The Island Worlds of the Pacific OceanS. Carson Company, 1892 - Всего страниц: 337 |
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... interests presented , that a journal was kept , of the ups and downs of trade and adventures among the Pacific ... interest as well as profit . The immense field encompassed within the bound- aries of Oceanica , together with many ...
... interests presented , that a journal was kept , of the ups and downs of trade and adventures among the Pacific ... interest as well as profit . The immense field encompassed within the bound- aries of Oceanica , together with many ...
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... interest in their voyages and discoveries . Vasco Nunez de Balboa , who took possession of the entire South Sea in the name of the Pope , fell under the headsman's axe . Magellan , the first to reach the Indies , by a western route ...
... interest in their voyages and discoveries . Vasco Nunez de Balboa , who took possession of the entire South Sea in the name of the Pope , fell under the headsman's axe . Magellan , the first to reach the Indies , by a western route ...
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... interests that will arise from the occupation , development and trade with the islands of the Pacific . With the exception of the more prominent islands put down on the list , already well known to the com- mercial world , the great ...
... interests that will arise from the occupation , development and trade with the islands of the Pacific . With the exception of the more prominent islands put down on the list , already well known to the com- mercial world , the great ...
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... interest and prove of value to many readers . Among the myriads of islands , which I have placed in groups , as will ... interests to be found in those garden - spots of the world , the Pacific Islands , is the ban put upon all concerted ...
... interest and prove of value to many readers . Among the myriads of islands , which I have placed in groups , as will ... interests to be found in those garden - spots of the world , the Pacific Islands , is the ban put upon all concerted ...
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... interests in that region resulting in failure , for if we except one vessel only , that made a trading voyage in 1717 , and that , too , to Spanish South America , in the interests of the corporation , there are no accounts of practical ...
... interests in that region resulting in failure , for if we except one vessel only , that made a trading voyage in 1717 , and that , too , to Spanish South America , in the interests of the corporation , there are no accounts of practical ...
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Стр. 190 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it ? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Стр. 190 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles.
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Стр. 147 - KOKU. — NIPPON.) Constitution and Government. THE system of government of the Japanese empire is that of an absolute monarchy. It was adopted in the year 1869, when the now ruling soverign overthrew, after a short war, the power of the formerly independent Daimios, or feudal nobles, reducing them to the position of simple tenants of the vast estates in their hereditary possessions.
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