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Once, when I was making an official visit to the South of Spain with my brother (who was then King), we were told of a gentleman of the Province of Sevilla who had had a talking parrot sent to him from South America; and this parrot had been taught to say “Viva la Reina!”—that is, “Long live the Queen!” But soon after its arrival in S...
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On the 24th of April, 1840, having finished the business that had carried me into the Brazils, I arrived at Rio de Janeiro, where I found a vessel lying nearly loaded, and sailing for the port of Bristol in four or five days. In those times, passenger traffic between Great Britain and the eastern coast of South America was almost entir...
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In preparing this volume for the press, the author has followed very closely the plan adopted for "The Boy Travellers in the Far East," and also for his more recent work, "The Boy Travellers in South America." Accompanied by their versatile and accomplished mentor, Dr. Bronson, our young friends, Frank Bassett...
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A voyage across the Atlantic in a large ocean steamer is now as familiar and as little troublesome as the journey from London to Paris. It rarely offers any incident worth recounting, and yet, especially as a first experience, it supplies an abundant variety of sources of curiosity and interest.
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One of the commonly misunderstood phrases in the language is \"the Spanish Main.\" To the ordinary individual it suggests the Caribbean Sea. Although Shakespeare in \"Othello,\" makes one of the gentlemen of Cyprus say that he \"cannot \'twixt heaven and main descry a sail,\" and, therefore, with other poets, gives warrant to the appli...
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It was my lot several years ago—I need not state how many—to be brought forth into this world amid the wild scenes which I propose to describe. Later in life I was fortunate enough to be sent by my parents to England, for the purpose of finishing my education under the tuition of the learned fathers at the College of Stonyhurst. While ...
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It was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty- four, that I, Gill Davis to command, His Mark, having then the honour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning over the bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher Columbus, in the South American waters off the Mosquito shore.
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Stories mainly in a land of overhead: the seven kingdoms of westeros.Westeros is about the size of South America continent, has long history can be traced back to 12000 years ago.Every season there usually lasted for years.The continent's indigenous people is the son of the forest.The son of the forest and the nature harmonious coexist...
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As a delightful, elegant, humorous and interesting books of natural history, one of the beagle voyage diaries described by Charles Darwin in 1831 to 1831 in South America, the Galapagos islands, Australia to return to England's journey, the journey to deepen his understanding of the biology, enriched and developed his theory of evoluti...
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Category： Author：Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
Hayden was back in New York again after several years spent in the uttermost parts of the earth. He had been building railroads in South America, Africa, and China, and had maintained so many lodges in this or that wilderness that he really feared he might be curiously awkward in adapting himself to the conventional requirements of civ...
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