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South Africa, vol. II.The distance from Newcastle to Pretoria is 207 miles. About 20 miles north from Newcastle we crossed the borders of what used to be the Transvaal Republic, but which since the 12th August last,1877,forms a separate British Colony under the dominion...

South Africa; vol I.IT was in April of last year, 1877, that I first formed a plan of paying an immediate visit to South Africa. The idea that I would one day do so had long loomed in the distance before me. Except the...

The Mystery of the Deserted VillageRonnie was in the hayloft sliding down the piles of newly-stacked hay when he heard the car drive up into the yard and come to a stop. Spitting a mouthful of hayseeds from his lips and tongue, he ran...

Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones (4 de 4)Entonces el padre Pramo, juntamente con sus hijos, hace las exequias Eaco, que tambien lo era, creyndole muerto; pero alli no se hall Pris por haber ido la Grecia. Perseguido este por los griegos, vieron en el puerto Aulide...

Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones (3 de 4)Despues que Minos puso sitio y tom Megara, Niso fue transformado en gavilan y Escila en cogujada. Desde aqui aquel volvi Creta, donde estaba el Minotauro encerrado en el laberinto. Habiendo muerto este Teseo, y volviendo con Ariadna su...

Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones (2 de 4)Alcitoe juntamente con sus hermanas despreciaron de tal modo las fiestas de Baco, que no observndolas, se ocuparon, mientras estas se celebraban, en las tareas ordinarias; y durante su labor cada qual, para hacerla menos penosa, refiri una divertida...

Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones (1 de 4)METAMORFSEOS o TRANSFORMACIONES DE OVIDIO traducidos al Castellano con algunas notas para su inteligencia por Don Francisco Crivell, y adornados con estampas finas por D. JOS ASSENSIO TOMO 1. MADRID en la Imprenta Real ao 1805. Si hubiera de...

The Little Review, August 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 5) The dead fingers of spent passions, spent dreams, spent youth clutch at the throat of the rising generation and preserve the integrity of the American family. Not that there is a typical American family. There...

Wetzel, the Scout; or, The Captives of the WildernessCome to tink soberly on de matter, I bring to mind I did have de hammer up, so as to be ready for de Injins when dey do come, and jist now I stubbed my toe,...

Aunt Lydia's DesignsEQUIPMENT: T-pins. Scissors. Tape measure or ruler. Knotting board (brown paper marked off in one inch squares for gauge. Place over knotting board of Celotex, cork, or padded cardboard). Rubber bands for bobbins (wind lengths overhand, secure with rubber band and release...

A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America: with Coloured Models of the SpeciesSome geologists imagine that the order of creation is registered in the rocks which compose the external crust of the earth, and that they can there clearly read a progressive development...

Good Newes from New England - Or a true relation of things very remarkable at the plantation of Plimoth in New-EnglandThis book was published in 1841, and is a reprint of the original book by Edward Winslow published in 1624, with many footnotes added...

A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-makingThere are probably few people in civilized life, whowere the question put to them directlywould not say, that they consider bread one of the most, if not the most important article of diet which enters into the food of...

Tyrants of TimeDo dictators rise to power by accident? What if their ascendency is planned throughout history by men of the future who play with time as if it were a toy. And what if 1955 is their key year.... Something buzzed in Tedor...

What the Negro Has Done for Liberty in AmericaIt seems like a paradox to speak of the Negro as efficiently related to the cause of freedom in America. He was brought here and forced into slavery, in which condition he was held most of...

Planet of DreadHot with strange passion, the woman's eyes clung to the cringing figure in the pit. The pink tip of her tongue flicked at her lips. "If you can see your way to calling any Baemae woman pretty. For my part, I prefer...

The Sun of Saratoga: A Romance of Burgoyne's SurrenderYou will watch this hollow and the hill yonder, said the general, and see that not a soul passes either to the north or to the south. Dont forget that the fate of all the colonies...

Segen der Erde: RomanDer lange, lange Pfad ber das Moor in den Wald hinein wer hat ihn ausgetreten? Der Mann, der Mensch, der erste, der hier war. Fr ihn war noch kein Pfad vorhanden. Spter folgte dann das eine oder andere Tier der schwachen...

A Crowned Queen: The Romance of a Minister of State The carriage from Llandiarmid Castle had been waiting for a quarter of an hour at the little country station, and the horses were beginning to toss their heads and paw the ground restlessly, to...

PariahThe inside of the spaceship was quiet now, not with the silence of the tomb, but with the silence of barely inaudible echoes as if Allerton might still be able to hear the crew clomping about the companionways on metal-shod feet if only he...