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...ng of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; the Viking (1) kingdoms in these (the British) Western Isles; the settlement of Iceland, or even of Normandy. The... ...rance bid fair for awhile to destroy. The Scando-Gothic peoples who poured southward and westward over Europe, to shake empires and found kingdoms, to... ...yed the landward march of the Northmen in the time of Charlemagne. T o the Southlands their road by land was henceforth closed. Then begins the day of... ...Viking blood a little altered. (2) “West over the Sea” is the word for the British Isles. (3) See T odd (J. H.). “War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill”. ... ... Documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles. Ed., G. W. Dasent, D.C.L, and Gudbrand Vigfusson, M.A. “In t... ...he fared away every spring on a viking-voyage, and harried about among the southern isles and Ireland, and came home after midsummer. That he called s... ...pe, even to Greece and the shores of the Black Sea, the northern shores of Africa, and the western part of Asia, felt the effects also. Rolf Pad-th’-h... ...lled together to Red-Berg: and there Helgi abode till such time as a great company came to him from Hedinsey; and therewithal came mighty power from N... ...hou beholdest thy wife again, that here are come the Volsungs, and in this company may King Helgi be found, if Hodbrod be fain of finding him, for his...

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...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ...as a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I... ...orant and wretched and the under-equipped and under-staffed Na- tional and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rival... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ...vailed over the original Bromstead thatch, the huge space of Common to the south was extensively en- closed, and what had been an ill-defined horse-tr... ...ving been born and brought up in Bromstead and Penge, and the war in South Africa being yet in the womb of time, could quite honestly entertain the no... ...urning resentfully upon him for a common ignorance and assumption… . South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories. How... ...blundering went on. Men, mules, horses, stores and money poured into South Africa, and the convalescent wounded streamed home. I see it in my memory a... ... social phenomenon, the German official, so differ- ent in manner from the British; and when one woke again after that one had come to Bale, and out o...

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...ontain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river ... ...coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the Spaniards were robbing, slaughtering, enslaving and con vertin... ...he foot of lofty heights wrapped thick in forests.’ He continues: ‘T urning southward, they paddled down the stream, through a solitude unrelieved by... ...uck open water, and paddled thence to the Mississippi and turned their prows southward. They plowed through the fields of floating ice, past the mouth... ... and his pride in his occupation surpasses the pride of kings. We had a fine company of these river inspectors along, this trip. There were eight or t... ...re suggestive of the days of the Commonwealth. I was a cipher in this august company, and felt subdued, not to say torpid. I was not even of sufficien... ...ircus to the menagerie was easy and natural; from the elephant to equatorial Africa was but a step; then of course the heathen savages would suggest r... ...e nation to cel ebrate the battle of New Orleans—Jackson’s victory over the British, January 8, 1815. The war had ended, the two na tions were at pe... ...y friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possi...

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...e or bigger hills, in the pleasant plain of Glamorgan; a short mile to the south of Cowbridge, to which smart little town it is properly a kind of sub... ...ually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it; but on the south are no mountains, not even land, only the Bristol Channel, and far of... ...reet: his Father’s house, now a flourishing and stirring establishment, in South Place, Knightsbridge, where, under the warmth of increasing revenue a... ...t has got notice of what is going on; the Spanish Envoy, and of course the British Foreign Sec- retary, and of course also the Thames Police. Armed me... ...r,—his poor followers reduced to extremity of impatience and distress; the British Gov- ernor too, though not unfriendly to him, obliged to frown. As ... ...o anything. The fated, gallant-minded, but too headlong man. At length the British Governor himself was obliged, in official decency and as is thought... ... into a state of great excitement, and massa- cre a good many thousands of Africans and Asiatics?—For the present, it appears, the English Education Q... ...hat the straightest line from Gibraltar to this place goes close along the African coast; which accordingly we saw with the utmost clearness; and foun... ...... The last book I have lighted on is Moffat’s Missionary Labors in South Africa; which is worth reading. There is the best collection of lion storie...

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...r crea- tures belonging to that ship must be, if they had no other ship in company with them. Upon this I immediately or- dered that five guns should ... ... inclined to agree to it; for indeed I considered that to carry this whole company to the East Indies would not only be an intolerable severity upon t... ...ed to have seen the Bahama Islands, but were then driven away again to the south-east, by a strong gale of wind at NNW ., the same that blew now: and ... ...ile the mate was thus relating to me the miserable condition of the ship’s company, I could not put out of my thought the story he had told me of the ... ...y that I found the place; for as I came to it and went to it before on the south and east side of the island, coming from the Brazils, so now, coming ... ...therefore kept her with their very good will, at length I came fair on the south side of my island, and presently knew the very countenance of the pla... ... look.” Here it is to be observed that all those natives, as also those of Africa when they learn English, always add two e’s at the end of the words ... ... and above three thou- sand, if we left that sea, and went on west, to the British and French channels: we had full five thousand miles to the In- dia...

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...n to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional,... ...ef of Owyhee or Tongataboo should proclaim a momentary independence of the British trident, or should even offer a transient outrage to her sovereign ... ...n echo—or to ascend by so much as an infantine susurrus to the ears of the British Neptune. Parthia, it is true, might pretend to the dignity of an em... ... its whole meaning by ex- claiming, “Thus do I take possession of thee, oh Africa!” in that way giving to an accident the semblance of a symbolic purp... ... was no species of wild animal throughout the deserts and sandy Zaarras of Africa, the infinite steppes of Asia, or the lawny recesses and dim forests... ...n Britain, then superintendent of the police in Rome, thirdly proconsul in Africa, and finally con- sul and governor of Rome. In these great official ... ...oment of great public embarrassment. The Goths were now beginning to press southwards upon the empire. Dacia they had ravaged for some time; “and here... ... structure of society in the age or the country assigned. For instance, in Southey’s Don Roderick there is a cast of sentiment in the Gothic king’s re... ...ent of six thousand vessels, had again descended by the Bosphorus into the south, and had sat down before Thessalonica, the capitol of Macedonia. Clau...

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... any Indian variety. Tales of the war I heard told by an ex-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introduc... ...d violent in Montana and Dakota, of the loves of half-breed maidens in the South, and fantastic huntings for gold in mysterious Alaska. Above all, the... ...d exactly like Gallas (but the trade was never recruited from that side of Africa), some duplicates of Cameroon heads, and some Kroomen, if ever Kroom... ...ts of his people. Just now a wave of religion is sweeping over some of the Southern States. Up to the present two Messiahs and a Daniel have ap- peare... ...as up the bank lying full length on the sweet-scented grass and gasping in company with my first salmon caught, played and landed on an eight-ounce ro... ...y they inspire (two trunks and a walking-stick and a bit of pine forest in British Columbia are not satisfactory, any way you look at them), I turned ...

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...er my own car.” “Then what do you say?” “I agree. Peripatetic treatment.” “South and west. We could talk on the road. In the eve- nings. By the waysid... ...e seems a good sort of fellow…. I’m inclined to like him. He’ll be as good company as anyone…. This Tournedos looks excellent. Have some.” “I had a li... ...nly a minute 22 The Secret Places of the Heart or so before been a decent British citizen. He made some blind lunges at the tremulous but obdurate ca... ... labour and finance. The sooner we scrap this nonsense about an autonomous British Empire complete in itself, contra mundum, the better for us. A worl... ...d years old or even more. It is the most important historical relic in the British Isles. And the most neglected. “ They exchanged archaeological fact... ...ry much of each other?” “She has a flat in Chelsea and a little cottage in South Cornwall, and we sometimes snatch a few days together, away somewhere... ... together, away somewhere in Surrey or up the Thames or at such a place as Southend where one is lost in a crowd of inconspicuous people. “Then things... ...at Bristol how it is that the energy has gone out of this dreaming land—to Africa and America and the whole wide world. It was the good men of Bristol... ...e world. It was the good men of Bristol, by the bye, with their trade from Africa to America, who gave you your colour problem. Bristol we may go thro...

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...intedly exposed. Now, having made that explanation, we go on to inform the Southern reader—that an old traditionary usage has prevailed in Scotland, b... ...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...s a question exclusively spiritual. And by whom was it thus published? The Southern reader must here not be careless of dates. At present, viz. in 184... ... off. Let this chance turn out as it may, we repeat for the information of Southerns—that the church, by shutting off the persons of particular agitat... ... authority, that it was a practice of Patriarchal descent amongst both the African and Asiatic Bedouins, to suspend rings of iron, wood, or braided ha... ... by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early in the Christian times, we learn from Tertullian, who cannot ... ... have hi every age, and through all parts of the hot climates, in Asia and Africa alike, been of such voluminous compass—as not only to envelop the wh... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m...

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...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ...metimes he was sim- ply abreast of the patriotic and socially constructive British Imperialism of Breeze and Westerton. And there were moods when the ... ...e glamour of world dominion rested wonderfully on the slack and straggling British Empire of Edward the Seventh—and Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Mr. Chambe... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...ting up, and the clustering excitements of the late hours. And he went out southward and eastward into gaunt regions of reeking toil. As yet he knew n... ...ch at Croydon. The Japanese had torpe- doed another Russian ironclad and a British cruiser was ashore in the East Indies. A man had been found murdere... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat... ...desolations. It was as if Zimbabwe called to him. Benham had come to South Africa to see into the question of Indian immigration, and he was now on hi...

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...l find excellently described in the letters published by Mr. Ellis, of the British Museum,) 17 of Gustavus Adolphus, and of Wallenstein. The King of ... ...fore, accurately, from the French of his biographer: “M. Des Cartes had no company but that of his servant, with whom he was conversing in French. The... ...lse it must go undone. The better men that I meant were the sailors in the British navy , every man of whom mends his own stockings. Who else is to do... ... a conjuror’s leger-de-main, such as may be seen every day for a shilling. Southey’s “Joan of Arc” was published in 1796. T wenty years after, talking... ...y’s “Joan of Arc” was published in 1796. T wenty years after, talking with Southey, I was surprised to find him still owning a secret bias in favor of... ...kings in dress? Nay, even more than any true king would have done: for, in Southey’s version of the story, the Dauphin says, by way of trying the virg... ...for shelter? Is a prison the safest retreat? Or a lunatic hospital? Or the British Museum?” I should have replied, “Oh, no; I’ll tell you what to do. ... ...ther too true; for, simply as a monokeras, he is found in the Himalaya, in Africa, and elsewhere, rather too often for the peace of what in Scotland w... ...e reader must not look to single cases, as that of Egypt or other parts of Africa, but take the whole collectively. On that scheme of valuation, we ha...

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...ure has placed on their shoulders.” Sir T. Herbert’s Voyages into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge shoals of whales, that they w... ... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in these southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...h an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” Ulloa’s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the importa... ...erous animal without hind feet.” 10 Extracts Baron Cuvier. “In 40 degrees south, wesaw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any till the first of May,... ...the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances — this kind of trave... ...ay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pa gan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and... ... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this ... ...d, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commander Davies of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop of war Rattler on a whali...

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...g in it), looking at the fashions, or reading 4 Men’s Wives Cumberland’s “British Theatre.” The Sunday Times was her paper, for she voted the Dispatc... ...o be paid down on the day of her wedding. Those who know the habits of the British tradesman are aware that he has gregarious propensities like any lo... ...e found at the end of every week. There was Mr. Balls, the great grocer of South Audley Street, a warm man, who, they say, had his twenty thousand pou... ...bers. The West 8 Men’s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levis... ...es Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levison, have their respective o... ...ere. Among them, on the entresol (between the splendid saloons of the Soap Company on the first floor, with their statue of Britannia presenting a pac... ...their statue of Britannia presenting a packet of the soap to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and the West Diddlesex Western Branch on the base- men... ...e a slap-up coat turned out of the ateliers of Messrs. Linsey, Woolsey and Company. Y ou said you’d give twenty guineas for one of our coats, you know...

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...ing the bone a pretext for a fight with each other. That old bull-dog, the British capitalist, has got the bone in his teeth. That un- satisfied mongr... ... Walsall’s ‘ll make a number of compounds, such as they keep niggers in in South Africa, and there you’ll be kept. And every one of you’ll have a litt... ...ll’s ‘ll make a number of compounds, such as they keep niggers in in South Africa, and there you’ll be kept. And every one of you’ll have a little bra... ...RED. Everything. You know he’s revolutionised the collieries and the whole Company. He’s made a whole new thing of it, so modern. Father says he almos... ...t her consent? ANABEL. Why, no! MR. BARLOW . Again, if I withdrew from the Company, if I retired on a small income, I knew that another man would auto... ...ing man, Oliver? OLIVER. It seems to me he’s in nearly as bad a way as the British employer: he’s nearly as much beside the point. GERALD. What point?...

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... has placed on their shoulders.” —Sir T. Herbert’ s V oyages into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they w... ... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” —Ulloa’ s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the impor-... ...is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” — Baron Cuvier. “In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any till the first of Ma... ...the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances—this kind of travel,... ...ay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and h... ... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland 146 Moby Dick Fishery, under the corrupted title of Spec... ...ld, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British gov- ernment was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whal...

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...uch that local enterprise could successfully compete with the Lesser Stage company,—Pe- tites Messageries, the name given to the T ouchard enterprise ... ... immemorial had lodged coach- men and coaches, drove himself for the great company of Daumartin, which was so firmly established that its neigh- bors,... ...d talked much of a certain large coach, ordered from Farry, Breilmann, and Company, the best makers of diligences,—a purchase neces- sitated by an inc... ...un- powder and munitions for Ali de Tebelen. You know, don’t you, that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world,—Turks, Greeks, a... ... the first floor, an apartment overlooking the valley of the Seine, with a south- ern exposure, and the exclusive enjoyment of a large garden, for the... ... dynasty amounted to fanaticism, was appointed major of a regiment sent to Africa at the time of the first expedition undertaken by the Prince-royal. ... ...er, but did not recognize them. Oscar’s skin was now bronzed by the sun of Africa; his moustache was very thick and his whiskers ample; the hol- lows ... ...o Presles,” cried Joseph Bridau. “Have you made any new campaigns in Asia, Africa, or America?” 150 A Start in Life “Sacrebleu! I’ve made the revolut...

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...y, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company — for he did all the talking. We fell together, as modest people... ...e upon unsteady legs, and feebly swaying his ancient head and surveying the company with his watery and wandering eye. The same suffering look that ... ... Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 35 had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, fr... ... left, like their betters, to their own exertions. The most of King Arthur’s British nation were slaves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wor... ... all rational measurement the one and only actually great man in that whole British world; and yet there and then, just as in the remote England of m... ...sels up behind him on his horse, and one rode north, another east, the other south, to seek adventures, and meet again and lie, after year and day. Ye... ...turn we unto Sir Marhaus that rode with the dam sel of thirty winter of age southward —” “Are you going to see if you can work up another half stre... ...turn we unto Sir Marhaus that rode with the dam sel of thirty winter of age southward. And so they came into a deep forest, and by fortune they were ... ...made the hermit life peculiarly attractive and diffi cult, and had gone to Africa to take possession, so I thought I would look in and see how the a...

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...rewhon,” and Mr. Stead’s queendom of inverted sexual conditions in Central Africa, found the Tibetan method of slaughtering the inquiring visitor a si... ...ust be. That leaves no room for a modern Utopia in Central Af- rica, or in South America, or round about the pole, those last refuges of ideality. The... ...; the lighter minded may read and mark the temper of Professor Case in the British Encyclopaedia, article Logic (Vol. XXX.). I have appended to his bo... ...on. T o us, clad as we are in mountain-soiled tweeds and with no money but British bank- notes negotiable only at a practically infinite distance, thi... ...cilitated free- dom and progress as the invention of the limited liability company to do this work of trial and adventure. The abuses, the necessary r... ... do this work of trial and adventure. The abuses, the necessary reforms of company law on earth, are no con- cern of ours here and now, suffice it tha... ...f labour. This most excellent idea does, as a matter of fact, underlie the British institution of the work- house, but it is jumbled up with the relie... ...ities of the State. There are thousands of square miles of sandy desert in Africa and Asia set apart; much of the Arctic and Antarctic circles; vast a... ...eleven years—was found dead in his boat far away from any land, far to the south, lying like a child asleep….” “That’s better than a tumbled bed,” sai...

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... the back of the head. After whis- tling between his teeth, as he eyed the company , he said in a loud, high voice: “Say , it’ s thick outside. You ca... ... too. Ho! ho! Onct Dad has a jedgment, he’ d sooner dip his colours to the British than change it. I’m glad it’ s settled right eend up. Dad’ s right ... ...? I don’t see how you can tell ‘em ‘way off, as you do.” “Last boat to the south’ ard. He fund you last night,” said Dan, pointing. “Manuel rows Portu... ...ong- with the humpy shoulders, is Long Jack. He’ s a Galway man inhabitin’ South Boston, where they all live mostly , an’ mostly them Galway men are g... ...ait all along the coast. Oh, no, not home, he don’t go. He deals along the south an’ east shore up yonder.” He nodded in the direction of the pitiless... ... giving them the slip through the curdling, glidy fog-banks. Disko avoided company for two reasons. He wished to make his own experirnents, in the fir... ...re! Not bad, so? Eh, wha-at?” “Can a schooner like this go right across to Africa?” said Harvey . “Go araound the Horn ef there’ s anythin’ worth goin... ... Of Prague just coming up, and as her boats 93 Rudyard Kipling joined the company they were greeted with the ques- tion: “Who’ s the meanest man in t...

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...ding audibly; and once I remember—one midday in the vanished past—when the British Association was at Dover, coming on Section C or D, or some such le... ...und of the munching of buns and sandwiches and things that the as- sembled British Associates had come there to eat under cover of the magic-lantern d... ... labora- tory of his flat with farm hunting up and down the lines that run southward out of London, and his peering spectacles, his simple baldness, a... ...c of the fifty appearances was certainly that of the wasp that visited the British Museum about mid- day, dropping out of the blue serene upon one of ... ...ead…. VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII When the unfortunate Skinner got out of the South-Eastern train at Urshot that evening it was already nearly dusk. The ... ...etending not to know anything or to have any authority, in the way dear to South-Eastern officials when they catch you in a hurry. “Pity they can’t sh... ...ll the runs to make sure. “We got ‘em,” he said to his nearly awe-stricken company at last. “And if I hadn’t been a mud-headed mucker I should have st... ...took for tall bushes of broom was the new grass, and amidst these things a company of British soldiers—red-coated as ever—was skirmishing in accordanc... ...he Food were to be given a great reserva- tion—in North America perhaps or Africa—in which they might live out their lives in their own fashion. “But ...