would indubitably be some effusion of military blood, and oaths, and a certain crash of glass; and while the chieftain rode forward with a purple coxcomb, the street would be left to original darkness, unpiloted, unvoyageable, a province of the desert night. I. And then suddenly raising his arms, flapping his fingers, and crying out twice, "I must not speak, I must not speak !" he ran away in front of me, and disappeared. ... J. To oversee all the details yourself in person; to be at once pilot and captain, and owner and underwriter; to buy and sell and keep the accounts; to read every letter received, and write and read every letter sent; to superintend the discharge of imports night and day; to be upon many parts of the coast almost at the same time; to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise; . . . taking advantage of the results of all exploring expeditions, using new passages and all improvements in navigation; charts to be studied, the position of reefs and new lights and buoys to be ascertained, and ever, and ever, the logarithmic tables to be corrected, for by the error of some calculator the vessel often splits upon a rock that should have reached a friendly pier, there is the untold fate of La Perouse; universal science to be kept pace with, studying the lives of all great discoverers and navigators, great adventurers and merchants, from Hanno and the Phoenicians down to our own day. K. "It is better to sit here by this fire," answered the girl,.. " and be comfortable and contented, though nobody thinks about us." "I suppose," said her father, after a fit of musing, "there is something natural in what the young man says; and if my mind had been turned that way, I might have felt just the same. It is strange, wife, how his talk has set my head running on things that are pretty certain never to come to pass." L. He was still puzzling over the case of the curate, and why such ill words were said of him, and why, if he were so merry-spirited, he should yet preach so dry, when coming over a knowe, whom should he see but Janet, sitting with her back to him, minding her cattle! He was always a great child for secret, stealthy ways, having been employed by his mother on errands when the same was necessary; and he came behind the lass without her hearing. INDEX Academy, Edinburgh, i. 62. Baildon, H. Bellyse, i. 64, 65, 74, 79. Academy, the, i. 149, 161, 167, 229 n., Hi. Balfour, family, 1..12, 13, 15; meaning of Accidie, i. 232. name, i. 17. Balfour, David, i. 12 n., 13, ii. 167, 202. Across the Plains, i. 197, ii. 252, 253, 255, Balfour, Dr. George W., i. 212, ii. 30. 260. Adams, H., ii. 148. Adirondacks, the, ii. 35-44. Admiral Guinea, ii. 4, 5, 255, 260. Admirals, The English, ii. 261. Aes Triplex, ii. 251. Ah Fu, ii. 68, 79, 99. Ala Loto Alofa, ii. 128, 149, 179. Allen, Grant, i. 181. Alps, the, i. 214. Balfour, Miss Jane ("Auntie "), i. 14, Balfour, Inspector-General John, ii. 38. Ballantrae, The Master of, ii. 28, 37, 42, Amateur Emigrant, The, i. 192, 195-197, Balzac, i. 122, 147. 205, 211. Anderson, Dr., ii. 183. Antwerp, i. 151. Apemama, ii. 94–98. Apia, ii. 99, 113, 126, 138, 146, 158. Appeal to the Clergy of the Church Appin murder, i. 231, 239, ii. 207. Arabian Nights, i. 57. Archer, William, i. 162, ii. 5, 9, 12. Bancroft's History of the United States, Barbizon, 1. 154–157, 200, 223. Barge voyage, proposed, i. 183. Art, Letter to a Young Gentleman who Barrie, J. M., i. 35 n., 90, 225, ii. 147, 149. Baxter, Charles, i. 90; friendship, i. 105, Baxter, Edwin, 1. 145. Baxter's Place, i. 10, 22, 23, ii. 150. Beach of Falesd, The, ii. 99, 165, 177, 260. Berlin Treaty, ii. 156, 166, 237, 242. Black Arrow, The, i. 246, ii. 255, 258. Board of Northern Lighthouses, i. 4, 8, Body Snatcher, The, i. 224, ii. 6, 254, 255. Bogue," i. 212, 220, 223, ii. 9. Braxfield, Lord, ii. 210. Brohan, Mme., i. 184, ii. 61. Brown, Horatio F., i. 72, 233, ii. 18. Brown, R. Glasgow, i. 181, 186. Browne, Sir Thomas, i. 119, ii. 218. Caerketton, i. 88 n., 146. California, i. 93, 193, 198-211, ii. 44-49. Child's Play, i. 58, 66, ii. 202, 251. Christmas at Sea, A, ii. 259. Christmas Sermon, A, ii. 258. Church of Scotland, An Appeal to the Clergy of the, i. 167, ii. 250. Clark, Sir Andrew, i. 134, 211, 240. Clarke, Rev. W. E., ii. 101, 102, 104, 151, Clemens, S. (" Mark Twain "), ii. 45. Clough, i. 136. Cockburn, Lord, i. 11, 88 n. Cockermouth and Keswick, i. 124, ii. 249. Colinton Manse, i. 12-15, 36, 48-58, 63, Collaboration (see Stevenson, R. L.). with R. L. S., i. 137-139, 148, 174, 210, Congreve, i. 105, 120. Cormorant, H. M. S., ii. 81, 149. Cornhill Magazine, i. 165, 166, 168, 169, Cambridge, i. 127, 132, 148, 150, 169, ii. Cornwall, i. 182, 183. 21. Campagne Defli, i. 241-243. Canoeing, i. 90, 146, 170. Carlyle, Thomas, i. 149, ii. 122. Carrick and Galloway, A Winter's Walk Casco, the (yacht), ii. 46-77; masts Cassell & Co., Messrs., i. 244, ii. 20, 255- Cassell's Family Paper, i. 43. Cat-boats, ii. 44, 45, 71. Country Dance, A, i. 168. Court and Society Review, ii. 256, 258. 124. | Crabbed Age and Youth, ii. 251. Cummie (see Cunningham). Cunningham, Alison (Cummie, nurse of Catriona, i. 16, 201, 224, ii. 42; written, Curtin family, ii. 27. ii. 167, 260. Cauldstaneslap, ii. 244. Celestial Surgeon, The, i. 232, ii. 255. Century Magazine, i. 245, ii. 34, 255-257. Chalmers, Rev. James ("Tamate "), ii. Champneys, Basil, i. 148 n. Damien, Father, ii. 82-84, 107. Damien, Father: An Open Letter, ii. 107, Damon, Rev. F., ii. 151. Dancing (see Stevenson, R. L.). Davos, i. 213-223, 229-238, 240, 255, ii. Davos Press, i. 237, 238, ii. 254. |