The Island World of the Pacific OceanS. Carson & Company, 1887 - Всего страниц: 337 |
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... Malay affinities . It is much poorer than that of the Caro- lines , with their Mollucca and Philippine elements , and this again is surpassed by that of the Ladrones . In the Gilberts , the scattered woods of the cocoanut and pandanus ...
... Malay affinities . It is much poorer than that of the Caro- lines , with their Mollucca and Philippine elements , and this again is surpassed by that of the Ladrones . In the Gilberts , the scattered woods of the cocoanut and pandanus ...
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... Malay race . Later investigations by Judge Fornander , of the Hawaiian Islands , and certain German scholars , render it probable that they may be a branch of the Caucasian race . It is thought that by means of their languages ...
... Malay race . Later investigations by Judge Fornander , of the Hawaiian Islands , and certain German scholars , render it probable that they may be a branch of the Caucasian race . It is thought that by means of their languages ...
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... Malay apples , rose apples , custard apples , pawpaws , tamarinds , bread - fruit , sweet casava , indigo , coffee , Indian corn , tobacco , chile and medicinal plants , several trees with very fragrant blossoms that might be used in ...
... Malay apples , rose apples , custard apples , pawpaws , tamarinds , bread - fruit , sweet casava , indigo , coffee , Indian corn , tobacco , chile and medicinal plants , several trees with very fragrant blossoms that might be used in ...
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... Malay it seems impossible to determine . They approximate , in many respects , to the Caucasian type , with fair complexion , brown or auburn hair , well - shaped lips and an ample forehead . All the natives of Sumat- ra , with the ...
... Malay it seems impossible to determine . They approximate , in many respects , to the Caucasian type , with fair complexion , brown or auburn hair , well - shaped lips and an ample forehead . All the natives of Sumat- ra , with the ...
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... Malay pilots who had made the voyage ; and DeBarros adds , that every year Javanese and Malays repaired to Lulotain ( that is , Great Banda ) to load cloves , nut- megs and mace , for it lay in the latitudes most easily navigated , and ...
... Malay pilots who had made the voyage ; and DeBarros adds , that every year Javanese and Malays repaired to Lulotain ( that is , Great Banda ) to load cloves , nut- megs and mace , for it lay in the latitudes most easily navigated , and ...
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Стр. 182 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
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Стр. 182 - 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.
Стр. 182 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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Стр. 143 - 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.