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...ing a demand like a rageing thirst in a shipwreck, in Bligh’s boat, in the tropics. I’m afraid, Com—Captain Beauchamp, sir, there’s no stopping the Pr...

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... with soda? Thanks! Do you know, I think that’s the very best drink in the tropics: sweet white wine, with soda? Yes—well!— Well —now, why are you goi...

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... a moving field of ice from the south, may have driven animal life towards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty m... ...nfronted with a new and unexpected danger. A TERRIBLE STORM. The storms of the tropics are sudden and severe to a degree known in no other part of the...

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...OSS (1857 - 1932) English Physician 207 HOWARD TAILOR RICKETTS (1871 - 1910) American Pathologist 209 YELLOW FEVER AND MALARIA IN THE HOT AND WET TROPICS 211 WALTER REED (1851 - 1902) American Military Surgeon and Bacteriologist 212 THE PANAMA CANAL, YELLOW FEVER AND MALARIA 214 WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS (1854 - 1920) American Army Surgeon 215 INSECTICIDES, VECTOR ...

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...e the embassy in a leading European capital, a governor-generalship in the tropics, or my humble mission here to make Little Pifflington do its bit, I...

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...o the grave! Often do I think of seeking for some quiet cell either in the Tropics or in Arctic latitudes, where the changes of the year, and the exte... ...e had tropic blood in her veins, that con- tinually called her away to the tropics. It was all the fault of that ‘blue rejoicing sky,’ of those purple... ...losseum,—that is to say nothing. It is to undertake the measurement of the tropics with the pocket- tape of an upholsterer. Columbus, when he introduc...

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... he be capable of such filling, 103 Trollope with a flood of romance. The tropics will unfold to him all that vegetation in its greatest richness can...

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...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- C...

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...IMPRESSIONS—’’SAIL HO!’’ . . . . . . . . . . 6 CHAPTER III — SHIP’S DUTIES—TROPICS CHAPTER IV — A ROGUE—TROUBLE ON BOARD—’’LAND . . . . . . . . . . ... ... - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana CHAPTER III — SHIP’S DUTIES—TROPICS As we had now a long ‘‘spell’’ of fine weather, without any ... ...s, it has few storms, and is never either extremely hot or cold. Between the tropics there is a slight haziness, like a thin gauze, drawn over the su... ... which comes down with perpendicular fierceness in the Atlantic and Indian tropics. We sailed well to the westward to have the full advantage of t... ...her, as you would a separate object. One night, while we were in these tropics, I went out to the end of the flying jib boom, upon some duty, an... ... to make hollows. These rain squalls came up in the manner usual between the tropics.—A clear sky; burning, vertical sun; work going lazily on, and m... ...ng for hours, and sometimes for days, are fair spec- imens of the Atlantic tropics. The nights were fine; and as we had all hands all day, the watch... ... sailor’s eye, adrift. But on the passage home, the fine weather between the tropics is spent in putting the ship into the neatest order. No merchant ... ... there compelled him to live the whole wearisome voyage, through trades and tropics, and round Cape Horn, with nothing to do,—not allowed to converse...

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...f these main causes of war. 37 H.G. Wells (1) The politically undeveloped tropics; (2) Shipping and international trade; and (3) Small nationalities ...

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...did work, and work well; and under their hands vast regions of the western tropics became fertile gardens. The fact that they were carried up into nor...

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...sea; And such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. From that dire deluge, thro’ the wat’ry waste, Such length of ...