Yellow and purple loose-strife and ordinary rushes grew in clumps along the bank, and now and then a willow. On rare oc... ...of hand, and going at an unprecedented pace nowhere in particular. No, the Victorian epoch was not the dawn of a new era; it was a hasty, trial experi... ... one boy, Britten, my especial chum, the son of the Agent-General for East Australia. We two discovered in a chance conversation a propos of a map in ... ...body until at moments it seemed to us that we were destined to restore the Golden Age, by the simple abolition of tailors and outfitters. Those underg... ...remote coast towns shining dimly, waters that merged at last in a luminous golden haze, made a broad panoramic spectacle. It was as if one surveyed th... ...d. Thank God! I’ll soon be out of it! The shame of it! The very savages in Australia initiate their children bet- ter than the English do to-day. Neit...

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...g all sorts of service, was at last employed as a government packet in the Australian seas. Being condemned, however, about two years previous, she wa... ...The captain was a young cockney, who, a few years before, had emigrated to Australia, and, by some favouritism or other, had-pro-cured the command of ... ...pt inviolable at sea. So the land-lubber, afraid to refuse to do anything, rushes about distracted, and does nothing: in the end receiving a shower of... ... do very well for elderly gentlemen and invalids; but for a lad of spirit, Australia was the Land of Promise. In a dark day Ropey wound up his affairs... ...eutenant—an elderly yellow-faced officer, in an ill-cut coat and tarnished gold lace—coming up, and frowning upon us. This gentleman’s head was a mere... ...nary (whom we took for one of the ship’s corporals, from his ratan and the gold lace on his sleeve), we were now escorted down the ladders to the bert... ... less a luncheon, the first day they went ashore. True, they had plenty of gold; but to the na- tives it was anathema—taboo—and, for several hours and... ...he went abroad. Some time ago, the queen received from her English sister, Victoria, a very showy, though uneasy, head-dress—a crown; probably made to...

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...cholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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...ed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretch- ing away to the western horizon. One wet spring afternoon ... ... the Spanish Main. III There was at this time in the city of Melbourne, in Australia, a wooden building, above the door of which was a board inscribed... ...gone to the docks, and contrived to hide himself on board a ship bound for Australia. Also how he had suffered severely from hunger and thirst before ... ... you come to see that though I sifted as much sand as most men, I found no gold. I ask you to remember, then, that I did my duty to you long before it... ...itive lips and nostrils, green eyes, with quiet, unarched brows, and ruddy gold hair, now shaded by a large, untrimmed straw hat. Her dress of Indian ... ...oden carriage for use as a coal-scuttle. The wall was decorated with large gold crescents on a ground of light blue. In this barbaric rotunda Miss Car... ...esterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated lawn-tennis player. She vanquished the Australian champion last year.” It seemed that Byron, after all, was someth... ...er existence, and just the same prosaic cares—that she will go by train to Victoria, and from thence home in a common vehicle instead of embark- ing i... ...ce, awestruck, did not venture to speak again until they left the train at Victoria. There was a crowd outside the car- riage in which Cashel had trav...

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.......................................................... 128 CHAPTER XLVIII VICTORIA. A.D. 1837—1855 ..................................................... ............................................................ 131 CHAPTER XLIX VICTORIA. A.D. 1857—1860 ..................................................... ............................................................... 133 CHAPTER L VICTORIA. A.D. 1860—1872 ..................................................... ...garments for the priests, all bright with beautiful colors, and stiff with gold. The English nuns’ work was the most beautiful to be seen anywhere. Th... ... a “long keel,” as a ship was called, and fought bravely, and brought home gold cups and chains or jewels to show where he had been. Their captains we... ...imes he fell into such rages that he would roll on the floor, and bite the rushes and sticks it was strewn with. He made many laws. One was that, if a... ...o the poor that, when he had his children weighed, he gave their weight in gold and silver in alms. But he gave to everyone who asked, and so always w... ...ot work or food enough for them at home, and went to settle in Canada, and Australia, and Van Dieman’s Land, and New Zealand, making, in all these dis...

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... given of these confervae. They ap- pear especially common in the sea near Australia; and off Cape Leeuwin I found an allied but smaller and apparentl... ...e; Voyage of the Astrolabe and of the Co- quille; Captain King’s Survey of Australia, etc. 23 Charles Darwin and of a different shape from the other.... ...shortest distance. Many of the banks have their surfaces covered with long rushes, the tops of which alone are visible at high water. On one occasion,... ...and the stream rapid. Captain Sturt,* when descending the Murrumbidgee, in Australia, saw two emus in the act of swimming. The inhabitants of the coun... ...at Bahia Blanca knew anything about it. Hence we heard of beds of coal, of gold and silver, of caves, and of forests, all of which inflamed my curiosi... ...or and prime minister openly combined to plunder the state. Justice, where gold came into play, was hardly expected by any one. I knew an English- man... ...Val- leys — Mines — State of Miners — Santiago — Hot- baths of Cauquenes — Gold-mines —Grinding-mills — Perforated Stones — Habits of the Puma — El Tu... ... Blackheath, we descended from the sandstone platform by the pass of Mount Victoria. To effect this pass, an enormous quantity of stone has been cut t... ...across the road. Before noon we joined our former road, and ascended Mount Victoria. I slept at the Weatherboard, and before dark took another walk to...

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...on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are prevented. All the indications point to a time wh... ...l-conceived re- building which testify to the aesthetic degradation of the Victorian period? Will a great constellation of artists redeem the ambitiou... ...f mediocre men. One of the greatest Liberal statesmen in the time of Queen Victoria never held office because he was associated with a divorce case a ... ...h the heart and arteries of a mouse. Then here, again, are New Zealand and Australia, facing South America and the teeming countries of Eastern Asia; ... ...taffs of Switzerland and the Riviera—who live almost entirely upon British gold—those impassioned British imperialist views the economic link theory w... ...nder mental nourishment, have developed their own ver- nacular Press, that Australia and New Zealand even now gravi- tate to America for books and tho... ...dsworth of living. The Mint has since been increasing its annual output of gold coins to two or three times the former amount, and we have, as it were... ... we have, as it were, debased the coinage with extraordinary quantities of gold. But we who know and own did nothing to adjust that; we did not tell t... ...d that we now in our retro- 111 H. G . Wells spective way speak of as the Victorian, and it still survives to this day. It is the man’s theory of the...

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...for a Sister from England to form a foundation in one of the new cities of Australia on the model of St. Faith’s; and thither Mother Constance pro- ce... ...ffairs, where his sister did not spare him her murmurs. Fulbert’s death in Australia was a blow both to Lancelot and to him, though they had never had... ... the interview when they were driving to their meeting in Mrs. Grinstead’s victoria, each adorned with a big bunch of primroses. “T wo doctors! and no... ...n with black grizzling hair, fashionably dressed, flashing dark eyes, long gold ear-rings, gold beads and gaudy attire, came out to reclaim her proper... ... at Mrs. Schnetterling’s. Be- fore his visit was over, a note came down on gold-edged, cyphered pink paper, informing the Reverend E. C. Underwood tha... ...eters in fantastic raiment, pre- ceded an elephant shrouded in scarlet and gold trappings, with two or three figures making contortions on his back, a... ...ght he was, when they were here to open Rotherwood Park. He did flirt, and Victoria— his mother, I mean—did not like it at all. She would never have c... ...e it was matter of a sort of aggressive awe, half as asserting herself as “Victoria’s” equal and relation, half as protecting her from inferior people... ... beginning at six in the morning to meet the central intelligence, he only rushes home for his meals, and goes back to work till twelve or one o’clock...

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...cy’s lands. Interlink’d, food yielding lands! Land of coal and iron! land of gold! land of cotton, sugar, rice! Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of woo... ...lies swiftly over the note book, the sign painter is lettering with blue and gold, The canal boy trots on the tow path, the book keeper counts at his ... ... the curb prolific and vital, Landscapes projected masculine, full sized and golden. 30 All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their ... ...sounds of children and of animals early in the day, I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse, I hear the Spanish dance with castan... ...ampooter and Cambodia, Others wait steam’d up ready to start in the ports of Australia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples... ...scar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo! All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place! All you on the numberless islands of the... ...hrough the water, Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers, Sluggish existences grazing ther... ...utes’ clear notes and sounding harps’ cantabile. Now loud approaching drums, Victoria! seest thou in powder smoke the banners torn but flying? the rou... ...one breakfast time to the old homestead, On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rush bottoming chairs, Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, blac...

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...ly very noble-spirited and high-class scheme. At a more popular level Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin has battled bravely in the cause of the same foreg... ...world were to sign an unanimous round-robin to Mr. Francis Galton and Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin, admitting absolutely their leading argu- ment tha... ...anner as to restore to marriage something of the solemnity and gravity the Victorian era—that age of nasty sentiment, sham delicacy and giggles—has to... ...tegrity, let the curious inquirer seek an account of the Tasmanian, or the Australian, or the Polynesian before “sophistication” came. The very existe... ...curious thing that those who praise the good old pre-Board School days—the golden age of virtu- ous innocence—ignore. The Illegitimate births in 1846-... ...with regard to certain elements of population, at any rate, London and the Gold Coast and, I suspect, some regions in the United States of America, re... ...ment of a Minimum Wage will be found in W.P . Reeves’ State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, vol. ii., p. 47 et seq. 69 H G Wells rents, by ... ... events as the slum baby does for nourishment. Into its grey nursery there rushes every day, or every other day , a breathless, preoccupied, excessive... ...es not find the law pure justice, that is no reason why he should fake his gold to a thieves’ kitchen; because he does not think the city a sanitary p...

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...anybody but myself do- ing it, and they ran off my pen in red and blue and gold, and all sorts of colours; and fine branching zig-zagging stars, like ... ...ept where the crowning peaks bore a veil of snow. Behind, the sky was pure gold, gradually shading into pale green, and then into clear light wintry b... ...at, because it put her in mind of her Scottish hills. Well, your’s are the golden hills of heaven, now, my Maggie!” he added, hardly know- ing that he... ...e Fiord. Its beauty and tricks were duly displayed, and a most beauti- ful Australian parrot was exhibited, Mrs. Larpent taking full interest in the t... ...wonder when I shall have another chance,” said Harry. “If we should get to Australia, or New Zealand—but then, perhaps, there would be no Confirmation... ... off on the summer breeze, with a tardy, graceful, uncertain motion. Daisy rushes after them, catches 424 The Daisy Chain at them, and looks at her e... ...ppositions as to her deten- tion, adding besides, that no one believed the Australian paper whence the report was taken. He had seen the Alcestis, kne... ...fixed far away, as if his thoughts were roam- ing to the real founder. The Victoria coins were placed—Gertrude scooped up the mass of mortar, and spre...