Australia, Our Colonies, and Other Islands of the SeaAmerican Book Company, 1904 - Počet stran: 388 |
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... PHILIPPINE IS . NICOBAR IS . Salgon FGUAM ( U.S. ) MARSHALL 18 . P Singapore Sea BORNEO 0 SUMATRA o ECEBES LUCCAS U.S. , CAROLINE IS . GUINEA Batavia JAVA 30 Cocos ( s . INDIAN GILBERT IS . BISMARCK ARCH SOLOMON IS . ELLICE IS . WESTERN ...
... PHILIPPINE IS . NICOBAR IS . Salgon FGUAM ( U.S. ) MARSHALL 18 . P Singapore Sea BORNEO 0 SUMATRA o ECEBES LUCCAS U.S. , CAROLINE IS . GUINEA Batavia JAVA 30 Cocos ( s . INDIAN GILBERT IS . BISMARCK ARCH SOLOMON IS . ELLICE IS . WESTERN ...
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... Philippines , but also of Porto Rico and our dependent sister republic of the West Indies , the great island of Cuba . This book aims to take the children themselves into this new world . In a personally conducted tour through the eyes ...
... Philippines , but also of Porto Rico and our dependent sister republic of the West Indies , the great island of Cuba . This book aims to take the children themselves into this new world . In a personally conducted tour through the eyes ...
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... Philippines , which have been visited for the purpose of writing this book since they became a part of the United States . Great care has been taken not only as to the colonies , but also as respects all the islands described , that the ...
... Philippines , which have been visited for the purpose of writing this book since they became a part of the United States . Great care has been taken not only as to the colonies , but also as respects all the islands described , that the ...
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... Philippines Home Life and the Markets 171 A Trip through the Country— Rice , Sugar , and Tobacco 178 26. Through the Mountains of 53 27 . 60 Luzon - The Visayan Islands The Hemp Industry • 28. Mindanao and the Moros 65 29. The Sulu ...
... Philippines Home Life and the Markets 171 A Trip through the Country— Rice , Sugar , and Tobacco 178 26. Through the Mountains of 53 27 . 60 Luzon - The Visayan Islands The Hemp Industry • 28. Mindanao and the Moros 65 29. The Sulu ...
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... Philippine Islands • 329 LIST OF MAPS Frontispiece East Indies . 12 Java • 72 Ceylon • 96 Madagascar . 112 Mediterranean Sea 119 West Indies • · 212 229 . 265 276 304 • 318 • 128 Porto Rico · · 148 Cuba · • 154 Iceland • · • 330 358 378 ...
... Philippine Islands • 329 LIST OF MAPS Frontispiece East Indies . 12 Java • 72 Ceylon • 96 Madagascar . 112 Mediterranean Sea 119 West Indies • · 212 229 . 265 276 304 • 318 • 128 Porto Rico · · 148 Cuba · • 154 Iceland • · • 330 358 378 ...
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American archipelago Australia Bahamas bamboo bananas beautiful birds boats Borneo cane capital carabaos Caribbean Sea chief coal coast cocoanut coffee colored coral covered Cuba dressed Dutch East English Europe everywhere export farms farther feet fields Fijis fish floor fruit girls gold grass green grow Guinea Haiti harbor Havana hills houses hundred huts inhabited Jamaica Java land lava leaves Lesser Antilles little island live look Luzon Madagascar Manila Mediterranean Sea Mindanao mountains natives negroes ocean oranges Pacific Ocean palm Philippines pineapples plants Port Port of Spain Porto Rico rice rich ride roofs sail San Juan SCALE OF MILES sheep ship shore side Spain Spaniards steam steamer Strait streets sugar plantations Sumatra thousand tobacco town trees tribes tropical vast vegetation villages volcano walk walls wear West Indies wild women yellow Zealand
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Strana 127 - Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Strana 264 - This national park is certainly very high up in the air. The summer visitors who live at the base of the great mountains...
Strana 346 - So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, " that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world a better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile ; and though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.
Strana 336 - Representatives; one representative of the judicial branch of the Government to be appointed, for a term of four years, by the Chief Justice of the United States; one representative...
Strana 216 - Some tribes believe that the persons whose heads they take will become their slaves in the next world...
Strana 7 - Australia and the chief islands of the vorld, especially those which have become colonies or dependencies of the United States, including Porto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, and Cuba.
Strana 354 - ... height and flowers about September, and fades again towards the end of the year. When the stalks are wholly withered, the root is thought to be full-grown, and fit to dry, which is generally done in January and February following. When these are dug up, they are picked and cleaned, and scalded gradually in boiling water. After this, they are spread out in the sun to dry, from day to day, until sufficiently aired for packing. The larger spreading roots are generally called "hands" in Jamaica,...
Strana 225 - Lin. ; a native of the Moluccas. The tree attains a height of 20 to 30 feet and greatly resembles our pear tree. The fruit, which is singularly beautiful is pearshaped, about the size of an apricot. As it ripens, the pulp, which is nearly half-an-inch thick, and of a whitish colour, opens and displays the nutmeg in its black and shining shell, encircled by a network of mace. The tree begins to bear when ten years old, and goes on improving during the space of a century.
Strana 193 - The land is everywhere green. The plains are covered with plantations of rice, sugar, and hemp, and the mountains are so wooded that they look blue in the distance, rolling on and on in smoky masses until lost in the lowhanging clouds. The coasts are bordered with cocoanut trees...