A845    Beagle Library:     Abel, Clarke. 1818. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country in the years 1816 and 1817, containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the Court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.   Text

Han-lish and Kean-tsing, of the last dynasty. There are two temples in the city dedicated to Confucius, and a Woo-meaou, or temple, dedicated to the military demi-god of China. The neighbourhood of Nan-kang-foo contains some of the most romantic scenery seen by the Embassy in China. Of this the founder of the Pih-luh-tung-shoo-yuen, or College of the white stag valley, had taken the fullest advantage, and built it at the farther end of a deep ravine shaded by trees, and watered by a beautiful

A845    Beagle Library:     Abel, Clarke. 1818. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country in the years 1816 and 1817, containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the Court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.   Text

books, 229. Lien-wha, favourite plant of the Chinese, 121. Limestone rocks, 193. Line, pass the, 7. Lin-tsing, pagoda at, 145. Limodorum striatum, 60. Lonicera caprifolia, 148. Looking glasses, 213. Los Bagnos, lake of, 242. Hot springs of 246. Lotus, 279. Lungwang, Chinese god of the sea and rivers, 147. Lychnis coronata, 121. Lycium Chinense, 123. Lycopodiwn, 194. M Macao, 236. Madeira, 2. Mohammedan Mosques,146. Mahommedansin China, 147.358 362. Ap. Manilla, description of, 238. Suburbs of, 240

A597.5a    Beagle Library:     Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. Into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 5, part 1.   Text

* We may be surprised to find the word teot, denote the eminently nutritive substance, that supplies the place of corn (the gift of a beneficent divinity), and on which the subsistence of man within the tropics depends. I shall mention on this occasion, that the word Teo, or Teot, which in Azteck signifies God (Teotl, properly Teo, for tl is only a termination), is found in the language of the Beto of the Rio Meta. The name of the Moon, in this language so remarkable for the complications of it's

A597.4    Beagle Library:     Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 4.   Text

. In the midst of these adventures, we navigated eleven months, till we reached the mouth of the river. We sailed more than 1500 leagues. God knows how we got through that great mass of water. I advise thee, O great king, never to send Spanish fleets into that cursed river. God preserve thee in his holy keeping. This letter was given by Aguirre to the vicar of the island of Margaretta, Pedro de Contreras, in order to be transmitted to king Philip II. Fray Pedro Simon, provincial of the order of St

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such as the cavern of Rosenmuller, in Franconia, Elden-hole, in the peak of Derbyshire, and the Sumideroes of Chamacasapa* in Mexico. Other caverns are open to the light at both ends. These are rocks really pierced through; natural galleries, which traverse a solitary mountain. Such are the Hole-Berg of Muggendorf, and the famous cavern called Dantoe by the Ottomite Indians, and the Bridge of the Mother of God, by the Mexican Spaniards. It is difficult to decide respecting the origin of these

A597.3    Beagle Library:     Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

as in Sanscrit; while God is called Vinay Huayna, the eternally young*. The arrangement of words in the Chayma is such as is found in every language of both continents, which has preserved a certain air of youth. The object is placed before the verb, the verb before the personal pronoun. The object, on which the attention should be principally fixed, precedes all the modifications of that object. The American would say; liberty complete love we; instead of, we love complete liberty; Thee with

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have distinct words to denote God, the Moon, and the Sun. We shall soon see how much the missionaries of the Oroonoko are afraid of employing, in their translations of the prayers of the church, the native words, which denote the Divinity, the Creator (Amanene), the Great Spirit who animates all nature. They choose rather to Indianize the Spanish word Dios, converting it, according to the differences of pronunciation, and the genius of the tongues, in to Diosi, Tiosu, or Piosu. Again embarked

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of trees; and was scarcely disengaged, when we reached a spot where several paths or small * Dabs. Those dolphins, that enter the mouth of the Nile, had however, so much struck the ancients, that in a bust in syenite, preserved in the museum at Paris, (hall of Melpomene, No. 266) the sculptor has represented them half concealed in the undulatory beard of the god of the river. VOL. V. R [page] 24

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, who would reelect, at the next chapter, the guardian of the convent of Nueva Barcelona. Every thing here has a local interest, and that interest, as the monks say, is confined to the affairs of the community, to these forests, estas selvas, which God has ordained us to inhabit. This circle of ideas, narrow and sad enough, enlarges as you pass from the Upper Oroonoko to the Rio Negro, and approach the frontiers of Brazil. There the demon of European politics seems to occupy every mind. The

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serts with simplicity, that God would scarcely have permitted a tyrant to be successful, and make the fine discovery of the mouth of the Maragnon. He supposes, that Aguirre reached the sea by the Rio de Felipe, which lies some leagues distant from North Cape. Raleigh, in different voyages performed by himself, or at his expense*, learned nothing of an hydraulic communication between the Oroonoko and the Amazon; but Keymis, his lieutenant, who from flattery (and particularly in imitation of the

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geological observations. I have already bad occasion to mention (vol. iv, p. 41, 42). They are enchased in a formation of madrepore breccia, which the Negroes call with great simplicity the masonry of God almighty; and which, as recent as the travertin of Italy, envelopes fragments of vases and other works of man. Mr. Dauxion Lavaysse, and Dr. K nig, first made known in Europe this phenomenon, which has so much excited the attention of geologists. (Phil. Tr. 1814, plate 3; Cuvier, Ossem. foss., vol. 1

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idolatrous thereof. And I further remember that Berreo confessed to me and others (which I protest before the Majesty of God to be true), that there was found among prophecies in Peru (at such time as the Empire was reduced to the Spanish obedience) in their chiefest temples, amongst divers others which foreshewed the losse of the said Empyre, that from Inglatierra those Ingas should be again in time to come restored. The Inga would yield to her Majesty by composition many hundred thousand

A728    Beagle Library:     Luccock, John. 1820. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil: taken during a residence of ten years in that country, from 1808 to 1818. London: S. Leigh.   Text

The rapidity with which improvement proceeds in Brazil is wonderful, and it requires a steady hand to steer the vessel of the state. Would to God that the King may have judgment enough to avoid the rock upon which many nations have split a love of useless conquest and the no less dangerous whirlpool which threatens to draw the country into the vortex of Revolution. [page ix

A731.02    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 2.   Text

by's prior discovery of Spitzbergen. An uncommon quantity of ice, with foggy weather, so pestered the fishers this season, that the English got entangled, and lay fourteen days beset. They returned home, as before, half laden; while the Dutch made a successful fishery*. Captain Edge, in the Russia Company's service, had eight ships and two pinnaces under his command, in 1616. This year, says Edge, in his account of the English and Dutch Discoveries to the North , it pleased God to bless their

A731.02    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 2.   Text

the Lively of Whitby, under circumstances of safety! They received from their townsmen the warmest congratulations; and while each individual was forward in contributing his assistance towards the restoration of their benumbed bodies, each appeared sensible that their narrow escape from death was highly providential. The forbearance of GOD is wonderful. Perhaps these very men, a few hours before, were impiously invoking their own destruction, or venting imprecations upon their fellow-beings! True

A731.02    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 2.   Text

management of the sails, to avoid the largest masses of ice, any one of which would have perforated the side of the ship. By the blessing of God, we succeeded to admiration; and, at 8 A. M. of the 2d of May, gained a small opening, where we contrived to navigate the ship, until the wind had somewhat subsided, and the weather cleared, so that we had the opportunity of forcing into a more commodious place. On examining the ship, we found our only apparent damage to consist in the destruction of most of our

A728    Beagle Library:     Luccock, John. 1820. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil: taken during a residence of ten years in that country, from 1808 to 1818. London: S. Leigh.   Text

, perhaps jestingly, that it is not proper food for Christians, because it was the Lamb of God which took away the sins of the world. Whether this prejudice operates still more strongly with respect to the young progeny of sheep, I know not; but lamb is never eaten by the natives of that country. They have, also, little or nothing like the veal of England; though an animal, of a year old, called a calf, is frequently slaughtered for the exclusive use of the inhabitants of the Palace, and its flesh

A728    Beagle Library:     Luccock, John. 1820. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil: taken during a residence of ten years in that country, from 1808 to 1818. London: S. Leigh.   Text

men, whose work ought to be charity, both to the living and the dead, took away the corpse, and pocketed the cash. The fee, I am told, for the funeral service was six hundred and forty reis, about two shillings and sixpence; while the daily wages of the poor were no more than eighty reis, or four-pence, and there are generally two holidays, at least, in every week. Thus the man of God absorbs the ten days labour of a poor one, to do what shall I say? an act of humanity? no; but that, which, in my

A728    Beagle Library:     Luccock, John. 1820. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil: taken during a residence of ten years in that country, from 1808 to 1818. London: S. Leigh.   Text

ride of two miles farther brought us to the celebrated Fall of Tej ca, where a mountain torrent rattles down the broad face of a rock, worn into irregular channels and caldrons by the attrition of ages. The most singular feature perhaps, in the majestic scene, is a natural temple under the rock, where, during the French Invasion in 1711, the people offered their devotions to the God of Armies. Two altars then used, are still standing, and convey to most minds additional impressions of solemnity. It

A728    Beagle Library:     Luccock, John. 1820. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil: taken during a residence of ten years in that country, from 1808 to 1818. London: S. Leigh.   Text

. They are truly devout in their worship of God, and ardent in their love of a Redeemer, but follow the forms of the church from education, rather than conviction; holding, in many respects, a like station among Brazilian Catholics to that formerly filled by the Puritans among British Protestants. On a distant part of his farm, the owner has established his only son, who had been educated for the church, and officiated as a Priest on the demesne. His father sent to request that he would spend the

A728    Beagle Library:     Luccock, John. 1820. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil: taken during a residence of ten years in that country, from 1808 to 1818. London: S. Leigh.   Text

same room. The master then approached the sacred insignia, with great seriousness, made a profound bow to the image, and closed the doors. There was something in the action so expressive of modest veneration, that I could not but admire it at the moment, and still think that his mind must be very ill formed who can behold a fellow-creature worship his God in sincerity, be it what it may, and can sneer at his conduct. I have no faith whatever in images, no attachment to dogmas and to forms, yet

A809    Beagle Library:     Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied. 1820. Travels in Brazil in the years 1815, 1816, and 1817. Volume 1. London: Henry Colburn.   Text

Edition, in 1 vol. 4to. illustrated with Thirty-four Plates of Scenery, Antiquities, and Costume, from Drawings made on the spot by the Author. 3l. 3s. boards. NARRATIVE of a RESIDENCE in IRELAND. By ANNE PLUMTRE, author of a Narrative of a Three Years Residence in France, c. c. in 1 vol. 4to. embellished with a portrait of the Author, and 12 engravings of remarkable scenery, price 2l. 2s. boards. God has done every thing for this country, man nothing. Lord Chesterfield. FRANCE. By LADY MORGAN. The

A794.03    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

without priests. In their language, Iageach signifies God: the name of the god is Anis. When war or any other important affair is to be undertaken, solemn offerings are made, always in the open air. One of the assembly, not the chief, consecrates the fruits to the god, by holding them up, and invocation; the form is, Gidien Anis mne jeo, the assembled people repeat the last words. When the father of a family goes out on the fishery, or undertakes any thing important, he offers among his family. There

A794.02    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 2.   Text

Chamori. Eap Ulea. Radack. The name. What is that called? Nahan Waoresingen tan tan Exclamation of surprise of dissatisfaction Eretam Ilomaut Ir o Wut van Tamaurel Epada I Guaho Igagk Ngang Nga You Hago Yes Huu Ier Illa Inga (and on the southern groups) Ja No; also prohibition Ahe Matamat Tabu or Buluath Ebin Emo and Ap There is none, it is wanting Tari Tor Eitolok God Tautup Tautup Jageach The name of God Engalap, the same at Ngoli, Mogemug, and Ulea. At Feis, Rongala: at Lamureck and Elath

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the poorest natives, and is probably caused by bad fare and uncleanliness. An hospital in Manilla, which is supported by government and the rich people of the town, is filled with people ill of this disease, and a monk, who has had the superintendance of it for twenty years, was of opinion that there was no remedy against this punishment of God, as he termed it. I made the observation, that the poor creatures had dirty woollen clothes next to the skin, and received spoiled meat for their food