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Страница 17 - ... The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Страница 4 - Life membership may be obtained by a single subscription of ten pounds or more. 3. Each member of the Society, having paid his subscription, shall be entitled to a copy of every work produced by the Society within the period subscribed for, and to vote at the General Meetings. 4. A General Meeting of the subscribers shall be held annually within the first three months of the year.
Страница 42 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Страница 4 - SOCIETY, which is established for the purpose of printing rare or unpublished Voyages and Travels, aims at opening by this means an easier access to the sources of a branch of knowledge, which yields to none in importance, and is superior to most in agreeable variety. The narratives of travellers and navigators make us acquainted with the earth, its inhabitants and productions ; they exhibit the growth of intercourse among mankind, with its effects on...
Страница xvii - One must notice the frequent extraordinary coincidences of statement, and almost of expression, between this and other travellers of the same age, especially M. Polo. At first one would think that Jordanus had Polo's book. But he certainly had not Ibn Batuta's, and the coincidences with him are sometimes almost as striking. Had those ancient worthies, then, a MURRAY from whom they pilfered experiences, as modern travellers do 1 I think they had ; but their Murray lay in the traditional yarns of the...
Страница 31 - Diet. of the Archip., article Pepper.) 4 In Sumatra, we read, " Man's flesh, if it be fat, is eaten as ordinarily there as beefe in our country. Marchants comming vnto this region for traffique do vsually bring to them fat men, selling them vnto the inhabitants as we sel hogs, who immediately kil and eate them." (Odoricus, in Hakluyt, vol. ii.) " In one part of the island, called Satech, the inhabitants eat human flesh,
Страница 37 - Of the nocturnal accipitres of Ceylon, the most remarkable is the brown owl, Syrnium Indrani, Sykes, which, from its hideous yell, has acquired the name of the devil bird. The Singhalese regard it literally with horror, and its scream by night in the vicinity of a village is bewailed as the harbinger of impending calamity.
Страница 2 - It appears to be an agitated water, of from seventy to ninety fathoms in depth, circling in quick eddies. It is owing probably to the meeting of the harbour and lateral currents with the main one, the latter being forced over in this direction by the opposite point of Pezzo.
Страница 4 - Index. (Out of print. Second Edition in preparation.) Issued for 1848. 4— Sir Francis Drake his Voyage, 1595, By THOMAS MAYNARDE, together with the Spanish Account of Drake's, attack on Puerto Rico. Edited from the original MSS. by WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY.
Страница 20 - ... glory, and for the love of their husbands, and for eternal life, burn along with them, with as much joy as if they were going to be wedded ; and those who do this have the higher repute for virtue and perfection among the rest. There is a good account of the flying fox, and an excellent cut, in Tennent's Nat. History of Ceylon. On the Indiarubber trees at the Botanic Gardens near Kandy, they "hang in such prodigious numbers that frequently large branches give way beneath their accumulated weight.