... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...RACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EART... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...e -- Description of the habitations of the Philippine Islanders -- An alliance established by exchanging and drinking blood -- Zebu selected as a plac... ...n scarcely think of an epitaph, to place upon the grave-stones that mark their places of sepulture. And if so many cities and nations have perished wi... ...and if he cannot, will bemoan the fate that lies before him. He considers many places ill-omened; Eddystone Rock, the Straits of Messina, where in anc... ... or to perform any other labors which he might desire. The country was densely populated, and Cortez was offered such aid that in a short while a suff... ...pulation was not less than 500,000 souls, the adjacent district was numerously populated, and every advantage was upon the side of the Mexicans for an... ...e gathering of armed bodies of natives on the shore, until the 5th of January, 1643, when he found a small island some distance off the New Zealand c...

...scoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian 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 civiliz...

... -- 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...

...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, 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. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Du... ...der of the castle, was now entirely in our power, was one of the strongest places in the Low Countries, and had hitherto boasted of having never chang... ...wards Paris. On the way a little circumstance happened. One of our halting-places was Marienburgh, where we camped for the night. I had become united ... ...ther (to the great grief of the latter; who doted upon this daughter), and established her in a house of his own adjoining the Assumption, in the Faub... ...Metz to the nephew of M. d’Orleans; and by this means a reconciliation was established. M. d’Orleans and M. de la Rochefoucauld joined hands again, an... ...ier de Lorraine, then in the prime of his first youth (having been born in 1643) completely ruled over Monsieur, and made Madame feel that he had this... ...count of the cel- ebrated Papal decree which has made so many martyrs, de- populated our schools, introduced ignorance, fanaticism, and misrule, rewar...

...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. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...lieve that a little investigation would bring to light, in countless other places, much that is well worth remembrance. For the benefit of those who t... ...m Winchester to Romsey, and nearly at an equal distance from each of those places. The parishes by which Hursley is surrounded were, when Mr. Marsh wr... ...n Young, Dean of Winchester, who purchased the copyhold of Cranbury before 1643, and retired thither when he was ex- pelled from his deanery and other... ..., if not in their nature , altogether unlike those which were at this time established by the Normans. “Under the feodal system, the tenant originally... ...g the Itchen, and it used to be at Chandler’s Ford before the place was so populated. It seems also to haunt ponds or marshy places in woods, for a yo...

...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...