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Excerpt: The Patagonia by Henry James.

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...ia by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Patagonia by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Patagonia by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Patagonia by Henry James From the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition. CHAPTER I... ...to embark on the morrow for Liverpool. I presently saw this appear- 4 The Patagonia ance confirmed by a light above her door and in two or three of h... ...e that my old friend might very well not know of the sub- stitution of the Patagonia for the Scandinavia, so that I should be doing her a service to p... ...e, you know!” She made me very welcome, but her son had told her about the Patagonia, for which she was sorry, as this would mean a longer voyage. She... ... enamel of his teeth, under his brown moustache, gleamed vaguely in 6 The Patagonia the lights of the Back Bay. I made out that he was sun- burnt, as... ... the unknown gentleman whom they found in possession, hat and stick 8 The Patagonia in hand. This was not my doing—for what had I to go upon?—and sti... ...ch a queer situation, going out alone to the gentleman she was en- 10 The Patagonia gaged to: she’d just help her, like a good Samaritan, to turn rou...

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A descriptive book about areas of Argentina, specifically Patagonia and Sarmiento.

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...o argentino que pasó su vida en permanente lucha, que se llamó Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Pero no es una obra más, sino un especial trabajo sobre la Patagonia, que tiene por objeto desmitificar una acusación injusta que pretendió deteriorar el nombre del civilizador por antonomasia....

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... Nota a esta Edición Reproducimos aquí Sarmiento y la Patagonia de Francisco M. Goyogana, con prólogo de Juan José Cresto, ... ...austino Sarmiento. Pero no es una obra más, sino un especial trabajo sobre la Patagonia, que tiene por objeto desmitificar una acusación injusta que... ...rlo de la conciencia nacional con acusaciones que van desde la entrega de la Patagonia al asesinato del Chacho, entre otras igualmente falsas y tem... ...obre las instituciones. Si bien el tema es el pensamiento del prócer sobre la Patagonia, Goyogana ensaya una biografía que él enriquece con sus come... ...udican haber expresado y sostenido la negación a la soberanía argentina en la Patagonia por el apoyo que el sanjuanino hizo en 1842 en varios artícu... ...en el siglo XIX, centralizada en la figura de Sarmiento, en particular con la Patagonia, ese vasto territorio, largo tiempo abandonado tanto por los... ...de los intrincados negocios de límites con Chile por el dominio de la inmensa Patagonia, el archivo sarmientino, a pesar de estar integrado por tan ... ...Sarmiento han apuntado a las llamadas cuestión de Magallanes y cuestión de la Patagonia. La cuestión Magallanes es un asunto puntual inscripto en un... ...en 1842, despegado en un principio del ámbito más amplio de la cuestión de la Patagonia, que tenía por lo menos dudosa existencia jurídica en la mis...

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...ht the Duncan they set off for South America. An unexpected passenger in the form of French geographer Jacques Paganel joins the search. They explore Patagonia, Tristan da Cunha Island, Amsterdam Island, Australia and new Zeland and find Captain Grant at last. (summary from Wikipedia)....

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...e Pacific -- A useless trip up the La Plata -- Origin of Cannibalism among the Patagonians -- Facial disfigurements -- Imitativeness of the people -- ... ... -- Wonders increase -- Strange animals of impossible creation -- A fight with Patagonians and burning of their village - - How the natives cure the s... ...In contact with the Indians -- Description of the natives -- A battle with the Patagonians -- Death of two members of the expedition -- A charge of mu... ... command -- Capture and plunder of an African village -- Drake on the coast of Patagonia -- Discovery of the skeletons of giants -- Incredible sufferi... ...m starvation by the killing of a large number of birds -- The dog-faced men of Patagonia -- A plague of worms -- Cavendish's excoriation of Davis -- 2... ...nish viceroy -- His vessels are damaged by a storm, but he finds safety on the Patagonian coast -- His reception by the Patagonians -- Fuegan conjurer... ...of the deep...................................................... 247 Types of Patagonians.................................................... 249 The... ...8 Scene on the La Plata River............................................. 349 Patagonians challenging Drake............................................. ...1 Cavendish surprised by Spaniards........................................ 382 Patagonians fishing.......................................................

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...rain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border Land use: 9% arable...

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...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 of Magel... ...did not show himself. Until the 3rd of April we did not quit the shores of Patagonia, sometimes un- der the ocean, sometimes at the surface. The Nauti...

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...a traffic only. SNAEFELL JOKUL—White occulting light withdrawn for winter. PATAGONIA—No summer light south Cape Pilar. This in- cludes Staten Island a...

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...s perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish. With other men,... ... the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, November 1st, 1836. This Tablet Is erected to his Memory by his ... ...tched together in one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into ... ... rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs. His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so that f... ... a noble craft every way. I boarded her once at midnight somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the forecastle. It was a fine... ... gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it’s squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands—visitors and all—were called to reef topsails, we...

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...s perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish. With other men,... ... the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, November 1st, 1836. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS ... ...tched together in one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into ... ... rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock slide from the Patagonian cliffs. His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so that f... ... a noble craft every way. I boarded her once at midnight somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the forecastle. It was a fine g... ... gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it’s squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands — visitors and all — were called to reef topsails...

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...one in for the most fantastic schemes: a harbour and docks on the coast of Patagonia, quarries in Labrador—such like specula- tions. Fisheries to feed...

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...ber very vividly looking at certain orange and red spray-like flowers from Patagonia, which could not have been there. It is a curious thing that I do...

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...there for months, and took no more interest in the bank than in the state of Patagonia. “I’m sorry I waked you,” Isabel said; “you look too tired.” “I...

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...ere for months, and took no more interest in the bank than in the state of Patagonia. “I’m sorry I waked you,” Isabel said; “you look too tired.” “I f...

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...m- ber, 1831. The object of the expedition was to com- plete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 183... ...deprived of its moisture by passing over the mountains, the arid plains of Patagonia support a most scanty vegetation. In the more northern parts of t... ... small herds, throughout the countries bordering the Plata and in Northern Patagonia. If a person crawling close along the ground, slowly advances tow... ... armed with the bolas. At Bahia Blanca, a recent establishment in Northern Patagonia, I was surprised to find how little the deer cared for the noise ... ...frightened they utter the tucutuco. Of those *At the R. Negro, in Northern Patagonia, there is an ani- mal of the same habits, and probably a closely ... ...east, the Calandria soon chased it away. On the wide uninhabited plains of Patagonia another closely allied species, O. Patagonica of d’Orbigny, which... ...of Carrancha), and is far from unfrequent throughout the sterile plains of Patagonia. In the desert between the rivers Negro and Colorado, numbers con... ...c, it is nevertheless found inhabiting the damp impervious forests of West Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. The Carranchas, together with the Chimango,... ...ery evi- dent to any one who has fallen asleep on the deso- late plains of Patagonia, for when he wakes, he will see, on each surrounding hillock, one...

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... proceed through the Strait of Magellan, and up along the western coast of Patagonia; but information received at Tristan d’Acunha induced him to stee...

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...se were the Falkland Islands. We had run between them and the main land of Patagonia. At sunset the second mate, who was at the mast head, said that... ...ce the strong south west winds, which prevailed then, carried us in towards Patagonia. At two, P. M., we saw a sail on our larboard beam, and at four...

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...travel,” Henslowe was saying, dragging out his words drowsily. “Abyssinia, Patagonia, Turkestan, the Caucasus, anywhere and everywhere. What do you sa...

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... says things to me that make me wish— wish that they’ d make him bishop of Patagonia. And yet does it all in friendship, and mamma says that she is qu...