... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...ned to pass thousands of years in the form of a fish -- The contrary Bishop of Malta whom Paul sentenced to do penance in the sea -- Apparitions and P... ...he Bishop-fish who lived in the Mediterranean. He had been the first Bishop of Malta, and was consecrated by Paul himself after the escape of the apos... ... in numbers, they soon acquired a considerable influence, and their commercial establishments, like those of the great East India Company in later tim... ... and his Queen. CORTEZ REDUCED TO POVERTY AND OBSCURITY. With his new bride in 1530 Cortez returned to Mexico and occupied the magnificent palace whic... ...the treaty the English government set to work with great vigor to break up the establishments of freebooters in the English islands. The Buccaneer cru... ...mple to the people by hurriedly contributing all the funds of their respective establishments for the benefit of the pious de Pointis and his companio...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ip of Gibraltar; Hon. G. F ., on going out as secretary to the governor of Malta,” &c. This sketch, too hastily made up, is founded upon a base of a v... ...o all points of the compass, and too often (as must happen in such immense establishments) blundered into my room with that appalling, “Now, sir, the ... ...r Scaliger mentions, as a characteristic of the English in his day, (about 1530,) a horror of cold water; in which, however, there must have been some... ...the best features, as to cleanliness and neatness, of well-managed private establishments. NO NO NO NO NOTES TES TES TES TES 1 It marks the rapidity ... ...w, in beauty and in power. Where- fore did he not put forth his power upon establishments that might cultivate happiness as well as knowledge? Wherefo...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...