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...cted his admiration of Helen’s beauty. Helen, dressed in a bottle green woollen cape trimmed with arctic fox fur to THE CURSE OF KALI 19 match th... ...inent, so much of which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the people of every shade of colour, fr... ...panorama as the train snaked its way through the grand scenery of gorges, flat-topped mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At last the trai... ...hese hills are covered with blue Himalayan poppies and giant, scarlet rhododendrons. This fertile region is famous for its fruit, especially apples ... ...er moments, gurgling and rippling over its boulder strewn bed, the dark green, pine forested hill slopes and there beyond the tree line, the snow ca...

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...elief in the existence of a southern continent -- Sailing of the fleet -- In a region of intense cold -- Angling for albatrosses -- A separation of th... ...e Kaniptschatdalers -- Return of the expedition to England 505- 512 CHAPTER L. Arctic Voyages. -- Discoveries in the north by ancient navigators -- Fi... ...irst Arctic voyages -- Fate of the Greenland settlers -- Columbus in the Polar regions -- Spanish exploration in the north -- Killingworth's extraordi... ...Disappointment of John Davis -- Astounding sufferings of a wrecked crew in the Arctic -- Natural phenomena in the north -- A roll of honor -- Voyages ... ...oss -- Captains who have reached the North Pole -- Latitudes reached by famous Arctic explorers -- The overland journey of Schwatka 521- 528 CHAPTER L... ...ance with Samoyed girls -- Into an unknown sea -- Tropical birds in the Arctic region -- Some strange facts -- Remarkable customs of Siberians -- Amon... ...of the country. It was not until the fourth day that they reached the mountain slopes of the Cordilleras, at the foot of which they entered a large an... ...f nuns and priests, bearing ladders on their shoulders, come across the grassy slope in front of the castle walls, followed by the serried ranks of th... ...of starvation before seeing the mountains which divided them from the Pacific slope, so back to the canoes they went and resumed their tedious journe...

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...rganizations 282 D. Mathematical Conversions 290 Maps I. The World (Guide to Regional Maps) II. North America III. Central America and the Caribbean I... ...ca VIII. Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. Southeast Asia X. Oceania XI. Arctic Region XII. Antarctic Region XIII. Standard Time Zones of the Worl... .... Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. Southeast Asia X. Oceania XI. Arctic Region XII. Antarctic Region XIII. Standard Time Zones of the World Note... ...Y) unless indicated as fiscal year (FY) or otherwise. Afghanistan 300km Set regional map VIII Geography Total area: 647,500 km 2 ; land area: 647,500... ...n: mostly mountains with Alps in west and south; low local relief and gentle slopes along eastern and northern margins Land use: 17% arable land; 1% p... ... and woodland; 19% other; includes NEGL% irrigated Environment: due to steep slopes, poor soils, and cold temperatures, population is concentrated on ... ...tes with France, US Climate: varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north Terrain: mostly plains with mountains in west and lowland... ...ar ending 31 December 1986, $2.6 billion; 16.1% of central government budget Arctic Ocean 500km GODTHAB (NUUK) Oaqorto Sec regional map II Ammaisalik ... ...ough summer, warm and sunny in fall Terrain: hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north Land use: 7% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 1...

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...rear. Strange ideas like the talking bus and the clawing chair, in the back regions of the mind, were only experienced by the lonely and the isolated... ... might suppose. Soon her insular hubris of indomitability began to thaw like Arctic permafrost. Then he went on. "There won't be any difficulty in ex... ...d was their own burial. She was at last leaving the pine trees and the snowy slopes where she had once skied with Kato and her husband. She was razing... ... the open windows of her car, she was half tempted to drive all the way into arctic Canada instead of returning to the odious smells of her paintﾁNche... ... owls she patterned out ﾁN not regular barn owls, and not saw-whet owls, but Arctic owls living alone in cold snowy deserts. An hour into this some c...

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...n vain, for the help of those on whom fall the smiles of a kindlier sun in regions not torn by earthquakes nor blasted and ravaged by volcanic fires. ... ... the perpen- dicular, and bulged out a little towards the street; its roof sloped a little to one side, like the cap over the left ear of a T ugendbun... ...is it not known at the present time that the greatest cold of the ethereal regions is never lower than 40 degrees below zero Fahr.? Why should it not ... ...canic action. The Icelandic buts are made of earth and turf, and the walls slope inward; they rather resemble roofs placed on the ground. But then the... ...n Esquimaux, since nature had condemned them to live only just outside the arctic circle! In vain did I try to detect a smile upon their lips; sometim... ... my part—” “Oh, M. Liedenbrock, they are all over the country. In this icy region we are fond of study. There is not a farmer nor a fisherman that can... ...lect steep cliffs for her nest, but rather the smooth terraced rocks which slope to the sea, the Icelandic hunter might exercise his calling with- out... ... we had reached the aolkirkja of Gardar CHAPTER XIII HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE It ought to have been night-time, but under the 65th paral- l... ...t the door of the priest’s house at Stapi. 69 Jules Verne CHAPTER XIV BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOO Stapi is a village consisting of about thi...

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...Willey family in August, 1826. The house occupied by the family was on the slope of a mountain, and after a long drought there was a terrible tempest ... ...mes in comfortable farm houses, and cultivated the rich soil on the gentle slopes or level surfaces of the val ley. Others, again, were congregated i... ... highland rivulet, tumbling down from its birthplace in the upper mountain region, had been caught and tamed by human cunning, and compelled to turn t... ... heap to the mountainous accu mulation of this one man’s wealth. The cold regions of the north, almost within the gloom and shadow of the Arctic Circ... .... The cold regions of the north, almost within the gloom and shadow of the Arctic Circle, sent him their tribute in the shape of furs; hot Africa sift... ...elling among these mountains, and made their heights and recesses a sacred region. There was a wail along the road, as if a funeral were passing. To c... ... above an other till the clouds began to hang below the peaks. Down their slopes were the red pathways of the slides, those ava lanches of earth, st...

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...ssion did the subsequent discovery of a faint remote speck of light in the region of the perturbed planet cause any very great excitement. Scientific ... ... when next it rose over Europe everywhere were crowds of watchers on hilly slopes, on house-roofs, in open spaces, staring eastward for the rising of ... ...f a shadow. The earthquakes began and grew until all down America from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn, hillsides were sliding, fissures were opening, ... ...le who had fled thither from the floods and the falling houses and sliding slopes of hill watched for 29 H G Wells that rising in vain. Hour followed... ...d. I turned upon her suddenly and challenged her to race down the mountain slopes. ‘No,’ she said, as if I had jarred with her gravity, but I was reso... ...nd flags and bands—in a time when half the world drew its food supply from regions ten thousand miles away—” The man with the white face paused. I gla...

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...maginary crea- ture, from the white whale, the terrible “Moby Dick” of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose ten- tacles could entangle a s... ...y crea- ture, from the white whale, the terrible “Moby Dick” of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose ten- tacles could entangle a ship of ... ... and I seemed to be listening to a Canadian Homer singing the Iliad of the regions of the North. I am portraying this hardy companion as I really knew... ...s to turn the course to the south-east and abandon for ever the north- ern regions of the Pacific. The frigate was then in 31º 15' N. lat. and 136º 42... ...of continents allows us to divide the waters into five great portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atl... ...r of sound than air, in the ratio of four to one. At this period the earth sloped downwards; the light took a uniform tint. We were at a depth of a hu... ...k me as being very perfect, and richer even than it would have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where these productions are not so plentiful. But... ...ep granite shore, forming dark grottos, but which presented no practicable slope; it was the prop of the Island of Crespo. It was the earth! Captain N... ...e luminous horizon. It was one in the morning when we arrived at the first slopes of the mountain; but to gain access to them we must venture through ...

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... in and out of the harbour. And now just a few lumps of rubble on a grassy slope, and a sheep or two—and me And where the port had been were the level... ...ple!” he exclaimed. “No! Banish all that! Think your- self a sort of ultra-arctic voyager exploring the desolate places of space. Look at it!” He wave... ...er, and outside some white substance splashed as if we were rolling down a slope of snow…. Over, clutch, bump, clutch, bump, over…. Came a thud, and I... ... air had caught us, and spluttering expostulation, we began to roll down a slope, rolling faster and faster, leaping crevasses and rebound- ing from b... ...tance here and there, white substance that was no longer air but snow, the arctic appearance had gone altogether. Ev- erywhere broad rusty brown space... ...only some of that snow had remained!” “It’s clean gone! We’re driving from arctic to tropical at the 66 The First Men in the Moon rate of a degree a ... ... world will be far below in the profounder cav- erns about their sea. This region of the crust in which we are is an outlying district, a pastoral reg... ...f bal- loon” he speaks of, at first into an inky blackness and then into a region of continually increasing phosphorescence. Cavor’s despatches show h... ...out to a considerable length, and the brain hypertrophy being in different regions, his head was not round but pear-shaped, with the stalk down- ward....

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...gling bro- ken-winged thinker has cast an owl’s glance into this ob- scure region, the most have soared over it altogether heed- less; regarding Cloth... ...n whereby a man himself grows fat, they were apt to run goose-hunting into regions of bilberries and crowberries, and be swallowed up at last in remot... ...ndeed be reflexes of the heavenly Stars, but perhaps also glances from the region of Nether Fire. Certainly a most involved, self-secluded, altogether... ... calling unto deep,— and the storms heap themselves together into one huge Arctic whirlpool: thou flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire fr... ...s. We hear of Entepfuhl standing “in trustful derangement” among the woody slopes; the pa- 66 Sartor Resartus ternal Orchard flanking it as extreme o... ...o, overlaid with precious metal. Beautiful rose up, in wavy curvature, the slope of thy guardian Hills; of the greenest was their sward, embossed with... ...test changes. “Silence as of death,” writes he; “for Midnight, even in the Arctic latitudes, has its character: nothing but the granite cliffs ruddy-t... ...iven, after weariest wanderings, to work out my way into the higher sunlit slopes—of that Mountain which has 132 Sartor Resartus no summit, or whose ...

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...ce, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us... ... only because the demand rests upon implications that reach far beyond the region of language, it is worth consid- ering here. It implies, indeed, alm... ...over the land in finer reticulations, growing close and dense in the urban regions and thinning as the population thins. And running beside these ligh... ...d shapely motor-cars going past, cyclists, and in these agreeable mountain regions there will also be pedestrians upon their way. Cycle tracks will ab... ...Away on either side the lights of the little country homes up the mountain slopes will glow. I figure it at night, because so it is we should see it f... ...trange mystery of a world of which I have seen so little as yet—a mountain slope, a twilit road, a traffic of ambiguous vehicles and dim shapes, the w... ...been born into a liberal and progressive Roman Empire that spread from the Arctic Ocean to the Bight of Benin, and was to know no Decline and Fall, an... ... of square miles of sandy desert in Africa and Asia set apart; much of the Arctic and Antarctic circles; vast areas of moun- tain land and frozen mars...

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...ed, but it is highly probable that the formation of an aerial park in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industrial plant of ... ...ous organisation of the War Control…. She drew herself a little way up the slope of earth on which she lay, and examined her surroundings with an incr... ...ide of her away from the water the heaped ruins rose steeply in a confused slope up to a glaring crest. Above and reflecting this glare towered pillow... ...lism and hysterical fanaticisms in the valleys of the Semoy and the forest region of the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russ... ...k in America. The weather was stormier than men had ever known it in those regions, with much thunder and lightning and wild cloud-bursts of rain…. CH... ...very high and wild. Above the asphodel fields the mountains climb in rocky slopes to soli- tudes of stone and sunlight that curve round and join that ... ...d clambered to the poles of the earth. The limitless mineral wealth of the Arctic and Antarctic circles was still buried beneath vast accumulations of...

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... hand came the long rows of dwellings, approach- 8 ing curved up the hill-slope, in straight lines along the brow of the hill. They were of darkened ... ...d Gudrun went along, grasping at release. They drew away from the colliery region, over the curve of the hill, into the purer country of the other sid... ...cted through crystals of ice. And he looked so new, unbroached, pure as an arctic thing. Perhaps he was thirty years old, perhaps more. His gleaming b... ... I really singled out for him in some way, is there really some pale gold, arctic light that envelopes only us two?’ she asked herself. And she could ... ... long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope just beyond the narrow little lake of Willey Water. Shortlands looked... ...ed to be entering in some strange element, passing into an illuminated new region, among a host of licentious souls. He was pleased, and entertained. ... ...ough the park. Hermione wanted to show them the wild daffodils on a little slope. ‘This way, this way,’ sang her leisurely voice at intervals. And the... ...r known before, it seemed to throw her out of the world into some terrible region where nothing of her old life held good. She was quite lost and daze... ... would be done differently by the white races. The white races, having the arctic north behind them, the vast abstraction of ice and snow, would fulfi...

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...utiful Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor aforesaid, an engirdled and secluded region, for the most part untrodden as yet by tourist or landscape painter,... ...the old oak copses and irregular belts of timber that yet survive upon its slopes, and the hollow trunked trees that shade so many of its pastures. Th... ... borders of which, as she had been informed, Mrs. d’Urberville’s seat, The Slopes, would be found. It was not a manorial home in the ordinary sense, w... ...rded for bows. All this sylvan antiquity, however, though visible from The Slopes, was outside the immediate boundaries of the estate. Everything on t... ...it was nearer to the home of her husband’s father; and to hover about that region unrecognized, with the notion that she might decide to call at the V... ...yes which had witnessed scenes of cataclysmal horror in inaccessible polar regions of a magni tude such as no human being had ever conceived, in curd... ...loud, and individual flakes could not be seen. The blast smelt of icebergs, arctic seas, whales, and white bears, carrying the snow so that it licked t...

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... and out-tilts the slag. See the palpitating red stuff go sliding down the slope. As we get nearer, the heap rises up and cuts the blast fur- naces. S... ... the sky. From the little cir- cular building, with its mushroom dome, the slopes plunge steeply downward into the black mysteries of the tropical for... ... deeper green of the virgin forest showed its course down the distant hill slope. The forest here came close to the beach. Far beyond, dim and almost ... ... to- wards a point between Orion’s belt and sword; and the void about that region opened vaster and vaster every second, an incredible gulf of nothing... ...he firm, undeviating footsteps that he never overtook, in groping into new regions of this endless devil’s dyke, in clambering up and down the pitiles... ...ssion did the subsequent discovery of a faint remote speck of light in the region of the perturbed planet cause any very great excitement. Scientific ... ...f a shadow. The earthquakes began and grew until all down America from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn, hillsides were sliding, fissures were opening, ...

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...eve. THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic, That look with their eye-daring summits deep into the sky... ..., Is more than recompense for days That taught us to endure. II Yon upland slope which hides the sun Ascending from his eastern deeps, And now against... ... will lose breath and wither; like many, not made for a posy. See, the sun slopes down the meadows, where all the flowers are falling! Falling unhymne... ...r! Upward to this starry height The culminating seasons rolled; 84 On one slope green with spring delight, The other with harvest gold, And treasures... ...w his huge bulk o’er Afric’s sands careened, Now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows. Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars With memor... ... look hard Winter wears When sweeps the wild snow-blast: He had the hug of Arctic bears For captives he held fast. 2—I Archduchess Anne sat carved in ... ...pped to this day. XIV Hear its deeds, the great recital! Stout as bergs of Arctic ice Once it led, and lived; a title Now it is, and names its price. ... ...d yonder sky? Bethink you: were it Earth alone Breeds love, would not her region be The sole delight and throne Of generous Deity? T o deeper than th...

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...hree shillings a week, or more, and spending it on Chips, Comic Cuts, Ally Sloper’s Half-holiday, cigarettes, and all the con- comitants of a life of ... ...pped to within shouting distance of the crowds in West End Park and on the slope of Gilmorehill. The thing flew quite steadily at a pace of about thre... ...As he sank down among them the clouds ceased to seem the snowclad mountain-slopes they had resembled heretofore, became unsubstantial, confessed an im... .... Bert found it quite possible to look down and contem- plate the wild sub-arctic landscape below, now devoid of any sign of habitation, a land of roc... ...r, that he formed any image at all of the crowded countries south of these Arctic solitudes stricken with terror and dismay as these new-born aerial n... ... and hate and disaster grew, the fissures widened between man and man, new regions of the fabric of civilisation crumbled and gave way. Below, the arm... ...inguish the aeronaut’s head. He followed them for a mile. Now they came to regions of panic, now to regions of destruc- tion; here people were fightin... ...They had brought together all the best of the surviving artisans from that region, they had provisioned the park for a siege, and they were urgently b...

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...valley—harvests that were to feed strangely clad skeletons on the southern slopes of the Himalaya foot-hills. T ravis and Condy edged their way among ... ... the man-trap of the City of the Dead who are alive, and mentions that the slope of the inclosing sandhills was “about forty-five degrees.” Jukes was ... ...e now—worry me like the devil;—and she caught on to that ‘point’ about the slope of forty- five degrees.” 43 Frank Norris Chapter V CONDY BEGAN his w... ...at the flat, where every one called her Aunt Dodd. She lived in that vague region of the city known as the Mission, where she owned a little property.... ...y sixteen. He had filibustered down to Chili; had acted as ice pilot on an Arctic relief expe- dition; had captained a crew of Chinamen shark-fish- in...

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... the stony ways, like staircases without stairs, on which the wild village hangs in little clusters, as fruit hangs on boughs, and had given the alarm... ... he will step back and take that young man. Which in course of time he does: feeling at perfect ease about finding him, and knowing for a moral certai... ...ght be almost read, with- out book, by this time! Welcome Monsieur the Cure, later in the day, jolting through the highway dust (as if you had already... ... me safely, in his own wise way, among the passes of the Alps, and here I enjoyed a dozen climates a day; being now (like Don Quixote on the back of t... ...ough moun- tain inn would be found on an island of deep mud in a sea of snow, while the baiting strings of mules, and the carts full of casks and bale... ...d him with oats at the highest price, put an infant prince and princess in a pair of panniers on his back, adjust his delicate trappings to a nicety, ... ...er kind of tramp, whom you encounter this bright summer day—say, on a road with the sea-breeze mak- ing its dust lively, and sails of ships in the blu...

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... this big river was not made without some trepidation. What would happen when the wind first caught my little canvas? I suppose it was almost as tryin... ...ng. But even more conservative were the fishermen, intent upon their floats, who let us go by without one glance. They perched upon sterlings and butt... ...ntry cart at Etreux: and we were soon following them along the side of a pleas- ant valley full of hop-gardens and poplars. Agreeable vil- lages lay h... ...o which the roadway dipped and melted before our eyes? Probably the aeronauts were already warming themselves at a farm chimney, for they say it is co... ... and a small rain had begun before we stowed the boats. La Fere is a fortified town in a plain, and has two belts of rampart. Between the first and th... ...y, it will be certain to leak out some contemporary gossip. It was scarcely so cold in the church as it was with- out, but it looked colder. The white...