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...ery of Magellan Strait -- Hurrah! Afloat on the Great South Sea -- Loss of the San Antonio -- Away, across the Pacific -- A long voyage and provisions... ...rs in the South Seas -- His departure on a pirating cruise - - In trouble with Barbary Moors -- Capture of a Spanish vessel -- A strange sight witness... ... 357 CHAPTER XXXIII. An attack in which Drake is wounded. -- Proceeding up the coast of Chili -- Capture of an Indian fisherman -- Through his efforts... ...ed to the command -- Capture and plunder of an African village -- Drake on the coast of Patagonia -- Discovery of the skeletons of giants -- Incredibl... ...Another battle with the Spaniards -- Cavendish destroys the shipping along the coast of South America -- A hot fight between Cavendish and the Spaniar... ... after that of Columbus is given in subsequent chapters, from the discovery of San Salvador to the reclamation of all the countries and islands of the... ...ed at the coast of Brazil which he was resolutely bent upon exploring. At Cape San Augustine he went on shore, and with the usual formalities took pos... ... to depart again, but meeting with no further mishap they reached the coast of Barbary on the 27th, where a halt was made to fit up one of the pinnace... ... of the pinnaces for service. Here the fleet, encountering difficulty with the Barbary Moors, put to sea again on the 31st, and on the 17th of January...

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...f many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes ?coming out? that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. This particular tea was intended to celebrate the fact that Josie Herrick had arrived at that time of her life when she was to wear her hair high and he...

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...s. There had been a great number of debutantes “coming out” that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. Th... ...here had been a great number of debutantes “coming out” that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. This p... ...or orders” slowly gorging themselves with whole harvests of wheat from the San Joaquin Valley; lumber vessels for Durban and South African ports settl... ...on, when a little, undersized fellow in dirty brown sweater and clothes of Barbary coast cut asked him for a match to light his pipe, Wilbur offered a... ... a little, undersized fellow in dirty brown sweater and clothes of Barbary coast cut asked him for a match to light his pipe, Wilbur offered a cigar a... ...Bertha Millner” would even make the circuit of the bay before returning to San Francisco. He might be gone a week. Wilbur could already see the scare-... ...ha Millner” would even make the circuit of the bay before returning to San Francisco. He might be gone a week. Wilbur could already see the scare-head... ...The schooner was standing well out from shore—even beyond the track of the coasters and passen- ger steamers—to catch the T rades from the northwest. ... ...e of the sextant and how to take an observation in the fake short and easy coasting style of navigation. Furthermore, he showed him how to read the lo...

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...eam Naviga- tion Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the prese... ...pace, when, on the 2nd of July, they learned that a steamer of the line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks... ..., when, on the 2nd of July, they learned that a steamer of the line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks bef... ...to Europe; and the unicorn may be amiable enough to hurry me to- wards the coast of France. This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the se... ...re), the frigate was abreast of Cape Blanc, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia. We had crossed the tropic of Capricorn, and the Straits... ...e than that found in the Mediterranean, on the coasts of France, Italy and Barbary. Its tints justified the poetical names of “Flower of Blood,” and “... ... but an im- mense sea. Some sails on the horizon, doubtless those going to San Roque in search of favourable winds for doubling the Cape of Good Hope.... ... April we sighted the most westerly point of South America that forms Cape San Roque. But then the Nautilus swerved again, and sought the lowest depth...

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... end of the dry season, and all Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Central Califor- nia, was bone dry, pa... ...emed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Pre... ...e part of Magnus Derrick, had come to stay in the dry, even climate of the San Joaquin for an indefinite length of time. He was thirty years old, and ... ... These matters, these eternal fierce bickerings between the farmers of the San Joaquin and the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad irritated him and wea... ...le. Once, even, he had made the entire run between the latter town and San Francisco in the cab. Dyke’s home was in Guadalajara. He lived in one of th... ...ays? Ten thousand acres of wheat! Nothing but wheat from the Sierra to the Coast Range. I remember when De La Cuesta was married. He had never seen th... ...he county. The offices of the ranches were thus connected by wire with San Francisco, and through that city with Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, New Yor... ...ummer she had been away visiting with relatives in one of the towns on the coast. But the week previous to this she had returned and Annixter had come... ...district gave place to the vice-crowded sa- loons and concert halls of the Barbary Coast. She turned aside in avoidance of this, only to plunge into t...

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...fonso VI shortly after his occupation of Toledo in 1085, and called by him San Servando after a Spanish martyr, a name subsequently modified into San ... ...ified into San Servan (in which form it appears in the “Poem of the Cid”), San Servantes, and San Cervantes: with regard to which last the “Handbook f... ...rly successful. The vessel procured by Rodrigo made its appearance off the coast, and under cover of night was proceeding to take off the refugees, wh... ... Castile,” though he was in fact an Andalusian, and one from the strand of San Lucar, as crafty a thief as Cacus and as full of tricks as a student or... ...t him in the disguise of a Moor to Tabarca, a small fort or station on the coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery. These Arabs cut of... ...ral opinion throughout the city that she was the most beau- tiful woman in Barbary, and that several of the viceroys who came there had sought her for... ...der the pretence of becoming a merchant and trader at Tetuan and along the coast; and when mas- ter of the vessel, it would be easy for him to hit on ... ... the Tagarin already mentioned. The Moors of Aragon are called Tagarins in Barbary, and those of Granada Mudejars; but in the Kingdom of Fez they call... ...son I met was her father, who ad- dressed me in the language that all over Barbary and even in Constantinople is the medium between captives and Moors...

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...XECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. HON. F . F . LOWE, San Francisco, Cal.: Below is an act of Congress, passed last session, inte... ...TIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. HON. F . F . LOWE, San Francisco, Cal.: Below is an act of Congress, passed last session, intended... ...ting a continuous line of telegraph through that Empire from our Pa- cific coast. 31 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven I recommend to your ... ...any other power; but while these may be relied upon for harbor defense and coast service, others of greater strength and capacity will be neces- sary ... ...TIVE MANSION, December 15, 1863. HON. OGDEN HOFFMAN, U. S. District Judge, San Francisco, Cal.: The oath in the proclamation of December 8 is intended... ... MANSION, December 15, 1863. HON. OGDEN HOFFMAN, U. S. District Judge, San Francisco, Cal.: The oath in the proclamation of December 8 is intended for... ...EY. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, January 28, 1864 HON. EDW ARD STANLEY, San Francisco, Cal.: Y ours of yesterday received. We have rumors similar ... ...red colony established by the United States at the island of Vache, on the coast of San Domingo, to bring back to this country such of the colonists t... ...nsulate, and our relations with Egypt, as well as our rela- tions with the Barbary Powers) are entirely satisfactory. The rebellion which has so long ...

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...fonso VI shortly after his occupation of Toledo in 1085, and called by him San Servando after a Spanish martyr, a name subsequently modified into San ... ...ified into San Servan (in which form it appears in the “Poem of the Cid”), San Servantes, and San Cervantes: with regard to which last the “Handbook f... ...rly successful. The vessel procured by Rodrigo made its appearance off the coast, and under cover of night was proceeding to take off the refugees, wh... ... Castile,” though he was in fact an Andalusian, and one from the strand of San Lucar, as crafty a thief as Cacus and as full of tricks as a student or... ...t him in the disguise of a Moor to Tabarca, a small fort or station on the coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery. These Arabs cut of... ... city that she was the most beau- 358 Don Quixote – Part I tiful woman in Barbary, and that several of the viceroys who came there had sought her for... ...der the pretence of becoming a merchant and trader at Tetuan and along the coast; and when mas- ter of the vessel, it would be easy for him to hit on ... ... the Tagarin already mentioned. The Moors of Aragon are called Tagarins in Barbary, and those of Granada Mudejars; but in the Kingdom of Fez they call... ...son I met was her father, who ad- dressed me in the language that all over Barbary and even in Constantinople is the medium between captives and Moors...

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...upposed to act upon the poor shipwrecked seaman, alone and upon a desolate coast, straining his sight for ever to the fickle ele- ment which has betra... ...ork within the gloom of a chestnut forest. She and the young cavalier, Don Francisco de Cardenas, were mutually pleased, and had mutual confidence. Al... ...inquired for the young Don. T o avert her own face, to announce him to Don Francisco, to wish him on the shores 86 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers... ...d her ship, in particular, after doubling Cape Horn without loss, made the coast of Peru. Paita was the port of her destination. Very near to this por... ...s Spanish Majesty round Cape Horn, fighting with storms and sharks off the coast of Peru, and now commencing as book-keeper or commis to a draper at P... ...hich I drew close to his ear, and put a question to him about the Moors of Barbary. To the surprise of every- body but myself, he immediately gave us ...

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... and the Arrabiati came to blows in the church of the Dominican convent of San- Marco, Fra Pietro in the scuffle broke the heads of the assail- ants w... ... John de Luc, to Fontarabia, where you shall seize upon all the ships, and coasting along Galicia and Portugal, shall pillage all the maritime places,... ...the king- doms of Tunis, of Hippo, Argier, Bomine (Bona), Corone, yea, all Barbary. Furthermore, you shall take into your hands Majorca, Minorca, Sard... ...itten upon this or no, I have made use of a good part of that which Master Francisco di Nianto, the T uscan, sets down, who hath written the manner of... ... those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and dwell along the shores and coasts of the Red Sea, some sour prickings and smart stingings in his arms ... ...e from the whirlpools, quick- sands, rocks, and banks that lie alongst the coast of Cornwall. I will, said Friar John, show thee a way and teach thee ... ...e call lovage, from Liguria, the coast of Genoa; Rhu- barb from a flood in Barbary, as Ammianus attesteth, called Ru; Santonica from a region of that ...