At Last, a Christmas in the West IndiesMacmillan, 1880 - 401 páginas |
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aloft amid asphalt beautiful believe beneath birds blazing Boca boughs brown bush cacao called Caripe Chacon Chaguaramas civilization cliff coco-nut Cocorite coloured Coolie crimson Crown Dâaga dark English estates eyes fancy feet high Fer-de-lance fish flowers forest French fresh fruit garden green cloud grey growing Guacharo Guadaloupe Gulf of Paria head heard Heliconia hills huge island ladies land least leaves light look mangrove Martinique Matapalos miles monkeys Moriche palms mountain Negro never night northern Obeah once palm Palmistes pitch Pitch Lake plants poisonous Port of Spain primæval probably purple rich rock roots round San Josef Savanna seemed seen shade ship shore side soil Spaniards Spanish spider spot stem strange surf tall things tree Trinidad tropic vegetation Virgin Gorda West Indian West Indies whole wild wonder wood yards yellow young
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Página 43 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Página 5 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Página 264 - Where the infant Frost has trodden With his morning-winged feet Whose bright print is gleaming yet ; And the red and golden vines, Piercing with their trellised lines The rough dark-skirted wilderness...
Página 387 - Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Página 55 - ... square leagues, were terrified by a subterranean noise, which resembled frequent discharges of the loudest cannon. It was accompanied by no shock, and, what is very remarkable, was as loud on the coast as at eighty leagues...
Página 246 - It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Página 75 - They were now closely and warmly engaged, the lieutenant and twelve men against Blackbeard and fourteen, till the sea was tinctured with blood round the vessel; Blackbeard received a shot...
Página 72 - Castellani in respect of their tyranny and oppression, and that she delivered all such nations about her, as were by them oppressed, and having freed all the coast of the northern world from their servitude had sent me to free them also, and withal to defend the country of Guiana from their invasion and conquest.
Página 138 - The natives connect mystic ideas with this cave, inhabited by nocturnal birds; they believe that the souls of their ancestors sojourn in the deep recesses of the cavern. "Man," say they, "should avoid places which are enlightened neither by the sun (zis) , nor by the moon (nuna).
Página 5 - Here die I, Richard Grenvile, with a joyful and quiet mind ; for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honour: my soul willingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every valiant soldier is in his duty bound to do.