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The Pilgrims felt that the coming of such adventurers and scoffers, who were none too scrupulous in their dealings with either white man or Indian and were given to practices which the Puritans heartily abhorred, was a calamity showing that even in the wilds of America they could not escape the world from which they were anxious to withdraw.
You may have heard of the wilds of an African jungle the trackless wastes of the desert the solitude of the forest the limitless stretch of the storm-tossed ocean; they are cozy and snug when compared to the utter and soul-searing dreariness of a small town hotel parlor.
"We have discussed that, haven't we, Maskull? Maskull is anxious to behold that rare fruit in its native wilds." Maskull looked at Krag carefully, trying to analyse his own feelings toward him. He was distinctly repelled by the man's personality, yet side by side with this aversion a savage, living energy seemed to spring up in his heart that in some strange fashion was attributable to Krag.
We had reposed ourselves but two days in the pleasant wilds of Snow's Island, before Marion, learning that a part of the enemy were in the neighborhood, desired me to take captains Clarke and Irwin, with fifty men, and try if I could not bring him a good account of them. We encamped the first night on the plantation of Mr. John Withers, where hearing that Mr.
But they saw nothing of those, tallest of all, and the most dreaded by Saloo the mias rombis although the old bee-hunter still maintained his belief that they exist in the forests of Borneo as well as in the wilds of Sumatra.
'He is a queer character Alphonse, he said. 'By and by I will tell you his history; in the meanwhile let us try his cooking. 'Might I ask, said Sir Henry, after we had eaten a most excellent dinner, 'how you came to have a French cook in these wilds? 'Oh, answered Mrs Mackenzie, 'he arrived here of his own accord about a year ago, and asked to be taken into our service.
When the Imperial government ceased in other countries, the natives preserved many of its institutions, which the conquerors incorporated with their own laws; but our barbarian ancestors eradicated every prior establishment, and transplanted the manners of the wilds of Germany into the new solitude which they had made.
The man who knew all about his thievish transactions and who for months had profited by them. Hides, wool, fresh meats from the secret lairs and slaughter pens back in the trackless wilds, all these had gone down the river on Barry's boats, products of a far-reaching system of outlawry, with Barry and his captains sharing in the proceeds. Now he understood.
He was like a full-blooded horse tractable enough if kept hard at work. He was a different man up on the Plateau to what he was down at Loango. There are some men who deteriorate in the wilds, while others are better, stronger, finer creatures away from the luxury of civilisation and the softening influence of female society. Of these latter was Victor Durnovo.
Already five flourishing English states have been established in the south, besides the settlements on the Gold Coast and those at Aden commanding the Red Sea. English explorers work their way, with infinite hardship, through its untravelled wilds, and track the courses of the Congo and the Nile as their forefathers tracked the Potomac and the Hudson.
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