Sub-tropical Rambles in the Land of Aphanapteryx: Personal Experiences, Adventures, and Wanderings in and Around the Island of MauritiusHarper & Brothers, 1873 - 509 pages Reprint of the 1873 ed. published by Harper, New York. |
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Sub-tropical Rambles in the Land of Aphanapteryx: Personal Experiences ... Nicholas Pike Affichage du livre entier - 1873 |
Sub-tropical Rambles in the Land of Aphanapteryx: Personal Experiences ... Nicholas Pike Affichage du livre entier - 1873 |
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abundant amongst animal appearance arrived barometer basaltic beautiful beds birds Black River boat called Camisard canes Cape Cape Town Captain cave centre Champ de Mars coast cocoa-nut colony colour coral covered crater Creole curious cyclone deep distance district Doorga English feet high ferns fever fish Flacq Flat Island flowers forest formed French gardens give Government Governor Grand Port harbour head hurricane inches Indian Isle land latter leaves looked Madagascar Mahébourg Mauritian Mauritius miles morning mountain nearly night ocean once palm Pamplemousses passed pirogues plain plants Port Louis pretty principal rain Reduit reefs rice Rivière Rivière du Rempart road rocks Round Island scene seen sent shells ship shore shrubs side soon Souillac species specimens spot stone streams Street sugar Tamarind trees Vacoas vegetables vessels volcanic waves whole wind wood
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Page 138 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly.
Page 510 - Five Years of a Hunter's Life In the Far Interior of South Africa. With Notices of the Native Tribes, and Anecdotes of the Chase of the Lion, Elephant, Hippopotamus, Giraffe, Rhinoceros, &c.
Page 237 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 328 - Far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life.
Page 511 - MACGREGOR'S ROB ROY ON THE JORDAN. The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea, and Gennesareth, &c. A Canoe Cruise in Palestine and Egypt, and the Waters of Damascus.
Page 512 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
Page 308 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Page 510 - Including a Journey to the Capital, with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People. By the Rev. WILLIAM ELLIS, FHS. Author of "Polynesian Researches.
Page 511 - LIVINGSTONE'S SOUTH AFRICA. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loando on the West Coast ; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.
Page 512 - The Land and the Book, or Biblical Illustrations drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and the Scenery of the Holy Land, by WM Thomson, MD, twenty-five years a Missionary in Syria and Palestine. With 3 Maps and several hundred Illustrations. 2 vols.