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...himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England?s Elizabeth....

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...mpted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice,... ...e pas- sage, the reader will find the authority I had for the story of the romance:— 4 Kenilworth “At the west end of the church are the ruins of a m... ...e:— 4 Kenilworth “At the west end of the church are the ruins of a manor, anciently belonging (as a cell, or place of removal, as some report) to the... ...or Hall, which, with others by the same author, was to be found in Evans’s Ancient Ballads (vol. iv., page 130), to which work Mickle made liberal con... ... 11 Sir Walter Scott The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall; Nor ever lead the merry dance, Among the groves... ...I,” answered the host, “since ranting Robin of Drysandford was shot at the siege of the Brill. The devil take the caliver that fired the ball, for a b... ...n to Michael Lambourne, the gallant cavalier who behaved so bravely at the siege of Venlo that Grave Maurice thanked him at the head of the army? Men ... ...t Bessellsey, or with the old Knight at Wootton, or in some other of their Roman dens, instead of living in a house of public entertainment, as every ... ... princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm and siege, and now in the games of chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which...

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...do, Calderon, Garcilaso de la Vega, the Mendozas, Gongora, were all men of ancient families, and, curiously, all, except the last, of fami- lies that ... ...though nominally taken from the castle, it was in reality derived from the ancient territorial possession of the family, and as a set-off, and to dist... ... genuine knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of Granada was likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the ... ...likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chivalry of the romances. It gives a point, too, to what 10 Don Quixote he says in more th... ...Part of “Don Quixote” alone proves a vast amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had... ...d away. The new Spain was the mightiest power the world had seen since the Roman Empire and it had not yet been called upon to pay the price of its gr... ...a knight. “For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumb... ...at while Anselmo’s absence afforded time and opportunity he must press the siege of the fortress, and so he assailed her self- esteem with praises of ... ..., and at the same moment completes and ends it; in the morning it will lay siege to a fortress and by night will have taken it, for there is no power ...

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...a, the Mendozas, Gongora, were all 9 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. men of ancient families, and, curiously, all, except the last, of fami- lies that ... ...though nominally taken from the castle, it was in reality derived from the ancient territorial possession of the family, and as a set-off, and to dist... ... genuine knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of Granada was likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the ... ...likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chivalry of the romances. It gives a point, too, to what he says in more than one place abo... ...Part of “Don Quixote” alone proves a vast amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had... ...d away. The new Spain was the mightiest power the world had seen since the Roman Empire and it had not yet been called upon to pay the price of its gr... ...a knight. “For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumb... ...at while Anselmo’s absence afforded time and opportunity he must press the siege of the fortress, and so he assailed her self-esteem with praises of h... ..., and at the same moment completes and ends it; in the morning it will lay siege to a fortress and by night will have taken it, for there is no power ...

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...r or so. For many years the business had struggled along with a flavour of romantic insecurity in a small, dissolute-looking shop in the High Street, ... ... a bicycle started out from their hands in a state of pedantic efficiency. Romantic possi- bilities of accident lurked in the worn thread of the screw... ...nicked cheerfully, and were happy in the manner of a happiness that was an ancient mode in Nineveh. Eyes were bright, Grubb was funny and almost witty... ...te equipment for a balloon ascent: a ham- per which included a game pie, a Roman pie, a cold fowl, tomatoes, lettuce, ham sandwiches, shrimp sandwiche... ...It was a period altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed absolutely every dozen ye... ...e world’s plea- sure; and men likened her to the apocalyptic cities of the ancient prophets. She sat drinking up the wealth of a conti- nent as Rome o... ...t, that to make war upon it seemed incongruous beyond measure, like laying siege to the National Gallery or attacking respectable people in an hotel d... ...gested with starving unemployed; of crises in administration and states of siege, of provisional Governments and Councils of Defence, and, in the case... ...e surviving artisans from that region, they had provisioned the park for a siege, and they were urgently building a larger type of Butteridge machine....

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...a Dominant Jew clean gone to the fleshpots and effeminacy. Aldermen of our ancient conception, they may teach him that he has been backsliding once mo... ... the promoting of the state of reverential wonderment in rapture, which an ancient wine will lead to, well you wot. The silly girly sugary crudity his... ...I sent the diva, with excuses and compliments, a nuptial present-necklace, Roman goldwork, locket-pendant, containing sunny curl, and below a fine pea... ... has the oldest in the kingdom. But he will have the best of everything. A Romanee! A Musigny! Sip, my friend, you embrace the Goddess of your choice ... ...we’ll hope, you will be sitting with us over a mag- num of Victor Radnor’s Romance Conti aged thirty-one: a wine, you’ll say at the second glass, High... ... to no one as yet. Nataly thought that; not-withstanding the outcry of the ancient and withered woman who bore Victor Radnor’s name: for whom, in con-... ...re, and was remorseful for desiring, oppressed her; a perpetual consequent warfare of her spirit and the nature subject to the thousand sensational hy... ...he colonel eyed Mrs. Blathenoy dilatingly, advanced, bowed, and opened the siege. She decided a calculation upon his age, made a wall of it, smilingly... ...lan, Colney Du- rance, and Mr. Peridon—pleasing to Nataly for his faithful siege of the French fortress—were the only guests. When they rose, Nataly d...

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...on this tradition as rather apocryphal; but, whenever the landlord of that ancient hostelry appealed to the mounting block itself as evidence, and tri... ...ch old parts of the metropolis,—each ten ement quietly vegetating like an ancient citizen who long ago retired from business, and dozing on in its in... ...e held a rusty blunderbuss pointed to wards his ear, and the other a very ancient sabre, with which he carved imaginary offenders as he came along in... ... he retreated to his own bedchamber, and considering himself in a state of siege, piled all the portable furniture against the door by way of barricad... ...ioning Parliament not to pass an act for abolishing the penal laws against Roman Catholic priests, the penalty of perpetual imprisonment denounced aga... ...are the most Protestant fellows in the world, give our worst wishes to the Roman Catholic cause; and to Saville, who introduces their bill, I have a p... ...gh bred bulldog. If it hadn’t been for me to day, he’d have had that ‘ere Roman down, and made a riot of it, in another minute.’ ‘And why not?’ cried... ...s; and many fainted: the men who were not near the walls and active in the siege, rather than do nothing, tore up the pave ment of the street, and di... ...ingham’s in Grosvenor Square); which were blockaded as though to sustain a siege, and had guns pointed from the windows. When the sun rose, it shone i...

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...ooner heard the tidings of the doctor’s elevation, than he recommenced his siege, not violently, indeed, but respectfully, and at a distance. Olivia P... ...y would stand up for the full power of convocation, and the renewal of its ancient privileges. It was true that he could not himself intone the servic... ...welve bedesmen. ‘But, ’ he said, laughing, ‘I shall be greatly shorn of my ancient glory. ’ ‘Why so, papa?’ ‘This new act of parliament, that is to pu... ...the arms of a poor girl from Milan, whom she had taken in exchange for the Roman maid who had accompanied her thus far, and who had then, as her mistr... ...f the blood of the emperors, thus referring Neroni’s extraction to the old Roman family from which the worst of the Caesars sprang. 72 Barchester Tow... ...ld women. She wrote also a kind of poetry, generally in Italian, and short romances, generally in French. She read much of a desultory sort of literat... ... domain of the modern landlord was of wider notoriety than the fame of the ancient saint. He was a fair specimen of what that race has come to in our ... ...in the time of King John; and Mr Thorne possessed the whole history of the siege written on vel- lum, and illuminated in a most costly manner. It litt... ...ain amount of necessary zeal; it was not with him a subject for dilettante warfare, and courteous common-place opposition. To him it was life and deat...

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...was great in mat ters of detail. I packed my valise, and took passage on an ancient tub called the “Paul Jones,” for New Orleans. For the sum of sixt... ...dle; and so while he was still a little boy he was sent to “one of them old, ancient colleges”—he couldn’t remember which; and by and by his father di... ...rive a new career. The ‘Paul Jones’ was now bound for St. Louis. I planned a siege against my pilot, and at the end of three hard days he surrendered.... ...ut of a warm bed to run them. I began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as I had imagined it was; there was something very real and work... ...like,” and so I began to take heart once more to believe that piloting was a romantic sort of occupation after all. The moment we were under way I beg... ... twenty four hours. That night we had the watch until twelve. Now it was an ancient river custom for the two pilots to chat a bit when the watch chan... ...through this blind place at night without the friendly old landmark. No, the romance and the beauty were all gone from the river. All the value any fe... ...ephen in New Or leans out of work and as usual out of money. He laid steady siege to Stephen, who was in a very “close place,” and finally persuaded ... ...amonds, and we had only just that little; never had another taste during the siege. “Sometimes the caves were desperately crowded, and al ways hot an...

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...f- terward Clement VII., was her uncle by the left hand. It was during the siege of Florence, undertaken by the Medici to force their return there, th... ...of Luther, who threatened the Throne in threatening the Tiara, allowed the siege of Rome and held Pope Clement VII. in prison! This same Clement, who ... ..., with all due deference to historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lost to the world. At this peri... ...style of ad- dress, “we are about to do battle for the first time with the Roman prostitute. In a few days either our legions will be dying on the sca... ...d as under obligations to Lecamus, syndic of the guild of furriers. At the siege of Calais the duke had his face pierced through and through by a lanc... ... country, as much from a principle of common sense as in opposition to the Roman worship. To those in the crowd who pitied these unfortunate gentlemen... ... Ecco!” “You are right as to yourself, Albert; for they have given you the ancient title and duchy of de Retz.” “Now listen to me,” replied his brothe... ... many great and unknown kings, the rulers of this science, I stand for the ancient theories, not the new. I believe in the transforma- tions of matter... ...nt for some moments. I no longer be- held a queen, but rather one of those ancient druidesses to whom human lives are sacrificed; who unroll the pages...

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...ut she seemed glad to see my father become animated and like himself while Roman Catholic Emancipation was vehemently discussed, and the ruin of Engla... ...w, our ancestor. Moreover, we learnt that a portion of the building was of ancient date, and that there was an ‘interesting fragment’ of the old chape... ...rch towers we could see from thence. There was a still older portion, more ancient than the square corps de logis, and built of the cream-coloured sto... ...et’s owner was called Ellen, which just then was the pet Christian name of romance, in honour of the Lady of the Lake. In the midst of her raptures, h... ...nature by the uncanny sounds of the wind in the chinks and crannies of the ancient chamber. Had not Scott’s De- monology and Witchcraft, which we stud... ...ing it with the other ladies, and was in a mingled state of elation at the romance, and terror at the supernatural, which found vent in excited giggle... ...less, riotous, and oppressive family whom we represented. CHAPTER XVII—THE SIEGE OF HILLSIDE CHAPTER XVII—THE SIEGE OF HILLSIDE CHAPTER XVII—THE SIEGE... ...—THE SIEGE OF HILLSIDE CHAPTER XVII—THE SIEGE OF HILLSIDE CHAPTER XVII—THE SIEGE OF HILLSIDE CHAPTER XVII—THE SIEGE OF HILLSIDE ‘Ferments arise, impri... ...ng all been closed already, so that we could have stood a much more severe siege than from these poor fellows. One or two windows were broken, as well...

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...d from low Breton into French, and the word in our present speech has more ancient associa- tions than any other. The “gais” was the principal weapon ... ...eply embedded vestiges of the beliefs and superstitious practices of those ancient times. Feudal customs are still maintained. Antiquaries find Druidi... ...to the Chouans pretexts for mere pillage; and the events of this intestine warfare had all the savage moroseness of their own natures. When the real d... ...r his brow from clouding as he felt himself surrounded by the horrors of a warfare the atrocities of which would have shamed even cannibals. Captain M... ...atly excited by this beginning of an affair which seemed to have an almost romantic interest, and they began to joke about it. But Hulot stopped them ... ...uans and tranquillity. Happy in discovering that the man she loved bore an ancient title (the distinctions of which please every woman), she also foun... ...sources, the poesy of ancient times revived in the midst of this weird and romantic nature, these armed and unarmed Chouans, cruel and praying, men ye... ...or yet imagined. She remembered admiring in her childhood the pomps of the Roman church so pleasing to the senses; but she knew nothing of God alone, ... ...rish, and dead of wounds received in the fight on Mont Pelerine and at the siege of Fougeres. De profundis,” etc. The psalm was recited, according to ...

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... better adapted to resist an attack of savages than to withstand a regular siege; but the great difficulty of transporting heavy artillery and other n... ...ome require a suitor to sit down before them, as it might be, in a regular siege, and only capitulate when the place can hold out no longer; others, a... ... chronicles of the days of chivalry had induced them to throw a parade and romance not unsuited to the characters and habits of soldiers, or to the in... ...ed the alliance which took place between the cis-Atlantic subjects and the ancient rivals of the British crown, some twenty years later, as an event e... ... no more names than a child that dies before it is christened.” “Are you a Roman Catholic?” demanded the Sergeant sharply. “No, sir, nor anything else... ...inent of America. The peculiar state of the weather served to increase the romantic, almost supernatural appearance of the passage. Cap alone regarded... ...formed a sort of lower eddy, by means of which it flowed back again to its ancient and proper bed. This inferior current had received the name of the ... ... into the water, in order to obtain that great essential in the event of a siege. In order to facilitate this operation, and to enfilade the base of t... ...r has thrown me into their hands? Some of the greatest war- riors, both of ancient aud modern times, have been prisoners of war; and yon is Master Cap...

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...vil war; between the modern lingual or Parliamentary-logical kind, and the ancient, or manual kind, in the steel battle-field;—much to the disad- vant... ...sand contradictions;—to no purpose. For, in far lands, with scarlet Nassau-Siegens, with sinful Imperial Catherines, is not the heart-broken, even as ... ...ettle; not theatre-controver- sies, but a world-controversy: there, in the ancient pigtail mode, or with modern Brutus’ heads, do well-frizzed logi- c... ... wished it. Beloved Brothers! Liberty, one might fear, is actually, as the ancient wise men said, of Heaven. On this Earth, where, thinks the enlighte... ... ment shall have its Pasted Journal; Louvet, busy yet with a new ‘charming romance, ’ shall write Sentinelles, and post them with effect; nay Bertrand... ...four years ago, quitted the grim durance;—to fall into a grim- mer, of the Roman Inquisition, and not quit it. But, after all, what is this Bastille b... ...and now sits here as two- years Senator: a notable Condorcet, with stoical Roman face, and fiery heart; ‘volcano hid under snow;’ styled like- wise, i... ...e, after cen- turies, this is what we have: Jourdan Coupe-tete, leading to siege and warfare an Army, from three to fifteen thou- sand strong, called ... ...eing killed in mu- tiny, closes his dye-shop; and does there visibly, with siege- artillery, above all with bluster and tumult, with the ‘brave Brigan...

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...hange them? Though he was soon satisfied that he had dismissed the idea as romantic and unlikely—though possible, there was no denying—he could not he... ...wned by the uproar in the streets, yet were there hints of adventurous and romantic story to be observed in some of the adjacent ob- jects. Gog and Ma... ...After a moment’s groping here and there, he presently returned with a very ancient-looking bottle, covered with dust and dirt. ‘Why, Uncle Sol!’ said ... ...re like an enchanted Moor. A dusty urn at each high corner, dug up from an ancient tomb, preached desolation and decay, as from two pulpits; and the c... ...of schools. Having the power of nominating a child on the foundation of an ancient establishment, called (from a worshipful company) the Chari- table ... ... CHAPTER 9. IN WHICH THE WOODEN MIDSHIPMAN GETS INTO TROUBLE THAT SPICE OF ROMANCE and love of the marvellous, of which there was a pretty strong infu... ...torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and ev- erything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we ... ...ut nothing could have made it more unhappy, than the wilful and determined warfare of such elements. His pride was set upon maintaining his magnificen...

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...e across kingdom after kingdom during his meteor life. In the minds of the Roman Catholic world, the convent stood out pre-eminent for a stern discipl... ... action, a man who all his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instead of writing them, a man pre-eminently a Doer, was sure to b... ...t, pent up together in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, where the spirit of the ancient court and traditions of by- gone feuds between the nobles and the C... ...ught and feeling. And he would very promptly have been dropped but for the romance that hung about his adventures and his life; but for the men who cr... ...the marriage law might be said to be the epoque civile of this sentimental warfare, the ensuing phase which might be taken to constitute the epoque re... ... with M. de Gondrand on the necessity of re-establishing the Church in its ancient splendour. And she talked brilliantly. The Church, she maintained, ... ... one of the women who blame the Duchess would make a declaration worthy of ancient times. It is heroic of Mme de Langeais to pro- claim herself so fra... ...ng off the Duchess would cover them with confusion. They might as well set siege to the town and convent, like pirates, and leave not a single soul to...

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... poor undevout wrappages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsays,—this, the ancient earnest soul, as yet un- encumbered with these things, did for itse... ...uld do. I consider Hero- worship to be the grand modifying element in that ancient system of thought. What I called the perplexed jungle of Pa- ganism... ...ther- wise as if bottomless and shoreless. So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the... ... consider to be the truest emblem ever given of a man’s moral progress and warfare here below. All earnest souls will ever discern in it the faithful ... ..., not in his. It is curious to reflect what might have been the issue, had Roman Popery happened to pass this Luther by; to go on in its great wastefu... ...in this world of confused wickedness, and save his own soul alive. But the Roman High-priesthood did come athwart him: afar off at Wittenberg he, Luth... ...the age of forty; was with the small body of Reform- ers who were standing siege in St. Andrew’s Castle,—when one day in their chapel, the Preacher af... ... out; Quacks have come in. Accordingly, what Century, since the end of the Roman world, which also was a time of scep- ticism, simulacra and universal...

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...stry from which my Nostromo is free; for Nostromo’s lineage had to be more ancient still. He is a man with the weight of countless generations behind ... ... Samuel; he commanded a negro company under Garibaldi, during the fa- mous siege of Montevideo, and died heroically with his negroes at the fording of... ...gna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic; he was one of the four fugitives who, with the general, car... ...was engendered partly by an ex- istence of excitement, adventure, and wild warfare. But mostly it was a matter of principle. It did not resemble the c... ...lanked by the perpendicular folds of the dark hangings. The stateliness of ancient days lin- gered between the four high, smooth walls, tinted a delic... ...s and a white band over the forehead, in a corner of the first floor of an ancient and ruinous palace, whose big, empty halls downstairs sheltered und... ...lack, and his massive profile was the profile of a Caesar’s head on an old Roman coin. But his parentage was German and Scotch and English, with remot... ...was ashamed of his folly; others, eld- erly and insignificant, but full of romantic reverence for the business that had devoured their best years, use...

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...he form of a fictitious narrative of the voyage of one Mr. Pye, an English traveller, and his conversation with a chief; there are touches of satire ... ...rein; two of my old stories, ‘Delafield’ and ‘Shovel,’ are incorporated; it is to be told in the third person, with some of the brevity of history, so... ...ll be glad to have it there; it is still only a reminder of your absence. Fanny wept when we unpacked it, and you know how little she is given to that... ...come up to my room with a pint of beer and a hard biscuit, which I am now consuming, and as soon as they are consumed I shall turn in. Such are the in... ...ed in my library; it is a very good one for my purpose, owing to two civilisations having been face to face throughout—or rather Roman civilisation fa... ..., may come just too late to be of use. In which case I shall have made a handsome present of some months of my life for nothing and to nobody. Well, t... ...n’t make hay of him, it shall not be for want of trying. Yesterday, we had two Germans and a young American boy to lunch; and in the afternoon, Vailim... ...one to judge if my speech was well intended, and calculated to do good. It was even daring—I assure you one of the chiefs looked like a fiend at my de...

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...leration in matters of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinar... ...liser was the last man from whom the Duke of St Bungay would have expected romance at any time, and, least of all, at such a time as this. ‘Aid from h... ...e who believe all England to be Romish at heart, because here in England a Roman Catholic can say what he will, and print what he will.’ ‘And yet,’ sa... ... been by half so much bigger than another man as in times of hot political warfare. One of the most moving sources of our national excitement seemed t... ...was unhappy, saturnine, and generally silent except when closeted with his ancient mentor. And he knew that he was saturnine and silent, and that it b... ... really doubt whether you look at the matter in the right light,’ said the ancient statesman, who was in truth fright- ened at what was being proposed... ...t last consented to go forward as the advanced guard of Fletchers, and lay siege to the affections of the woman whom she had once so thoroughly discar...

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...man Melville A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsy... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville Typee: A Romance of the South Seas By Herman Melville PREFACE More than three years ... ...ing the same religion and laws, have from time immemorial waged hereditary warfare against each other. The intervening mountains generally two or thre... ...figures a variety of spears and javelins, and other imple- ments of savage warfare. Outside of the habitation, and built upon the piazza-like area in ... ...ders in the same manner as the Sultan Solyman’s ponderous artillery at the siege of Byzantium, one of them taking an hour or two to load and train. At... ...this simple repast, the inmates of Marheyo’s house, after the style of the ancient Romans, re- clined in sociable groups upon the divan of mats, and d... ...e ascribed to the same race of men who were the builders of the still more ancient remains I have just described. According to Kory-Kory’s account, th... ...six muskets pre- served in the Ti, and three or four similar implements of warfare hung up in other houses; some small canvas bags, partly filled with...