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Side 12
... flying up and driven to leeward by the wind , setting other bushes on fire , which lit quickly and flashed into flame . We heard afterwards when we got down to the town that large fires had been seen burning high on the Peak , that the ...
... flying up and driven to leeward by the wind , setting other bushes on fire , which lit quickly and flashed into flame . We heard afterwards when we got down to the town that large fires had been seen burning high on the Peak , that the ...
Side 16
... flying fish , being caught in the towing net . saw great numbers of these gulf - weed fish - nests ; it is curious how the animals which live among the weed correspond to it exactly in colour - shrimps , snails , and fish . The ...
... flying fish , being caught in the towing net . saw great numbers of these gulf - weed fish - nests ; it is curious how the animals which live among the weed correspond to it exactly in colour - shrimps , snails , and fish . The ...
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... flying behind , followed in wild chase by all the other nude little things - a scene worthy of the Pacific Islands . For a considerable distance we kept along the northern shore of the island , the sea on our left , now far below us as ...
... flying behind , followed in wild chase by all the other nude little things - a scene worthy of the Pacific Islands . For a considerable distance we kept along the northern shore of the island , the sea on our left , now far below us as ...
Side 34
... flying by overhead , its harsh cry startling the silence of the burnt - up desert ; beneath the stones black geckos hide their ugly forms ; and a quail or two may rise from the bushes , and reward ( ? ) your day - long search after ...
... flying by overhead , its harsh cry startling the silence of the burnt - up desert ; beneath the stones black geckos hide their ugly forms ; and a quail or two may rise from the bushes , and reward ( ? ) your day - long search after ...
Side 36
... flying away with a word , for fever is common and epidemic here . We sent her our thanks and quails . Beneath us , laughing , short - kilted negresses were wash- ing in the stream , over which , and among the flowers , bright red ...
... flying away with a word , for fever is common and epidemic here . We sent her our thanks and quails . Beneath us , laughing , short - kilted negresses were wash- ing in the stream , over which , and among the flowers , bright red ...
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Admiralty Island albatross anchored appear arrived bamboo bananas bank beach beautiful beneath bergs birds blue boat bottom bows bushes canoes cliff close coco-nut coloured coral covered crater crinoids Crown 8vo cruise dancing dark deep depth distance dredge dressed Edition eggs English fcap feet Fiji fish flowers flying foliage girls grass green head heavy hills horses Humboldt Bay huts island Japan Japanese king penguins land lava Levuka look Malay manganese Marion Island miles morning mountain narrow natives night Nightingale Island paddling palms passed penguins pinnace pleasant plumage pretty reef river road rocks rookery round running sail schooners seen ship shoot shore shot side sitting slope sounding species starfish stream Tahiti thick Tongatabu town trawl trees tussock grass vegetation village walk wind women woods yellow young
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Side 26 - Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Side 8 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS. Lectures at the Royal Institution, to which is added " The Unity of History," being the Rede Lecture delivered at Cambridge in 1872.
Side 18 - one of the most striking pieces of historical composition of "which France has to boast...
Side 9 - Galileo. — THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GALILEO. Compiled principally from his Correspondence and that of his eldest daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, Nun in the Franciscan Convent of S.
Side 13 - STANDARD. THE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON. A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. New and Cheaper Edition, with Preface by Professor MAX MULLER.
Side 34 - HALES— LONGER ENGLISH POEMS, with Notes, Philological and Explanatory, and an Introduction on the Teaching of English. Chiefly for Use in Schools. Edited by JW HALES, MA, Professor of English Literature at King's College, London.
Side 33 - Ellis PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE QUANTITATIVE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN, FOR THE USE OF CLASSICAL TEACHERS AND LINGUISTS. By AJ ELLIS, BA, FRS, &c. Extra fcap. 8vo. 4*. 6d.
Side 18 - Mitford (AB)— TALES OF OLD JAPAN. By AB MITFORD, Second Secretary to the British Legation in Japan. With upwards of 30 Illustrations, drawn and cut on Wood by Japanese Artists. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. d*. " These very original volumes will always be interesting as memorials of a most exceptional society, while regarded simply as tales, they 'are sparkling, sensational, and dramatic, and the originality of their idea and the quaintness of their language give them a most captivating piquancy.
Side 23 - The Later Empire. — Milton's Political Opinions — Milton's Poetry — Elementary Principles in Art — Liberal Education in Universities — English in Schools — The Church as a Teacher of Morality — The Teaching of Politics : an Inaugural Lecture delivered at Cambridge.
Side 15 - Hugh). — HOLIDAYS ON HIGH LANDS ; or, Rambles and Incidents in search of Alpine Plants. By the Rev. HUGH MACMILLAN, Author of "Bible Teachings in Nature,