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Lords are only men; and men are not in the habit of saying No to me." So they parted. In a week from that day, her majesty's ship Amazon sailed for North America. Certain privileged persons, specially interested in the Arctic voyagers, were permitted to occupy the empty state-rooms on board. On the list of these favored guests of the ship were the names of two ladies Mrs.
They furnish to the inhabitants of these islands the material for almost every article required for their domestic economy as the various species of palms do to the natives of South America more especially the denizens of the great Amazon valley.
"If no one has anything better to propose," she replied, "I think a picnic would be very nice; and I would suggest that the natives be sent on by land, with everything necessary, to the northern end of the island, opposite the poor old Amazon, of which we are so soon to see the last, and that the rest of us take Harry's tube-boat, and sail in her quite round the island which we new-comers have not seen very much of as yet and stop at the point I have named."
Rhadamanthus gave it in favour of Menelaus, on the ground of the great toils and dangers the match had cost him added to the fact that Theseus was provided with other wives in the Amazon queen and the daughters of Minos.
From this neither the arguments of the Czar nor the entreaties of Queen Louisa availed to move him. It was a terrible ordeal to do this from the man who had repeatedly insulted her in his official journals, figuring her, first as a mailed Amazon galloping at the head of her regiment, and finally breathing forth scandals on her spotless reputation.
The Amazon was now sent into the Mediterranean, therefore it was seldom that letters could pass between our navigators and their friends in Eskdale. About a year after they had left England, Captain Elliott received a letter, on putting into Gibraltar, from Mr. Martin, informing him of the sudden death of his mother.
There were other articles on the washstand that claimed the girl's notice; but it was to the bottle labeled "Walnut Stain" that her gaze returned. She crept away to her own room, lit her lamp, and did not even see Cap'n Amazon Silt again that night. "Ford Tapp was here last night," Cap'n Amazon told Louise at the breakfast table.
What would lead me to doubt this last supposition is, that we saw toninas above the great cataracts of the Orinoco, in the Rio Atabapo. Did they penetrate into the centre of equinoctial America from the mouth of the Amazon, by the communication of that river with the Rio Negro, the Cassiquiare, and the Orinoco?
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Now, half a century after it was written, his "Naturalist on the Amazon" is as interesting and valuable as it ever was, and no book since written has in any way supplanted it. Travel of the third category includes the work of the true wilderness explorers who add to our sum of geographical knowledge and of the scientific men who, following their several bents, also work in the untrodden wilds.
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