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The Chinese DragonThe Chinese DragonIn the spring of 1909 the writer had the honor of being a guest for a week in the summer home of Dr. W.A.P. Martin, near Peking. Many residents of the Capital during the decade preceding the Revolution, and for a number...
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The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3 (of 3)The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3 (of 3)This enterprising and distinguished traveller was born on the 10th of September, 1771, at Fowlshiels, a farm occupied by his father on the banks of the Yarrow, near Selkirk. In common with the greater number of...
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Icelandic Fairy TalesIcelandic Fairy Tales Fairy Tales seem scarcely to require any preface, but in publishing these quaint Norse legends, a few explanatory remarks may not be out of place. In their original form, many of the stories are somewhat crude and rough for juvenile reading....
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To the American IndianTo the American IndianAs there has been so much said and written about the American Indians, with my tribe, the Klamath Indians, included, by the white people, which is guessed at and not facts, I deem it necessary to first tell you who I...
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The Japanese New Year’s Festival, Games and PastimesThe Japanese New Year’s Festival, Games and Pastimes The Japanese prints with which we are most familiar in this country are those known as nishikiye, literally brocade picture. Generally speaking, they are portraits of actors and famous beauties or landscapes and nature studies. There...
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Wanderings in 3 ContinentsWanderings in Three ContinentsBURTON was a many-sided man. The following volume of posthumous essays reveals him in the aspect in which he was best known to the worldas a traveller and explorer. It will add comparatively little to the knowledge of the Burton student;...
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Motor CampingMotor CampingMotor BungalowsTrailersTents: Those Extending from the Car; Those Resting upon the Ground, but Attached to the Car, and Tents Separate from the CarHow to Estimate Canvas DuckMore Elaborate Tents[vi]Combination Tent-bedsCar BedsCooking EquipmentWood, Oil, Gasoline and Alcohol StovesCampfires and How to Manage ThemBroilers and...
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West African Folk-TalesWest African Folk-TalesIn presenting to the public these stories based on the folk-lore of the Gold Coast peoples, it seems necessary to say something in general terms of the economic and social development of the colony in so far as that development is affecting...
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Trübner's oriental seriesTibetan Tales, Derived from Indian SourcesIn an Appendix to his Buddhism in Tibet, Dr. Emil Schlagintweit has given An alphabetical list of the books and memoirs connected with Buddhism. Although not completely exhaustive, it occupies thirty-five pages, and contains references to more than a...
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Drinks of the WorldDrinks of the WorldFrom the Cradle to the Grave we need Drink, and we have not far to look for the reason, when we consider that at least seventy per cent. of the human body is composed of water, to compensate the perpetual waste...
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The Velocipede: Its History, Varieties, and PracticeThe Velocipede: Its History, Varieties, and PracticeWhen the rumor first came across the water, a few years ago, of that wonderful and fascinating little two-wheeled machine, upon which one could so gracefully annihilate time and space, the author of this little book was seized...
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Meine Reise um die Welt. Zweite AbteilungMeine Reise um die Welt. Zweite AbteilungAuf der Oceana nach Ceylon. Colombo. Trachten und Kleider. Bombay. Ein indisches Hotel. Die indische Krhe. Lohnverhltnisse. Manuel und Satan. Der Besuch des Gottes. Beim Frsten des Palitanastaats. Die Trme des Schweigens. Eine Dschaina-Gesandtschaft. Allerlei Hautfarbe. Eine Hindu-Hochzeit....
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The Game of Go: The National Game of JapanThe Game of Go: The National Game of JapanThe game of Go belongs to the class of games of which our Chess, though very dissimilar, is an example. It is played on a board, and is a game of pure skill, into which the...
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»Sie« am Seil»Sie« am SeilEs kommt auf die Gelegenheit an, seine Fhigkeiten zu entdecken; viele, vielleicht groe und rhmliche, schlummern unerkannt mit dem Menschen ins Jenseits hinber, weil ihnen weder Zeit noch Ort gnstig waren, sich zu offenbaren. Solch ein Moment war's, der die Basis fr...
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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian StoriesThe Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian StoriesThe stories in this book deal with peoples of widely different surroundings and habitsome with dwellers on the sea-shore, whose skies are often obscured by rain and fog, who draw their living from the sea, and...
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The magic of jewels and charmsThe magic of jewels and charms Jewels, gems, stones, superstitions and astrological lore are all so interwoven in history that to treat of either of them alone would mean to break the chain of association linking them one with the other. Beauty of color...
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Legends of Old Honolulu (Mythology)Legends of Old Honolulu (Mythology) - Collected and Translated from the HawaiianThe ancient Hawaiians were not inventive. They did not study new methods of house-building or farming. They did not seek new tools or new weapons. They could live comfortably as their ancestors lived....
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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) - Collected and translated from the HawaiianOf all the noteworthy groups of islands of fire rock in the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are the most stupendous. The crack in the floor of the ocean upon which they are...
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Modern dancing and dancersModern dancing and dancersIt is not unlikely that when the art historian of the future comes to treat of the artistic activity of the first decade of the twentieth century, he will remark as one of its most notable accomplishments a renaissance of the...
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Meine Reise um die Welt. Erste AbteilungMeine Reise um die Welt. Erste AbteilungAbfahrt. Das Dampfboot, der Kapitn und die Mitreisenden. Der Nutzen bler Gewohnheiten. Geschichten vom Bumerang und auerordentlichem Gedchtnis. General Grant und Samuel Clemens. Eine Geschichte ohne Ende. Honolulu sonst und jetzt. Die Leprakranken auf Molokai. Gedanken beim Passieren...
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