item: #1 of 425 id: 10071 author: Edwardes, S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) title: By-Ways of Bombay date: None words: 30872 flesch: 66 summary: And He, when he learned what they had done, was exceeding wroth and cursed them, dooming them to sorrow and to the service of other men so long as the sun and moon should endure. * * Occasionally, when the prayer-breath of the ordinary worshipper has failed to effect a cure, a Mussulman mother will take her sick child to some Syed or other holy man in the city for what she calls Jhada dalwana (_i.e._ keywords: black; bombay; caves; child; children; city; coffee; corner; dark; day; days; dead; evil; eyes; face; feet; god; good; great; half; hand; head; hill; hindu; home; house; illustration; imtiazan; life; mahomedan; man; men; mother; musulman; night; past; people; place; prayer; rama; road; room; round; shrine; smoke; spirit; street; time; turn; water; way; women; words cache: 10071.txt plain text: 10071.txt item: #2 of 425 id: 10366 author: Gandhi, Mahatma title: Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation date: None words: 79632 flesch: 66 summary: In non-co-operation, the writers think, it would be difficult if not impossible to avoid violence. I fear therefore no disastrous result from non-co-operation save for an outbreak of violence on the part of the people whether under provocation or otherwise. keywords: believe; british; congress; country; day; duty; empire; english; good; government; hindus; hold; honour; india; islam; justice; khilafat; life; mahomedans; man; matter; means; movement; muslim; mussalmans; nation; national; non; operation; opinion; people; power; present; punjab; question; religion; respect; sacrifice; self; swaraj; terms; time; turkey; violence; want; way; world; wrong cache: 10366.txt plain text: 10366.txt item: #3 of 425 id: 10382 author: Howard, J. E. title: Memoir of William Watts McNair, Late of "Connaught House," Mussooree, of the Indian Survey Department, the First European Explorer of Kafiristan date: None words: 20008 flesch: 58 summary: Mr. McNair joined the department on the 1st September, 1867, and was posted to the Rajputana Topographical Party. To those who know what an Indian Department means, such language of eulogy, no less truthful than graceful, from so respected a functionary as the Surveyor-General of India, who knew Mr. McNair personally, will carry a weight far beyond the official recognition of that deceased officer's worth to his department. keywords: chief; chitral; country; department; feet; frontier; geographical; government; great; india; journey; kabul; kafiristan; kafirs; knowledge; life; man; mcnair; men; pass; people; society; survey; time; valley; way; work; years cache: 10382.txt plain text: 10382.txt item: #4 of 425 id: 10603 author: Beynon, William George Laurence, Sir title: With Kelly to Chitral date: None words: 30756 flesch: 75 summary: I was surprised at the magnificent way in which they were built, partly sunk into the ground, and made of huge boulders that required many men to move, and with head cover constructed of logs in the most approved fashion, evidently made by men who had been properly instructed. Just at this moment a man ran across the slope and began waving his coat to someone below, and more men showed themselves among the rocks. keywords: advance; bank; camp; chitral; colonel; coolies; day; enemy; guns; kelly; left; levies; man; march; mastuj; men; party; pioneers; right; river; road; sangars; snow; time; village cache: 10603.txt plain text: 10603.txt item: #5 of 425 id: 10770 author: Comyn, Tomás de title: The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes date: None words: 223245 flesch: 62 summary: Their colloquial language, like that of the natives of Java, Borneo, Sumatra, and many other islands in these seas, is a dialect of the peninsular Malay from whence it is thought they originated; and so striking is its similarity among all these islands, that the natives of each can, in a greater or less degree, understand that of all the others. The Bisayas, Cagayan, and many other provinces, produce wax in considerable abundance, which the Indians collect from the natural hives formed in the cavities of the trees, and it is also brought down by the infidel natives from the mountains to the neighboring towns. keywords: account; america; appearance; archipelago; articles; bamboo; bay; boats; camarines; capital; captain; case; cent; chief; china; chinese; circumstances; coast; colony; commerce; company; consequence; country; course; cultivation; day; days; distance; district; dollars; east; eastern; end; english; european; fact; far; feet; fields; filipinos; fine; fish; following; form; free; fruit; general; gold; good; government; governor; ground; half; hand; head; house; inhabitants; interior; iron; islands; kind; king; labor; lake; leaves; left; luzon; making; manila; manner; means; mindanao; money; monopoly; months; morning; mountain; natives; new; night; north; number; object; order; pay; people; persons; philippines; place; plants; point; population; power; present; priest; principal; produce; provinces; public; purpose; quantity; rate; real; return; revenue; rice; river; road; rule; samar; san; sea; season; second; ships; shore; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; species; state; sugar; sultan; sulu; system; time; tobacco; town; trade; trees; tribes; use; value; vessels; view; village; visit; want; war; water; way; west; women; work; world; years cache: 10770.txt plain text: 10770.txt item: #6 of 425 id: 10856 author: Griffiths, Charles John title: A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 date: None words: 55410 flesch: 60 summary: It was now midday, and at the latter place we were joined by No. 3 Column, which, making its way to the Jama Musjid, met with such a strenuous resistance that, after losing many men, and being without powder with which to blow up the gates of the mosque, it was forced to retire. Many men also there were who, at first swayed by moral scruples, as well as feeling reluctant to disobey the order which had been issued, refrained from looting on their own account; but when they saw that officers, even of the higher ranks, took possession of plunder, these scruples were cast to the winds--it was every man for himself, and the d--- l take the hindmost, and a general desire was evinced for each to enrich himself with the prize lying at his feet. keywords: army; artillery; attack; batteries; camp; cavalry; city; close; command; country; day; days; death; delhi; distance; enemy; european; ferozepore; fire; force; gate; general; great; ground; guns; house; infantry; left; men; native; night; officers; picket; place; prize; rebels; regiment; sepoys; september; shot; siege; soldiers; time; troops; walls cache: 10856.txt plain text: 10856.txt item: #7 of 425 id: 10924 author: Taylor, Bayard title: The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain date: None words: 131430 flesch: 72 summary: Arab tradition here is as much at fault as Christian tradition in many other places. The ruins of Bozrah, Ezra, and other ancient cities, would well repay the arduous character of the journey, while the traveller might succeed in getting some insight into the life and habits of that singular people, the Druses. keywords: air; aleppo; ancient; base; beautiful; black; blue; centre; chapter; christian; city; coffee; constantinople; country; court; damascus; dark; day; days; distance; door; east; effect; evening; eyes; face; feet; fields; foot; françois; gardens; gate; golden; good; grand; great; green; half; hand; head; height; high; hills; hours; houses; jerusalem; journey; land; landscape; lay; lebanon; left; line; man; marble; men; miles; morning; mosque; mountain; new; night; north; number; olive; people; place; plain; red; river; road; rock; rose; ruins; saw; sea; sides; sky; snow; stone; stream; streets; sultan; summit; sun; tent; time; town; trees; turkish; valley; view; village; walls; water; way; white; wild; work; world; years cache: 10924.txt plain text: 10924.txt item: #8 of 425 id: 10946 author: Hill, Samuel Charles title: Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 date: None words: 50509 flesch: 71 summary: After the capture of Chandernagore the English Council called on the Nawab to surrender the French up-country Factories to them. The Major, after paying high encomiums to M. Law for his perseverance, conduct, and bravery, added these words: 'You have done everything that could be expected from a brave man; and your name shall be undoubtedly transmitted to posterity by the pen of history; now loosen your sword from your loins, come amongst us, and abandon all thoughts of contending with the English.' keywords: admiral; army; attack; bengal; calcutta; chandernagore; clive; company; council; country; courtin; daula; day; enemy; english; europeans; factory; footnote; fort; french; good; guns; india; khan; law; letter; man; march; men; nawab; officers; people; raja; renault; river; siraj; thought; time; war cache: 10946.txt plain text: 10946.txt item: #9 of 425 id: 10956 author: Morley, John title: Indian speeches (1907-1909) date: None words: 42561 flesch: 65 summary: Extract from the dispatch of the Board of Directors of the East India Company to the Government of India, December 10, 1834, accompanying the Government of India Act_, 1833.[1] They mark the spirit of British rule in India, at three successive stages, for three generations past; and bear directly upon what is now being done. keywords: act; council; day; friend; general; gentlemen; good; government; governor; hon; house; india; lord; man; members; moment; parliament; people; point; policy; present; question; secretary; service; state; think; time; viceroy; view; way cache: 10956.txt plain text: 10956.txt item: #10 of 425 id: 10962 author: Aitken, Edward Hamilton title: Concerning Animals and Other Matters date: None words: 51063 flesch: 72 summary: First of all, some jungle men were called in, for the man of the jungle must naturally know more about snakes than other men. This does not indicate pinching poverty; there must be some margin between such men and starvation. keywords: animals; beasts; betel; birds; black; body; bombay; brahmin; case; charmer; cobra; coconut; country; day; doubt; ears; eyes; face; fact; feet; foot; garden; good; ground; hand; head; hindu; house; illustration; india; life; look; man; men; mind; mouth; nature; new; night; nose; nut; owl; pair; place; point; purpose; rat; sea; sense; snake; species; spread; tail; thing; time; tree; use; water; way; wild; word; work cache: 10962.txt plain text: 10962.txt item: #11 of 425 id: 10974 author: De Windt, Harry title: A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán date: None words: 60286 flesch: 73 summary: With the reflection that few white men would have put up with the insults I had; that Tommy Atkins was, after all, only three hundred miles away; and that, in the event of my death, Malak would probably be shot, if not blown from a gun,--I ordered him (through the trembling Kamoo) to instantly leave the tent with all his followers. They were afterwards found and carried to Bagh, where, every attention being afforded them, they ultimately, after many days of sickness, recovered. keywords: baluchistán; beïla; blue; camel; caravan; city; cold; country; couple; dark; day; days; deep; english; european; feet; fine; footnote; gerôme; good; great; green; half; high; horses; hours; house; ispahán; journey; kelát; khan; kind; left; little; looking; man; men; miles; morning; mud; natives; night; persia; place; plain; post; road; russian; sea; shah; shiráz; snow; teherán; time; town; village; walls; water; way; white; wild; women; years cache: 10974.txt plain text: 10974.txt item: #12 of 425 id: 11212 author: Curtis, William Eleroy title: Modern India date: None words: 144794 flesch: 60 summary: You may not perhaps believe it, but there are still living in India men who call themselves servants of the Lord, who would erase every other monument that is in any way associated with pagan worship or traditions. Mr. Rustam Jamshidji founded the Hospital for Women, the East India Company built the Town Hall and other men gave other buildings with the greatest degree of public spirit and patriotism I have ever seen displayed in any town. keywords: acres; agra; american; area; army; authority; average; benares; bombay; brahmins; british; british india; buildings; business; calcutta; capital; caste; cent; center; chief; children; cities; city; class; cotton; country; curzon; day; days; death; delhi; east india; emperor; empire; england; english; faith; family; famine; feet; food; gods; gold; good; government; great; ground; half; hands; head; high; hindu; home; house; india; india company; influence; interest; jeypore; lady; life; lord; maharaja; man; marble; members; miles; military; millions; mogul; money; native; new; number; officials; order; palaces; pay; people; persons; place; population; power; present; priests; princes; province; public; purpose; railway; river; room; school; servants; service; shah; silver; soldiers; states; stone; temples; throne; time; united; viceroy; walls; water; way; wear; white; women; work; world; worship; years cache: 11212.txt plain text: 11212.txt item: #13 of 425 id: 11367 author: Eberhard, Wolfram title: A History of China date: None words: 158330 flesch: 65 summary: Double Standard) Dog Dorgon, prince Double standard, legal Drama Dress, changes Dungan, tribes Dynastic histories (_see_ History) Dzungars, people Eclipses Economy Money economy Natural economy (_see_ Capitulations (privileges of foreign nations) Caravans (_see_ Silk road, Trade) Carpet Castes, (_see_ Brahmans) Castiglione, G., painter Cattle, breeding Cavalry, (_see_ Horse) Cave temples (_see_ Lung-men, Yün-kang, Tunhuang) Censorate Censorship Census (_see_ Population) Central Asia (_see_ Turkestan, Sinkiang, Tarim, City States) Champa, State Ch'an (Zen), meditative Buddhism Chan-kuo Period (Contending States) Chancellor Ch'ang-an, capital of China (_see_ Sian) Chang Ch'ien, ambassador Chang Chü-chan, teacher Chang Hsien-chung, rebel Chang Hsüeh-hang, war lord Chang Ling, popular leader Chang Ti, ruler Chang Tsai, philosopher Chang Tso-lin, war lord Chao, state; Earlier Chao; Later Chao Chao K'uang-yin (T'ai Tsu), ruler Chao Mêng-fu, painter Charters Chefoo Convention Ch'en, dynasty Ch'en Pa-hsien, ruler Ch'en Tu-hsiu, intellectual Ch'eng Hao, philosopher Cheng Ho, navy commander Ch'eng keywords: a.d; administration; army; asia; b.c; buddhism; capital; central; century; ch'in; china; chinese; chou; city; class; country; court; culture; dynasty; early; east; eastern; eastern china; emperor; empire; end; epoch; families; family; fighting; foreign; form; general; gentry; government; great; group; han; history; hsien; hsiung; importance; influence; japan; japanese; land; later; liang; life; liu; manchus; members; merchants; middle; military; ming; money; mongols; new; north china; northern; number; officials; order; peasants; peking; people; period; place; policy; population; power; present; province; region; ruler; shang; shih; son; south; south chinese; southern; state; sung; system; t'ang; time; toba; trade; tribal; tribes; turkestan; turkish; turks; tz[)u; wang; war; way; wei; western; work; yang; years; yen; yüan cache: 11367.txt plain text: 11367.txt item: #14 of 425 id: 11468 author: Booth-Tucker, Frederick St. George De Lautour title: Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" date: None words: 48916 flesch: 68 summary: The remarkable reception accorded to General Booth's In Darkest England and the Way Out, makes it hardly necessary for me to apologise for the publication of the following pages, which are intended solely as an introduction to that fascinating book, and in order to point out to Indian readers that if a cabhorse charter is both desirable and practicable for England (see page 19, Darkest England) a bullock charter is no less urgently needed for India. General Booth has uttered a trumpet-call, the echoes of which will be reverberated through the entire world. keywords: army; book; booth; case; chapter; city; classes; colony; country; darkest; day; destitute; england; fact; find; food; general; good; government; help; home; hope; india; labor; land; life; man; men; millions; number; people; poor; population; present; public; question; salvation; scheme; social; tenth; time; way; work; years cache: 11468.txt plain text: 11468.txt item: #15 of 425 id: 11873 author: Swinburne, T. R. title: A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil date: None words: 87232 flesch: 69 summary: After breakfast we merely drove into the bazaars to shop before betaking ourselves to the station, in good time for the 6.30 train. 14.--A very fairly fine morning enabled us to strike camp yesterday, and get the baggage off in good time. keywords: afternoon; air; ali; bank; bear; blue; boat; breakfast; bridge; brown; bungalow; camp; carriage; chitor; city; cold; coolies; country; course; dark; day; days; feet; foot; good; green; grey; gulmarg; half; head; high; hill; home; hotel; hour; house; india; jane; jhelum; kashmir; lady; lake; lay; left; level; life; long; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; native; nullah; open; party; past; path; pine; place; point; ponies; rain; red; right; river; road; rose; round; sabz; sahib; saw; sea; set; shikari; singh; slopes; snow; sort; srinagar; state; stream; sun; time; trees; valley; view; village; water; way; weather; white; wild; work; yellow cache: 11873.txt plain text: 11873.txt item: #16 of 425 id: 11902 author: Burslem, Rollo Gillespie title: A Peep into Toorkisthan date: None words: 43857 flesch: 52 summary: The ague, which is usually accompanied by fever, is of a kind very difficult to shake off, gradually weakening the sufferer till he sinks under its influence; the natives themselves are by no means free from its strokes, to which attacks every stranger who remains for many days in the vicinity of the marshes is liable. The mouth of the cave was small, and no sooner did the invaders rush in than they were cut down by those inside; in vain were more men thrust in to take the place of those slain; the advantages of position were too great, and they were obliged at length to desist. keywords: affgh[=a]n; bamee[=a]n; beg; british; c[=a]bul; cabul; character; chief; country; course; day; distance; dost; enemy; force; fort; good; ground; head; hills; horse; kh[=a]n; kind; koollum; left; man; meer; men; miles; morning; mountains; nature; night; party; pass; place; reader; return; road; rock; sturt; time; toorkisth[=a]n; valley; way; wild cache: 11902.txt plain text: 11902.txt item: #17 of 425 id: 12006 author: Havell, E. B. (Ernest Binfield) title: A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood date: None words: 28643 flesch: 67 summary: OTHER BUILDINGS AND TOMBS AT OR NEAR AGRA Akbar--Akbar's Connection with Agra--IV. keywords: agra; akbar; art; babar; building; city; court; death; delhi; dîwan; emperor; fatehpur; father; fort; garden; gate; hindu; house; india; jahangir; khas; left; mahal; marble; mogul; mosque; palace; persian; shah; shah jahan; son; stone; style; taj; throne; time; tomb; work; years cache: 12006.txt plain text: 12006.txt item: #18 of 425 id: 12062 author: Van Doren, Alice B. (Alice Boucher) title: Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India A Study of Conditions among Women in India date: None words: 40473 flesch: 69 summary: It is commonly said that Indian women have a poise, quietness, and reserve different to that in Western women. Indian women can keep their modesty and reserve even while mixing with men. keywords: american; bagh; children; christian; christian college; class; college; college education; college women; country; day; days; doctor; education; family; father; future; girls; god; good; government; hindu; home; hospital; house; illustration; india; lal; life; madras; medical; miss; mother; mrs; new; people; place; purdah; school; service; students; study; system; things; time; vellore; village; way; women; work; world; years cache: 12062.txt plain text: 12062.txt item: #19 of 425 id: 12077 author: Worcester, Dean C. (Dean Conant) title: The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) date: None words: 173432 flesch: 61 summary: The gentleman from Alabama then went on to review the mighty events and developments of the preceding six weeks, Dewey's victory of May 1st, 'the brilliant achievements of your own distinguished leader, General Emilio Aguinaldo, _cooperating on land with the Americans at sea_,' etc. 'You have just reason to be proud of what has been and is being accomplished by General Aguinaldo and your fellow-countrymen under his command. [19] On April 27, 1908, Pratt telegraphed the Secretary of State as follows: -- General Aguinaldo gone my instance Hongkong arrange with Dewey coöperation insurgents Manila. keywords: admiral; aguinaldo; american; arms; army; attack; august; baguio; blount; bureau; cases; cavite; chief; city; civil; colonel; commission; conditions; congress; consul; control; country; course; day; days; dewey; fact; filipinos; following; forces; general; general aguinaldo; good; government; governor; great; health; hongkong; hospital; independence; information; instructions; insurgent; islands; january; july; leave; left; letter; life; little; major; manila; matter; means; members; military; money; new; number; officers; order; p.i.r; people; persons; philippine; philippine government; philippine islands; place; pratt; present; president; province; public; purpose; reason; report; republic; result; return; road; san; secretary; september; service; set; soldiers; spain; spaniards; spanish; statement; states government; taylor; time; town; troops; united states; use; villa; war; water; way; work; years cache: 12077.txt plain text: 12077.txt item: #20 of 425 id: 12296 author: Andrews, Yvette Borup title: Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China date: None words: 95666 flesch: 69 summary: The first Shan village--Priscilla and John Alden--Meng-ting--The Shan mandarin--Young priests--The market--Photographing under difficulties--Suppression of opium growing CHAPTER XXIX CAMPING ON THE NAM-TING RIVER A beautiful camp--The Dying Rabbit--Sambur hunting--Jungle fowl--Civets--Pole cats and other animals CHAPTER XXX MONKEY HUNTING Strange calls in the jungle--Our first gibbons--Relationship and habits--Langurs and baboons--A night in the jungle CHAPTER XXXI THE SHANS OF THE BURMA BORDER An unfriendly chief--Honest natives--Houses at Nam-ka--Tattooing--Shan tribe--Dress CHAPTER XXXII PRISONERS OF WAR IN BURMA Y.B.A. The mythical Ma-li-ling--Across the frontier into Burma--The _mafus_ rebel--Ma-li-pa--Captain Clive--Guarding the border--Life at Ma-li-pa CHAPTER XXXIII HUNTING PEACOCKS ON THE SALWEEN RIVER The valley at Changlung--The ferry--Peacocks--The stalker stalked--Habits of peafowls CHAPTER XXXIV THE GIBBONS OF HO-MU-SHU Climbing out of the Salween Valley--A Shan village--Ho-mu-shu--Camping on a mountain pass--Gibbons--An exciting hunt and a narrow escape--Habits of the hoolock CHAPTER XXXV TENG-YUEH: A LINK WITH CIVILIZATION Tai-ping-pu--Flying squirrels--Lisos--A bat cave--Mail--Teng-yueh--Mr. Ralph Grierson--Tibetan bear cubs CHAPTER XXXVI A BIG GAME PARADISE Gorals at Hui-yao--Deer--Splendid hunts CHAPTER XXXVII SEROW AND SAMBUR Monkeys at Hui-yao--Muntjacs--A new serow--We move camp to Wa-tien--A fine sambur CHAPTER XXXVIII LAST DAYS IN CHINA Return to Teng-yueh--Packing the specimens--Results of the Expedition--On the road to Bhamo-- For instance, our American moose, the wapiti or elk, Rocky Mountain sheep, the so-called mountain goat, and other animals are probably of Central Asian origin. keywords: afternoon; animal; beautiful; birds; burma; caldwell; camp; caravan; chapter; china; chinese; city; day; days; distance; dogs; expedition; feet; find; forest; good; goral; grass; ground; half; heller; hill; hour; house; hunters; hunting; jungle; left; life; long; mammals; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; natives; new; night; o'clock; open; place; province; red; rice; river; road; rock; saw; serow; shot; snow; soldiers; species; temple; tiger; time; trail; traps; trees; valley; village; water; way; white; women; work; yards; yün cache: 12296.txt plain text: 12296.txt item: #21 of 425 id: 12344 author: Bredon, Juliet title: Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition date: None words: 38999 flesch: 67 summary: Sir Robert Hart, G.C.M.G._] SIR ROBERT HART _ M. Ferry received him very cordially, said he would be interested in hearing anything such an authority as Sir Robert Hart might have to say, but, all civilities aside, the matter rested with the Admiralty, and he would be obliged to refer it to them. keywords: away; british; business; china; chinese; city; course; customs; day; days; foreign; french; general; good; gordon; great; house; i.g; illustration; lay; left; life; man; matter; men; minister; negotiations; new; night; peking; people; robert hart; shanghai; sir; sir robert; thought; time; viceroy; way; work; world; years cache: 12344.txt plain text: 12344.txt item: #22 of 425 id: 12409 author: Halstead, Murat title: The Story of the Philippines Natural Riches, Industrial Resources, Statistics of Productions, Commerce and Population; The Laws, Habits, Customs, Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies and the Thousand Islands of the Archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, With Episodes of Their Early History; The Eldorado of the Orient; Personal Character Sketches of and Interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila; History and Romance, Tragedies and Traditions of our Pacific Possessions; Events of the War in the West with Spain, and the Conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico date: None words: 182716 flesch: 63 summary: In the above-mentioned renunciation or cession are comprised those rights of the crown of Spain and of its authorities over the archives and official registers, as well administrative as judicial, of said islands which refer to them and to the rights and properties of their inhabitants. They differ little from other Spanish-Americans, being fond of ease, courteous, and hospitable, and, as in other Spanish countries, the common people are illiterate, public education having been grievously neglected. keywords: = =; account; admiral; aguinaldo; american; arms; army; article; attack; august; battle; bay; capital; captain; case; cavite; chapter; chief; china; city; civil; coal; coast; command; commander; commanding; congress; cook; country; course; cuba; day; days; degrees; department; dewey; duty; earth; east; enemy; feet; filipinos; fire; following; force; form; general; general aguinaldo; gold; good; government; governor; great; guns; half; harbor; havana; head; high; history; home; hongkong; houses; infantry; inhabitants; insurgents; islands; juan; july; june; justice; left; lieutenant; life; line; long; luzon; major; making; manila; manila bay; merritt; miles; military; mountains; nation; natives; navy; near; new; north; number; officers; official; order; otis; pacific; peace; people; philippines; point; population; porto; position; possession; power; present; president; priests; property; province; public; rico; right; river; road; san; santiago; sea; senor; service; ships; shore; soldiers; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; time; town; treaty; troops; united states; vessels; war; washington; water; way; west; white; words; work; world; yards; years cache: 12409.txt plain text: 12409.txt item: #23 of 425 id: 12561 author: Pfeiffer, Ida title: A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy date: None words: 110314 flesch: 72 summary: With this exterior view the traveller is fain to be content; for the Turks are here much more fanatical than those in Constantinople and many other towns, so that an attempt to penetrate even into the courtyard would be unsuccessful; the intruder would run the risk of being assailed with a shower of stones. In the lanes near the church are booths like those at Maria Zell in Steiermark, and many other places of pilgrimage, where they sell wreaths of roses, shells of mother-of-pearl, crucifixes, etc. keywords: air; alexandria; appearance; beyrout; board; building; cairo; church; city; coffee; constantinople; convent; country; day; days; distance; evening; feet; form; good; grotto; half; heat; hill; horses; hours; house; jerusalem; journey; kind; lay; left; length; lies; little; man; marble; miles; morning; mount; mountains; night; number; o'clock; pass; people; pillars; place; plain; rest; river; road; rock; room; round; saw; sea; stone; streets; thing; time; town; traveller; trees; valley; view; walls; water; way; white; women cache: 12561.txt plain text: 12561.txt item: #24 of 425 id: 12617 author: Massey, Montague title: Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century date: None words: 29266 flesch: 67 summary: by Calcutta Phototype Co_ Old view of Government House, North aspect] Opposite to the hotel there used to be a very dirty and unsightly tank, quite different from all the other tanks in Chowringhee, which was eventually filled up, and the greater part of the ground thus reclaimed has been occupied by the Calcutta Tramways Co. for their Esplanade junction, and a small portion to the extreme west forms part of Lady Curzon's Garden. keywords: bank; bengal; buildings; calcutta; chowringhee; club; co.; corner; course; court; day; days; east; government; government house; hoffmann; hotel; house; house street; illustration; johnston; new; office; people; photo; place; premises; present; road; room; site; south; street; time; view; years cache: 12617.txt plain text: 12617.txt item: #25 of 425 id: 12635 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 86573 flesch: 71 summary: Not one real of said property has been lost. Thus he provided; and, under the said penalties, no one shall dare to give such, persons ships or conveyance by which they may leave, without said permission. keywords: account; artillery; borney; captain; china; chinese; city; country; day; de ribera; fleet; fort; francisco; galley; god; gold; good; governor; grace; indians; islands; juan; juan de; king; letter; limasancay; majesty; manila; men; mindanao; month; natives; notary; order; peace; people; port; present; river; royal; said; sande; ships; soldiers; spaniards; time; vessels; village; witness; witnesses; year cache: 12635.txt plain text: 12635.txt item: #26 of 425 id: 12679 author: Janes, Don Carlos title: A Trip Abroad An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan and the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs; To Which Are Appended a Brief Consideration of the Geography and History of Palestine, and a Chapter on Churches of Christ in Great Britain date: None words: 56282 flesch: 74 summary: By request of Mr. Thompson, I read the opening lesson and offered prayer, after which he delivered a good address on the great, coming day, and at the close the Lord's Supper was observed. At a later date the people became idolatrous, and Shalmaneser, an Assyrian king, reduced them to subjection, and carried numbers of them into Assyria, and replaced them with men from Babylon and other places. keywords: book; brethren; building; chapter; christ; church; city; country; day; days; end; english; feet; galilee; god; good; great; half; hand; hill; holy; home; house; jerusalem; jesus; jews; king; land; left; lord; man; meeting; men; miles; monument; new; night; palestine; people; place; rock; room; ruins; sea; stone; street; temple; time; unto; wall; water; way; work; world; years cache: 12679.txt plain text: 12679.txt item: #27 of 425 id: 12786 author: Gurdon, P. R. T. (Philip Richard Thornhagh) title: The Khasis date: None words: 93469 flesch: 76 summary: A large quantity of the bark of the tree _ka mynta_ and the creeper _u khariew_ is first brought to the river-side to a place on the stream a little above the pool which it is proposed to poison, where it is thoroughly beaten with sticks till the juice exudes and flows into the water, the juice being of a milky white colour. Usually the husband would be willing to live with his wife; but when the latter consents neither to live with her husband nor to accept a divorce, a difficult situation arises, and it is in the event of such a contingency happening that the necessity of assessing _ka mynrain_, or _ka thnem_ (compensation), occurs. keywords: account; ancestors; assam; ba u; ba'n; bad ka; bamboo; ban; baroh; body; bones; case; ceremonies; ceremony; cherrapunji; children; clan; cloth; country; custom; da u; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deceased; description; district; don; don ka; durbar; egg; family; father; female; fish; following; god; goddess; good; ground; ha u; haba ka; haba u; head; hills; house; husband; ia ka; ia u; jaintia; jaintia hills; jong; ka iawbei; ka iew; ka iing; ka la; ka long; ka por; ka pyrthei; ka ri; ka shnong; ka siem; ka sngi; ka wah; kaba; kata ka; kawei ka; khasi; ki khasi; kumta ka; kumta u; lah; lands; leit; lyngdoh; lynngams; man; marriage; means; memorial; mother; near; noh; number; people; person; place; plains; portion; present; property; red; rice; river; ruh; sacrifice; sha; shillong; spirit; state; stones; synteng; table; te u; thlen; thou; time; tree; tribes; u blei; u ka; u ki; u ksew; u kyllong; u la; u loh; u long; u lúm; u mawlong; u raitong; u siem; u symper; u u; uba; uta u; villages; wan; water; way; wife; women; word; worship; wár; years; ynda; ynda u cache: 12786.txt plain text: 12786.txt item: #28 of 425 id: 12820 author: Besant, Annie title: The Case for India date: None words: 18069 flesch: 59 summary: And, slowly, educated India sank back, depressed and disheartened, and a splendid opportunity for knitting together the two Nations was lost. Indian agriculturists are too poor, and are, moreover, too heavily indebted, to be able to apply any capital to land, and the result is that over the greater part of India agriculture is, as Sir James Caird pointed out more than twenty-five years ago, only a process of exhaustion of the soil. keywords: army; britain; british; country; education; empire; england; english; freedom; government; home; india; indians; life; lord; millions; nation; people; rule; self; system; time; war; years cache: 12820.txt plain text: 12820.txt item: #29 of 425 id: 12863 author: Holdsworth, T. W. E. title: Campaign of the Indus In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division date: None words: 53575 flesch: 64 summary: He has written his own life, which is said to be very interesting: I should think it must be so, as few men have experienced so many changes of fortune as he has. At other times of the year, I believe, the climate is very pleasant. keywords: 17th; army; artillery; bengal; bombay; cabool; camp; captain; country; day; enemy; general; ghuzni; ground; horse; indus; infantry; kelat; khan; left; letter; lieutenant; light; majesty; major; march; men; miles; native; officers; party; pass; place; rank; regiment; shah; sir; time; troops; way cache: 12863.txt plain text: 12863.txt item: #30 of 425 id: 12970 author: Willcox, Cornélis De Witt title: The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon date: None words: 55534 flesch: 69 summary: We looked at the rafts, bamboo platforms built over large _bancas_ (canoes, double-enders cut out of a single log), the bamboos being lashed together with _bejuco_ (rattan, the native substitute for nails), and decided that no self-respecting motor would stand such transportation, but would go to the bottom first by overturning. Indeed, the relations existing between _rancherías_ are nothing but our own system of high protection carried to a logical extreme by imposing a prohibitive tariff on heads! keywords: archipelago; bontok; case; chapter; constabulary; country; day; fact; feet; filipino; general; good; government; governor; ground; hand; head; highlanders; house; ifugao; igorot; independence; islands; left; man; matter; men; miles; morning; mountain; native; party; people; philippines; place; point; province; rest; rice; right; river; stream; thing; time; trail; valley; way; white; women; worcester; work cache: 12970.txt plain text: 12970.txt item: #31 of 425 id: 12976 author: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry) title: Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations date: None words: 77945 flesch: 74 summary: He was by far the most munificent patron of learning Assyria ever produced; in fact, he stands alone in this respect among Assyrian kings. We now know that long before the days of Abraham not only did Babylonian armies march to the shores of the Mediterranean, but that Canaan was a Babylonian province, and that Amraphel, the ally of Chedor-laomer, actually entitles himself king of it in one of his inscriptions. keywords: age; amon; army; asia; assur; assyrian; b.c; babylonian; bel; canaan; capital; cities; city; country; david; days; desert; dynasty; east; edom; egypt; egyptian; empire; gods; history; hittites; iii; israel; israelites; jerusalem; judah; king; kingdom; land; lord; men; merodach; north; northern; palestine; people; pharaoh; place; population; power; prince; race; sea; semitic; son; southern; thee; thou; throne; thy; time; tribes; war; western; world; years cache: 12976.txt plain text: 12976.txt item: #32 of 425 id: 12996 author: Aguinaldo, Emilio title: True Version of the Philippine Revolution date: None words: 14209 flesch: 46 summary: But now General Otis acted for the first time like a diplomatist, and wrote me, through his Secretary, Mr. Carman, a letter inviting the Filipino Government to send a Commission to meet an American Commission for the purpose of arriving at an amicable arrangement between both parties; and although I placed no trust in the professions of friendly intentions of the said General--whose determination to prevent the Commission arriving at a peaceful solution of the difficulties was already evident--I acceded to the request, partly because I saw the order, dated 9th January, given by the above mentioned General confirmed, and on the other hand to show before the whole world my manifest wishes for the conservation of peace and friendship with the United States, solemnly compacted with Admiral Dewey. I protested, therefore, against such a proclamation--also threatening an immediate rupture of friendly relations,--for the whole populace was claiming that an act of treason had been committed, plausibly asserting that the announcement of the Commission applied for by Admiral Dewey was a ruse, and that what General Otis was scheming for was to keep us quiet while he brought reinforcement after reinforcement from the United States for the purpose of crashing our untrained and badly equipped Army with one blow. keywords: admiral; admiral dewey; american; arms; commission; consul; filipinos; general; government; independence; manila; people; philippines; spaniards; spanish; states; troops; united; united states cache: 12996.txt plain text: 12996.txt item: #33 of 425 id: 13051 author: Silver, J. M. W. (Jacob Mortimer Wier) title: Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs date: None words: 14816 flesch: 56 summary: The sitting-apartments in Japanese houses are generally situated at the sides or back; and either open upon flower-beds, grounds of the above description, or some kind of enclosure, shaded by peach or pear-trees, trained trellis-fashion overhead; or by cedars, with one solitary bough twisting fantastically over the ground, showing, in its unnatural contortions, the skill of the artist, the other branches having been lopped off, or stunted, to facilitate the growth and training of this one. The first feature of Japanese life that prominently presents itself to the notice of the stranger, is the number of festivals and holidays held in honour of the various deities, warriors, and sages, or in accordance with some ancient custom of the county, which is as paramount an authority as the most stringent of its laws. keywords: chapter; children; country; daimio; drawing; family; fire; flowers; head; house; illustration; japanese; life; men; mikado; nature; people; place; public; state; tea; time; tycoon; way cache: 13051.txt plain text: 13051.txt item: #34 of 425 id: 13064 author: Gordon, Thomas Edward, Sir title: Persia Revisited date: None words: 42254 flesch: 60 summary: of the book; but just as I had finished it for publication, the sad news of the assassination of the Shah, Nasr-ed-Din, was received. I then saw that my book, to be complete, should touch on the present situation in Persia, and accordingly I added two chapters which deal with the new Shah and his brothers, and the Sadr Azem and the succession. keywords: --the; caspian; company; country; day; death; din; father; general; good; governor; horses; house; khan; king; late; life; line; man; manner; men; miles; minister; mirza; moullas; nasr; new; oil; people; persia; persians; place; position; power; present; prince; railway; road; royal; russian; shah; son; state; tehran; throne; time; trade; village; water; wine; years cache: 13064.txt plain text: 13064.txt item: #35 of 425 id: 13068 author: Aberigh-Mackay, George title: Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; and, the Teapot Series date: None words: 42914 flesch: 69 summary: How can the tons of gold and silver plate that once belonged to John Company, Bahadur, and that now repose on the groaning board of the Great Ornamental, amid a glory of Himalayan flowers, or blossoms from Eden's fields of asphodel, be reflected upon the eye's retina without producing positive thrills and vibrations of joy (that cannot be measured in terms of _ohm_ or _farad_) shooting up and down the spinal cord and into the most hidden seats of pleasure! To some eight or nine hundred murderers, robbers, and inferior delinquents he plays the part of _maître d'hôtel_ with infinite success. keywords: aberigh; agent; air; ali; ali baba; anglo; archdeacon; away; baba; baboo; baby; blue; book; chief; collector; colonel; commander; country; course; day; days; eurasian; eye; general; gold; good; government; governor; gryphon; hand; heart; high; home; india; late; life; light; little; lord; love; lytton; mackay; man; mind; mrs; native; nature; office; official; people; political; poor; present; raja; red; round; secretary; simla; sir; spirit; thought; time; vanity; viceroy; water; work; world; years cache: 13068.txt plain text: 13068.txt item: #36 of 425 id: 13120 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 84418 flesch: 61 summary: The despatch of the ships would cease, as well as the work in the shipyards, the defense of these islands, and the supply of aid to other islands, in accordance with his Majesty's commands. [Singapore], twenty-five leagues' distance from Malaca, and at the other almost to the Malucos and other islands, where a fabulous amount of cloves, pepper, and ginger is gathered, for there are whole mountains of these spices. keywords: account; affairs; aid; audiencia; bishop; captains; catholic; china; chinese; city; come; council; country; don; españa; father; felipe; god; good; governor; indians; islands; june; king; kingdom; letter; majesty; manila; matter; men; mexico; money; natives; nueva; number; order; pay; people; person; pesos; pirate; portuguese; present; president; religious; royal; second; service; ships; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; things; time; trade; vessels; year cache: 13120.txt plain text: 13120.txt item: #37 of 425 id: 13127 author: Meer Hasan Ali, Mrs. title: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society date: None words: 171755 flesch: 56 summary: [7] _Palki_, the common palanquin or litter; _chandol_, usually carried by four men at each end (a drawing representing one carried by twelve men will be found in N. Manucci, _Storia do Mogor_, iv. 32, and see ii. 76 f.;) _miyana_, a middle-sized litter out of which the type used by Europeans was developed; the Anglo-Indian 'dhooly', properly _duli_; the _rath_ is a kind of bullock-carriage, often with four wheels, used by women and by portly merchants. '--Manucci, _Storia do Mogor_, i. 107 f. keywords: ali; animal; articles; benefit; body; bride; bridegroom; character; children; city; classes; common; court; custom; daughter; day; days; death; dress; durweish; earth; emaum; english; faith; family; fast; father; fatima; feet; female; festival; fire; following; food; form; friends; fruit; god; gold; good; grass; ground; hadjee; hands; hasan; having; head; heart; hindoostaun; holy; home; honour; hosein; hour; house; husband; india; kind; king; ladies; lady; law; left; letter; life; lucknow; mahumud; mahurrum; man; marriage; meal; means; mecca; meer; men; mercy; mind; money; moon; morning; mother; mussulmaun; natives; nature; new; night; number; occasion; order; party; people; period; person; pilgrimage; place; power; practice; prayer; present; prophet; purpose; red; respect; saadie; season; second; servants; service; set; shah; silver; slaves; snake; society; state; stone; subject; syaad; things; thought; time; tomb; tree; view; visit; water; way; white; wife; women; work; world; years; zeenahnah cache: 13127.txt plain text: 13127.txt item: #38 of 425 id: 13128 author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage title: Corea or Cho-sen: The Land of the Morning Calm date: None words: 82341 flesch: 65 summary: People who spring up from nothing never are satisfied with what they possess, and it is always a pleasure to them to see other people suffering as they formerly did. As a hundred _cash_ is equivalent to one penny-halfpenny, to my mind, the verdict was a little severe, but, as there is no knowing what is good for other people, I remained a silent spectator. keywords: body; capital; case; chapter; children; chinese; cho; classes; corean; country; course; day; end; eyes; face; fact; family; feet; gate; good; ground; hair; half; hands; head; house; illustration; japanese; king; land; left; life; look; man; men; mind; money; morning; native; night; palace; people; point; position; royal; sen; seoul; soldiers; state; stone; streets; time; town; wall; water; way; white; women; work; year; young cache: 13128.txt plain text: 13128.txt item: #39 of 425 id: 13255 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 92843 flesch: 63 summary: Moreover, moved thereunto by our own accord, not at your instance nor the request of any one else in your regard, but wholly of our own largess and certain knowledge as well as fulness of our apostolic power, by the authority of Almighty God conferred upon us in blessed Peter and of the vicarship of Jesus Christ, which we hold on earth, in order that with greater readiness and heartiness you enter upon an undertaking of so lofty a character as has been entrusted to you by the graciousness of our apostolic favor, by tenor of these presents should any of said islands have been found by your envoys and captains, we do give, grant, and assign to you and your heirs and successors, kings of Castile and Leon, forever, together with all their dominions, cities, camps, places, and towns, as well as all rights, jurisdictions, and appurtenances, all islands and mainlands found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered towards the west and south, by drawing and establishing a line from the Arctic pole, namely the north, to the Antarctic pole, namely the south, no matter whether the said mainlands and islands are found and to be found in the direction of India or towards any other quarter, the said line to the west and south to be distant one hundred leagues from any of the islands commonly known as the _Azores_ and _ Moreover we make, appoint and depute you and your said heirs and successors owners of them with full and free power, authority, and jurisdiction of every kind; with this proviso however that through this gift, grant, and assignment of ours no right conferred on any Christian prince, who may be in actual possession of said islands and mainlands up to the said birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, is hereby to be considered as withdrawn or to be withdrawn. keywords: account; aforesaid; antonio; april; cape; case; castilla; catholic; christian; command; contract; council; day; days; de la; degrees; del; demarcation; deputies; distance; don; east; emperor; faith; fernando; fleet; following; general; good; half; history; indians; islands; juan; judges; king; kingdoms; las; leagues; letter; life; line; magalhães; magellan; maluco; manila; manner; matter; men; moluccas; natives; navarrete; new; north; number; officials; opinion; order; people; persons; philippines; place; point; portugal; portuguese; possession; power; present; purpose; queen; regard; right; san; sea; seas; set; ships; south; spain; spanish; spices; subjects; successors; things; time; trade; treaty; verde; voyage; way; west; whatsoever; wish; world; years; zúñiga cache: 13255.txt plain text: 13255.txt item: #40 of 425 id: 13280 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 91164 flesch: 65 summary: As the men of Luzon had put some earth within the cakes of wax that they had sold, in order to cheat us with it; and inasmuch as they, moreover, insisted that the natives should not give anything in exchange for any other kind of trade-goods, but only for _tostones_, and had uttered many lies and slanders against us--the soldiers said that this was sufficient to justify the war; and that the war would not be the cause of stirring up the natives, because the latter were not at all well-disposed toward the Moros. November 4, they have news that the Portuguese are fortified in other islands of the archipelago. keywords: account; andres; articles; camp; captain; cebú; chief; day; days; de la; de legazpi; documents; don; españa; expedition; fernando; fleet; food; fray; friendship; general; god; gold; good; governor; grace; indians; instructions; islands; juan de; king; legazpi; letter; lopez; lopez de; lord; majesty; master; men; mexico; miguel; natives; new; notary; order; peace; people; pero; philippines; portuguese; present; provisions; relation; return; riquel; royal; san; service; shall; ships; soldiers; spain; spaniards; spanish; things; time; trade; urdaneta; vessels; villalobos; voyage; war; way; year cache: 13280.txt plain text: 13280.txt item: #41 of 425 id: 13368 author: McKenzie, Fred A. (Fred Arthur) title: Korea's Fight for Freedom date: None words: 79723 flesch: 72 summary: Master, he said to me, Japanese man wanchee all Asia be one, with Japanese man topside. The old men, venerable and dignified, as Korean old men mostly are, the young wives, many with babes at their breasts, the sturdy men, had composed, if I could judge by what I saw, an exceptionally clean and peaceful community. keywords: american; army; authorities; case; children; chinese; christian; country; court; day; days; death; emperor; foreign; general; girls; good; government; house; independence; ito; japanese; kim; king; korea; koreans; land; left; man; men; military; minister; missionaries; missionary; new; number; office; official; palace; people; police; power; prisoners; public; queen; right; schools; seoul; soldiers; time; torture; troops; war; way; women; work; world; yang; years cache: 13368.txt plain text: 13368.txt item: #42 of 425 id: 13392 author: Fee, Mary H. (Mary Helen) title: A Woman's Impression of the Philippines date: None words: 75369 flesch: 71 summary: The _McClellan_ took away the troops of the Sixth Infantry and the Tenth Cavalry, and left us, in their stead, a detachment of the Ninth Cavalry, which remained perhaps two months, and was then stationed at Iloilo, leaving us with nothing but a troop of native _voluntarios_, or scouts, officered by Americans, and a small detachment of native constabulary. I thought only that the _Buford_ seemed very large (she is not large, however), that she was beautifully white and clean; and that I was delighted to be going away to foreign lands upon so fine a ship. keywords: american; army; black; body; boy; capiz; captain; cents; children; church; class; country; course; day; days; deck; end; english; family; filipino; fire; friends; general; girl; gold; good; government; green; half; hand; head; home; honolulu; hours; house; iloilo; islands; labor; land; left; life; look; love; manila; men; military; morning; native; new; night; people; philippines; place; present; public; race; real; river; romoldo; room; saw; school; sea; self; set; spanish; street; system; talk; teacher; things; thought; time; town; water; way; white; women; work; years; young cache: 13392.txt plain text: 13392.txt item: #43 of 425 id: 13420 author: Dingle, Edwin John title: Across China on Foot date: None words: 114049 flesch: 75 summary: Bad roads and good men_. At the present time, in the same city, many men would be willing to do a deal for any quantity you like for less than two tsien. keywords: author; away; boy; british; burma; capital; ch'uan; chao; chapter; children; china; chinese; city; country; course; day; days; death; earth; east; empire; end; english; european; eyes; face; fact; far; feet; fellow; food; footnote; foreigner; general; going; good; half; head; hill; house; illustration; inn; journey; language; left; life; little; long; main; man; matter; men; miao; miles; mission; morning; mountains; nature; new; night; nou; opium; people; place; point; province; rice; river; road; room; sun; szech'wan; t'ong; tali; tea; things; thought; time; tong; town; trade; traveler; valley; water; western; white; women; work; world; yangtze; years; yün cache: 13420.txt plain text: 13420.txt item: #44 of 425 id: 13468 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: The New Jerusalem date: None words: 93758 flesch: 67 summary: When the walls of the Holy City were overthrown for the glory of the German Emperor, it was hardly even for that everlasting glory which has been the vision and the temptation of great men. They are concerned with the things about which the only human sort of history is concerned; great memories of great men, great battles for great ideas, the love of brave people for beautiful places, and the faith by which the dead are alive. keywords: case; chapter; christian; church; city; civilisation; day; desert; east; eastern; empire; england; english; fact; feel; french; gate; god; good; great; greek; history; holy; human; impression; jerusalem; jews; land; man; matter; men; mind; moment; moslem; new; palestine; people; place; point; popular; problem; reason; religion; right; roman; round; sea; self; sense; snow; sort; story; talk; things; thought; time; town; truth; war; way; west; words; world; wrong; zionism cache: 13468.txt plain text: 13468.txt item: #45 of 425 id: 13552 author: Tennent, James Emerson, Sir title: Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 date: None words: 244593 flesch: 70 summary: [Footnote 3: [Greek: Argellia] pro [Greek: nargellia], from _narikela_, the Sanskrit, and _narghyl_, Arab, for the coco-nut palm. They are now busy of an evening eating the figs of _Ficus elastica_, of which we have a long avenue in the grounds, as I dare say you remember. keywords: a.d; account; adam; air; anarajapoora; anim; animals; appearance; arrival; asiat; attention; authority; b.c; bahu; beauty; belief; birds; black; blyth; body; books; branch; british; brother; buddha; buddhism; capital; centuries; century; ceylon; chap; chapter; character; chief; china; chinese; cinnamon; city; climate; close; coast; coco; colombo; colour; commerce; common; conch; construction; countries; country; cram; cultivation; cuv; day; days; death; des; description; dimensions; distance; ditto; dohrn; dutch; dutugaimunu; dynasty; early; earth; east; eastern; effect; elephants; end; english; epitome; european; evidence; exhibit; existence; extent; fabr; fact; faith; fall; fam; family; feet; fish; fishes; flowers; following; food; footnote; foreign; forests; form; fourth; fruit; galle; gems; general; gold; government; gray; great; greek; ground; guén; habits; hagen; half; hand; head; heat; hian; hills; history; hope; house; hübn; i. ch; i. p.; ibid; iii; illustration; inches; india; influence; information; inhabitants; insects; instances; interior; iron; irrigation; island; jaffna; journ; jungle; kandy; kelaart; king; kingdom; knowledge; labour; lam; lands; latr; layard; leach; leaves; length; level; lib; life; like; linn; list; literature; little; mahawanso; malabar; man; means; miles; modern; monog; monsoon; mountain; narrative; nat; national; natives; nature; near; new; niet; night; north; northern; number; nut; occasion; order; original; pali; palm; particular; parts; passage; peak; people; period; pfeiff; place; plains; plants; pliny; point; portion; portuguese; position; possession; power; practice; prakrama; present; priesthood; priests; proc; ptolemy; que; race; rain; rajaratnacari; rajavali; records; reeve; reign; religion; return; rice; rivers; rock; royal; sacred; sand; sea; search; season; second; shells; ships; shore; sidenote; singhalese; singular; sir; size; soc; soil; son; south; southern; sovereigns; species; state; steph; stone; subject; sun; surface; syst; system; tanks; temperature; temples; time; trade; translation; tree; trincomalie; turnour; upwards; use; v. p.; vert; vicinity; vii; vol; voyages; water; west; western; white; wijayo; wind; wlk; wood; work; worship; x. p.; years; yellow; zool cache: 13552.txt plain text: 13552.txt item: #46 of 425 id: 13616 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 80961 flesch: 71 summary: de arroz y vna gallina entiendese lo daran sin pesadunbre porla mucha abundançia q_e_ de todo tienen ay mucha jente, asi se entiende seran alg_o_s muy principales Repartimientos de mucha Renta. de su mag_d_. keywords: account; artillery; camp; captain; catholic; chief; china; chinese; city; coast; come; country; day; de legazpi; españa; felipe; fleet; fort; friendship; general; god; gold; good; governor; indians; island; juan de; june; king; leagues; left; legazpi; letter; lopez; lord; los; luzon; majesty; manila; master; men; miguel; mines; moros; natives; near; new; nueva; order; peace; people; portuguese; present; province; q_e; relation; return; river; royal; royal majesty; sea; service; set; ships; slaves; soldiers; spain; spaniards; spanish; things; time; town; trade; tribute; vessels; villages; war; year cache: 13616.txt plain text: 13616.txt item: #47 of 425 id: 13701 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 87769 flesch: 62 summary: The said Father Alonso Sanchez also reported that the need of ministers of instruction in the said islands is so great that many Indians die without baptism; that because of the same need, the conquest and conversion of other islands are neglected; and that it would be advisable to send religious from the orders established there, with instructions to remain there and not go elsewhere. Besides this island of Luzon, there are many other inhabited islands, situated close to it, within a circuit of one hundred leagues. keywords: account; audiencia; bishop; captain; case; china; chinese; city; country; decree; don; encomenderos; encomiendas; españa; god; good; governor; half; indians; instruction; islands; king; letter; majesty; manila; matter; ministers; natives; nueva; number; order; pay; people; persons; pesos; place; present; religious; royal; said; sangleys; service; ships; soldiers; spaniards; time; treasury; tributes; year cache: 13701.txt plain text: 13701.txt item: #48 of 425 id: 13742 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 83074 flesch: 68 summary: From that time the life-title of governor of said island shall be given to said Estevan Rodriguez de Figueroa, and to one son or heir. He enjoins upon me, the city, and the encomenderos to make every endeavor and use all diligence to supplicate your Majesty for said instruction. keywords: account; authority; belongs; bishop; captain; charge; chinese; city; collects; country; dasmariñas; don; encomenderos; encomienda; general; god; gomez; good; governor; hospital; indians; instruction; islands; juan; justice; king; letter; lordship; macan; majesty; manila; matter; means; ministers; money; natives; needs; number; opinion; order; people; perez; persons; place; present; question; religious; right; river; royal; service; souls; spaniards; things; time; trade; tributes; villages; war; witness; year cache: 13742.txt plain text: 13742.txt item: #49 of 425 id: 13746 author: Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry) title: Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter date: None words: 171780 flesch: 59 summary: The reader will observe that I have said that leaf disease may be reduced within practically speaking harmless limits if the coffee is judiciously shaded with good caste shade trees, and I would call particular attention to the term good caste trees, because bad caste shade trees will not control leaf disease. Borer is worst under bad kinds of shade trees, but can be controlled by good caste trees. keywords: account; animal; assembly; attention; bear; bull; bungalow; caste; cattle; chapter; close; coffee; coffee trees; coorg; country; course; crop; day; disease; doubt; effect; estate; experience; fact; falls; feet; find; following; forest; general; gold; good; government; ground; head; importance; india; instance; jungle; land; leaf; left; manager; manure; means; members; mention; miles; mysore; native; number; order; people; place; plantation; planters; plants; point; present; province; question; reader; regards; rupees; shade; shade trees; soil; subject; tiger; till; time; trees; use; value; view; water; way; western; work; years cache: 13746.txt plain text: 13746.txt item: #50 of 425 id: 13806 author: Knox, Thomas Wallace title: Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life date: None words: 191002 flesch: 74 summary: There are many good men among the priests of the Eastern church in Siberia, but it must also be admitted there are many bad ones. In the government of Yakutsk there are many horses that find their own living in winter as in summer. keywords: air; american; amoor; baggage; bank; boat; captain; chapter; character; chief; china; chinese; church; city; cold; company; country; course; custom; day; days; dinner; distance; dogs; dozen; emperor; end; english; exiles; feet; find; fire; fish; french; general; gentleman; gold; good; government; governor; ground; half; hand; head; hills; horses; hour; house; ice; illustration; irkutsk; journey; kiachta; kind; lake; land; left; life; line; making; man; men; merchants; miles; money; morning; mountains; natives; near; new; nicolayevsk; night; north; number; officers; party; people; petersburg; piece; place; point; population; post; present; ready; region; river; road; room; russian; saw; sea; second; service; ship; shore; siberia; sleigh; snow; station; steamer; summer; table; tea; telegraph; thought; time; town; trade; travel; traveler; trees; valley; versts; village; visit; water; way; winter; women; wood; work; years cache: 13806.txt plain text: 13806.txt item: #51 of 425 id: 13831 author: Gulick, Sidney Lewis title: Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic date: None words: 157797 flesch: 56 summary: In the final analysis, however, the causes which produce the characteristic features of Japanese social order are the real sources of the differentiating intellectual traits now characterizing the Japanese. Here is a serious side to Japanese religious life easily overlooked by a casual or unsympathetic observer. keywords: art; buddhism; characteristics; children; chinese; christian; christianity; civilization; conception; consciousness; day; development; education; emperor; evolution; fact; family; footnote; foreign; general; god; government; history; home; human; ideas; imperial; individual; individualism; japanese; lack; land; language; life; love; man; matter; mind; modern; nation; national; nature; new; new japan; occidental; order; oriental; people; personality; place; point; power; present; progress; question; race; real; reason; regard; religion; self; sense; shinto; social; society; study; system; thought; time; universal; use; view; way; west; western; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 13831.txt plain text: 13831.txt item: #52 of 425 id: 13940 author: Russell, Bertrand title: The Problem of China date: None words: 73240 flesch: 60 summary: But in modern China it is Japanese aggression that is the most urgent problem. But before passing to Japan, I will give a brief description of the social and political condition of modern China, without which Japan's action in China would be unintelligible. FOOTNOTES: keywords: america; british; china; chinese; civilization; conference; control; country; course; day; development; education; emperor; europe; european; fact; footnote; foreign; germany; good; government; great; history; japan; japanese; life; manchuria; means; military; modern; nations; new; peace; peking; people; policy; population; power; present; question; railway; religion; russia; shantung; state; system; time; treaty; view; war; washington; western; world; years cache: 13940.txt plain text: 13940.txt item: #53 of 425 id: 1409 author: Lowell, Percival title: The Soul of the Far East date: None words: 44246 flesch: 65 summary: The North American Indian tracks his foe through the forest by signs unrecognizable to a white man, and he reasons most astutely upon them, and still that very man turns out to be a mere child when put before problems a trifle out of his beaten path. For with most men the promptings of personal advantage only afford sufficient incentive to effort. keywords: art; case; civilization; day; eastern; effect; existence; fact; family; form; great; human; idea; imagination; impersonal; impersonality; individual; individuality; japanese; lies; life; love; man; matter; mind; nature; past; people; place; present; science; second; self; sense; soul; spirit; state; subject; thing; thought; time; way; world cache: 1409.txt plain text: 1409.txt item: #54 of 425 id: 14134 author: Garbe, Richard title: Akbar, Emperor of India A Picture of Life and Customs from the Sixteenth Century date: None words: 13504 flesch: 55 summary: [Footnote 3: From the literature on Emperor Akbar the following works deserve special mention: J. Talboys Wheeler, _ Akbarnâme_, Akbar Book, contains the complete history of Akbar's reign, whereas the second part, the _Aîn î Akbarî_, The Institutions of Akbar, gives a presentation of the political and religious constitution and administration of India under Akbar's reign. keywords: akbar; chân; court; day; emperor; emperor akbar; father; footnote; god; hindus; india; islam; man; men; mohammedan; noer; order; religion; son; time; ulemâs; years cache: 14134.txt plain text: 14134.txt item: #55 of 425 id: 14213 author: Foster, J. F. (John Frederick) title: Three Months of My Life date: None words: 26404 flesch: 74 summary: I can trace my route for to-morrow, for several miles, and I look at it with dismay as it ascends a terribly steep hill. All these bridges are alike and similar to the one described at Baramula, but this one is particularly pretty from the fact of large trees having grown from the lower part of every pier. keywords: august; bank; boat; bridge; day; distance; esq; feet; fine; fish; good; ground; guernsey; half; hill; jhelum; july; kashmir; lake; left; man; march; miles; morning; mountains; mrs; place; rain; regiment; river; road; time; trees; valley; view; water; way cache: 14213.txt plain text: 14213.txt item: #56 of 425 id: 14265 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 85217 flesch: 64 summary: It is my will that you be lieutenant-general of said governor and captain-general, with jurisdiction in affairs of government and war, to act as such; and, for the time that I may so desire, you shall exercise said offices in the affairs and cases which may arise in said islands, and relating to and bearing on them, in the fulness and manner exercised by former lieutenant-generals, and by him who at present fills that office in the provinces of Chile, in the affairs of government and war. The governor shall not appoint or have any other lieutenant; and in prosecuting, determining, and closing the cases which may occur, take place, or arise, in said islands, you shall proceed in the form and order which is contained and declared in the decree signed by my hand on the seventeenth day of the month of January of the present year, one thousand five hundred and ninety-three. keywords: account; antonio; captain; chief; chinese; city; country; dasmariñas; decree; desire; don; emperor; faranda; father; fray; general; god; good; governor; great; indians; islands; japanese; japon; juan; king; kingdom; letter; lord; majesty; manila; matter; men; ministers; natives; number; order; people; perez; place; present; royal; said; service; soldiers; spaniards; things; time; village; way; year cache: 14265.txt plain text: 14265.txt item: #57 of 425 id: 14266 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 85441 flesch: 65 summary: And if some of these men should go upon expeditions, or be given employment in other greater things, others will take their places and posts. Behind marched six companies of paid infantry, and many other people. keywords: account; affairs; audiencia; auditors; captain; china; chinese; city; country; day; don; españa; francisco; general; god; good; governor; hospital; indians; islands; joan; june; king; letter; lord; luis; majesty; manila; matter; men; money; natives; need; nueva; order; pay; people; persons; pesos; place; present; royal; service; ships; soldiers; spaniards; tello; things; time; way; year cache: 14266.txt plain text: 14266.txt item: #58 of 425 id: 14294 author: Morrison, John title: New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments date: None words: 61088 flesch: 63 summary: India_ are English words got from Greek; they are not Indian, terms at all, although they are coming into use among educated Indians.] Similarly certain elements of Christianity are commending themselves to new India, and certain others are failing to do so at this time. keywords: bengal; br[=a]hma; brahman; britain; british; calcutta; caste; century; christian; christianity; church; consciousness; doctrine; educated; education; english; feeling; footnote; god; government; great; hindu; hinduism; ideas; india; indians; jesus; life; like; mahomedans; man; marriage; men; mind; modern; national; native; new; pantheism; political; religion; report; salvation; sam[=a]j; sidenote; sin; social; society; thought; transmigration; women; world; years cache: 14294.txt plain text: 14294.txt item: #59 of 425 id: 14345 author: Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox) title: The Fight for the Republic in China date: None words: 153805 flesch: 55 summary: In short by severing diplomatic relations with Germany China has already incurred the ill-feelings of that country. C.C. WU Republican China inherited from imperial China the vast and rich territory of China Proper and its Dependencies, but the inheritance was by no means free from incumbrances as in the case of Outer Mongolia, Tibet and Manchuria, and other impediments in the form of unfavourable treaty obligations and a long list of outstanding foreign cases affecting sovereign and territorial rights. keywords: action; administration; affairs; agreement; army; art; article; capital; case; chang; china; chinese; chinese republic; citizens; constitution; council; country; day; days; demands; eastern; emperor; excellency; fact; following; force; foreign; form; future; general; germany; government; great; group; history; house; imperial; japanese; kai; kuo; law; li yuan; man; manchuria; matter; members; military; minister; monarchy; mongolia; national; note; office; order; outer; parliament; peace; peking; people; policy; position; power; present; president; president li; president yuan; province; question; railway; relations; representatives; republic; revolution; right; south china; state; system; throne; time; treaty; troops; view; war; way; world; years; yuan shih cache: 14345.txt plain text: 14345.txt item: #60 of 425 id: 14346 author: Knox, Robert title: An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape date: None words: 126122 flesch: 82 summary: After they have brought the Elephant which is not yet caught together with the She, into the Kings presence, if it likes him not, he commands to let him go; if it does, he appoints him some certain place near unto the City, where they are to drive him with the Females; for without them it is not possible to make him stay; and to keep him in that place until the Kings further order and pleasure is to catch him, which perhaps may not be in two or three or four Years; All which time there are great men with Souldiers appointed to watch there about him: and if he should chance to stray a little out of his bounds set by the King, immediately they bring him back fearing the Kings displeasure, which is no less than death The poorest sort have not above one room in their houses, few above two, unless they be great men. keywords: cande; captain; chap; chief; children; city; cloth; coming; concerning; corn; countrey; court; cut; day; days; death; dutch; elephants; english; god; gods; good; great; ground; hands; hath; home; honour; house; island; king; land; lay; leaves; let; little; man; manner; means; men; money; new; night; officers; order; parts; people; place; portugueze; present; read; rest; rice; river; self; service; soldiers; sorts; things; tho; thro; time; towns; tree; water; way; white; wild; women; woods; work; years cache: 14346.txt plain text: 14346.txt item: #61 of 425 id: 14405 author: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry) title: Patriarchal Palestine date: None words: 70642 flesch: 72 summary: There were other names by which Palestine and Syria were known to the early Babylonians, besides the general title of the land of the Amorites. The name of the god signified in the old pre-Semitic language of Chaldæa the lord of the upright horn, while it is worth notice that the names of the owner and his father are compounded simply with the word _ili_ or _el_, god, not with the name of any special divinity. keywords: abraham; age; amarna; amorites; babylonia; beth; canaan; canaanitish; cities; city; coast; country; cuneiform; days; dynasty; egyptian; fact; father; god; governor; hadad; hebrew; history; hittites; iii; jacob; jerusalem; king; land; language; letters; lord; mountain; names; northern; palestine; pharaoh; place; plain; ramses; sea; son; south; southern; syria; tablets; tel; temple; thothmes; thou; thy; time; tob; way; west; word; years cache: 14405.txt plain text: 14405.txt item: #62 of 425 id: 14660 author: Mabini, Apolinario title: Mabini's Decalogue for Filipinos date: None words: 1209 flesch: 67 summary: Thou shalt cultivate the special gifts which God has granted thee, working and studying according to thy ability, never leaving the path of righteousness and justice, in order to attain thy own perfection, by means whereof thou shalt contribute to the progress of humanity; thus; thou shalt fulfill the mission to which God has appointed thee in this life and by so doing, thou shalt be honored, and being honored, thou shalt glorify thy God. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: for God has imposed upon him, as well as upon thee, the obligation to help thee and not to do unto thee what he would not have thee do unto him; but if thy neighbor, failing in this sacred duty, attempt against thy life, thy liberty and thy interests, then thou shalt destroy and annihilate him for the supreme law of self-preservation prevails. keywords: god; mabini; thou cache: 14660.txt plain text: 14660.txt item: #63 of 425 id: 14685 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 84668 flesch: 59 summary: Therefore, if your Majesty pleases, you might order another notaryship sold in said island of Zubu. Accordingly, whatever may happen, both in order to resist him, and to prevent among these islands the possible effects to them and the vessels about to come from Castilla, it is very advisable and necessary to go, with all haste, in pursuit of said enemy, and to assure the safety of the vessels and the port of Cavite. keywords: account; act; admiral; aforesaid; antonio; audiencia; auditors; captain; city; command; court; day; doctor; don; enemy; españa; exchequer; father; flagship; fleet; francisco; general; governor; indians; islands; king; letter; majesty; manila; matter; mayor; men; morga; natives; nueva; officials; order; pedro; people; persons; pesos; philipinas; philipinas islands; present; president; royal; ship; tello; time; year cache: 14685.txt plain text: 14685.txt item: #64 of 425 id: 15022 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 88742 flesch: 64 summary: He had lived in the Filipinas almost ten years before he knew that some of the natives practiced polygamy, which was not a custom in Manila, Panay, and other islands where the Spaniards had long dwelt, but had some currency among the Visayans. The said president announced and declared that by letters received from the Portuguese viceroy of Yndia and from Andres Hurtado de Mendoça, and by the report of Captain Antonio de Brito Fogaca, and of Father Andres Pereyra of the Society of Jesus, who brought the letters, he had been informed that the said Andres Hurtado had come by order of his Majesty to get control of the Malucas Islands, which the kings thereof had usurped, and of other islands after the Hollanders had gained possession of them. keywords: account; acuña; affairs; aid; antonio; audiencia; baptism; captain; chapter; children; china; chinese; christian; church; city; country; day; days; death; don; españa; father; filipinas; fray; general; god; gold; good; governor; holy; house; indians; islands; jesus; juan; king; left; letter; lord; majesty; mandarins; manila; matter; men; merchandise; mexico; mindanao; money; new; nueva; number; order; pedro; people; persons; pesos; place; point; present; royal; sangleys; service; ships; society; spaniards; things; time; trade; vessels; village; way; year cache: 15022.txt plain text: 15022.txt item: #65 of 425 id: 15125 author: Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) title: The Awakening of China date: None words: 85066 flesch: 65 summary: Of the three brothers the first, Liu Pi, after a long struggle, succeeds in founding a state in western China. The story of the House of Chou is not to be disposed of in a few paragraphs, like the accounts of the preceding dynasties, because it was preëminently the formative period of ancient China; the age of her greatest sages, and the birthday of poetry and philosophy. keywords: act; american; books; british; canton; capital; century; chang; chapter; chief; china; chinese; chou; city; college; confucius; country; court; day; dowager; dynasty; education; emperor; empire; empress; foreigners; general; good; government; grand; half; history; house; hwang; imperial; influence; japan; japanese; land; law; life; man; manchus; minister; missionaries; missionary; nations; native; new; north; opium; page; peking; people; place; power; present; president; prince; province; reform; reign; river; russia; sea; son; south; state; throne; time; tse; university; viceroy; wall; war; way; western; work; world; yang; years cache: 15125.txt plain text: 15125.txt item: #66 of 425 id: 15157 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 94227 flesch: 68 summary: The apparel and clothing of these natives of Luzon before the entrance of the Spaniards into the country were generally, for the men, certain short collarless garments of _cangan_, sewed together in the front, and with short sleeves, and reaching slightly below the waist; some were blue and others black, while the chiefs had some red ones, called _chinanas_. [138] Báhay is house in Tagál; _pamamáhay_ is that which is in the interior and the house. keywords: account; acuña; arms; artillery; audiencia; captain; charge; chief; children; china; chinese; city; consequently; country; day; don; dutch; enemy; españa; expedition; father; filipinas; filipinas islands; fleet; food; fort; general; gold; government; governor; half; houses; indians; inhabitants; islands; japanese; japon; juan; king; left; leguas; luzon; majesty; maluco; manila; men; merchandise; morga; natives; nueva; number; order; pay; pedro; people; pesos; philippines; place; portuguese; present; provinces; religious; return; river; royal; sail; sangleys; sea; ships; slaves; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; ternate; time; trade; vessels; voyage; war; water; way; women; work; year cache: 15157.txt plain text: 15157.txt item: #67 of 425 id: 15184 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 87377 flesch: 60 summary: On the day of its foundation were assembled the royal Audiencia, [those who direct] the vacant Bishopric, the religious orders, and many other people of rank in this city. While one of our brethren was sojourning in an Indian village far from that city [of Manila], two incidents occurred whereby was seen and manifested the supernatural virtue of the holy _Agnus Dei_, so famed for many other great miracles. keywords: account; audiencia; baptism; chapter; children; chinese; christian; church; city; confession; day; days; death; desire; devotion; españa; faith; father; general; god; good; governor; holy; house; indians; islands; jesus; letter; lord; majesty; man; manila; means; men; mission; natives; number; order; people; persons; place; present; royal; sangleys; society; souls; spaniards; things; time; village; way; woman; year cache: 15184.txt plain text: 15184.txt item: #68 of 425 id: 15445 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 90232 flesch: 66 summary: Since the Chinese are very avaricious, it was regarded as certain that some vessels would come without fail, and the swift ones would arrive here much earlier than they ordinarily do in other years: but this did not happen, for it was the end of May before we had any news from China. Both these reports are discussed in the Council of State (September 7 and December 20, 1607), where complaint is made against the methods of the Jesuit missionaries in Japan; and the king is advised to allow religious from other orders to enter that field, and to prohibit trade from the Philippines to Japan, The king thereupon requests from Rome the revocation of the briefs obliging friars to go to Japan via India, and a new one placing this matter in Felipe's hands. keywords: account; acuña; audiencia; caliber; captain; chinese; city; come; command; council; country; decree; don; españa; expedition; fray; good; governor; indians; islands; japon; july; king; length; letter; libras; majesty; manila; matter; men; nueva; number; order; pay; pedro; people; persons; pesos; philipinas; port; province; religious; royal; sangleys; service; ships; soldiers; spaniards; time; trade; tuy; vessels; village; voyage; way; year cache: 15445.txt plain text: 15445.txt item: #69 of 425 id: 15483 author: Sleeman, William title: Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official date: None words: 306180 flesch: 68 summary: A letter of the author's, dated 13th March, 1809, is extant, in which he gives a full description of the performance of _Macbeth_ at the Haymarket by Kemble and Mrs. Siddons on Saturday, 11th March. Rep. A.S., India_, 1910-11, pp. keywords: a.d; agra; akbar; ante; army; author; bengal; book; british; brother; building; bundêlkhand; bêgam; calcutta; capital; caste; central; chapter; character; chief; children; city; civil; colonel; country; course; court; daughter; day; days; death; delhi; district; doubt; duties; duty; dîn; east; edition; emperor; end; english; establishments; european; families; family; father; feeling; feet; fine; form; friend; ganges; general; gentleman; god; good; government; governor; great; ground; gwâlior; half; having; head; hills; hindoo; history; hope; house; husband; india; jahân; jubbulpore; khân; kind; king; lake; land; law; left; life; little; lord; magistrate; man; marble; means; members; miles; military; mother; muhammadan; native; nawâb; near; nerbudda; new; north; note; number; officers; order; oudh; parts; pay; people; person; place; police; poor; population; power; present; prince; property; provinces; public; range; rank; regiment; reign; rent; rest; return; revenue; right; river; road; rule; rupees; râjâ; sandstone; servants; service; set; shâh; singh; sir; sleeman; society; soil; soldiers; son; sons; south; spirit; state; stone; subject; system; sâgar; territories; text; thought; time; tomb; town; trees; troops; truth; village; visit; vol; war; water; way; west; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 15483.txt plain text: 15483.txt item: #70 of 425 id: 15530 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 85468 flesch: 64 summary: [The following laws are translated from _Recopilación de leyes_, lib. [20] The following law was passed at Lerma July 23, 1605; and at Madrid December 19, 1618, and is found in _Recopilación de leyes_, lib. keywords: account; april; archbishop; audiencia; august; captain; charge; chinese; church; city; college; confession; convent; day; days; death; december; don; dutch; enemy; españa; expedition; father; felipe; filipinas; fleet; general; god; good; government; governor; great; iii; indians; interim; islands; juan; juan de; july; june; king; law; letter; madrid; majesty; manila; march; men; ministers; nueva; number; order; persons; philippines; province; provincial; religious; royal; san; september; ships; silva; soldiers; spanish; term; time; trade; tributes; vessels; village; visitas; voyage; work; year cache: 15530.txt plain text: 15530.txt item: #71 of 425 id: 15564 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 96549 flesch: 66 summary: These are: Leyte, Çamar, Ybabao, Bohol, and many other islands of lesser importance, besides that part of the island of Mindanao opposite Zubu which was formerly at peace--that is, all the country along the Butuan River, forty leguas from Zubu, and the coasts of Surigao, Dapitan, and Caragas, a little further from Zubu. Now it has none, because six galleons were sent to other islands in order that the injuries that they had received in the late battle might be repaired. keywords: account; audiencia; captain; china; chinese; city; country; don; dutch; enemy; españa; filipinas; fleet; galleons; galleys; general; god; good; governor; highness; hollanders; importance; indians; islands; item; japon; juan; juan de; king; little; majesty; manila; matter; men; money; natives; need; nueva; nueva españa; order; pedro; people; persons; pesos; place; port; portuguese; present; province; religious; royal; said; service; ships; soldiers; things; time; trade; treasury; vessels; voyage; war; way; year cache: 15564.txt plain text: 15564.txt item: #72 of 425 id: 15586 author: Chirol, Valentine, Sir title: India, Old and New date: None words: 109228 flesch: 42 summary: I have to express my thanks to the proprietors of _The Times_ for allowing me to use some of the letters which I wrote for that paper whilst I was in India last winter, and also to the Royal Society of Arts for permission to reproduce the main portions of a lecture delivered by me last year on Hinduism as the first of the Memorial Lectures instituted in honour of the late Sir George Birdwood, to whom I owe as much for the deeper understanding which he gave me of old India as I do to the late Mr. G.K. Gokhale for the clearer insight I gained from him into the spirit of new India whilst we were colleagues from 1912 to 1915 on the Royal Commission on Indian Public Services. The continuous roar of traffic in the busy streets, the crowded tram-cars, the motors and taxis jostling the ancient bullock-carts, the surging crowds in the semi-Europeanised native quarters, even the pall of smoke that tells of many modern industrial activities are not quite so characteristic of new India as, when I was last there, the sandwich-men with boards inviting a vote for this or that candidate in the elections to the new Indian Councils. keywords: act; administration; authority; bengal; bombay; brahman; british india; calcutta; caste; civilisation; classes; committee; congress; control; council; country; day; delhi; east india; educated; education; empire; european; extremists; forces; gandhi; general; good; government; great; hindu; hinduism; india; india company; indian national; indians; influence; interests; king; land; law; life; like; lord; mahomedan; majority; members; movement; national; new; new india; non; operation; people; place; policy; population; power; present; public; punjab; reforms; report; right; rule; rulers; self; sir; southern india; spirit; state; system; time; viceroy; war; way; western; work; world; years cache: 15586.txt plain text: 15586.txt item: #73 of 425 id: 15658 author: Zwemer, Amy E. title: Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children date: None words: 24492 flesch: 83 summary: If you are faithful and true, always shining for Jesus, your bright light will reach as far as dark Arabia, and will help to turn that land of Topsy-turvy right side up. I think dearly all of them were happier at home in Africa than in dark Arabia. keywords: arabia; arabs; boat; book; boys; children; coffee; country; date; day; desert; girls; god; illustration; jesus; land; love; men; mohammed; moslem; people; picture; place; time; tree; water; way; women; work; world; year cache: 15658.txt plain text: 15658.txt item: #74 of 425 id: 15729 author: Dubnow, Simon title: History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825-1894) date: None words: 126470 flesch: 53 summary: Before the young generation which entered upon active life in the eighties lay the broken tablets of Russian Jewish literature. [1] The rank and file of the Russian Jewish intellectuals, who formed the backbone of the reading public of this press, became indifferent to it. keywords: alexander; anti; authorities; beginning; case; children; christian; city; civil; commission; committee; conscription; council; country; day; effect; emigration; enlightenment; expulsion; fact; following; footnote; form; general; government; governor; hebrew; interior; jewish; jewry; jews; judaism; kiev; law; laws; life; masses; means; measures; members; military; minister; moscow; movement; national; new; nicholas; number; official; order; outside; pale; people; period; petersburg; place; pogrom; poland; police; polish; population; press; public; question; rabbi; residence; right; russian; russian jewry; schools; service; settlement; state; time; town; tzar; ukase; view; vilna; vol; warsaw; way; western; years cache: 15729.txt plain text: 15729.txt item: #75 of 425 id: 15921 author: Raisin, Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) title: The Haskalah Movement in Russia date: None words: 75263 flesch: 63 summary: The Jews of Odessa were, therefore, more cultured than other Russian Jews, not excepting those of Riga. To this day Yiddish has continued an important medium for disseminating culture among Russian Jews, both in the Old World and in the New.[37] The century remarkable among other things for encyclopedia enterprises,--_Chambers' Encyclopedia_ in England, the _Universal Lexicon_ in Germany, and that wonderful and monumental work, the _Encyclopédie_ in France--saw, before its close, a similar attempt, in miniature, in Hebrew and by a Slavonic Maskil. keywords: abraham; alexander; author; ben; berlin; books; cause; century; children; cit; civilization; country; czar; day; days; doctor; education; efforts; enlightenment; footnote; gaon; german; god; good; government; günzburg; haskalah; hayyim; hebrew; history; iii; isaac; israel; jacob; jewish; jews; joseph; judaism; knowledge; language; law; learning; levinsohn; life; lilienthal; literature; little; love; maimon; maskilim; means; mendelssohn; moses; movement; new; nicholas; number; odessa; people; period; petersburg; physician; place; poland; polish; public; rabbi; religion; russian; russo; says; schools; self; slavonic; society; solomon; students; study; talmud; talmudist; time; university; vilna; warsaw; work; world; years cache: 15921.txt plain text: 15921.txt item: #76 of 425 id: 16086 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 88540 flesch: 65 summary: There are many other islands, and from there to the Malucos it must be about eighty leguas. Since a proper remedy for what happened at the port of Capulco, which I am bound to suggest to your Majesty, and for many other matters concerning your royal service, cannot be suggested in this place, I shall give it in other memorials. keywords: account; audiencia; captain; cause; china; chinese; city; cost; country; don; dutch; enemy; españa; filipinas; fleet; galleys; general; god; good; government; governor; indians; islands; japon; juan; king; letter; lord; majesty; maluco; manila; matter; men; money; note; nueva; order; pay; people; persons; pesos; place; present; regard; religious; royal; service; ships; silva; taes; things; time; trade; vessels; war; way; worth; year cache: 16086.txt plain text: 16086.txt item: #77 of 425 id: 16133 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 85089 flesch: 62 summary: But this they do, thinking that they comply with your Majesty's said order by clothing those said religious of the cloth in the shabby habit of the discalced religious, in order to pass over here--whereby your Majesty's royal will is defrauded and your royal officials at your ports deceived. Notwithstanding that there were not wanting some here who doubted the truth of those despatches from Japon, yet the governor, being so anxious for your Majesty's service, began to prepare and furnish all that was necessary for the repair of the vessels stationed in the port of Cavite, and many other things that had need of repair. keywords: account; archbishop; audiencia; auditors; charge; church; city; country; don; dutch; enemy; españa; general; god; good; governor; half; holy; indians; islands; juan; juan de; king; letter; licentiate; majesty; manila; matter; men; messa; mines; natives; nueva; number; office; order; ore; persons; place; present; province; quicksilver; reason; religious; royal; service; ships; soldiers; souls; things; time; way; year cache: 16133.txt plain text: 16133.txt item: #78 of 425 id: 16142 author: Dulles, John Foster title: The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area date: None words: 4754 flesch: 66 summary: If your letter to me is not merely a vehicle for one-sided denunciation of United States actions but is indeed intended to reflect a desire to find a common language for peace, I suggest you urge these leaders to discontinue their military operations and to turn to a policy of peaceful settlement of the Taiwan dispute. So aggression by ruthless despots again imposes a clear danger to the United States and to the free world. keywords: communists; force; formosa; states; united; united states cache: 16142.txt plain text: 16142.txt item: #79 of 425 id: 16203 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 87662 flesch: 60 summary: Reverend father in Christ, bishop of the city of Antequera, of the valley of Huajaca, of Nueva España, and member of my council: Inasmuch as I have heard that the religious who reside in those regions, busied in the instruction and conversion of the Indians, give out that it is a cause of great disquiet and uneasiness to them for you to send to visit them, in regard to curacies, by clerics or religious of other orders; and as it is advisable to avoid all occasions that may divert them from their chief end, especially since (as they say) There died most happily father Fray Juan de San Augustin, a son of the province of Castilla. keywords: archbishop; audiencia; chapter; charge; church; city; convent; conversion; council; de la; de san; death; decree; discalced; don; españa; faith; father; father fray; following; fray; general; god; good; gospel; governor; holy; house; indians; islands; juan de; king; life; little; lord; majesty; manila; manner; matter; men; miguel; ministers; missionaries; missions; natives; new; number; order; pedro; people; persons; place; province; provincial; regard; religious; royal; service; souls; things; time; village; visit; year cache: 16203.txt plain text: 16203.txt item: #80 of 425 id: 16226 author: Oliphant, Laurence title: A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with the Camp of Jung Bahadoor Including a Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home date: None words: 54229 flesch: 50 summary: So fine a chance for an adventurous spirit to push his fortune at court was not to be lost, and once more bidding adieu to the dull out-station at which he was posted, to the constraint of discipline and to the grumblings of the old martinet, his father, he followed the example of many great men before him, and betook himself to the capital, thinking it the only place in which his talents could be appreciated. We had not on this occasion walked a whole day over Nepaul roads, as was the case when last we dined with Jung; consequently, when his feast was set before us, we did not do justice to it. keywords: appearance; bahadoor; british; camp; chapter; city; country; court; day; durbar; elephant; england; feet; government; hills; house; india; journey; jung; jung bahadoor; katmandu; king; left; life; majesty; man; manner; means; men; miles; minister; nepaul; nepaulese; night; palace; position; present; prime; rajah; road; round; scene; singh; square; temple; time; town; valley; view; visit; way cache: 16226.txt plain text: 16226.txt item: #81 of 425 id: 16297 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 88216 flesch: 65 summary: Governor Don Juan de Silva, having conquered on the coasts of Filipinas the fleet of the Dutch who were robbing the Chinese in the year 610, it was learned from the instructions of Count Mauricio that they were forbidden to plunder the Chinese and other nations, and that they were only permitted to trade with them. He was present with Governor Don Juan de Silva in the fleet which the latter took to the strait of Sincapura; and afterward was likewise in that of General Don Juan Ronquillo, who fought against the said Dutch at the said Playa Honda, he being present on the admiral's galley. keywords: account; aid; audiencia; captain; china; chinese; city; commander; country; de silva; decree; don; don juan; dutch; enemy; españa; father; fernando; fernando de; filipinas; fleet; fort; general; government; governor; governor don; hermosa; indians; islands; japon; juan; juan de; king; kingdom; letter; majesty; manila; margin; matter; mayor; men; natives; nueva; offices; order; pay; person; pesos; port; present; religious; royal; service; ships; spaniards; spanish; time; trade; treasury; year cache: 16297.txt plain text: 16297.txt item: #82 of 425 id: 16407 author: Allan, James title: Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War date: None words: 27720 flesch: 72 summary: We were, however, close to the entrance of the port, which being defended by torpedoes and mines, we ran little risk of encountering Japanese vessels, although the submarine dangers threatened us as well, if we strayed from the deep-water channel in the dark. I found myself surrounded by Chinese soldiers, who plied me with questions, which I could not have answered even if I had understood Chinese. keywords: arthur; board; boat; chinese; chubb; close; course; day; deck; feet; fire; good; got; half; japanese; junk; man; men; night; north; place; port; round; sea; ship; soldiers; time; town; vessel; war; water cache: 16407.txt plain text: 16407.txt item: #83 of 425 id: 16444 author: Chirol, Valentine, Sir title: Indian Unrest date: None words: 129432 flesch: 51 summary: It is not, after all, in British India (i.e., in that part of India which we directly administer) that the Brahmanical and reactionary character of Indian unrest, at any rate in the Deccan, can best be studied. Hence they set in motion against him, the descendant of Shivaji, in his own State, exactly the same machinery of agitation and conspiracy which they have set in motion against British rule in British India. keywords: administration; agitation; bengal; bombay; boycott; brahmans; british india; calcutta; caste; character; classes; conditions; congress; council; country; day; deccan; education; empire; england; english; englishmen; european; fact; form; general; good; government; great; hand; hindu; hinduism; imperial; india; indian national; indians; influence; interests; life; lord; mahomedans; means; members; methods; movement; murder; native; new; number; official; order; people; poona; population; position; power; present; press; public; punjab; question; regard; relations; rule; schools; secretary; self; service; sir; social; society; southern india; state; students; system; tilak; time; unrest; viceroy; view; way; western; work; years; young cache: 16444.txt plain text: 16444.txt item: #84 of 425 id: 16451 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 83337 flesch: 69 summary: Without any doubt, the Filipinas are the best suited for this purpose, as they are near great China, and not far from Japón, Siam, and Camboja, while even the land of India is said to be within sight; and the islands are surrounded by an infinite number of other islands, inhabited by immense multitudes of people. Many tongues are spoken in them, for there are many islands and many villages, and there is hardly a village that has not its own dialect. keywords: account; act; audiencia; captain; charge; chief; church; city; commander; convent; council; country; diego; don; españa; father; fernando; filipinas; fiscal; fray; general; good; government; governor; house; indians; inhabitants; islands; juan; king; leguas; letter; lord; majesty; manila; matter; men; natives; nueva; order; people; place; present; province; provincial; reason; regard; religious; return; river; royal; ships; spaniards; time; urdaneta; village; year cache: 16451.txt plain text: 16451.txt item: #85 of 425 id: 16501 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 83909 flesch: 69 summary: Vn escriuano publico y del cauildo los Regidores son perpetuos el alguaçil mayor por el tiempo qe lo fuere el alcalde mayor el escriuano como es poblacon nueua y ay pocos pleytos no tiene proueçhos sino es de los pleytos de los yndios porqe sale a visitar fuera con el alcalde mayor y de otras comisiones qe se le cometen a la justiçia tiene la villa de juridiçion tres leguas en çircuyto de la diçha villa no tiene proprios.--las principales poblaçones desta ysla son las siguientes El pueblo de oton junto a la villa El pueblo de ticbaguan-- El Rio de jaro.-- El Rio de yvahay-- El Rio de ajuy.-- El Rio de harahut El Rio de panay El Rio de aclan El Pueblo de antiqe El Pueblo de bugason y otros de menos Cantidad, tiene El alcalde mayor de salario treçientos pesos librados en las penas de camara y si no alcançare en la Real caxa cobra por comission del goueror y de los ofiçiales Reales los tributos qe perteneçen a su magd en aquella ysla. y desde entonçes se quitan las mantas blancas y las argollas de bejucos de los braços y de la gar ganta y desde entonçes se quitan el luto y comen aRoz y se ponen oro. keywords: account; alcalde; aroz y; audiencia; auditors; box y; cantidad de; cases; chief; circumference; city; command; commissary; como; como los; con; con la; con los; country; de alli; de ançho; de aquel; de areualo; de aroz; de box; de cagayan; de la; de legazpi; de loarca; de los; de manilla; de oro; de panay; de paz; de ribera; de salario; de salazar; de su; de suerte; de todas; de todo; de vicor; de vn; de çircuyto; de çubu; del; demasia de; diçen qe; domingo de; dos; el rio; en el; en la; en los; encomendero; encomienda de; es de; esta; esta el; esta la; esta ysla; fees; gabriel de; gente de; god; gold; good; governor; holy; hombres; indians; island; item; jurisdiction; la encomienda; la gente; la mar; la mayor; la muger; la otra; la tierra; la villa; la ysla; la çiudad; laguna de; las; leagues; leguas de; leguas y; les; llaman de; los qe; majesty; manera de; mas de; mayor de; men; miguel de; mil y; moros; muy; natives; office; officials; order; oro y; otro; panay; panay y; para; pay; penalty; people; person; pesos; pesos de; pintados; poblaçon de; population; por el; por la; president; prouinçia de; province; pte de; pueblo de; punta de; qe ay; qe de; qe el; qe esta; qe la; qe llaman; qe por; qe se; qe terna; qe tienen; quando; que; ques; ques de; rice; rio de; river; royal; si el; slaves; son de; son los; spaniards; sus; tiene de; tienen; time; todos; town; tres; valle de; villa de; villages; vna; y al; y ansi; y de; y el; y en; y es; y esta; y la; y le; y los; y mas; y otros; y por; y qe; y se; y si; y son; y su; y tiene; y vna; y çinquenta; year; yndios; yndios de; yndios y; ysla de; ysla y; yslas; çiudad de cache: 16501.txt plain text: 16501.txt item: #86 of 425 id: 16528 author: Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl title: Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief date: None words: 305880 flesch: 57 summary: Fortunately for India, there were good men and true at Peshawar in those days, when hesitation and irresolution would have been fatal, and it is worthy of note that they were comparatively young men--Edwardes was thirty-seven, Nicholson thirty-five; Neville Chamberlain, the distinguished Commandant of the Punjab Frontier Force (who was hastily summoned from Kohat, where he happened to be on his tour of inspection), was thirty-seven; and the Brigadier, Sydney Cotton, though much older, being sixty-five, was not only exceptionally young for his years and full of energy and intelligence, but actually much younger than the average of General officers commanding stations in India. At the same time, the matter having been brought to my notice by Lord Lytton, and bearing in my mind that my father had told me one of the chief causes of the outbreak in Kabul in 1841 was the Afghans' jealousy of their women, and resentment at the European soldiers' intimacy with them, I thought it well to impress upon all the necessity for caution in this respect by publishing the following Order: 'Sir Frederick Roberts desires General officers, and officers commanding corps, to impress upon all officers under their command the necessity for constant vigilance in preventing irregularities likely to arouse the personal jealousies of the people of Kabul, who are, of all races, most susceptible as regards their women. keywords: 1st; 2nd; action; advance; afghanistan; afghans; ali; amir; army; artillery; attack; battery; bengal; body; brigade; brigadier; british; calcutta; camp; captain; cavalry; cawnpore; chamberlain; chapter; charge; chief; city; close; colin; colonel; column; command; commander; communication; country; day; days; delay; delhi; direction; duty; end; enemy; england; european; excellency; field; fire; following; footnote; force; fort; frontier; g.c.b; general; general sir; good; government; governor; ground; guard; guns; gurkhas; half; head; heavy; highlanders; highness; hills; hope; horse; india; infantry; john; kabul; kandahar; khan; lawrence; leave; left; letter; lieutenant; life; line; lord; loss; lucknow; mahomed; majesty; major; march; men; miles; military; moment; morning; mountain; mutiny; native; news; nicholson; number; object; officers; open; order; party; pass; people; peshawar; place; point; position; power; present; punjab; rahman; rebels; regiment; return; right; river; road; russia; sepoys; service; sher; simla; sir; soldiers; staff; state; stewart; strength; thought; time; transport; troops; viceroy; way; wife; work; wounded; yakub; years; | | cache: 16528.txt plain text: 16528.txt item: #87 of 425 id: 16768 author: Marsden, William title: The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants date: None words: 199240 flesch: 63 summary: When on a former occasion it was asserted (and with too much confidence) that the name of Sumatra is unknown to the natives, who are ignorant of its being an island, and have no general name for it, the expression ought to have been confined to those natives with whom I had an opportunity of conversing, in the southern part of the west coast, where much genuineness of manners prevails, with little of the spirit of commercial enterprise or communication with other countries. Comparatively with the descriptions I have read of earthquakes in South America, Calabria, and other countries, those which happen in Sumatra are generally very slight; and the usual manner of building renders them but little formidable to the natives. keywords: account; achin; appearance; article; authority; bamboo; bencoolen; body; case; character; chiefs; children; circumstances; coast; common; company; consequence; countries; country; country people; course; customs; day; days; death; degree; description; distance; district; dollars; dutch; earth; east; eastern; effect; english; europeans; family; father; feet; fine; footnote; force; form; fruit; general; gold; good; government; great; ground; half; hand; having; head; house; inches; india; influence; inhabitants; island; java; jujur; kind; king; kingdom; language; laws; leaves; length; malacca; malayan; malays; man; manner; marriage; means; men; menangkabau; moco; mode; natives; nature; night; north; number; occasion; order; original; parts; pay; people; pepper; period; person; place; plant; point; portuguese; possession; power; practice; present; principal; produce; property; proportion; pulo; purpose; quantity; raja; red; respect; rice; river; sea; second; situation; size; soil; sort; south; species; state; subject; sultan; sumatra; sumatrans; superior; time; trade; transactions; tree; use; variety; water; west; western; white; wife; women; wood; work; years; young cache: 16768.txt plain text: 16768.txt item: #88 of 425 id: 16808 author: Younghusband, G. J. (George John) title: The Story of the Guides date: None words: 51976 flesch: 66 summary: With Lumsden at Lahore, 16 At Nuroat, 27-8 Commands Guides, 46 At Bori, 47-50 General References to, 186 Hodson bastion, 187 Home Farm, 193 Horse-artillery, 123 Hôti-Mardan Fort, 186 Hussars, 10th, 123 Hutchinson, Bob, 191 I Indus, the, 94 Irregular cavalry, 2nd, 28 Irregular cavalry, 10th, 65 J James, Mr., of Survey Department, 40 Jandul River, 166 Jehangira, Village of, 54 Jellalabad, 123, 124, 127 Jemadar, 108 Jenkins, Col. Sir Francis, 87, 119-122, 127, 132-3, 137, 143 Jenkins, Mr. W., at Kabul, 99-116, 192 Jewand Sing, 109 Jhelum, 69 Jugdullak Pass, 127 Juma of the bhisti, 54 K Kabul, British Embassy at, 98 Massacre of Embassy Guard, 102-116 Memorial to Embassy Guard, 171 Kàlu Khan, 6 Kamoké, 70 Kandahar, 117 Karachi, 144 Karnal, 67, 71 Kelly, Col., 161 Kelly, Surgeon A.H., at Kabul, 99-116, 192 Keyes, Charlie, 194 Keyes, Sir Charles, in command of Guides, 88, 192 Khanan Khan, 21 Khan Singh, General of Sikhs, 14-16 Khar, 174, 179 Khyber Pass, 119, 135 King's Own Scottish Borderers, 168 Kipling, Rudyard, his poem on Gunga Din, 53 Kutlgar, the, 91 L Lahore, 3, 32, 70 Landaki, action of, 182 Lataband Pass, 127 Lawrence, Lord, 50, 69, 82 Lawrence, Col. George, in Peshawur, 9, 12 Lawrence, Sir Henry, founds the Guides, 1-5 Ruler of the Punjab, 12 Le Bas, Mr., 72 Lewis, Lt., 80 Lhassa, 194 Lockhart, Lt., 176 Low, Robert, Sir, 161, 165, 170 Ludhiana, 71 Lumsden, Harry, General, raises the Corps of Guides, 4 Captures Mughdara, 7 At Lahore, 14-17 At Mooltan, 22-26 At Nuroat, 27-8 His choice of men, 51-3 And Dilawur Khan, 55-9 And Waziris, 78-9 Transferred from Guides, 81 Tribute to his qualities, 81-3 References to, 10, 21, 87, 186, 189, 193 Lundkwar Valley, the, 9 Lyell, Dr. R., of the Guides, 48 M Macgregor, Sir Charles, his tribute to the Guides, 97 Maclean, H. Lt., 177, 184, 193 Macpherson, Gen., 134 McQueen, Sir John, 192 Maharani (the) of the Punjab, revolt of, 13-17 Malakand, the, 162, 172-184 Malandrai, 191 Mandra, 69 Maps, the objections of the natives to surveying, 40, 155 Mardan, 40, 65, 67, 115, 125, 171 Daily life at, 194-5 Meerut, 65, 71 Mehtab Sing, 108 Meiklejohn, Col., 175-8 Metcalfe, Sir Theophilus, 72 Mihna, 70 Minchin, Lt., 174, 179 Mohaindin, 22 Monastery picquet, the, 88 Mooltan, fighting round, 19-30 Mounted Police, 65 Mughdara, village of, captured by Guides, 7 Mullah Abdullah, 87 Mulraj, the Diwan revolts, 18-19 Defeated by Herbert Edwardes, 21 Surrenders, 26 Mundah, 171 Mutiny, the Guides in the, 65-75 N Naik, the, 10 Napier of Magdala, Lord, 50 Native Infantry, 14th, 89 Native Infantry, 55th, 65, 191 Native soldiers, their devotion to our English Officers, 82-6, 114, 125, 149 Awkwardness of using them against their own people, 136 Nawadand (Utmankheyl village of) captured, 43-46 Nicholson, John, pursues mutineers, 66 General reference to, 12, 65, 69 North camp (Malakand), 176 North-west frontier, 51 Nowshera, cantonment of, 65, 68, 93, 94 Nuksan Pass, 64 O Ommanney, A.M., 191, 192 Order of, Merit, the twelve Guides awarded, 129 After the Malakand Campaign, 184 Owen, Roddy, 162 P Paia, Cavignaris' attack on, 93-4 Panjkora, the, 166 Panjtar Hills, the, 7 Patiala, the Maharaja of, 71 Peebles, Captain, 170 Peshawur, 8, 40, 43, 61,65, 66, 74, 83 Pioneers, 32nd, 170 Pipli, 71 Political Officers in the Punjab, 2 Probyn, Sir Dighton, 91 Punjab, the, position of British in 1846, 2, 8; in 1848, 12-17 Punjab Frontier Force, 192 Punjab Infantry, 1st, 88-9 Punjab Infantry, 5th, 65 Punjab Infantry, 20th, 47, 88, 89, 90 Punjab Infantry, 24th, 177 Punjab Infantry, 31st, 176-7 R Rajpoora, 71 Ram Singh, 27-8 Rasul Khan, his stratagem at Gorindghar, 32-8 Rattray, Lieut., 174, 179, 181 Ravi, the, 17 Rawul Pindi, 67, 83 Reid, Col., 178 Ressaldar, the, 14 Ricketts, Mr. Deputy Commissioner at Ludhiana, 71 Rifles, 60th, 189 Roberts, Lord, and the Guides, 117-19, 129 References to, 127, 128, 129, 131-133 Ross, Major, C.C.G., 89, 90 Royal Bengal Fusiliers, 101st, 191 Royal Horse Artillery, F.-A The loss of the Guides in this staunch little affair proved, when all was over, to have been altogether insignificant; while the enemy on their part, besides leaving many dead men and horses in camp, carried off also, as was afterwards ascertained, a goodly number who would never throw a leg over a horse again. keywords: attack; battle; brave; british; camp; cavalry; colonel; corps; day; days; dilawur; enemy; fighting; fire; force; fort; gallant; general; guides; hand; head; infantry; kabul; khan; lay; like; line; lumsden; man; march; men; miles; night; officer; place; position; punjab; regiment; sahib; shah; sikh; sir; soldier; sowar; time; troops; village; war; way; years cache: 16808.txt plain text: 16808.txt item: #89 of 425 id: 16997 author: Sleeman, William title: A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II date: None words: 262621 flesch: 61 summary: The military and police establishments would consist almost exclusively of Oude men. He could walk, like other men, on his legs, but could never be taught to speak. keywords: aid; allee; authorities; body; boy; british; brother; buksh; bullocks; camp; captain; character; charge; come; corps; country; court; crops; cultivators; cut; day; days; death; deen; district; estate; families; family; father; fine; followers; force; fort; gang; general; good; government; government officers; governor; ground; guns; half; head; hope; house; india; infantry; jungle; khan; kind; king; lacs; landholders; lands; late; left; letter; life; lordship; lucknow; majesty; man; manner; miles; minister; money; month; mother; murder; nazim; new; officers; order; oude; pay; people; persons; place; possession; power; present; property; public; rajah; regiment; rent; resident; revenue; right; river; road; robbers; rupees; security; service; sing; sipahees; sir; sleeman; soil; son; sovereign; system; time; town; trees; troops; village; water; way; years cache: 16997.txt plain text: 16997.txt item: #90 of 425 id: 17003 author: None title: Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation date: None words: 124345 flesch: 74 summary: In the afternoon some of them fell in with my idea--volunteering under independent command on the outer lines--and now the Japanese, the French and the Germans have got more men. So more men were called for, and this morning, after a short harangue, a storming-party, numbering sixty bayonets and composed of British, Americans and Russians, dashed over into the Chinese lines killing thirty of the enemy and driving the rest back in great confusion. keywords: air; american; away; barricades; big; boxers; british; chinese; city; coming; day; days; dead; dust; end; enemy; feet; fighting; fire; firing; french; gate; general; german; good; government; great; ground; half; hands; head; high; hours; houses; hundreds; japanese; left; legation; life; lines; man; manchu; men; minister; minutes; news; night; number; open; orders; palace; peking; people; quarter; rifle; russian; sailors; shot; siege; soldiery; street; tartar; things; thought; time; troops; understand; wall; weeks; women; work; world; yards cache: 17003.txt plain text: 17003.txt item: #91 of 425 id: 17324 author: Maspero, G. (Gaston) title: History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) date: None words: 98990 flesch: 62 summary: The meaning of �Nunima,� �Ilamma,� �Ilamtu,� in the group of words used to indicate Elam, had been recognised even by the earliest Assyriologists; the name originally referred to the hilly country on the north and east of Susa. The name seems, in fact, to be derived from a word which meant �to rob,� �to pillage. keywords: ahmosis; ancient; army; baal; babylon; chaldæa; cities; city; coast; country; date; day; dynasty; east; egyptian; enemy; euphrates; fact; father; feet; form; god; goddess; gods; gold; half; head; hyksôs; iii; illustration; inhabitants; inscriptions; king; lake; land; lebanon; left; length; life; long; men; modern; monuments; mountains; museum; names; near; nile; north; order; origin; orontes; people; period; pharaoh; phoenician; photograph; place; plain; power; present; princes; queen; race; region; reign; river; royal; sea; set; son; south; southern; syria; temple; theban; thebes; thûtmosis; time; town; tribes; valley; walls; war; water; way; west; work; world; year cache: 17324.txt plain text: 17324.txt item: #92 of 425 id: 17325 author: Maspero, G. (Gaston) title: History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) date: None words: 90086 flesch: 64 summary: �� �On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled. �� When at last, towards evening, the army again rallies round the king, and finds the enemy completely defeated, the men hang their heads with mingled shame and admiration as the Pharaoh reproaches them: �What will the whole earth say when it is known that you left me alone, and without any to succour me? keywords: amarna; amenôthes; amenôthes iii; amon; asia; campaign; chief; country; court; day; dynasty; egypt; egyptian; empire; end; father; god; gods; gold; hand; harmhabî; head; iii; illustration; karnak; khâti; king; land; left; life; lord; monuments; names; nile; north; order; people; period; pharaoh; photograph; place; power; present; prince; ramses; ramses ii; reign; royal; sea; seti; soldiers; son; south; sovereign; statue; syria; tel; temple; theban; thebes; thee; thou; thy; thûtmosis; time; tomb; town; tribes; troops; walls; way; work; years cache: 17325.txt plain text: 17325.txt item: #93 of 425 id: 17326 author: Maspero, G. (Gaston) title: History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12) date: None words: 114566 flesch: 63 summary: **** Belit is called by Tiglath-pileser I. �the great spouse beloved of Assur,� but Belit, �the lady,� is here merely an epithet used for Ishtar: the Assyrian Ishtar, Ishtar of Assur, Ishtar of Nineveh, or rather--especially from the time of the Sargonids--Ishtar of Arbeles, is almost always a fierce and warlike Ishtar, the �lady of combat, who directs battles,� �whose heart incites her to the combat and the struggle. He took vengeance upon the two peoples who had refused to give him bread, and having thus fulfilled his vow, he began to question his prisoners, the two chiefs: �What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor?� �As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king. keywords: account; amon; ancient; army; assur; assyrian; babylon; boudier; chariots; chief; cities; city; country; david �; day; dead; death; dynasty; east; egypt; egyptian; end; euphrates; father; form; god; gods; half; hand; head; hebrews; history; house; iii; illustration; inhabitants; israel; jerusalem; judah; judges; king; kingdom; land; left; length; life; lord; man; men; monuments; near; north; order; people; period; pharaoh; philistines; photograph; pileser; place; position; power; priests; ramses; reign; right; royal; said; sam; saul �; sea; set; solomon �; son; south; sovereign; state; temple; territory; text; theban; thou; tiglath; tigris; time; tomb; town; tribes; troops; war; way; work; years cache: 17326.txt plain text: 17326.txt item: #94 of 425 id: 17327 author: Maspero, G. (Gaston) title: History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) date: None words: 108285 flesch: 61 summary: The line of Assyrian kings after Assurirba, and the Babylonian dynasties: the war between Rammân-nirâri III. [Illustration: 006.jpg TABLE OF KINGS] Five or six of his descendants had passed away, and a certain Shamash-mudammiq was feebly holding the reins of government, when the expeditions of Rammân-nirâri III. keywords: account; ancient; army; assur; assyrian; attack; b.c; babylon; banks; bît; campaign; capital; century; cities; city; country; damascus; day; death; district; dynasty; east; egypt; empire; end; euphrates; events; frontier; god; hand; iii; illustration; inhabitants; inscriptions; israel; jahveh; judah; king; kingdom; left; men; mount; mountain; nazir; near; new; nineveh; north; northern; order; pal; people; pileser; place; point; position; power; present; princes; provinces; reign; right; river; royal; rule; samaria; sargon; set; shalmaneser; son; south; states; temple; territory; throne; tiglath; tigris; time; town; tribes; tribute; troops; urartu; walls; war; way; years cache: 17327.txt plain text: 17327.txt item: #95 of 425 id: 17328 author: Maspero, G. (Gaston) title: History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12) date: None words: 119286 flesch: 58 summary: The existence of such a goddess may be deduced from the passage in which Dionysius of Halicarnassus states that Manes, first king of the Phrygians, was the son of Zeus and Demeter. He pursued the inhabitants into the narrow valleys and forests of the Khoatras, where his chariots were unable to follow: proceeding with his troops, sometimes on horseback, at other times on foot, he reduced Bît-kilamzak, Khardishpi, and Bît-kubatti to ashes, and annexed the territories of the Cossoans and the Yasubigallâ to the prefecture of Arrapkha. keywords: army; asia; assur; assyrian; attack; b.c; babylon; bani; battle; campaign; century; cimmerians; cities; city; country; course; court; cyaxares; day; days; death; desert; east; egypt; egyptian; elam; empire; end; esarhaddon; euphrates; events; fact; father; frontier; gods; good; greek; hand; herodotus; illustration; inhabitants; jahveh; jerusalem; judah; king; kingdom; land; left; lord; marduk; medes; men; nations; nebuchadrezzar; necho; nineveh; north; number; order; pal; people; place; power; princes; psammetichus; reign; royal; scythians; sea; second; sennacherib; set; shamash; son; south; sovereign; temple; territory; thee; thou; throne; thy; time; town; tribes; troops; tyre; walls; war; way; work; years cache: 17328.txt plain text: 17328.txt item: #96 of 425 id: 17329 author: Maspero, G. (Gaston) title: History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) date: None words: 102720 flesch: 56 summary: The Creator was described as �the whole circle of the heavens,� �the most steadfast among the gods,� for �he clothes himself with the solid vault of the firmament as his raiment,� �the most beautiful, the most intelligent, he whose members are most harmoniously proportioned; his body was the light and the sovereign glory, the sun and the moon were his eyes. � �Whereupon,� it is recorded, �they drew their swords and slew him. keywords: account; ahura; amasis; army; artaxerxes; asia; athens; attack; b.c; babylon; battle; body; cambyses; campaign; cities; city; country; court; croesus; cyrus; darius; days; death; egypt; egyptian; empire; end; enemy; events; fact; fate; fleet; force; form; general; god; gods; good; greece; greek; hand; herodotus; illustration; inhabitants; king; land; left; length; man; memphis; men; minor; moment; nabonidus; new; nile; number; ochus; order; people; persian; place; position; power; priests; reign; revolt; royal; said; sardes; satrap; sea; second; son; sovereign; state; taking; temple; time; town; troops; vessels; war; way; world; years cache: 17329.txt plain text: 17329.txt item: #97 of 425 id: 17330 author: Rappoport, A. S. (Angelo Solomon) title: History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12) date: None words: 88859 flesch: 62 summary: This retreat was followed by a treaty of peace between these generals, by which it was agreed that each should keep the country that he then held; that Cassan-der should govern Macedonia until Alexander Ægus, the son of Alexander the Great, should be of age; that Lysimachus should keep Thrace, Ptolemy Egypt, and Antigonus Asia Minor and Palestine; and each wishing to be looked upon as the friend of the soldiers by whom his power was upheld, and the whole of these wide conquests kept in awe, added the very unnecessary article, that the Greeks living in each of these countries should be governed according to their own laws. We know it only in the quotations of Josephus and Julius Africanus, and what we have is little more than a list of kings� names. keywords: alexander; alexandria; antiochus; antony; army; asia; brother; city; cleopatra; coast; country; cyprus; cæsar; day; death; demetrius; egypt; egyptian; euergetes; father; fleet; government; greek; head; help; history; illustration; island; jews; king; king ptolemy; kingdom; left; life; men; nile; people; philadelphus; philometor; place; power; priests; ptolemy; queen; reign; roman; rome; sea; son; soter; syria; temple; thought; throne; time; troops; war; way; years; young cache: 17330.txt plain text: 17330.txt item: #98 of 425 id: 17331 author: Rappoport, A. S. (Angelo Solomon) title: History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) date: None words: 95338 flesch: 59 summary: These theologians were too busily engaged in their controversies to take any notice of the danger of Egypt�s revolting from the empire and joining the Persians; so they strongly advised Leo not to depart from the decrees of the council of Chalcedon, or to acknowledge as Bishop of Alexandria a man who denied the two natures of Christ. Palladius had travelled in Egypt before he was sent there into banishment, and he had spent many years in examining the monasteries of the Thebaid and their rules, and he has left a history of the lives of many of those holy men and woman, addressed to his friend Lausus. keywords: abu; alexandria; arabs; army; athanasius; augustus; bishop; body; caliph; chief; christianity; christians; church; city; coins; constantinople; country; day; days; death; desert; egypt; egyptian; emperor; empire; general; god; government; great; greek; head; ibn; illustration; jews; law; learning; life; little; muhammed; new; nile; opinions; patriarch; people; philosophy; place; power; prefect; priests; province; public; reign; religion; roman; rome; sea; second; son; state; syria; temple; thought; throne; time; troops; upper; use; work; world; year cache: 17331.txt plain text: 17331.txt item: #99 of 425 id: 17332 author: Rappoport, A. S. (Angelo Solomon) title: History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12) date: None words: 89938 flesch: 64 summary: In so far as the cry raised of �Egypt for the Egyptians� was a protest against forcing the Egyptians to pay for an assumed indebtedness which was at least four times greater than anything they had actually received, no movement was ever more just and righteous than the protest of the fellaheen against foreign control, a movement which has been chiefly associated with the name of Arabi Pasha. His editions of the �Romances of Old Egypt� are models of scholarly interpretation. keywords: alexandria; ali; army; battle; bey; beybars; bonaparte; british; cairo; canal; chamber; country; course; days; death; dynasty; egypt; egyptian; emirs; end; england; english; european; expedition; feet; france; french; general; government; great; greek; head; history; ibrahim; illustration; ismail; king; kléber; lake; left; line; mamluks; means; mehemet; men; miles; new; nile; number; order; pasha; people; period; place; point; power; professor; red; river; sea; second; set; signs; sir; site; son; sultan; syria; time; tomb; town; troops; turkish; turks; upper; vizier; wall; war; water; way; work; year cache: 17332.txt plain text: 17332.txt item: #100 of 425 id: 18031 author: Maxwell, Donald title: A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden date: None words: 23010 flesch: 73 summary: Great buildings like Ctesiphon near Baghdad or traces of the vast irrigation works of the past are full of interest, but for romance and mystery there is no piece of the world more fraught with meaning than this site of the city of Nebuchadnezzar, nearly 200 square miles in extent, and now, but for the comparatively small tract of irrigated land, a desert. The most amazing and outrageous types of craft soon meet the eye as commonplaces of river life. keywords: babylon; baghdad; basra; boat; book; brown; colour; country; desert; east; euphrates; good; illustration; irrigation; land; mesopotamia; mud; night; oil; place; river; sketch; tigris; time; tower; war; water; way; world; | | cache: 18031.txt plain text: 18031.txt item: #101 of 425 id: 18102 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 93144 flesch: 68 summary: The visitors were our father Fray Alonso de Méntrida and father Fray Juan de Tapia. The chief proceeding in this chapter after the regular business--that is, what is here regarded as most important--the provision for offices, was the appointment of father Fray Juan de Tapia as definitor for Roma, and also to the procuratorship for the court of España. keywords: account; affairs; audiencia; captain; catálogo; chapter; church; city; convent; death; decree; definitor; don; enemy; españa; faith; father fray; father provincial; father visitor; fathers; fray diego; fray francisco; fray juan; fray miguel; fray pedro; general; god; good; government; governor; great; holy; indians; islands; juan de; king; left; little; lord; majesty; manila; matter; men; nueva; office; order; pedro de; people; person; preacher; present; province; provincial; religious; royal; service; shall; ships; things; time; visitor; year cache: 18102.txt plain text: 18102.txt item: #102 of 425 id: 18607 author: Garvan, John M. title: The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir date: None words: 178345 flesch: 68 summary: The time for planting is at hand when the voice of the bird _kuaháu_ first breaks from the forest and the leaves of _lanípau_ tree begin to fall.[2] Varying in length from 15 to 45 centimeters they are whittled with a bolo out of pieces of _báyud_ wood, or of any soft white wood when _báyud_ is not obtainable. keywords: abaká; agúsan; attack; bamboo; belief; betel; bisáyas; black; blood; body; bolo; case; centimeters; ceremony; chapter; character; chief; children; cloth; consists; custom; cut; dance; day; days; death; deities; eastern; end; enemy; evil; fact; family; father; feast; fire; fish; floor; following; food; forest; form; general; good; hair; hand; head; house; human; influence; law; left; life; mandáya; manóbo; manóbo house; manóboland; marriage; matter; means; men; method; mindanáo; mouth; movement; near; new; number; nut; occasions; offering; omens; order; palm; party; payment; people; person; piece; pig; place; point; position; present; priest; property; purpose; rattan; reason; red; relatives; result; return; rice; right; river; rule; settlement; slave; spirits; system; things; time; tree; upper; valley; value; war; warrior; water; way; wife; wild; women; wood; work; world cache: 18607.txt plain text: 18607.txt item: #103 of 425 id: 19118 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 85247 flesch: 59 summary: A report was asked from the commissary-general on the sixteenth of said month. The governor lost his nephew, Don Pedro de Corcuera, whom he loved dearly; and another nephew, named Don Juan de Corcuera, perished while going as commander of the ship Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, which was dashed to pieces in the islands of the Ladrones (today the Marianas), where many people were lost, and where the governor lost a great quantity of riches, which his greed (which was great) had amassed during his term. keywords: account; act; archbishop; audiencia; cause; chinese; church; city; commissary; conservator; corcuera; council; decree; diego; don; don juan; españa; father; felipe; filipinas; francisco; francisco de; fray; general; governor; governor don; holy; inhabitants; islands; juan de; judge; king; law; letter; lordship; madrid; majesty; manila; matter; merchandise; nueva; office; order; pedro de; persons; pesos; portuguese; present; reason; religious; royal; ships; society; soldiers; time; trade; treasury; years cache: 19118.txt plain text: 19118.txt item: #104 of 425 id: 19172 author: Morrison, George Ernest title: An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma date: None words: 90638 flesch: 71 summary: It is in favour in the palace of the Emperor in Peking itself; it is one of the finest teas in China, yet, to show how jealous the rivalry now is between China tea and Indian, when I submitted the remainder of this very cake to a well-known tea-taster in Mangoe Lane, Calcutta, and asked his expert opinion, he reported that the sample was of undoubted value and of great interest, as showing what _muck can be called tea_. The traveller in China is early impressed by the contrast between the almost entire freedom from apparent immorality of the Chinese cities, especially of Western China, and the flaunting indecency of the _Yoshiwaras_ of Japan, with their teeming, seething, busy mass of women, whose virtue is industry and whose industry is vice. keywords: bank; bhamo; boat; burma; cash; chaotong; chapter; chief; children; china; chinaman; chinese; chungking; city; coolies; country; course; customs; day; days; death; england; english; father; feet; french; god; gold; good; half; high; inland; inn; journey; left; life; little; man; men; miles; mission; missionaries; missionary; money; morning; native; night; open; opium; page; people; present; province; rev; rice; river; road; room; round; shan; suifu; szechuen; tali; tea; temple; tengyueh; time; tongchuan; town; traveller; valley; village; water; way; western; women; work; world; yangtse; years; yunnan; yunnan city; | | cache: 19172.txt plain text: 19172.txt item: #105 of 425 id: 19378 author: Pickthall, Marmaduke William title: Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 date: None words: 58606 flesch: 84 summary: But the experience of other, older men must weigh with me.' 'Let other men judge people as they find them, and do thou likewise,' said Suleymân. keywords: allah; chapter; cook; country; day; days; english; eyes; father; friend; god; good; half; hand; head; honour; house; judge; land; life; lord; man; men; money; mountain; night; people; place; rashîd; room; round; servant; set; sheykh; son; story; suleymân; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trees; village; water; way cache: 19378.txt plain text: 19378.txt item: #106 of 425 id: 19400 author: Maspero, G. (Gaston) title: History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) date: None words: 95343 flesch: 65 summary: The study of simples and other _materiæ medicæ_ would furnish these; Thot had revealed himself to man as the first magician, he became in like manner for them the first physician and the first surgeon. Flesh taken from the living subject, the heart, the liver, the gall, the blood--either dried or liquid--of animals, the hair and horn of stags, were all customarily used in many cases where the motive determining their preference above other _materiæ medicæ_ is unknown to us. keywords: age; animals; body; children; city; country; creation; day; days; dead; death; delta; desert; divine; double; dynasties; dynasty; earth; egypt; egyptians; end; ennead; existence; fact; father; form; god; goddess; gods; good; hand; head; heart; heliopolis; history; horus; human; illustration; isis; king; land; left; life; light; living; man; means; men; monuments; museum; names; nile; north; number; nûît; old; order; origin; osiris; people; period; photograph; place; present; river; shû; sit; sky; son; soul; south; sun; temple; thot; time; tomb; valley; vol; water; way; work; world; year cache: 19400.txt plain text: 19400.txt item: #107 of 425 id: 19453 author: None title: The Shield date: None words: 35242 flesch: 68 summary: One of the editors of the present volume, Fyodor Sologub, says: Whenever I met Russian Jews abroad, I always marvelled at the strangely tenacious love for Russia which they preserve. Whenever I met Russian Jews abroad, I always marvelled at the strangely tenacious love for Russia which they preserve. keywords: anti; children; country; deported; economic; face; fact; german; good; great; human; jews; law; life; love; man; means; men; nation; new; pale; people; population; present; question; rights; russian; semitism; social; soldiers; state; time; war; way; world; | | cache: 19453.txt plain text: 19453.txt item: #108 of 425 id: 19665 author: Cooper, Elizabeth title: My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard date: None words: 50240 flesch: 81 summary: There are three things to command your reverence: The ordinances of Heaven, Great men, and the words of the sages. The Gods will allow him to contribute of his wealth and buy the toil of other men, and thus he may cancel his obligation. keywords: children; china; chinese; city; country; daughter; day; days; eyes; family; father; gods; heart; home; household; husband; kwei; life; love; man; men; mother; people; place; rice; son; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; water; wife; women; work; world; years cache: 19665.txt plain text: 19665.txt item: #109 of 425 id: 20189 author: MacMicking, Robert title: Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 date: None words: 60463 flesch: 47 summary: This fact startled me at first; but it has been frequently remarked upon by people very strongly prejudiced in favour of white men, and who despise the black skins of Manilla men, regarding them as inferior beings to themselves, as strongly as many of our countrymen often do. CHAPTER VI. From old prejudices, and other causes, the Spanish people have not as yet learned how to work the more liberal form of government now enjoyed by their country. The _Negritos_, who are found in some parts of the islands, are a peculiar race, with features exactly resembling the African negro, although in general smaller made men, but formed with all the characteristics of the African. keywords: attention; british; chapter; china; cloth; country; course; day; degree; dollars; doubt; europe; extent; fact; general; good; government; governor; home; house; indians; islands; labour; manilla; market; money; native; new; number; order; people; philippines; place; present; produce; provinces; quality; quantity; rice; ships; sort; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; sugar; time; trade; vessels; water; white; years; | | cache: 20189.txt plain text: 20189.txt item: #110 of 425 id: 20329 author: Reed, William Allan title: Negritos of Zambales date: None words: 35329 flesch: 71 summary: la-la'-ki Aeta of Subig ya'-ki Aeta, Bataan Province la-la-ke'* Dumagat, Bulacan Province ta'-nun-gu'-bat English Woman Zambal of Bolinao ba-bay'-e Zambal of Iba ba-bay'-e Zambal--Aeta ba-bay'-e Aeta of Santa Fé ba-bay'-e Aeta of Subig ba-bay'-e Aeta, Bataan Province ba-bay'-e* Dumagat, Bulacan Province mow'-na English Father Zambal of Bolinao a'-ma Zambal of Iba a'-ma Zambal--Aeta a'-ma Aeta of Santa Fé ba'-pa Aeta of Subig ba'-pa Aeta, Bataan Province ba'-pa, ama* Dumagat, Bulacan Province English Mother Zambal of Bolinao i'-na Zambal of Iba i'-na Zambal--Aeta na'-na Aeta of Santa Fé in'-do Aeta of Subig in'-do Aeta, Bataan Province in'do, inang* Dumagat, Bulacan Province English Brother Zambal of Bolinao bu'-sat Zambal of Iba ta-la-sa'-ka Zambal--Aeta pa'-tel Aeta of Santa Fé ka-pa-tel Aeta of Subig Aeta, Bataan Province ka'-ka, kapatid* Dumagat, Bulacan Province English Sister Zambal of Bolinao bu'-sat Zambal of Iba ta-la-sa'-ka Zambal--Aeta pa'-tel Aeta of Santa Fé ka-pa-tel Aeta of Subig Aeta, Bataan Province o-pa-tel', kapatid* Dumagat, Bulacan Province English Uncle Zambal of Bolinao ba'-pa Zambal of Iba ba'-pa Zambal--Aeta ba'-pa Aeta of Santa Fé da'-ra Aeta of Subig Aeta, Bataan Province ale'* Dumagat, Bulacan Province English Aunt Zambal of Bolinao da'-da Zambal of Iba da'-ra Zambal--Aeta in'-do Aeta of Santa Fé da'-ra Aeta of Subig Aeta, Bataan Province mama* Dumagat, Bulacan Province English Son Zambal of Bolinao a'-nak Zambal of Iba a'-nak Zambal--Aeta a'-nak Aeta of Santa Fé a'-nak Aeta of Subig a'-nak Aeta, Bataan Province a'-nak* Dumagat, Bulacan Province anak English Daughter Zambal of Bolinao a'-nak Zambal of Iba a'-nak Zambal--Aeta a'-nak Aeta of Santa Fé a'-nak Aeta of Subig a'-nak Aeta, Bataan Province a'-nak* Dumagat, Bulacan Province anak na mowna English Head Zambal of Bolinao o'-ro Zambal of Iba o'-lo Zambal--Aeta o'-lo Aeta of Santa Fé o'-lo Aeta of Subig la'-bo Aeta, Bataan Province o'-o, ulo* Dumagat, Bulacan Province pun'-tuk English Hair Zambal of Bolinao sa-bot Aeta of Subig ha-bot' Aeta, Bataan Province la-buk', bohoc* Dumagat, Bulacan Province English Mouth Zambal of Bolinao bo-bo'-y Zambal of Iba bo-bo'-y Zambal--Aeta bo-bo'-y Aeta of Santa Fé bo-bo'-y Aeta of Subig bo-bo'-y Aeta, Bataan Province ba-lu'-go, bebec* Dumagat, Bulacan Province un'-suk English Eye Zambal of Bolinao ma'-ta Zambal of Iba ma'-ta Zambal--Aeta ma'-ta Aeta of Santa Fé ma'-ta Aeta of Subig ma'-ta Aeta, Bataan Province ma'-ta* Dumagat, Bulacan Province English Nose Zambal of Bolinao a'-rong Zambal of Iba a'-long Zambal--Aeta ba-loñg'-o Aeta of Santa Fé ba-long'-o Aeta of Subig ba-long'-o Aeta, Bataan Province ba-tong', ilong* Dumagat, Bulacan Province an-gut English Teeth Zambal of Bolinao ni'-pen Zambal of Iba ni'-pen Zambal--Aeta ni'-pin Aeta of Santa Fé n-i'-pen Aeta of Subig ni'-pen Aeta, Bataan Province nil-pul Dumagat, Bulacan Province ni'-pon English Tongue Zambal of Bolinao di'-ra Zambal of Iba di'-la Zambal--Aeta di'-la Aeta of Santa Fé di'-la keywords: a'-pat aeta; aeta; aeta aeta; aeta ma; al'-lo aeta; bamboo; bataan province; blood; bolinao; bride; bulacan; case; dance; fact; feet; fé aeta; ground; group; hair; head; iba; iba zambal; islands; life; lu'-a aeta; man; men; meyer; mi'-ha aeta; mountains; negritos; people; philippines; piece; place; province dumagat; province english; province ma; region; santa fé; small; subig aeta; tat'-lo aeta; time; towns; use; wild; zambal; zambales; zambales province; | | cache: 20329.txt plain text: 20329.txt item: #111 of 425 id: 2036 author: Baker, Samuel White, Sir title: Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon date: None words: 89600 flesch: 67 summary: Oh for a glass of Newera Ellia water, the purest and best that ever flows, as it sparkles out of the rocks on the mountain-tops! There are necessarily rich lots every now end then in such a large extent as the surface of the low country; but these lots usually lie on the banks of rivers which have been subjected to inundations, and they are not fair samples of Ceylon soil. keywords: animal; appearance; ball; black; ceylon; coffee; country; course; cultivation; day; deep; deer; elephant; elk; ellia; fact; feet; forest; gold; government; grass; ground; half; head; hounds; hunting; jungle; land; length; life; light; like; low; man; miles; mountain; natives; nature; newera; newera ellia; nut; pack; people; place; plain; population; present; produce; rifle; river; road; rock; size; soil; species; spot; supply; surface; time; tree; water; weight; white; wild; work; years cache: 2036.txt plain text: 2036.txt item: #112 of 425 id: 20583 author: Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) title: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 date: None words: 186697 flesch: 74 summary: As with Buddhism also, the main feature of Jain belief is the transmigration of souls, and each successive incarnation depends on the sum of good and bad actions or _karman_ in the previous life. _Limba_.--_(Nim_ tree.) keywords: account; ahir; ancestors; animals; article; aryan; bania; banjara; belief; bengal; blood; body; bombay; brahmans; bride; bridegroom; caste; caste system; census; central; ceremony; chamar; character; children; clan; class; classes; cloth; clothes; common; community; country; cultivators; custom; das; day; days; dead; death; descent; dhimar; district; divine; earth; eating; fact; family; father; feast; female; fire; flesh; food; forest; form; god; gonds; good; grain; group; gujarat; guru; hands; head; hindu; house; idea; important; impure; india; jain; kabir; kawar; king; kol; kunbi; kurmi; land; law; life; liquor; mahar; mali; maratha; marriage; marry; means; members; mother; muhammadan; names; number; occupation; order; origin; people; period; persons; place; position; present; priests; principal; provinces; rajputs; rank; reason; religion; report; round; rule; sacrifice; samaj; section; sept; service; sir; society; spirit; state; status; stone; subcaste; subdivision; sunar; synonym; system; teli; term; thought; time; title; totem; tree; tribes; view; village; water; wear; wife; women; word; worship cache: 20583.txt plain text: 20583.txt item: #113 of 425 id: 20631 author: Zangwill, Israel title: Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 date: None words: 12352 flesch: 64 summary: The German people is the elect of God and its enemies are the enemies of the Lord. David, who is promised of God that his seed shall be enthroned for ever, slew surrendered Moabites in cold blood, and Judas Maccabæus, the other warrior hero of the race, when the neutral city of Ephron refused his army passage, took the city, slew every male in it, and passed across its burning ruins and bleeding bodies. keywords: bible; earth; england; fact; germany; god; hebrew; history; israel; jewish; jews; judaism; life; literature; lord; men; mission; nations; new; people; thee; thy; world cache: 20631.txt plain text: 20631.txt item: #114 of 425 id: 20668 author: Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) title: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 date: None words: 240478 flesch: 73 summary: The marriage-shed is made of eleven poles festooned with leaves, and inside it are placed two posts of the _saleh_ (_Boswellia serrata_) or _umar_ (_Ficus glomerata_) The Rajjhars will also eat _katcha_ food (cooked with water) from Kunbis and Kahars. keywords: account; ancestors; animals; art; article; bangles; barber; bengal; berar; birth; black; blood; body; bombay; boy; brahmans; branch; bride; bridegroom; brother; caste; caste women; central; ceremony; chief; child; children; clan; class; cloth; clothes; colonel; community; corpse; country; crooke; cultivators; customs; cut; daughter; day; days; dead; death; descendants; devi; districts; drink; earth; eat; end; exogamous; fact; families; family; father; feast; feet; festival; fire; flesh; following; food; forest; form; gazetteer; general; girl; god; goddess; gold; gonds; good; grain; groups; gujarat; hair; hand; having; head; hindu; hold; home; house; husband; impure; india; king; kunbis; left; life; liquor; low; man; maratha; marriage; means; members; mother; muhammadan; nagpur; names; night; northern; number; occupation; oil; order; origin; ornaments; party; people; period; persons; piece; place; position; present; provinces; raja; rajput; rank; reason; religion; report; return; rice; river; round; rule; sacred; saying; second; sept; set; silver; sir; small; snake; social; spirit; states; story; subcastes; sun; thread; thugs; tiger; time; tree; tribes; turmeric; village; vol; water; way; wear; wedding; widow; wife; women; work; worship; years cache: 20668.txt plain text: 20668.txt item: #115 of 425 id: 2076 author: Giles, Herbert Allen title: The Civilization of China date: None words: 51667 flesch: 60 summary: No attempt was made to coerce Chinese women, who dress their hair in styles totally different from that of the Manchu women; there are, too, some tolerated differences between the dress of the Manchu and Chinese men, but these are such as readily escape notice. But like many other great men, he was in advance of his age. keywords: a.d; art; away; case; centuries; century; china; chinese; confucius; course; date; day; days; death; dynasty; emperor; empire; end; family; form; general; good; hand; home; language; law; life; literature; man; means; men; nature; new; number; official; order; peking; people; place; point; present; sense; set; state; system; time; water; way; women; work; world; years cache: 2076.txt plain text: 2076.txt item: #116 of 425 id: 20913 author: Russel, Florence Kimball title: A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route date: None words: 49727 flesch: 59 summary: But it is a far cry from that day to this, and the _Burnside_, manned by American sailors, flying Old Glory where once waved the red and yellow of Spain's insignia, and laying American cable in American waters, is a very different ship from the _Rita_, fleeing before her pursuers in the West Indies. Unlike other Moro women, her teeth were white, the Zamboanga officers telling us she had the black enamelling removed after American occupation of the town; and the only thing about her that would have attracted attention at an American gathering was the fact that several finger-nails on her very small hands were long, almost as long again as from the first knuckle of the finger to the finger-tip, indicating that she was a Moro of high caste and did no manual labour of any kind. keywords: afternoon; american; blue; bongao; burnside; cable; cagayan; cebu; corps; course; datto; day; days; end; eyes; fact; feet; good; half; hand; house; iligan; interest; island; left; man; misamis; morning; moro; natives; night; niño; officers; people; place; red; room; santo; sea; ship; shore; signal; soldiers; spanish; sulu; time; town; trip; visit; water; way; white; women; work; young; zamboanga cache: 20913.txt plain text: 20913.txt item: #117 of 425 id: 20996 author: Eley, P. H. (Peter Harden) title: An Epoch in History date: None words: 9828 flesch: 72 summary: In towns where there is no case or box to lock the supplies in, and it is also impossible to get the town council to furnish a case, a requisition may be sent to Manila, and, if an appropriation can be secured, one will be made and sent out. The élite of towns in the Philippines speak Spanish, and, as only one or two of our party could at that time boast of more than a formal acquaintance with the Castilian tongue, the exchange of ideas that evening between us and the Filipinos was of necessity not very rapid. keywords: chapter; city; day; feet; filipino; house; life; manila; men; morning; people; philippines; place; room; teachers; town; water cache: 20996.txt plain text: 20996.txt item: #118 of 425 id: 2124 author: Faxian title: A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline date: None words: 50682 flesch: 75 summary: At the places where Buddha, when he was in the world, cut his hair and nails, topes are erected; and where the three Buddhas(16) that preceded Sakyamuni Buddha and he himself sat; where they walked,(17) and where images of their persons were made. On leaving India, she took with her a branch of the sacred Bo tree at Buddha Gaya, under which Sakyamuni had become Buddha. keywords: account; body; books; buddha; buddhist; chapter; china; chinese; city; country; davids; days; east; eitel; hardy; having; hsien; india; king; kingdom; law; life; man; meaning; men; monastery; monks; narrative; nirvana; north; note; offerings; people; place; present; river; sakyamuni; south; text; time; tope; tree; vihara; way; west; world; years cache: 2124.txt plain text: 2124.txt item: #119 of 425 id: 2133 author: Giles, Herbert Allen title: Historic China, and Other Sketches date: None words: 49227 flesch: 61 summary: When the operation was over, the patient washed his mouth out with _cold_ water, paid fifteen cash and departed. The topic is an interesting one, and deserves a somewhat elaborate treatment, both for its own sake as a study of native customs, and also to aid in dispelling a host of absurd ideas which have gathered round these everyday events of Chinese life. keywords: body; bones; book; case; china; chinamen; chinese; classes; course; day; days; death; earth; emperor; empire; end; fact; foreigners; form; good; hand; head; law; life; literature; magistrate; man; means; men; money; nation; native; number; officials; opium; paper; people; place; present; punishment; red; right; round; time; water; way; white; wife; women; work; wounds; years cache: 2133.txt plain text: 2133.txt item: #120 of 425 id: 21512 author: Daniel, Mooshie G. title: Modern Persia date: None words: 45722 flesch: 78 summary: Many men kiss the shoes of the high Muj-ta-hids. The man most highly honored is the one who has killed many men. keywords: ali; chapter; children; christian; church; city; class; college; day; days; death; father; feet; god; good; heaven; holy; home; king; language; life; lord; man; men; missionaries; mohammed; mohammedans; mosque; night; people; persia; place; prayer; priests; prophet; religion; school; shah; son; spirit; time; women; work; years cache: 21512.txt plain text: 21512.txt item: #121 of 425 id: 2156 author: Giles, Herbert Allen title: China and the Manchus date: None words: 32804 flesch: 55 summary: We Chinese people, peaceful and law-abiding, have not waged war except in self-defence. By 1644, Li Tz[)u]-ch'êng had reduced the whole of the province of Shensi; whereupon he began to advance on Peking, proclaiming himself first Emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty, the term _shun_ implying harmony between rulers and ruled. keywords: army; canton; capital; china; chinese; chêns; city; court; day; death; dowager; dynasty; emperor; empire; empress; end; foreigners; government; hsi; k'ang; manchus; men; officials; peking; people; rebellion; rebels; reign; society; son; t'ai; time; war; years cache: 2156.txt plain text: 2156.txt item: #122 of 425 id: 21569 author: Bent, Theodore, Mrs. title: Southern Arabia date: None words: 146777 flesch: 73 summary: From the fresh spathe, by distillation, a certain stuff called _tara_ water is obtained, of strong but agreeable smell, which is much used for the making of sherbet. Bedouin_ is not a word in use, but _Bedou_ for both singular and plural. keywords: aden; ali; arabia; arabs; baggage; bahrein; bedouin; bin; bir; camels; camp; chief; coast; coffee; country; course; date; day; days; deal; deep; desert; dhofar; dollars; east; end; english; fact; family; feet; find; food; foot; frankincense; gara; going; gold; good; great; gulf; hadhramout; half; hamoumi; hands; hard; head; hours; house; husband; huts; imam; india; inhabitants; island; jabberi; journey; kind; left; little; look; looking; making; man; maskat; men; miles; mohammed; money; morning; mountains; near; new; night; north; oman; palm; party; pay; people; persian; place; plain; point; portuguese; present; ras; red; return; road; rocks; room; round; ruins; saleh; sand; sea; servants; sharif; sheher; sheikh; shibahm; sokotra; soldiers; south; spot; stones; sultan; talib; tent; things; thought; time; tombs; town; trade; trees; tribe; valley; village; visit; wadi; wali; walls; water; way; white; wild; wind; women; work; yafei; years; | | cache: 21569.txt plain text: 21569.txt item: #123 of 425 id: 21661 author: Lynch, George title: Impressions of a War Correspondent date: None words: 40983 flesch: 73 summary: Except a couple of old men, they were all in the prime of life, and a splendidly strong-looking set of fellows they were. Two o'clock in the morning wake to the tramp, tramp of men marching in the dark--marching out to fight--and the unknown Tommy you march beside and talk to in low voice, as men talk at that hour, is your comrade unto the day's end of fighting; when returning, to the sentries' challenge you answer A friend, and, dog-tired, you re-enter the lines, welcomed by his sesame call, Pass, friend; all is well. keywords: air; artillery; boer; cavalry; chinese; city; day; eyes; fighting; fire; general; good; ground; half; head; hill; horse; japanese; ladysmith; left; life; line; london; looking; man; men; new; outside; pekin; people; right; room; shell; sleep; street; things; think; time; town; waiting; war; water; way; white; women; work; world; years cache: 21661.txt plain text: 21661.txt item: #124 of 425 id: 21835 author: Spargo, John title: The Jew and American Ideals date: None words: 24882 flesch: 57 summary: On the other hand, it is a stupendous and dangerous folly to believe that you can cultivate, as part of our national psychology, anti-Jewish fear and prejudice without reaping in due course a harvest of hatred and violence toward the Jewish people. The point I am now making is that hatred of the Jew, even when it is motivated by economic fear and resentment, will inevitably nurture every other form of anti-Jewish prejudice. keywords: american; anti; bolshevism; charge; conspiracy; country; documents; evidence; fact; hatred; independent; jewish; jews; leaders; list; men; movement; names; nilus; people; pogroms; propaganda; protocols; race; russia; semitism; socialist; world cache: 21835.txt plain text: 21835.txt item: #125 of 425 id: 21985 author: Cholmeley, R. E. title: John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub date: None words: 16418 flesch: 72 summary: One by one dropped through into the narrow street below They seated themselves and fixed their eyes upon the object of their adoration You have just five minutes to read it and give me any message for your husband They saw Nicholson himself fastened with ropes to a tree Portrait of John Nicholson [Illustration: Portrait of John Nicholson] Some days before this dramatic scene a notable incident took place at Jalandhar in which Nicholson was the chief figure. keywords: british; chief; column; day; delhi; edwardes; general; india; john; john nicholson; lawrence; little; lord; man; men; native; nicholson; officer; punjaub; sepoys; singh; sir; time; troops cache: 21985.txt plain text: 21985.txt item: #126 of 425 id: 22010 author: Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) title: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 date: None words: 210576 flesch: 73 summary: Bawaria or Baori is derived from _banwar_, a creeper, or the tendril of a vine, and hence a noose made originally from some fibrous plant and used for trapping animals, this being one of the primary occupations of the tribe. In Betul the practice of _lamjhana_ or serving the father-in-law for a term of years before marrying his daughter, is sometimes followed. keywords: account; ahirs; ancestors; animal; article; baigas; bania; banjaras; berar; bhils; bhuiyas; birth; body; bombay; boy; brahmans; bride; bridegroom; brother; caste; cattle; central; ceremony; chamar; character; chhattisgarh; chief; child; children; class; classes; cloth; clothes; colonel; community; country; couple; cow; crooke; cultivators; customs; cut; day; days; dead; death; descendants; districts; divorce; drink; earth; eat; fact; families; family; father; feast; feet; flesh; following; food; forest; form; general; girl; god; goddess; gonds; good; grain; great; groups; gujarat; hands; head; hindu; home; house; husband; impure; india; king; krishna; land; left; life; liquor; little; man; mandla; maratha; marriage; marry; means; members; mother; muhammadan; nagpur; names; northern; number; occasion; occupation; order; origin; parents; party; people; period; persons; place; position; present; priests; principal; provinces; raja; rajput; rank; religion; rice; river; round; rule; second; sect; sept; set; sir; social; special; spirit; states; stone; story; subcastes; subdivisions; taking; term; thread; time; tree; tribe; village; water; way; wear; wedding; widow; wife; women; work; worship cache: 22010.txt plain text: 22010.txt item: #127 of 425 id: 22097 author: Finn, James title: Byeways in Palestine date: None words: 108207 flesch: 67 summary: {302} There are many such _cachets_ of water in the desert, but known only to the tribes of each district. Passing through the rush of _'Ain Saadeh_ water as it tumbles from the rocky base of Carmel, and by the _Beled esh Shaikh_ and _Yajoor_, we crossed the Kishon bed to take a road new to me, namely, by _Damooneh_, leaving _Mujaidel_ and _ keywords: account; arabic; arabs; bait; building; carmel; castle; christian; church; city; close; columns; country; course; dair; day; dead; different; direction; distance; district; east; end; feet; god; good; great; green; ground; half; having; hebrew; hebron; hill; horses; hour; house; jerusalem; jordan; journey; lake; land; leaving; lebanon; left; length; line; long; man; men; morning; mountain; near; night; north; oak; palestine; party; people; picture; place; plain; present; remains; rest; river; road; rock; roman; saw; scene; sea; shaikh; site; south; spot; spring; stones; stream; sun; tents; time; town; travellers; trees; valley; view; village; visit; wadi; water; way; west; white; wild; women; years cache: 22097.txt plain text: 22097.txt item: #128 of 425 id: 22117 author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage title: Across Coveted Lands; or, a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland date: None words: 228173 flesch: 66 summary: The digestion of Sistanis, although naturally good, is interfered with by the abuse of bad food, such as _krut_, or dried curd--most rancid, indigestible stuff. The track between the two latter stations was perfectly level, and on _jumbaz_ camels going at a good pace the journey had occupied eight hours and a half. keywords: abbas; afghan; ali; bank; bazaar; beluch; beluchistan; birjand; black; blue; british; buildings; business; camels; capital; caravanserai; carpets; case; centre; chah; chapter; city; consul; consulate; country; course; cut; day; days; deal; desert; direction; distance; east; end; english; european; excellent; eyes; fact; feet; find; flat; foot; foreign; going; gold; good; government; half; hand; handsome; head; high; hills; horses; hours; house; illustration; india; isfahan; journey; kerman; khan; kuh; left; line; looking; major; man; manner; men; miles; mountains; mud; natives; near; new; night; north; number; nushki; ones; people; persian; place; plain; point; portion; present; quetta; range; red; rest; river; road; rock; room; round; route; ruins; russian; sadek; salt; sand; saw; shah; sher; sides; silver; sistan; soldiers; south; stone; sun; tea; teheran; time; tower; town; track; trade; trees; view; village; wall; water; way; west; white; wind; women; work; year; yezd; zaidan cache: 22117.txt plain text: 22117.txt item: #129 of 425 id: 22210 author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage title: In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release date: None words: 151819 flesch: 77 summary: I was provided with a very light mountain _tente-d'abri_ seven feet long, four feet wide, and three feet high. Rajiwar:_ head of kingdom. keywords: 8vo; arms; black; body; british; butter; camp; case; chanden; chapter; cloth; clothes; cold; country; course; crown; cut; day; days; direction; edition; eyes; face; fact; feet; fire; following; food; foot; good; great; guard; hair; half; hands; head; high; hill; hours; house; illustration; jong; journey; lake; lamas; landor; left; legs; lhassa; life; little; man; mansarowar; mansing; men; miles; moment; morning; mountain; natives; near; net; night; north; number; pass; pen; people; place; point; pombo; ponies; range; red; rifle; river; road; round; sahib; sheep; shokas; silver; sing; small; snow; soldiers; south; spot; stones; stream; taklakot; tarjum; tea; tent; tibetan; time; track; village; water; way; white; wilson; wind; women; work; yaks cache: 22210.txt plain text: 22210.txt item: #130 of 425 id: 22749 author: Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon) title: From Edinburgh to India & Burmah date: None words: 123665 flesch: 72 summary: To-night the little station band of little native men played outside the club under the trees, with two or three hurricane lamps lighting their music and serious dark faces, and the flying foxes hawked above them. VIII Is -- without apologies -- of first impressions of India; and about the landing and entertainments of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales -- Great people and little people, and their affairs; Royal Receptions to snake-charmers -- Illuminations, Gun-firing, and the Bands playing God save the King -- Edward the --? keywords: afternoon; air; beauty; black; blue; board; boat; bombay; brown; burmah; burmese; chapter; children; chinese; clothes; club; colour; country; course; dark; day; days; deck; deep; dinner; east; effect; evening; eyes; faces; feet; figures; fish; flowers; friends; gold; golden; good; green; grey; hair; half; hand; head; hills; home; hour; house; illustration; india; jungle; know; ladies; lady; left; life; line; little; look; looking; man; men; miles; morning; music; native; new; night; north; notes; open; outside; pagoda; pass; people; place; prince; rangoon; read; red; river; road; room; round; royal; sand; sea; shadows; ship; shore; silver; sky; south; steps; street; sun; things; think; thought; time; train; trees; water; way; white; women; work; world; yards; yellow cache: 22749.txt plain text: 22749.txt item: #131 of 425 id: 22903 author: Keppel, Henry, Sir title: The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy date: None words: 173873 flesch: 64 summary: 'He should have died as other great men have died, and not have received such shame; he should have amoked, [20] or else given himself up for execution.' On the 18th of February the Driver arrived; on the 21st left Sarawak, and at noon of the 24th arrived at the anchorage in Borneo river, having towed the gun-boat against the N.E. monsoon. keywords: account; attack; bay; boats; borneo; british; brooke; captain; case; cents; character; chief; china; chinese; close; coast; country; course; crew; day; days; dido; distance; dyaks; enemy; english; evening; feet; fine; fire; force; gold; good; government; great; ground; guns; half; hand; hassim; having; head; house; interior; island; jungle; labuan; language; left; life; macota; malay; man; means; men; miles; morning; muda; native; near; new; night; number; orang; pangeran; party; people; piracy; pirates; place; point; pontiana; poor; power; present; principal; rajah; rest; return; rice; river; sakarran; sambas; sarawak; sea; seriff; ship; singapore; small; state; sultan; time; town; trade; trees; tribe; vessel; visit; war; water; way; wild; work; years; young cache: 22903.txt plain text: 22903.txt item: #132 of 425 id: 23573 author: Reidy, John J. title: The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles date: None words: 14707 flesch: 71 summary: It was courage of the most godly type that took Corporal McGoveren down into the trenches to prop up the heads of wounded men and give them water, while fighting, biting, dying Moros occupied the same trenches. These men came to the line in squads, each with litters, asking for wounded men, and several wounded men owe their lives to these brave batterymen. keywords: americans; artillery; battery; battle; brave; camp; day; fire; fort; lake; maciu; men; moros; night; time; wounded; | | cache: 23573.txt plain text: 23573.txt item: #133 of 425 id: 2530 author: Wallace, Alfred Russel title: The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature date: None words: 114424 flesch: 63 summary: Besides these, there are numbers of Javanese sailors and domestic servants, as well as traders from Celebes, Bali, and many other islands of the Archipelago. In Borneo, Celebes, and many other islands, the larvae of bees and wasps are eaten, either alive as pulled out of the cells, or fried like the dragonflies. keywords: animal; archipelago; australia; bamboo; birds; black; borneo; case; celebes; chapter; character; chief; close; coffee; country; day; days; dutch; dyaks; european; fact; feet; fine; forest; form; fruit; general; good; government; ground; group; half; head; house; inches; insects; islands; java; leaves; life; lombock; malay; man; men; mias; miles; morning; mountain; native; new; night; number; people; place; plants; productions; rajah; rice; river; rock; sea; species; specimens; sumatra; time; timor; town; trees; vegetation; village; volcanic; water; way; white; work; years cache: 2530.txt plain text: 2530.txt item: #134 of 425 id: 2539 author: Wallace, Alfred Russel title: The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature date: None words: 111563 flesch: 65 summary: This barrier is equally effectual in the case of many other birds which live only in the depths of the forest, as the kinghunters (Dacelo gaudichaudi), the fly-catching wrens (Todopsis), the great crown pigeon (Goura coronata), and the small wood doves (Ptilonopus perlatus, P. aurantiifrons, and P. coronulatus). They brought me numbers of small birds in exchange for beads or tobacco, but mauled them terribly, notwithstanding my repeated instructions. keywords: amboyna; aru; birds; black; boat; brown; ceram; chief; close; coast; colour; coral; country; day; days; east; end; evening; far; feathers; feet; fine; forest; form; gilolo; good; green; guinea; half; head; high; house; insects; islands; little; malay; man; men; miles; moluccas; morning; natives; new; night; north; number; papuan; paradise; people; place; plumage; point; race; red; return; round; sago; saw; sea; shore; south; species; stay; tail; ternate; time; trees; village; voyage; water; way; west; white; wind; work; years cache: 2539.txt plain text: 2539.txt item: #135 of 425 id: 25930 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 99245 flesch: 60 summary: Although the faith of Mahomet has made some headway in the maritime parts--but not with the obstinacy experienced in other islands--all the people of the interior are heathen. After that, they continued to found many other villages dependent on the first, which were then considered as visitas or subject villages. keywords: administration; archbishop; archbishopric; augustinian; authority; bishopric; catholic; cebú; chapter; charge; church; city; college; convent; country; curacies; curas; de san; decree; don; españa; fathers; felipe; filipinas; following; fray; friars; general; god; good; government; governor; great; holy; hospital; house; indians; islands; jesus; juan; juan de; jurisdiction; king; law; madrid; majesty; manila; matter; men; ministers; ministries; missionaries; missions; natives; new; nueva; number; order; parish; people; persons; pesos; philippines; point; present; priests; province; provincial; recollects; religious; residence; royal; san; santa; seminary; society; souls; spaniards; spanish; time; tributes; villages; women; work; year cache: 25930.txt plain text: 25930.txt item: #136 of 425 id: 26004 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 99225 flesch: 62 summary: In order for the Dutch to overcome the Filipinas, it has not been sufficient for them to unite and ally themselves with the Moro and pagan kings of other islands and lands of Asia, persuading them that they should take arms against the vassals of España, whose defense lies in the Filipinas alone. Cloves are produced in the celebrated islands of Maluco and that of Amboyno; and a little in the islands of Ires, Meytarana, Pulo, Cavali, Gilolo, Sabugo, Veranula, [33] and other islands adjacent to the Malucas--which are the chief producers of cloves, and produce the best quality. keywords: accounts; auditor; captain; china; citizens; city; commerce; corcuera; corralat; day; decree; don; dutch; duties; enemy; españa; father; filipinas; filipinas islands; fleet; fort; francisco; general; god; good; governor; hill; holy; indias; inhabitants; islands; juan; king; left; letter; lordship; majesty; manila; matter; mayor; men; merchandise; mindanao; moros; nueva; number; officials; order; pay; pedro; persons; pesos; place; point; present; royal; said; ships; silver; soldiers; spaniards; time; trade; treasury; way; year cache: 26004.txt plain text: 26004.txt item: #137 of 425 id: 26162 author: La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) title: Peking Dust date: None words: 42002 flesch: 72 summary: The great nations allow old China just enough revenue to return to them in the shape of Boxer indemnities; nothing more. To show to what extent poor old China is under the influence of the great European powers, I shall have to give you a few statistics; otherwise you won't believe me. keywords: allies; american; british; china; chinese; city; country; day; days; dust; european; far; foreign; foreigners; french; germany; government; great; hand; house; influence; japan; legation; months; nations; officials; opium; peking; people; place; powers; present; president; room; things; time; war; way; world; years cache: 26162.txt plain text: 26162.txt item: #138 of 425 id: 26170 author: Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady title: Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 date: None words: 155654 flesch: 62 summary: Lord Palmerston further said he would give Sir Moses letters to Colonel Hodges, telling him to afford him every protection and assistance, and desiring him to apply to Mohhammad Ali to give him (Sir Moses) every facility for the investigation of the affair. His Excellency received Sir Moses very kindly, wrote to Count Nesselrode, enclosing Sir Moses' letters to him, and eventually obtained an appointment for Sir Moses for the following Sunday. keywords: august; baron; board; brethren; british; carriage; cause; chapter; city; colonel; community; company; consul; count; country; damascus; day; day mr; day sir; days; dinner; duke; east; emperor; england; english; evening; excellency; following; french; friends; general; god; good; government; governor; great; having; hebrew; highness; holy; home; honour; house; israelites; jerusalem; jewish; jews; journey; king; lady montefiore; land; leave; left; letter; life; london; lord; majesty; man; mayor; meeting; members; monsieur; morning; moses montefiore; mr montefiore; mr moses; mr n.; mr wire; mrs; night; number; o'clock; office; order; pasha; people; persons; petition; place; poor; portuguese; prayers; present; queen; read; return; room; rothschild; russia; sir george; sir john; sir moses; sir robert; state; subject; synagogue; thought; time; town; visit; way; wife; year cache: 26170.txt plain text: 26170.txt item: #139 of 425 id: 26412 author: Ready, Oliver George title: Life and sport in China Second Edition date: None words: 54845 flesch: 61 summary: A very low freeboard and no cabin, with the exception of a kind of deck-house quite aft, where the helmsman stands, one mast hoisting a gracefully-cut sail with alternate blue and white cloths, a small muzzle-loading cannon in the bows, and a crew of ten or a dozen in quaint uniforms, who, when wind fails, take to the sweeps, and standing up facing the direction in which they are going, and keeping good time, propel the boat at a fair pace. At other times, in company with a convivial friend, I would get under way in the cool of the evening, and after running out to sea for an hour or so to enjoy the night breezes setting in from the Pacific, and perhaps laying to for a swim, we would return to the lovely bay, and dropping anchor off the Praia Grande dine by moonlight to the strains of the Portuguese military band, which played two or three times weekly either at the Governor's Palace or in the public gardens, both of which overlooked the sea. keywords: birds; boat; boy; business; case; china; chinese; city; club; country; course; day; days; dinner; dollars; europeans; face; fact; feet; friend; good; grass; gun; half; hand; home; house; kind; lake; left; life; man; means; men; miles; morning; native; night; number; peking; place; ponies; port; river; round; sea; shanghai; shooting; small; snipe; things; time; wall; water; way; winter; work; yangtse; years cache: 26412.txt plain text: 26412.txt item: #140 of 425 id: 26621 author: Barlow, Glyn title: The Story of Madras date: None words: 32472 flesch: 58 summary: In our mind's eye we can blot the Law College out of the landscape and can see a party of youthful merchants engaged as energetically as was suitable to the heat of Madras in the then fashionable game of bowls--or, less energetically but much more excitedly, gathered in a ring round two cocks that are tearing each other to pieces--a particularly popular form of 'Sport' in old Madras; and, although the Directors in London appropriately forbade to their employees the use of cards or the dice-box, we can espy a tense-visaged quartet within the shadow of the pavilion with a 'pool' of 'fanams' (coins worth about 2-½_d_.) Slavery was a recognized condition of life in old Madras, as indeed it was in the whole of Europe; and in the Council-book of Fort St. George there is still to be seen an Order, dated September 29, 1687, that Mr. Fraser do buy forty young Sound Slaves for the Rt. Hon'ble Company, who were to be made to work as boatmen in the Company's fleet of surf-boats. keywords: black; building; church; city; college; company; day; days; employees; england; english; fort; fort st; french; garden; george; government; governor; house; india; madras; madras government; mylapore; nawab; portuguese; san; school; sea; thomé; time; town; wall; years cache: 26621.txt plain text: 26621.txt item: #141 of 425 id: 26705 author: Ludwig Salvator, Archduke of Austria title: The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria date: None words: 14508 flesch: 73 summary: ] Going on we passed Nahle Abou Sheh--the palms of Abou Sheh, and, in a declivity, several small palm groups. We had four moukri, one of whom was a Persian named Ahsen, and two camel-drivers, Daud and Hassan, both from El Harish. keywords: bedouins; bir el; desert; distance; el harish; gaza; ground; hills; illustration; left; melleha; palm; place; right; road; sand; sea; sheik; sheik el; water cache: 26705.txt plain text: 26705.txt item: #142 of 425 id: 26707 author: Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore) title: Wanderings in the Orient date: None words: 15674 flesch: 68 summary: Whether the increased demands for rubber will justify the thousands of young trees that are still being planted, not only on the Malay Peninsula but on Borneo and other islands of the Far East, remains to be seen; but, judging from the opinions of several rubber experts of Singapore, this is quite doubtful. VII. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.] Like other cities in the East Singapore is a mixture of beauty and squalor. keywords: american; canton; chinese; city; course; day; harbor; illustration; island; manila; men; native; people; place; rubber; singapore; streets; tay; time; town; village; water; white; world cache: 26707.txt plain text: 26707.txt item: #143 of 425 id: 26781 author: Haensel, Johann Gottfried title: Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity date: None words: 16042 flesch: 66 summary: As to fishes, the sea abounds with various descriptions, but my attention was principally directed to shell-fish, which are found in great abundance and beauty on most of the islands, the Mission being in part supported by collections of these and other natural curiosities, made by me and other Brethren, whose time and disposition allowed of it. But they supply the want of the latter by taking great quantities of opium, which stupifies their senses. keywords: brethren; brother; god; good; house; islands; life; malays; men; mission; missionaries; nancauwery; natives; nests; nicobar; people; place; time; tranquebar cache: 26781.txt plain text: 26781.txt item: #144 of 425 id: 26844 author: Marryat, Frank title: Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery date: None words: 74731 flesch: 69 summary: It is not quite so easy a task as may be imagined to reform so many millions of people: for it must be remembered that it is not only at Borneo that we shall have to act, but that we must destroy the power of the sultan of Sooloo, and other tribes who frequent other islands, and who follow the same profession. After fixing the positions of several small islands in the Mendoro Sea, we steered for Samboangan, a Spanish penal colony, situated at the southern extremity of Mindanao. keywords: appearance; bay; board; boats; borneo; brooke; captain; chinese; coast; country; day; days; dyaks; english; evening; fire; good; guns; head; hong; house; illustration; island; kong; left; little; man; manilla; men; miles; morning; natives; night; officers; party; people; pirates; place; prahus; rajah; return; river; round; ship; shore; sincapore; sooloo; sultan; thing; time; town; vessels; village; war; water; way cache: 26844.txt plain text: 26844.txt item: #145 of 425 id: 26924 author: Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy) title: Flash-lights from the Seven Seas date: None words: 43610 flesch: 83 summary: The well-trained Geisha girl has, for centuries, because of her superior education, received the confidences of Japanese men; while a Japanese man would scorn to talk things over with his wife. From Japanese Obies, which clasp the waists of Japanese girls, to Javanese Sarongs, the flame and flash of crimson predominates in the gowns of both men and women. keywords: american; black; boy; children; china; chinese; crimson; day; english; eyes; faith; fear; fire; flame; flash; girl; home; japanese; korea; life; lights; man; men; missionaries; missionary; morning; mother; new; night; orient; people; sea; thing; thought; time; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 26924.txt plain text: 26924.txt item: #146 of 425 id: 26981 author: Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman) title: Pan-Islam date: None words: 44353 flesch: 55 summary: Missionaries would have us judge Islam by the open improprieties and abuses which occur at Mecca, Kerbela, and other great Moslem centres. Such men have their uses, until they know they are suspected, as valuable channels of misinformation. keywords: aden; affairs; arabia; arabs; british; cairo; camel; canal; christian; christianity; coast; country; day; dhow; east; egypt; enterprise; fact; field; force; german; good; government; hand; hejaz; holy; indian; islam; islamic; jeddah; land; life; man; men; missionaries; missionary; moslem; movement; officers; pan; people; point; religion; sea; ship; small; south; time; town; turkish; turks; use; war; water; work; world; yamen cache: 26981.txt plain text: 26981.txt item: #147 of 425 id: 27014 author: Davidson, G. F. title: Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. date: None words: 75998 flesch: 63 summary: New South Wales had been for many years a British Colony, before any Israelites found their way thither as _free_ men; and I have heard, that it was the return of a Jewish convict with well-lined pockets, that first attracted their attention to his place of exile. In the neighbourhood of Bathurst, and in many other parts of the Colony where rain is very uncertain, there are thousands of acres of alluvial land lying waste, which, upon my plan, would yield tens of thousands of bushels of wheat and maize. keywords: australia; batavia; british; calcutta; cattle; china; chinese; coast; colony; country; day; days; dutch; england; english; european; good; government; half; harbour; hong; house; inhabitants; island; java; kong; macao; man; men; miles; money; native; neighbourhood; new; opium; people; place; river; sea; ship; singapore; sir; south; state; straits; sugar; sydney; thing; time; town; trade; vessels; wales; water; way; work; years; | | cache: 27014.txt plain text: 27014.txt item: #148 of 425 id: 27021 author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage title: An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet date: None words: 75411 flesch: 82 summary: They punched and kicked them, driving them down a steep ravine leading to a river; then, assisted by other men in camp, showered stones upon them. FOOTNOTES: In their belts the Jogpas, in common with the majority of Tibetan men, wore a sword in front. keywords: camp; chanden; cold; country; day; doctor; east; feet; food; good; guard; half; hands; head; hill; journey; lake; lamas; landor; left; man; mansing; men; miles; mountain; night; north; number; order; pass; place; pombo; range; rifle; river; round; sing; snow; soldiers; south; taklakot; tent; tibetans; time; water; way; yaks cache: 27021.txt plain text: 27021.txt item: #149 of 425 id: 27127 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 74217 flesch: 60 summary: From [the pay of] the captains of the other two companies, the deduction is made at the rate of one peso per month apiece--which amounts annually to twenty-four pesos 24 pesos From the four sergeants of the said companies, at the rate of two reals per month apiece--which amounts annually to twelve pesos 12 pesos The company of the said governor has ninety-two effective soldiers, and four posts below the commissioned officers--which, at the rate of two reals per month apiece, amounts annually to two hundred and eighty-eight pesos 288 pesos The company of the said master-of-camp, Don Lorenço de Olaso, has one hundred and seven soldiers, and four posts below the commissioned officers--which, at the rate of two reals per month apiece, amounts annually to three hundred and thirty-three pesos 333 pesos The company of Captain Don Juan Francisco Hurtado de Corcuera has ninety-eight soldiers and four posts below the commissioned officers--which, at the rate of two reals per month apiece, amounts annually to three hundred and six pesos 306 pesos The company of Captain Don Juan de Frias has also ninety-one effective soldiers and four posts below the commissioned officers--which, at the rate of two reals per month apiece, amounts annually to two hundred and eighty-five pesos 285 pesos The company of mounted arquebusiers of the captain and sargento-mayor, Don Pedro Hurtado de Corcuera, has thirty soldiers, one lieutenant, one alférez, and one trumpeter--which, at the rate of one peso per month from the said captain, four reals from the lieutenant, four from the alférez, and two from the trumpeter and from each soldier, amounts annually to one hundred and seventeen pesos 117 pesos From two adjutants of the sargento-mayor of this camp, at the rate of two reals per month--which amounts annually to eighteen pesos 18 pesos From the head drummer of this camp, at the rate of two reals per month--which amounts annually to three pesos 3 pesos From the twelve soldiers of the guard of the said governor, at the rate of two reals per month apiece--which amounts annually to thirty-six pesos 36 pesos Castle of Santiago in this said city In the said castle of Santiago there is an effective garrison of one drummer, one lieutenant, and twenty-two soldiers--which, at the rate of two reals per month apiece, amounts annually to seventy-two pesos 72 pesos Fort San Felipe at the port of Cavite In the said fort San Felipe, there is one company of Spanish infantry, with one captain, one alférez, one sergeant, four minor posts, and seventy soldiers--which, at the rate of one peso per month from the said captain, four reals from the alférez, two from the sergeant, minor posts, and said soldiers, amounts annually to two hundred and forty-three pesos 243 pesos Presidio of Zibu The governor sent Adjutant Don Juan de Frias and Alferez Don Diego de Herrero with soldiers, giving them the order to take away the man, even though the religious tried to hinder him. keywords: account; act; alférez; archbishop; audiencia; authority; captain; cavite; check; city; convent; corcuera; decree; don; don juan; father; francisco de; fray; gantas; general; government; governor; holy; hospital; islands; juan; juan de; judge; june; lord; majesty; manila; matter; month; notary; office; order; pay; pedro de; persons; pesos; port; present; ration; religious; rice; royal; service; shall; society; soldiers; time; treasury; year cache: 27127.txt plain text: 27127.txt item: #150 of 425 id: 27152 author: Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil) title: A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore date: None words: 50667 flesch: 67 summary: To this is attached a crosspiece or yoke (_depar_), fitted with a pair of long pegs coming over the necks of the oxen or buffaloes, and a crosspiece hanging under their necks and fastened to the yoke by native cord. houses here instead of _hot_ houses. keywords: account; archipelago; batavia; british; buitenzorg; centre; chapter; cinchona; coffee; colonial; country; day; dutch; east; eastern; english; european; fact; feet; florins; footnote; gardens; general; government; governor; half; hindu; house; india; island; java; javanese; kavi; left; life; malay; means; miles; mountain; native; new; period; place; plantations; plants; present; princes; raffles; rice; singapore; sugar; system; temple; time; town; trees; wayang; works; world; years cache: 27152.txt plain text: 27152.txt item: #151 of 425 id: 27233 author: Fitch, George Hamlin title: The Critic in the Orient date: None words: 56260 flesch: 71 summary: As in many cities of India, all the work of the shops goes on in plain view from the street. Lucknow, scene of the most famous siege in the Indian mutiny, 106-109; ruins of the Residency, 106; story of the siege, 107-108; memorial tablets to British heroes, 108 Luxor, with ruins of the finest temple in Egypt, 143-146; built by Amenophis III; restored and enlarged by Rameses II, 143-144; plan of the temple, 144-145; Rameses exposed by Egyptologists, 146; temple of Karnak, 147-149 Manila, capital of Philippines and American naval base in Far East, 51-62; hospitality of Americans, 52; reenforced concrete favorite building material, 52; its splendid docks, 52; the Escolta, 52; the Bridge of Spain, 53; the carabao or water buffalo, 53; old walled city, 54; historical gates, 54; famous churches, 55; doors open to the ambitious Filipino youths, 56; influence of American schools, 56-57; Dr. George W. Wright on religious work in Philippines, 56-57; sanitary reforms which have made Manila healthy port, 57; work of the Constabulary Guard, 58; scenes on the Luneta, 60; nipa huts of natives, 61-62; fondness of people for music, 62; American gramophones in native huts, 62 Nana Sahib, the evil genius of the Indian mutiny, who broke faith with prisoners at Cawnpore, shot the men, and ordered 125 women and children butchered and cast into a well, 109 Nara, seat of oldest temples in Japan, 26-27; tame deer in park, 26 Nicholson, John, Brigadier-General, the ablest man the Indian mutiny produced, 121; he led the British march on Delhi and fell at the storming of the Lahore gate, 122 Nagasaki, great Japanese seaport, 30-33; girls coaling steamers, 31-32; trip to Mogi, 33 Nikko, the Japanese city of temples, 16-21; eighth century Buddhist temple, 17; Sacred Red Bridge, 17; imperial tombs, 17-19; school pilgrimages, 19; famous cryptomeria avenue to Imaichi, 20-21 Nile, sailing down the, 156-160; importance of river to Egypt, 156; ancient method of irrigation by shadouf, 157-158; poor pay for hard work, 158; prevalence of eye diseases, 159; squalid homes of the natives, 160; beauty of views along the Nile, 160 Osaka, Japan's chief manufacturing city, 29; Hideyoshi's castle, 29 Parsees, importance in municipal life of Bombay, 129; religion that of Zoroaster, 129-130; gifts by rich Parsee merchants, 131; quaint marriage customs, 132; towers of silence where dead are exposed, 133-135 Pyramids, among the oldest human work on earth, 161-163; size and cost of construction, 162-163; ascent of Gizeh, 163; features of the Sphinx, 164; rock tombs of Sakkara, 164 Raffles, Sir Stamford, the maker of Singapore and founder of great Malayan museum, 81 Rangoon, Burma's largest city, 89-92; elephants piling teak, 89-90; Shwe Dagon Pagoda, center of the Buddhist faith in Orient, 90-91; splendid decoration of shrines, 91-92 Shah Jehan, the greatest builder among the Mogul Emperors of India, who immortalized his name by erecting the Taj Mahal, 112 Singapore, gateway to the Far East, 80-88; humidity of atmosphere, 80; world's largest dry dock, 81; Sir Stamford Raffles, 81; great mixture of races, 81-82; traits of the Malay, 83; importance of Chinese, 84-85; night scenes in Malay and Chinese quarters, 85-87; large opium dens, 87; fine botanical gardens, 88 Taj Mahal, the world's most beautiful building at Agra, India, 111-116; built by Shah Jehan as memorial to favorite wife, 112; cost in money and human life, 112; its perfect architecture, 114; lavish decoration, 115; restoration by Lord Curzon, 116 Thebes, tomb city of the ancient Egyptian kings, 150-155; desolate site across the Nile from Luxor, 150-151; electric-lighted tombs, 151; rock-hewn tomb of Rameses IV, 152; tombs of other monarchs, 152-153; only one contains royal mummy, 154; fine temple of Queen Hatasu, 153; the Ramessium, with largest statue found in Egypt, 154; Colossi of Memnon, 154; why one of the statues was musical, 155 Tokio, the Japanese capital, 10-15; its splendid parks, 11-13-14; imperial palace, 13; tombs of six shoguns, 14; night work in shops, 15 Wheeler, General, whose confidence in his native troops, cost the lives of all the garrison of Cawnpore, 109 Yokohama, much Europeanized Japanese city, 3; good tourist outfitting point, 4 AND SO ENDS THE CRITIC IN THE ORIENT, CONTAINING THE IMPRESSIONS OF GEORGE HAMLIN FITCH ON THE FIRST HALF OF HIS TRIP AROUND THE WORLD. keywords: american; ancient; art; beauty; bombay; building; business; cairo; children; chinese; cities; city; country; day; days; dead; delhi; egypt; feet; fine; general; good; great; half; hongkong; houses; illustration; india; japanese; life; manila; marble; men; miles; native; new; night; nile; orient; oriental; parsee; people; places; plate; river; road; shops; singapore; stone; streets; temple; time; tombs; tourist; trees; view; walls; water; way; white; women; work; world; years cache: 27233.txt plain text: 27233.txt item: #152 of 425 id: 27259 author: Freeman, Needom N. title: A Soldier in the Philippines date: None words: 28620 flesch: 82 summary: I have seen many men shot that way; they thought the Filipinos could not shoot. A great many soldiers were added on at Manila, many wounded men and fifteen dead soldiers were put on to carry back to the United States, where the dead were sent to their relatives for burial. keywords: americans; camp; city; company; day; days; duty; filipinos; guard; jolo; manila; march; men; miles; night; orders; place; regiment; saw; soldiers; spanish; time; town; water cache: 27259.txt plain text: 27259.txt item: #153 of 425 id: 27260 author: Penfield, Frederic Courtland title: East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan date: None words: 62390 flesch: 60 summary: The grand-stand bears a minor importance to the betting ring, for the latter holds a surging, throbbing medley of humanity--society folk from India's innermost official set, sleek Parsees wearing gold rimmed eye-glasses, rajahs from all parts, wealthy merchants and bankers, fez-wearing Mohammedans from the world of Islam, men from the Persian Gulf in astrachan head-gear, Pathans from beyond the Himalayas, Sikhs from the Punjab--as can be gathered in great India, the museum of the human race. Again, I witnessed a tottering and sobbing old man place with every expression of tenderness a garland of yellow and white flowers about the neck of a corpse swathed in red, and imagined it the last office of love to an idolized daughter. keywords: american; asia; boat; bombay; britain; british; building; business; calcutta; canal; canton; capital; caste; ceylon; china; chinese; city; colombo; commercial; country; day; earth; east; eastern; empire; england; english; europe; european; fact; feet; germany; good; government; great; half; hindu; home; hong; illustration; india; interest; island; japan; japanese; jeypore; kandy; kong; macao; man; miles; money; nation; native; new; number; official; oysters; panama; pearl; people; place; population; port; present; public; rule; russia; sea; states; suez; taj; tea; temple; time; trade; united; war; water; way; work; world; years cache: 27260.txt plain text: 27260.txt item: #154 of 425 id: 27404 author: Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) title: Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China date: None words: 73869 flesch: 64 summary: That a territory so vast and with so enormous a population, should be so admirably administered, everything considered, by so small a number of white men, is in itself proof of the Dutch genius for ruling subject races. This was scarcely a matter for surprise, however, for the King quite obviously had no use for roads, first, because when he had occasion to journey through his dominions he either rode on horseback or was carried in a palanquin along the narrow jungle trails; secondly, because he was perfectly well aware that by aiding in the construction of roads he would be undermining his own power, for roads would mean white men. keywords: american; bali; body; borneo; british; brown; cambodia; capital; china; chinese; city; coast; colonial; company; country; custom; day; days; djokjakarta; dutch; dyak; east; eastern; elephant; end; english; european; feet; form; french; general; gold; good; government; governor; half; hand; head; holland; home; house; indies; island; java; jungle; king; life; malay; man; means; men; miles; native; new; north; number; officials; open; opium; order; palms; people; pictures; place; resident; river; road; royal; sandakan; sea; set; siam; siamese; sort; states; sultan; sun; tiger; time; water; way; white; women; world; years; yellow; young cache: 27404.txt plain text: 27404.txt item: #155 of 425 id: 27422 author: Richings, Emily title: Through the Malay Archipelago date: None words: 53510 flesch: 51 summary: Every variety of _battek_, basket-work, mats, and quaint silver or brass ware, is brought by native peddlers to the broad verandahs of the hotel, the patient and gentle people content to spend long hours on the marble steps, dozing between their scanty bargains, or crimsoning their months with the stimulating morsel of betel-nut, said to allay the hunger, thirst, and exhaustion of the steaming tropics. The green and vermilion panelled _sarongs_ of Solo are renowned for their elaborate designs, and the painting of _battek_, or cotton cloth, remains a flourishing industry of the ancient capital. keywords: air; archipelago; bamboo; beauty; blue; brown; campong; central; character; children; chinese; coast; colour; creed; dark; day; days; deep; dutch; eastern; english; european; faith; feet; flowers; foliage; forest; form; fruit; garden; gold; golden; green; heart; hills; hindu; houses; island; java; javanese; jungle; leaves; life; light; malay; mountain; native; nature; nutmeg; orange; palm; past; peaks; place; purple; race; red; remains; rice; river; road; round; sacred; scarlet; sea; shore; stone; sun; temple; time; trees; tropical; vegetation; volcanic; water; white; wild; work; world; yellow cache: 27422.txt plain text: 27422.txt item: #156 of 425 id: 27481 author: Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball title: A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia date: None words: 85768 flesch: 71 summary: Now of course that happens in China,--though nowhere else in my journeyings did I encounter such dawdling and shiftlessness,--but there at least you may relieve your feelings by storming a bit and stirring things up; these people, however, looked like Western men, and one simply could not do it. We were now on the great trade route to Lhasa, but between us and the mysterious city lay many days of weary travel. keywords: american; chair; chengtu; china; chinese; chou; city; coolies; country; day; days; east; end; feet; fine; french; good; government; half; hand; house; inn; journey; land; left; life; little; man; men; miles; mongol; mongolia; morning; mountain; new; night; peking; people; place; plain; pony; railway; red; river; road; save; set; szechuan; tachienlu; tea; temple; things; time; town; trail; urga; valley; village; wall; water; way; west; western; white; women; work; years; yunnan cache: 27481.txt plain text: 27481.txt item: #157 of 425 id: 27503 author: De Windt, Harry title: On the Equator date: None words: 30824 flesch: 66 summary: The latter were, however, _bonâ fide_ ones, some 400 years old, and came from China. Sickness, death, and every kind of misfortune, are attributed to the latter, while _Batara_ is the accredited author of every blessing. keywords: board; borneo; brooke; bull; country; day; days; dutch; dyak; feet; fort; government; half; head; house; journey; kuching; leave; left; malay; miles; night; place; raja; rejang; resident; river; sadong; sarawak; sea; stream; time; tribe; water; way; years cache: 27503.txt plain text: 27503.txt item: #158 of 425 id: 27547 author: Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir title: British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo date: None words: 66354 flesch: 60 summary: The latter are known as _anak mas_, and are the children of a slave mother by a free man other than her master. A lady friend of mine, who found a difficulty in acquiring Malay, pronounced _nanti dahulu_, or _nanti dulu_ as generally spoken, nanty doodle, and suggested that the nanty doodles could be a good name for the Brunai Malays. keywords: borneo; borneo company; british; british north; brooke; brunai; brunai river; capital; case; chief; chinese; coast; colony; company; country; day; dutch; east; english; european; feet; following; general; good; government; governor; head; house; island; jungle; labuan; land; little; malay; man; miles; natives; new; north borneo; officers; people; population; position; present; principal; raja; river; royal; sandakan; sarawak; singapore; sir; slave; spanish; state; sultan; sulu; territory; time; tobacco; trade; water; way; west; work; years cache: 27547.txt plain text: 27547.txt item: #159 of 425 id: 27556 author: Reid, Thomas H. title: Across the Equator: A Holiday Trip in Java date: None words: 20616 flesch: 63 summary: Goitre is usually associated with people living in mountainous regions, yet we never noticed it in the Preanger and scarcely at all on the mountains of East Java. The Health Resort of East Java. keywords: batavia; british; budur; buitenzorg; crater; day; djocjakarta; dutch; east; english; european; feet; general; governor; half; hotel; island; java; left; life; morning; mountain; native; people; pony; raffles; road; sindanglaya; singapore; sourabaya; temples; time; train; visitor; water; way cache: 27556.txt plain text: 27556.txt item: #160 of 425 id: 27568 author: McDougall, Henriette title: Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak date: None words: 63721 flesch: 78 summary: Then the Dyaks, darting about in little boats, speared the big fishes, and caught the small ones in landing-nets. Then, when the last gleam of colour has faded, to find the Chinaman lighting the lamps in the verandah, and little dusky faces peeping out, to know if you will sing with them Twinkle, twinkle, little star, or the hymn about the Purple-headed mountain and river running by, which must have surely been written for Sarawak children. keywords: 8vo; bishop; boards; boat; borneo; boys; brooke; captain; children; chinese; christian; church; cloth; country; day; days; dyaks; england; english; fort; good; government; head; home; house; husband; jungle; left; life; little; malay; man; map; men; mission; morning; mrs; new; night; people; pirates; place; rajah; return; rev; river; room; round; sarawak; school; singapore; sir; time; town; trees; water; white; women; years cache: 27568.txt plain text: 27568.txt item: #161 of 425 id: 27749 author: Keyser, Arthur Louis title: From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India date: None words: 28625 flesch: 65 summary: Mr. X., whose impressions and mild adventures I have undertaken the task of editing, has asked me to narrow his personal introduction to such limits as is consistent with the courtesy due to my readers, if haply I find any. Here in Singapore X. need envy no one, for was he not to go out after dinner and hear a band in the moonlight, and a band played by Europeans? keywords: abu; chapter; club; country; day; dutch; english; good; home; host; hotel; house; java; lady; left; little; man; native; official; people; place; pura; room; round; singapore; table; time; town; train; traveller; usoof; way cache: 27749.txt plain text: 27749.txt item: #162 of 425 id: 27801 author: Gomes, Edwin Herbert title: Children of Borneo date: None words: 30241 flesch: 81 summary: Large crown 8vo, with eight Coloured Illustrations, cloth 1s 6d _net_ THE MOSLEM DOCTRINE OF GOD. Large crown 8vo, cloth 15s _net_ The Discourses, commonly known as the Analects, contain the sayings of the Sage as recorded by his disciples. keywords: 8vo; birds; book; borneo; children; cloth; crown; day; deer; dyak; dyak house; feast; food; good; head; house; illustrations; jungle; life; man; men; missionary; missions; net; people; round; siu; spirits; time; war; women; work; world; years cache: 27801.txt plain text: 27801.txt item: #163 of 425 id: 27802 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Darius the Great Makers of History date: None words: 55149 flesch: 63 summary: When once in Asia Minor, he would join the rebellion, and bid Darius defiance. There was also a young man, then about twenty years of age, in one of his capitals, named Darius. keywords: army; bridge; brother; cambyses; city; country; course; cyrus; darius; day; democedes; expedition; fact; father; fleet; government; histiæus; island; king; length; man; manner; means; men; people; persian; place; plan; power; return; scythians; sea; smerdis; son; susa; thought; throne; time; way cache: 27802.txt plain text: 27802.txt item: #164 of 425 id: 27861 author: Macaulay, W. Hastings title: Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas date: None words: 57763 flesch: 65 summary: The being described as _beautiful_, oh beautiful as an angel was she! At long intervals _sail ho_! keywords: 12mo; anchor; anger; appearance; bay; board; boat; canton; cape; chapter; china; chinese; city; country; course; day; days; death; description; dutch; east; english; feet; fine; fire; general; good; government; governor; harbor; head; home; hong; house; island; kong; life; line; long; macào; man; manilla; men; miles; morning; new; night; number; officers; old; people; place; point; position; river; sea; ship; shore; thing; time; town; trade; typa; visit; water; way; whampoa; years cache: 27861.txt plain text: 27861.txt item: #165 of 425 id: 27886 author: Elwin, Edward Fenton title: India and the Indians date: None words: 84572 flesch: 69 summary: But many Indian boys are slow in learning the duties of their office, whatever it may be. It is often the very stiffness and rigidity of English methods which hinders their acceptability amongst Indian people. keywords: books; boys; brahmin; bungalow; caste; chapter; character; children; christian; christianity; church; city; country; course; custom; day; deal; dress; england; english; englishman; fact; food; god; good; hand; head; hindu; hinduism; home; house; indian; kind; land; life; man; matter; men; mind; mission; money; morning; mother; native; nature; night; number; order; people; pictures; place; police; poona; post; present; religion; result; round; sort; things; time; village; water; way; women; work; years; yerandawana cache: 27886.txt plain text: 27886.txt item: #166 of 425 id: 27901 author: Karpeles, Gustav title: Jewish Literature and Other Essays date: None words: 100966 flesch: 62 summary: There were also Jewish _littérateurs_: the dramatist Ezekielos; Jason; Philo the Elder; Aristobulus, the popularizer of the Aristotelian philosophy; Eupolemos, the historian; and probably the Jewish Sybil, who had to have recourse to the oracular manner of the pagans to proclaim the truths of Judaism, and to Greek figures of speech for her apocalyptic visions, which foretold, in biblical phrase and with prophetic ardor, the future of Israel and of the nations in contact with it. Certain beneficent forces, either continuing in action from the former period, or arising out of the new concatenation of circumstances, were in operation: Jewish exiles from Spain carried their culture to the asylums hospitably offered them in the Orient and a few of the European countries, notably Holland; the art of printing was spreading, the first presses in Italy bringing out Jewish works; and the sun of humanism and of the Reformation was rising and shedding solitary rays of its effulgence on the Jewish minds then at work. keywords: abraham; age; ages; arabic; author; ben; berlin; bible; book; century; character; children; christian; course; culture; david; day; days; death; development; faith; family; father; form; forth; friend; future; general; german; god; good; great; greek; hand; heart; hebrew; heine; high; history; holy; house; humor; ibn; interest; isaac; israel; jewish; jews; joseph; judah; judaism; king; land; language; law; legend; life; light; literary; literature; lord; love; maimonides; mendelssohn; middle; mind; modern; moses; music; new; people; period; philosophy; place; poetry; poets; praise; rabbi; race; saul; scholar; science; society; solomon; song; spanish; spirit; subject; talmud; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tribes; truth; von; way; wife; women; words; work; world; writer; years; yehuda; young; zunz cache: 27901.txt plain text: 27901.txt item: #167 of 425 id: 27926 author: Smith, J. J. title: In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 date: None words: 68808 flesch: 68 summary: The gentle and musical _o-hi-o_, _good day_, with its softly accented second syllable, and as we pass the earnest _sayonara_, the _au revoir_ of the French, tell us very plainly we are no unwelcome visitors, whilst their bows are the most graceful, because natural, and therefore unaffected, actions it is possible to conceive. The married women have a curious custom--now fast dying out--of blacking their teeth and plucking out their eye-brows to prevent, as their husbands say, other men casting sheep's eyes at them. keywords: admiral; anchor; appearance; bay; board; boat; captain; chapter; china; chinese; city; course; day; days; deck; end; england; english; fact; fair; following; friends; good; hair; half; hand; harbour; head; home; hong; hours; iron; island; japanese; kong; left; like; little; looking; main; making; man; manner; matter; men; morning; nagasaki; night; old; original; people; place; point; port; present; race; sailors; sea; second; set; ship; shore; squadron; time; town; visit; voyage; war; water; way; white; wind; women; work; world; years; yokohama cache: 27926.txt plain text: 27926.txt item: #168 of 425 id: 28117 author: Jones, John P. (John Peter) title: India, Its Life and Thought date: None words: 88763 flesch: 66 summary: Of course, this reaction has found its widest utterances in matters religious; and Hindu men of western culture to-day will applaud, though they will _not_ practise, religious customs and ideas which were laughed at by their class a quarter of a century ago. But it does not follow from this, as those not familiar with Hindu lives are too apt to conclude, that woman is therefore a nonentity and a mere helpless drudge in the family. keywords: action; body; brahman; buddha; caste; caste system; centuries; character; christian; christianity; community; country; day; divine; doctrine; east; fact; faith; family; far; god; government; great; hand; hindu; hindu caste; hinduism; home; human; ideals; incarnation; india; influence; islam; jesus; land; law; life; man; members; men; mind; modern; movement; new; order; people; place; power; present; religion; self; sin; social; soul; south india; spirit; spiritual; supreme; system; thought; time; way; west; woman; work; world; worship; years cache: 28117.txt plain text: 28117.txt item: #169 of 425 id: 28189 author: Cerruti, Giovanni Battista title: My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) date: None words: 68524 flesch: 71 summary: The kind fellow sucked out my wound and knew by its reddish-black colour that the poison used was a mixture of _legop_ and _ipok_ juices, most deadly in its effect. Page_ 5 Chapter II: keywords: alà; author; bamboo; body; chapter; children; civilization; civilized; day; days; death; evil; eyes; fact; family; father; fear; fire; food; forest; form; friends; fruit; good; ground; head; hut; illustration; jungle; kind; leaves; life; long; love; making; malay; man; means; men; mother; nature; night; order; people; place; poisons; reason; sakais; savages; sort; spirit; thought; time; tobacco; trees; village; water; way; wild; women; work cache: 28189.txt plain text: 28189.txt item: #170 of 425 id: 2846 author: Josephus, Flavius title: The Life of Flavius Josephus date: None words: 27321 flesch: 62 summary: Accordingly, those that had received such a charge did as they were bidden, and Jesus came in with a few others; and when I had ordered him to throw down his arms immediately, and told him, that if he refused so to do, he was a dead man, he seeing armed men standing all round about him, was terrified, and complied; and as for those of his followers that were excluded, when they were informed that he was seized, they ran away. Now, when all Galilee was filled with this rumor, that their country was about to be betrayed by me to the Romans, and when all men were exasperated against me, and ready to bring me to punishment, the inhabitants of Tarichee did also themselves suppose that what the young men said was true, and persuaded my guards and armed men to leave me when I was asleep, and to come presently to the hippodrome, in order there to take counsel against me their commander. keywords: city; country; galileans; galilee; jerusalem; john; jonathan; josephus; king; men; multitude; people; romans; thou; tiberias; time; war cache: 2846.txt plain text: 2846.txt item: #171 of 425 id: 2847 author: Josephus, Flavius title: An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades date: None words: 2051 flesch: 45 summary: There will be no more generations of wild beasts, nor will the substance of the rest of the animals shoot out any more; for it will not produce men, but the number of the righteous will continue, and never fail, together with righteous angels, and spirits [of God], and with his word, as a choir of righteous men and women that never grow old, and continue in an incorruptible state, singing hymns to God, who hath advanced them to that happiness, by the means of a regular institution of life; with whom the whole creation also will lift up a perpetual hymn from corruption, to incorruption, as glorified by a splendid and pure spirit. Whosoever shall have lived wickedly and luxuriously may repent; however, there will be need of much time to conquer an evil habit, and even after repentance his whole life must be guarded with great care and diligence, after the manner of a body, which, after it hath been a long time afflicted with a distemper, requires a stricter diet and method of living; for though it may be possible, perhaps, to break off the chain of our irregular affections at once, yet our amendment cannot be secured without the grace of God, the prayers of good men, the help of the brethren, and our own sincere repentance and constant care. keywords: god; hath; men cache: 2847.txt plain text: 2847.txt item: #172 of 425 id: 2850 author: Josephus, Flavius title: The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem date: None words: 236801 flesch: 58 summary: And, in the first place, they showed the great indignation they had at this attempt for a revolt, and for their bringing so great a war upon their country; after which they confuted their pretense as unjustifiable, and told them that their forefathers had adorned their temple in great part with donations bestowed on them by foreigners, and had always received what had been presented to them from foreign nations; and that they had been so far from rejecting any person's sacrifice [which would be the highest instance of impiety,] that they had themselves placed those donation about the temple which were still visible, and had remained there so long a time; that they did now irritate the Romans to take arms against them, and invited them to make war upon them, and brought up novel rules of a strange Divine worship, and determined to run the hazard of having their city condemned for impiety, while they would not allow any foreigner, but Jews only, either to sacrifice or to worship therein. while there is so much juster reasons for Vespasian's being emperor than for Vitellius; as they are themselves more deserving than those that made the other emperors; for that they have undergone as great wars as have the troops that come from Germany; nor are they inferior in war to those that have brought that tyrant to Rome, nor have they undergone smaller labors than they; for that neither will the Roman senate, nor people, bear such a lascivious emperor as Vitellius, if he be compared with their chaste Vespasian; nor will they endure a most barbarous tyrant, instead of a good governor, nor choose one that hath no child 20 to preside over them, instead of him that is a father; because the advancement of men's own children to dignities is certainly the greatest security kings can have for themselves. keywords: account; affairs; alexander; antipater; army; bodies; body; caesar; chapter; cities; city; country; day; dead; death; enemies; enemy; father; fight; fire; god; good; great; hands; hath; herod; horsemen; house; jerusalem; jews; john; josephus; judea; king; lay; left; manner; men; multitude; nation; number; order; parts; people; place; power; rest; return; romans; round; saw; sect; set; simon; slain; slew; soldiers; son; temple; thing; thought; time; titus; vespasian; wall; war; way cache: 2850.txt plain text: 2850.txt item: #173 of 425 id: 28577 author: Barrows, David P. title: The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon date: None words: 11803 flesch: 69 summary: Like other primitive Malayan people who live in the forest, the Ilongot support life by cultivating a forest clearing or kaingin. While I have not had an opportunity of studying the Sakay at first hand, I am tolerably familiar with Negrito and primitive Malayan, and the results of their intermarriage, and every fresh examination of the texts and illustrations above referred to increases my belief that the Sakay, like so many of the types of the Philippines, is an exhibit to the widely diffused Negrito element in Malayan peoples. keywords: communities; hair; head; igorot; ilongot; index; malayan; men; nasal; negrito; people; platyrhinian; reach; stature; type; women cache: 28577.txt plain text: 28577.txt item: #174 of 425 id: 28580 author: Conger, Emily Bronson title: An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China date: None words: 40759 flesch: 78 summary: The room had been especially prepared by the labor of many days spent on tacking flags on the ceiling and side walls, making a very beautiful effect. Every day he and other little devoted natives would bring me bouquets of flowers, stuck on the spikes of a palm or on tooth picks. keywords: american; away; bamboo; boys; chapter; children; church; day; days; family; feet; filipino; flowers; good; hand; home; horses; house; hundreds; iloilo; islands; japanese; jaro; kind; man; manner; men; natives; new; night; officers; people; place; rice; room; saw; soldiers; things; time; town; trees; water; way; white; women; work; years cache: 28580.txt plain text: 28580.txt item: #175 of 425 id: 28667 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series date: None words: 65900 flesch: 67 summary: The different historians through whom we derive our information in respect to the life and adventures of Genghis Khan have related the transactions which occurred after this open outbreak between Temujin and Vang Khan somewhat differently. Makers of History Genghis Khan BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1901 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. keywords: army; battle; camp; city; country; course; death; dominions; emperor; enemy; father; force; general; genghis khan; grand; head; khan; length; man; manner; men; monguls; number; order; people; place; power; prince; river; set; soldiers; son; sultan; temujin; time; town; tribes; troops; vang khan; war; way cache: 28667.txt plain text: 28667.txt item: #176 of 425 id: 28690 author: Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett) title: The Empire of the East date: None words: 91266 flesch: 56 summary: In old Japan the terms soldier and Samurai were synonymous, and the security of the territory of each of the great feudal princes depended on the strength of his army. The _Stonewall Jackson_, I may observe, did not take part in the now almost forgotten battle of Hakodate, which took place at the time of the Revolution, and may be regarded as the expiring effort of old Japan to stay the march of events in that country. keywords: art; century; china; chinese; civilisation; countries; country; course; day; development; doubt; education; effect; english; european; extent; fact; future; good; government; high; history; house; ideas; influence; japan; japanese; kind; knowledge; land; language; law; life; literature; long; man; matter; men; nation; national; number; opinion; past; people; persons; place; position; present; race; reference; regard; religion; respect; schools; state; subject; system; tea; term; time; trade; view; war; work; world; years cache: 28690.txt plain text: 28690.txt item: #177 of 425 id: 28899 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55, 1683-1690 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 86932 flesch: 62 summary: The General, and other great Men have some Guns also in their Houses. He also said that he had come to Filipinas to be poor, where other governors had come to be rich. keywords: account; acts; archbishop; audiencia; auditors; banishment; cabildo; captain; church; city; court; day; days; decree; diaz; dominican; don; don juan; end; english; father; fray; general; good; government; governor; holy; house; islands; juan; juan de; judge; letter; lordship; majesty; manila; matter; men; mindanao; new; order; pardo; people; persons; place; present; province; provincial; religious; royal; sea; ship; society; spanish; sultan; swan; time; trade; vargas; water; way; women; year cache: 28899.txt plain text: 28899.txt item: #178 of 425 id: 28979 author: Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin title: Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories date: None words: 19274 flesch: 80 summary: The games and sports of Japanese children have been so well described by Professor Griffis, that we give, as an Appendix, his account of their doings. Some of the games of Japanese children are of a national character, and are indulged in by all classes. keywords: bamboo; book; boys; cents; children; cloth; cts; day; father; game; girls; grades; grammar; head; history; house; illustrated; illustration; japanese; lessons; life; man; men; mother; new; pages; paper; readers; round; story; time; white; year cache: 28979.txt plain text: 28979.txt item: #179 of 425 id: 29024 author: Andrews, Roy Chapman title: Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' date: None words: 78308 flesch: 77 summary: Already a score of tents dotted the hillside, and _argul_ fires were smoking in the doorways. There were no fresh signs of marmots, hares, or other animals along the river, and I began to suspect what eventually proved to be true, viz., that the valley was a favorite winter camping ground for Mongols, and that all the game had been killed or driven far away. keywords: animal; antelope; camp; car; china; chinese; city; coltman; day; days; desert; dozen; far; feet; grass; great; ground; half; harry; head; hill; hour; hunting; khan; lama; later; left; life; little; long; man; men; miles; mongol; mongolia; morning; motor; mountain; night; north; peking; plains; pony; ram; ridge; rifle; river; road; saw; second; sheep; shot; summit; time; trail; urga; valley; wapiti; way; work; yards; yellow; yvette cache: 29024.txt plain text: 29024.txt item: #180 of 425 id: 29051 author: Hall, Basil title: Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island date: None words: 113266 flesch: 83 summary: | Lyra. |84-|81 | 3-| |29.77|13 29 |112 keywords: .05 |; .50 |; .61 |; .62 |; .64 |; .65 |; .68 |; .69 |; .72 |; .73 |; .74 |; .76 |; .78 |; .80 |; .82 |; .83 |; .84 |; .86 |; .91 |; .94 |; .96 |; .97 |; .98 |; calm |; east |; feet |; horizon |; n |; nne |; nnw |; north |; nw |; s |; sw |; w| |; | -----+-------+----+----+-------+-------+--------+; | -----+-------+----+----+-------+-------+--------+------------------------------; | china; | corea; | e; | ene; | ese; | gulf; | harbour; | japan; | mid; | napakiang; | ne; | noon.|29; | noon.|30; | oie; | pe; | south; | sse; | ssw; | west; | wnw; | wsw; | yellow; | |; | |29.69|38; | |34; | |_friday; | |_monday; | |_saturday; | |_sunday; | |_thursday; | |_tuesday; | |_wednesday; | |about; | |after; | |and; | |appearance; | |at; | |black; | |breeze; | |clear; | |day; | |eastward; | |from; | |has; | |hazy; | |in; | |it; | |light; | |midnight; | |moderate; | |much; | |of; | |pei; | |rain; | |round; | |se; | |sea; | |showers; | |soundings; | |southward; | |squalls; | |swell; | |the; | |towards; | |up; | |we; | |wind; | |with; | º; |-1/2| |; |-1/2|-1/2| |; |118 | cache: 29051.txt plain text: 29051.txt item: #181 of 425 id: 29109 author: Menant, Delphine title: Les Parsis date: None words: 26341 flesch: 70 summary: A Pehlvi inscription on the sides of the Kanheri caves, tells us that a certain number of Parsis visited them on the 2nd of December, 999, and according to another similar Pehlvi inscription, other Parsis seem to have visited them on the 5th of November, 1021. During certain disturbances when Bombay was deprived of its European troops, many Parsis would willingly have enrolled themselves in the army if they had been given the pay of European soldiers. keywords: bombay; century; college; community; country; dastoor; east; english; fire; guebres; india; inhabitants; khan; king; kirman; men; number; parsee; parsis; persia; persians; place; population; religion; sanjan; south; surat; time; town; vol; women; years; yezd; zoroastrians cache: 29109.txt plain text: 29109.txt item: #182 of 425 id: 29314 author: Van Dyke, Henry title: Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit date: None words: 55317 flesch: 74 summary: You may see their flat fur caps, dingy gabardines, long beards and melancholy faces on every street in the drowsy little city, dreaming (among fleas and fevers) of I know not what impossible glories to come. Into that ancient and impenetrable place of hiding and blending enter many little springs and brooks, but the main sources of the river are three. keywords: air; away; black; blue; camp; children; city; country; damascus; dark; day; deep; eyes; feet; fields; flowers; galilee; god; good; gray; great; green; half; heart; hill; holy; houses; jerusalem; jesus; jordan; lake; land; left; life; light; look; man; men; morning; mountains; new; olive; open; palestine; people; place; plain; red; ride; river; road; rock; sea; stream; tents; thy; town; trees; valley; village; walls; water; white; wild; world cache: 29314.txt plain text: 29314.txt item: #183 of 425 id: 29527 author: Fielding, H. (Harold) title: The Soul of a People date: None words: 90573 flesch: 82 summary: He made mistakes as other men do. He learnt as other men learn, through suffering and mistake. keywords: buddha; buddhism; burman; burmese; children; country; day; death; end; faith; forest; friend; girl; good; government; heart; house; husband; king; laws; life; light; love; man; men; monastery; monks; new; pagoda; peace; people; religion; river; soul; teaching; tell; things; thought; time; truth; village; way; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 29527.txt plain text: 29527.txt item: #184 of 425 id: 29546 author: Poe, Clarence Hamilton title: Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions date: None words: 86393 flesch: 62 summary: About 10 per cent of the male population seems to be hauling other men, but 50 per cent, of the female population seems hardly enough to carry the wise and happy-looking little Jap babies--not in go-carts (a go-cart or a hired nurse is almost never seen), but on the back. Most of what he has he owes to his racial heritage; it is only because other men prosper that he prospers. keywords: american; average; boy; cases; caste; cent; children; china; chinaman; chinese; city; conditions; cotton; country; course; day; days; earth; education; empire; english; example; fact; family; farm; farmers; father; feet; general; girls; good; government; half; hand; hindu; home; human; illustration; india; industrial; industry; japanese; korea; labor; land; life; line; little; living; man; manchuria; matter; men; miles; money; nations; new; number; opium; peking; people; place; population; power; rice; saw; school; states; system; things; thousands; time; wages; war; way; white; wife; women; work; world; years; young cache: 29546.txt plain text: 29546.txt item: #185 of 425 id: 29631 author: Groves, Anthony Norris title: Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 date: None words: 84275 flesch: 66 summary: Lord, then, though it cuts nature to the quick, makes me feel its deepest suffering, and meets me under the most complicated forms of trial, yet if it be for thy glory, and her glory, do, dear Lord, thine Almighty will, and we know thou wilt to thy chosen, make light spring up out of darkness. May 22._--Our dear Lord said to his sorrowing disciples, You have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again unto you. keywords: aleppo; armenian; bagdad; children; christ; church; city; coming; daily; day; days; dead; dear; england; faith; father; fear; god; hands; heart; holy; hope; house; letters; life; lord; love; man; months; pasha; people; place; plague; poor; power; present; school; soul; spirit; state; things; time; truth; water; way; work cache: 29631.txt plain text: 29631.txt item: #186 of 425 id: 30064 author: Kelly, R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) title: Peeps at Many Lands: Burma date: None words: 22051 flesch: 66 summary: By thousands of little rills, or rushing torrents which score furrows in its sides, the mountain gives up its store of water to feed the thirsty plains, and with it yields also valuable ores and minerals, which are often carried many many miles away to enrich a people too far removed from the mountain to know the origin of their wealth. There are many other kinds of boats in use, all equally distinctive in character; and even the dug-out canoe is pretty, its fore-foot rising clear of the water in a slight curve, which lends an element of beauty to what would otherwise have been simply a straight log. keywords: bamboo; banks; beauty; burma; burmans; burmese; country; feet; forest; form; ground; irrawaddy; land; life; mandalay; men; pagoda; people; place; rangoon; rice; river; streets; sun; time; town; trees; village; water; women; work cache: 30064.txt plain text: 30064.txt item: #187 of 425 id: 30253 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55, 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 115731 flesch: 70 summary: All is so exactly adapted to necessity, that there is no difference between the chief women and the slaves--as I saw in Joló in the queen herself, and in Samboangan in many other women, not inferior to her in vanity. They employ many other names and endearing expressions in naming their children, relatives, and families, although I believe that the affection that they feel for one another has very little reality. 424. keywords: account; archipelago; arms; body; cause; chapter; chief; children; chinese; combés; country; customs; day; death; delgado; don; dress; españa; fact; father; fear; filipinos; following; food; general; god; gold; good; government; governor; half; hands; house; indians; islands; kind; king; language; laws; left; letter; life; long; love; making; manila; manner; mas; matter; means; men; mindanao; ministers; money; mother; mountains; nations; natives; nature; near; new; number; order; origin; parents; parts; pastells; pay; people; person; philippines; place; point; power; present; purpose; reason; regard; relatives; religious; respect; river; san; sea; slaves; spaniards; spanish; tagálog; things; time; village; visayans; water; way; wear; women; words; work; years cache: 30253.txt plain text: 30253.txt item: #188 of 425 id: 30347 author: La Gironière, Paul P. de title: Adventures in the Philippine Islands date: None words: 84926 flesch: 70 summary: This entreaty was no order: it was a prayer, a supplication, that was addressed to me, consequently I took but little time to reply as follows: Commander, in one hour hence I shall be on my way, and before forty-eight hours are expired you shall have your men here. Sometimes we give them a grand battle at mid-day, and then we meet them face to face, under a burning sun; at other times, during some dark night, we creep in silence to their dwelling-places, and if we be able to surprise any of them we cut off their heads, which we take away with us, and then we get up a feast, such as you have already witnessed. keywords: alila; anna; arms; body; buffalo; captain; care; country; danger; day; days; death; distance; eyes; family; feet; fire; friend; good; ground; half; hand; head; home; house; indians; jala; lake; lieutenant; life; man; manilla; master; moment; morning; mother; mountains; nature; new; night; order; philippines; place; return; set; shore; state; thought; time; trees; village; water; wife; wild; words; years cache: 30347.txt plain text: 30347.txt item: #189 of 425 id: 30350 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 83277 flesch: 59 summary: In addition to these, that residence includes the island of Basilan, and also the island of Joló and the island of Pangotaran, and other islands where many Christians live. Thence the voyage is made between that same island of Manila--which extends as far as the Embocadero, and remains on the right hand--and other islands which lie on the left, to the port of Cabite which is two leguas from Manila. keywords: = =; account; administration; alcalde; audiencia; case; charge; chinese; church; city; college; convent; council; day; de san; death; don; dutch; españa; fact; faith; father; filipinas; following; francisco; fray; general; government; governor; holy; indians; islands; jesus; juan; jurisdiction; king; left; leguas; life; lordship; majesty; manila; matter; mayor; means; men; ministers; missions; natives; number; order; people; philippines; place; present; priests; province; provincial; religious; royal; san; sangleys; santa; secular; society; soldiers; spaniards; time; village; work; year cache: 30350.txt plain text: 30350.txt item: #190 of 425 id: 30397 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 87980 flesch: 61 summary: So much did they do so, that when the new laborers, the sons of the seraph Francisco arrived at the field, there was scarce an island which had not produced most abundant fruit for the granaries of the Church because of the work of the first sowers; as is shown in several places of his history by father Fray Gaspàr de San Agustin; [39] and that lover of truth, father Fray Francisco de San Antonio confesses it, thus honoring as he ought the Augustinian Hiermo [sic]. The year, then, of 1671 came, in which that holy province held their chapter and father Fray Juan de San Phelipe, a native of Nueva España, who had taken our holy habit in the convent of Manila, was elected provincial. keywords: account; administration; antonio; chapter; charge; christians; church; convent; corralat; de la; de san; death; district; don; españa; faith; father; father fray; following; francisco de; fray juan; general; god; good; governor; holy; indians; islands; joló; joseph de; juan de; king; life; manila; means; men; mindanao; ministers; missionaries; missions; moros; mountains; natives; number; order; people; philipinas; place; present; province; provincial; recollects; religious; royal; said; santa; souls; spaniards; time; villages; vol; work; year; zeal cache: 30397.txt plain text: 30397.txt item: #191 of 425 id: 30707 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Cyrus the Great Makers of History date: None words: 56704 flesch: 65 summary: Cyrus was the founder of the ancient Persian empire--a monarchy, perhaps, the most wealthy and magnificent which the world has ever seen. Cyrus was, however, the first of the princes whom it held up conspicuously to the admiration of the world and he rode so gracefully and gallantly on the lofty crest that mankind have given him the credit of raising and sustaining the magnificent billow on which he was borne. keywords: army; astyages; battle; body; child; city; country; course; croesus; cyrus; day; days; fact; grandfather; great; harpagus; herodotus; history; king; life; man; manner; media; men; oracle; panthea; people; persia; place; pleasure; power; respect; return; river; sacian; son; time; way; xenophon; years cache: 30707.txt plain text: 30707.txt item: #192 of 425 id: 31043 author: Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman title: Letters from China and Japan date: None words: 49158 flesch: 75 summary: He is going to arrange for us to go to one somewhere, he did not say where, but it will be accompanied by a grand dinner and will express the magnificence of the new rich as well as the taste of old Japan, to judge from the impressions he gave us. They are a lithe set of little men and look as if they had steel springs to make them go when you look at their course. keywords: america; big; children; china; chinese; city; country; course; day; dinner; emperor; feet; foreign; girls; good; government; hand; home; house; imperial; japanese; look; man; men; morning; new; night; ones; peking; people; place; present; room; saw; school; students; tea; things; time; tokyo; trees; university; way; women; work; years; yesterday cache: 31043.txt plain text: 31043.txt item: #193 of 425 id: 31226 author: Stephens, H. Morse (Henry Morse) title: Rulers of India: Albuquerque date: None words: 59003 flesch: 64 summary: On his return to Portugal Affonso de Albuquerque was very favourably received by King Emmanuel. In 1503 three separate squadrons were despatched to the East from Portugal under the command respectively of Affonso de Albuquerque, the future Governor, Francisco de Albuquerque, his cousin, and Antonio de Saldanha, the last of whom was ordered to explore the African coast and gave his name to Saldanha Bay. keywords: affonso; albuquerque; almeida; calicut; captain; city; coast; cochin; commentaries; de albuquerque; de almeida; death; diu; dom; east; fleet; fortress; francisco; francisco de; gama; goa; governor; history; india; island; joão; king; malacca; men; muhammadan; ormuz; policy; portugal; portuguese; portuguese india; power; rájá; sea; ships; sháh; time; trade; viceroy; way cache: 31226.txt plain text: 31226.txt item: #194 of 425 id: 31571 author: Morris, Charles title: Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese date: None words: 89595 flesch: 70 summary: While little Japan was thus forging swiftly ahead, great China was stolidly holding back. During the long period of the Ashikagas these cunning ecclesiastics had risen to great power. keywords: army; battle; capital; career; chief; china; chinese; city; corea; country; court; day; death; dynasty; emperor; empire; end; enemies; enemy; field; fleet; foes; force; general; gods; government; great; hands; having; head; history; japan; japanese; land; lay; left; life; little; man; men; mikado; military; mongol; people; place; power; prince; realm; sea; ships; shogun; soldiers; son; state; tartar; throne; time; troops; victory; war; way; work; world; years cache: 31571.txt plain text: 31571.txt item: #195 of 425 id: 31572 author: Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce) title: Rulers of India: Akbar date: None words: 52001 flesch: 66 summary: On reaching Gulbahan he sent back to Kábul Akbar and his mother, and marching on Talikán, forced Kámrán to surrender. The accident which deprived Humáyún of his life before the second battle of Pánípat had bestowed upon the young Akbar, then a boy of fourteen, the succession to the empire of Bábar, was, then, in every sense, fortunate for Hindustán. keywords: abulfazl; agra; akbar; army; bairám; battle; bengal; bábar; chief; conquest; country; days; death; delhi; emperor; empire; father; footnote; general; great; hindu; humáyún; india; khán; kábul; man; march; men; mughal; muhammadan; nobles; people; place; power; prince; provinces; punjab; rájá; sháh; son; sovereign; system; time; troops; way; years cache: 31572.txt plain text: 31572.txt item: #196 of 425 id: 31910 author: Shipp, John title: Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment date: None words: 132220 flesch: 68 summary: He said, No; but, continued he, don't you think I like good men in my regiment as well as Colonel K----? Our spirits were so subdued by suffering, and our frames so much reduced and emaciated, that I have seen poor men weep bitterly, they knew not why. keywords: arms; army; brave; breach; camp; captain; close; colonel; company; corps; country; course; cut; day; days; dead; distance; enemy; eye; fire; following; fort; general; good; guns; hand; head; hill; home; honour; hour; india; kind; left; life; little; major; man; manner; march; master; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; native; night; number; officer; orders; party; place; purpose; rajah; regiment; river; round; said; sergeant; service; shipp; shot; sir; soldiers; thought; time; town; troops; war; water; way; wounded; years cache: 31910.txt plain text: 31910.txt item: #197 of 425 id: 31923 author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title: The Pearl of India date: None words: 81946 flesch: 63 summary: The ripe nut falls upon the shore and is floated by tide and wind to other islands and coral reefs, where in due course it propagates itself and in turn begets other seeds which seek new lands in a similar manner and there plant themselves. There are not many such trees as these to be found in the known world. keywords: animals; author; away; birds; body; capital; centuries; ceylon; chapter; city; coast; cocoanut; colombo; condition; country; creatures; day; elephant; english; european; fact; feet; flowers; food; form; fruit; galle; good; government; great; green; half; height; india; island; kandy; leaves; life; man; means; men; miles; mountain; native; nature; new; north; ocean; oriental; palm; pearl; people; period; place; point; present; proper; purpose; rice; ruins; sea; shore; singhalese; size; south; southern; stone; temple; time; town; tree; tropical; water; white; wild; women; years cache: 31923.txt plain text: 31923.txt item: #198 of 425 id: 32086 author: Menpes, Dorothy title: Japan: A Record in Colour date: None words: 49189 flesch: 70 summary: CHILDREN CHAPTER IX CHILDREN A cluster of little Japanese children at play somehow suggests to me a grand picture-gallery, a picture-gallery of a nation. I have known little Japanese painters to ponder for hours, and sometimes weeks, over the placing of this little vermilion stamp so that it shall form perfect balance, and in all probability the picture itself has only taken a few minutes. keywords: art; artist; artistic; black; blossom; children; colour; country; day; english; eyes; face; flower; garden; house; illustration; inchie; japanese; kiyosai; lacquer; life; light; little; look; man; master; men; merchant; nature; people; picture; placing; room; silk; stage; time; way; work cache: 32086.txt plain text: 32086.txt item: #199 of 425 id: 32125 author: Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce) title: Rulers of India: Lord Clive date: None words: 59110 flesch: 66 summary: MAIÁPUR, Watson and Clive at, 81. MALCOLM, Sir John, mentioned, 143: quoted, 169: _Life of Clive_, 103_n_., 143_n_., 198_n_. _Life of Clive_, by Malcolm, 103_n_. keywords: action; alí; arcot; army; attack; bengal; calcutta; clive; command; company; council; court; daulá; enemy; england; english; footnote; force; fort; french; general; governor; india; jafar; lord; madras; man; men; mír; mír jafar; nawáb; officers; place; position; sipáhís; siráj; son; sáhib; súbahdár; time; trichinopoli; troops; war cache: 32125.txt plain text: 32125.txt item: #200 of 425 id: 32206 author: Mabey, Charles Rendell title: The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. date: None words: 37003 flesch: 69 summary: First, JOSEPH O. NYSTROM Salt Lake City Quartermaster, ADNEBYTH L. WILLIAMS Salt Lake City Veterinary, JOHN H. MEREDITH Kaysville EMIL LEHMAN Salt Lake City EMIL V. JOHNSON Salt Lake City ARTHUR W. BROWN Salt Lake City WILLIAM E. KNEAS Salt Lake City CHARLES R. MABEY Bountiful MARK E. BEZZANT Pleasant Grove CORPORALS. SLEATER, HAROLD E. Salt Lake City SMITH, THOMAS R. Logan SORENSON, HANS Salt Lake City SORENSON, JOSEPH F. Salt Lake City SORENSON, KNUD Eureka STATEN, STANLEY Springville STOUT, CHARLES S. Salt Lake City TIPTON, WILLIAM Springville TOMPKINS, ODELL D. Mystic, Conn. TRIPP, FRANCIS B. Salt Lake City VINCENT, FRANK A. Salt Lake City WALQUIST, CHARLES A. Salt Lake City WEBER, GEORGE E. Park City WILLIAMS, ALBERT R. Salt Lake City WONNACOTT, JAMES E. Salt Lake City WYCHERLEY, SAMUEL A. Salt Lake City ZAHLER, JOHN F. Bountiful [Footnote 1: Major Richard W. Young, who originally commanded the battalion, resigned to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and Major Frank A. Grant superceded him as commander of the batteries.] keywords: advance; american; artillery; batteries; battery; captain; city june; corporal; day; days; enemy; filipino; fire; force; general; george; guns; infantry; insurgents; intrenchments; john; lake city; left; lieutenant; lieutenant critchlow; lieutenant naylor; lieutenant webb; line; major; manila; march; men; morning; natives; night; place; position; river; road; salt lake; san; sergeant; soldiers; states; time; town; troops; utah; utah guns; utah men; war; way; work; yards; young cache: 32206.txt plain text: 32206.txt item: #201 of 425 id: 32231 author: Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton) title: Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches date: None words: 102767 flesch: 62 summary: For instance, in Bannu a well-inclined Mullah dare not read a Bible except in secrecy, while in Kurram I have frequently seen Mullahs publicly reading and commenting on the Holy Word to large groups of Khans and other men. Sometimes he will consider that he has vindicated his honour by a murder perpetrated with the foulest treachery; at other times it receives an indelible stain if at some public function he is given a seat below some rival chief. keywords: afghan; afghanistan; alam; bannu; bazaar; bed; border; boys; british; case; chapter; chief; christian; christianity; church; country; day; days; death; doctor; english; father; find; friend; frontier; god; going; good; government; gul; hand; head; hindu; home; hospital; house; india; influence; journey; khan; left; life; man; medical; men; miles; mission; missionary; morning; mountain; muhammadan; mullah; native; night; number; officer; patients; people; place; police; power; prayers; religion; river; round; sahib; school; set; son; taib; thought; time; tribes; valley; village; visit; water; way; wife; women; work; years cache: 32231.txt plain text: 32231.txt item: #202 of 425 id: 3231 author: Baker, Samuel White, Sir title: The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon date: None words: 91275 flesch: 75 summary: There is no doubt that many elephants far exceed this, as I have shot them so large that two tall men could lie at full length from the point of the forefoot to the shoulder; but this is not a common size: the average height at the shoulder would be about seven feet.*(*The males 7 ft.6 in., the females 7 ft., at the shoulder.) Not more than one in three hundred has tusks; they are merely provided with short grubbers, projecting generally about three inches from the upper jaw, and about two inches in diameter; these are called 'tushes' in Ceylon, and are of so little value that they are not worth extracting from the head. In the neighbourhood of Doolana I had killed many elephants some years ago, and I have no doubt we could have had good sport at this time; but V. Baker's leave was so fast expiring, and the natives' accounts of the distance through the Veddah country were so vague, that we had no choice except to push straight through as fast as we could travel, until we should arrive on the Batticaloa path. keywords: ball; bay; buck; ceylon; close; country; day; deep; deer; distance; dogs; elephants; elk; feet; forest; game; grass; ground; gun; half; head; herd; jungle; lake; left; length; man; miles; moment; open; ounce; paces; pack; plain; position; rifle; river; rogue; shooting; shot; sport; time; trees; water; wild; yards cache: 3231.txt plain text: 3231.txt item: #203 of 425 id: 32418 author: Pollard, Edward B. title: Oriental Women date: None words: 108712 flesch: 68 summary: But great women, like great men, sometimes make mistakes, and their blunders are often just at the point where they have achieved greatness. And while one woman of the period became a deliverer for four decades, for more than a century many women suffered untold misery for lack of unity among the tribes and leaders capable of bringing the life of the reign to rights. keywords: ancient; beauty; birth; bride; brother; character; children; chinese; christian; city; country; course; custom; daughter; day; days; death; egypt; egyptian; eyes; fact; family; father; feet; female; form; girl; god; good; hair; hand; harem; head; heart; hebrew; history; home; honor; house; husband; influence; israel; japanese; jewish; king; lady; land; law; length; life; literature; little; love; man; marriage; mohammed; moorish; mother; new; old; order; parents; people; period; persian; place; power; present; prophet; public; queen; religion; right; royal; rule; set; son; sons; sultan; thou; thy; time; way; wife; wives; women; work; world; years cache: 32418.txt plain text: 32418.txt item: #204 of 425 id: 32752 author: Millington, Powell title: To Lhassa at Last date: None words: 35078 flesch: 74 summary: In fact, from here onwards for many days to come, there seemed very little chance of obtaining any grazing for our animals. There were many officers so adorned who made excellent gamekeepers or gillies, and in particular I remember a certain stalwart major whose beard grew in two inverted horns that splayed outwards on his chest, and who was the very image of my father's old gardener. keywords: 8vo; book; british; camp; case; chapter; chumbi; column; country; course; crossing; day; days; enemy; feet; gnatong; gyantse; having; india; jong; lake; left; lhassa; life; man; march; men; miles; mule; night; officer; place; pony; post; river; road; tibetan; time; transport; tsampa; valley; water; way cache: 32752.txt plain text: 32752.txt item: #205 of 425 id: 3308 author: Jenks, Albert Ernest title: The Bontoc Igorot date: None words: 109544 flesch: 74 summary: In language there is such a difference that Bontoc men who accompanied me into the northern part of the large Quiangan area, only a long day from Bontoc pueblo, could not converse with Quiangan men, even about such common things as travelers in a strange territory need to learn. Bontoc men wear their hair long, and have developed a small pocket-hat to confine the hair and contain small objects carried about; the men of Quiangan wear their hair short, have nothing whatever of the nature of the pocket-hat, but have developed a unique hand bag which is used as a pocket. keywords: -the; a'-to; age; american; anito; ato; basket; blade; body; bontoc; bontoc area; bontoc culture; bontoc igorot; bontoc man; bontoc pueblo; boys; camotes; carabao; cent; ceremony; cha; chicken; children; close; cut; day; days; dead; dog; dozen; dwelling; earth; end; family; father; feet; fire; fish; food; foot; girls; great; ground; group; hair; half; hand; harvest; head; hog; home; house; inches; islands; labor; left; life; luzon; man; mang; men; mother; mountain; night; north; palay; people; period; person; place; po'-o; property; province; pueblos; rice; river; salt; samoki; season; second; sementeras; south; spanish; spear; stick; stone; time; trail; water; way; west; white; wild; women; wooden; words; work; years cache: 3308.txt plain text: 3308.txt item: #206 of 425 id: 33131 author: Tagore, Rabindranath title: The Spirit of Japan date: None words: 6947 flesch: 63 summary: I have travelled in many countries and have met with men of all classes, but never in my travels did I feel the presence of the human so distinctly as in this land. There, you do not feel man as supreme; you are hurled against the stupendousness of things that alienates. keywords: civilisation; europe; heart; japan; life; man; men; nature; people; power; time; world cache: 33131.txt plain text: 33131.txt item: #207 of 425 id: 33359 author: Candler, Edmund title: The Unveiling of Lhasa date: None words: 74875 flesch: 72 summary: The guards of a pass are punished for letting white men through, quite irrespective of the opposing odds. They were being hustled by white men who did not draw knives or fire guns. keywords: action; advance; attack; british; camp; captain; chinese; chumbi; city; colonel; companies; country; cut; dalai; day; days; enemy; expedition; feet; fire; force; frontier; general; government; gurkhas; gyantse; half; hills; house; india; infantry; jong; karo; lama; left; lhasa; life; line; man; men; miles; mission; monastery; morning; mountain; pass; people; phari; pioneers; place; plain; position; post; right; river; road; round; shot; thought; tibetans; time; trade; transport; treaty; troops; valley; village; wall; way; yards; years; younghusband cache: 33359.txt plain text: 33359.txt item: #208 of 425 id: 33426 author: Forbes-Mitchell, William title: Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude date: None words: 82363 flesch: 65 summary: In closing this incident I may remark that I have known men get the Victoria Cross for incurring far less danger than Sergeant Findlay did in exposing himself to bring Captain Alison under shelter. As it turned out many men owed their lives to the fact that bullets became spent in passing through the rolled greatcoats before reaching a vital part. keywords: advance; army; artillery; camp; captain; cawnpore; chapter; chief; children; colin; colonel; commander; company; cut; day; days; dead; enemy; english; european; fire; force; general; good; guard; guns; head; hodson; hope; house; india; infantry; left; lucknow; major; man; march; men; morning; mutiny; native; officer; order; place; position; regiment; right; round; saw; second; secundrabâgh; sergeant; shot; shâh; sir; sir colin; time; way; women; wounded; years cache: 33426.txt plain text: 33426.txt item: #209 of 425 id: 33496 author: Taylor, William title: Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan date: None words: 36391 flesch: 60 summary: There have been few men in command whose personal qualities have more endeared him to those who served under him than Sir Henry Fane. Few men have left behind them a memory so associated with every thing that is valuable and estimable in social and military life. keywords: affghan; army; arrival; artillery; bombay; british; cabul; camp; candahar; cavalry; chapter; chief; day; days; enemy; fire; general; ghuznee; hills; horse; infantry; left; lieutenant; light; majesty; men; native; officers; order; party; place; regiment; route; shah; sir; time; town; troops; way cache: 33496.txt plain text: 33496.txt item: #210 of 425 id: 33536 author: Inglis, W. H. title: A report of Major Hart's case, of rice-frauds, near Seringapatam date: None words: 4500 flesch: 56 summary: And we presume, once for all, on this nice point, that there will not be urged the existence of one sort of regulation for a Commissary of _Provisions_, as Captain Macleod is sometimes called, and another for a Commissiary of _Grain_, as Major Hart is always called. Major-General Macaulay subjoins, to this I assented; but elsewhere explains, that with the exception of the conversation that took place with Captain Macleod, when he delivered the original message, I held no communication with Major Hart, but _by letter_. keywords: captain; general; grain; hart; macleod; papers; rice cache: 33536.txt plain text: 33536.txt item: #211 of 425 id: 33712 author: Boulger, Demetrius Charles title: The Life of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar date: None words: 112966 flesch: 60 summary: For some reason or other Beg Kuli Beg does not appear to have been a favourite with the Russians; but this aversion to him was based on some mistake, for Beg Kuli Beg was certainly unfriendly to England, and was scarcely civil to our envoy, Sir Douglas Forsyth. To erect a powerful state on the ruins of the Chinese power, and to unite in some sort of settled government turbulent races and antagonistic sects, was no mean achievement; and to all the credit due to such Yakoob Beg has indisputable claims. keywords: aksu; ameer; army; asia; athalik; british; buzurg; central; chief; china; chinese; cities; city; country; day; eastern; events; fact; force; frontier; general; ghazi; good; government; great; kashgar; khan; khitay; khoja; khokand; khoten; kirghiz; kucha; kuldja; kuli; kuli beg; mahomed; merchants; military; north; order; passim; people; place; policy; portion; position; power; present; question; road; ruler; russian; set; son; state; subjects; success; tashkent; time; town; trade; treaty; tungani; turfan; turkestan; way; yakoob beg; yakoob khan; yarkand; years cache: 33712.txt plain text: 33712.txt item: #212 of 425 id: 34096 author: Paine, Albert Bigelow title: The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise date: None words: 103740 flesch: 79 summary: All the pilgrims were old men, for the Moslem, like most of the rest of us, puts off his spiritual climax until he has acquired his material account. Yes, we could go up there--all in good time. keywords: algiers; apostle; believe; book; city; course; damascus; day; days; deal; donkeys; east; egypt; end; english; far; feet; find; good; guide; habib; half; hand; high; hill; holy; home; hotel; house; illustration; jerusalem; king; land; laura; life; little; look; man; matter; men; mind; morning; mosque; new; night; nile; outside; party; people; picture; place; rest; room; saw; sea; set; ship; sort; stone; story; streets; sun; temple; things; think; thought; time; tomb; walls; water; way; work; world; years cache: 34096.txt plain text: 34096.txt item: #213 of 425 id: 34199 author: Phillips, E. C. (Edith Caroline) title: Peeps Into China; Or, The Missionary's Children date: None words: 37163 flesch: 80 summary: You were saying the other day, father, that Chinese people smoke something else besides tobacco? I cannot think how Chinese people understand either their writing or their conversation. keywords: boy; canton; children; china; chinese; day; father; god; good; graham; hong; houses; illustration; know; kong; leonard; little; man; men; mother; parents; people; river; sybil; tea; tell; things; thought; time; years cache: 34199.txt plain text: 34199.txt item: #214 of 425 id: 34324 author: Hoover, Thomas title: Zen Culture date: None words: 69138 flesch: 64 summary: The Zen aesthetes also added the notion of _yugen_, an extension of _aware _into the region of poignant foreboding. The concept of _yugen_, the incompleteness that triggers, poetic emotions in the listener's mind is, as has been previously noted, an extension of the Heian concept of _aware_. keywords: = =; aesthetic; age; architecture; arts; ashikaga; beauty; bodhidharma; buddha; buddhism; centuries; century; century zen; ceramics; ceremony; ch'an; china; chinese; era; flower; form; garden; haiku; hand; heian; hideyoshi; history; house; ink; japanese; kyoto; landscape; life; man; meditation; mind; nature; new; new york; painting; pavilion; period; poetry; press; religion; room; samurai; school; sect; sense; set; stones; style; sung; taste; tea; tea ceremony; temple; time; today; water; western; work; world; years; yoshimasa; zen; zen art; zen artists; zen buddhism; zen culture; zen garden; zen ideals; zen landscape; zen masters; zen monks; zen painting; zen tea cache: 34324.txt plain text: 34324.txt item: #215 of 425 id: 34341 author: Okakura, Yoshisaburo title: The Japanese Spirit date: None words: 22153 flesch: 58 summary: During all these troublous days, the original Contemplative sect, paralleled soon after its establishment in Japan by a new school called _Sôtô_, as it was again supplemented by another, the _Ôbaku_ school, five centuries afterwards, found ample material to propagate its special method of enlightenment. Philaster_, Act. keywords: buddhism; centuries; century; china; chinese; day; doctrine; eyes; form; history; idea; japanese; language; life; man; mind; nature; order; people; present; sense; spirit; tea; things; thought; time; virtue; way; words; world cache: 34341.txt plain text: 34341.txt item: #216 of 425 id: 34384 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 89843 flesch: 49 summary: In this operation he showed his skill as much as Don Juan de Vargas displayed his great bravery and endurance, which aroused admiration. On the day of our Lady's nativity Don Juan de Vargas entered Manila, being received with great festivities; there were two ingenious triumphal arches, which were erected by the religious orders of our father St. Augustine and the Society, because both had their houses on the principal street through which the procession would pass. keywords: account; antonio; antonio de; archbishop; ask; audiencia; auditor; case; chapter; charge; china; church; city; convent; curas; day; de la; de vargas; death; decree; delegate; diego de; don; don diego; don francisco; don fray; don josé; don juan; don manuel; españa; father; father fray; filipinas; fray; fray juan; galleon; general; general don; god; good; government; governor; governor don; holy; islands; josé de; juan de; jurisdiction; king; life; majesty; manila; master; minister; mission; native; new; nueva; office; order; parish; people; persons; place; present; priests; province; provincial; regulars; religious; reverend; royal; san; shall; spanish; time; villages; voyage; year cache: 34384.txt plain text: 34384.txt item: #217 of 425 id: 35349 author: Das, Chitta Ranjan title: Freedom Through Disobedience date: None words: 18632 flesch: 64 summary: As regards morality apart from the ethics of Non-co-operation, it has been urged that entering the Councils for the purpose of ending the Councils is unfair and dishonest. I cannot conceive of anything better calculated to strengthen the cause of Non-co-operation than this. keywords: bureaucracy; congress; councils; government; india; law; life; nation; national; non; operation; order; people; power; question; swaraj; truth; work cache: 35349.txt plain text: 35349.txt item: #218 of 425 id: 35391 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 87993 flesch: 69 summary: But the journey of the alcalde-mayor of Cagayan was not in vain, for father Fray Pedro had formerly treated with some heathens of a place called Ambayao to descend to the new villages, and now by the aid of the alcalde and his men father Fray Pedro went down to the said Indians, with their wives, families, and household goods, and reaching the village of Ytugug with them, they were allowed to choose a site in which to live. Hence father Fray Pedro was ordered to cease to bring heathens to settle if troops and escorts were needed for that purpose. keywords: bay; brother; cagayan; census; chapter; chief; chinese; christians; convent; customs; datos; datu; day; death; district; domingo; dávao; end; faith; father fray; fathers; fear; feast; following; form; francisco; fray juan; god; good; governor; heathens; holy; house; indians; inhabitants; islands; juan; language; letter; life; mandayas; manila; manner; means; men; mindanao; mission; missionaries; moros; mountains; near; new; number; order; pablo; pedro; people; person; philippines; place; present; province; provincial; race; reduction; return; reverence; sacrifices; san; santa; sea; son; sooloo; spaniards; spanish; sultan; things; time; trade; use; village; water; work; years cache: 35391.txt plain text: 35391.txt item: #219 of 425 id: 35511 author: Gulick, Sidney Lewis title: Working Women of Japan date: None words: 27799 flesch: 63 summary: She has devoted the larger part of her time for fifteen years to work among factory girls, and on the whole can report improvement. The difficulties connected with private boarding-houses for factory girls have proved so great that most of them have been closed. keywords: children; christian; classes; conditions; day; education; factories; factory; factory girls; families; family; geisha; girls; government; home; hours; industrial; japan; japanese; life; new; night; number; parents; time; women; work; working; years cache: 35511.txt plain text: 35511.txt item: #220 of 425 id: 35711 author: Wolf, Lucien title: The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion date: None words: 14644 flesch: 60 summary: All this literature, while expounding exactly the same theory of a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy as the _Morning Post_, is as violently anti-English as it is anti-Masonic and anti-Jewish. It took more definite political shape in the tracts and broadsheets, afterwards collected by the German Evangelical Clericals under the title of _Anabaptisticum et Enthusiasticum Pantheon_, which, among other fearsome things, explained the Puritan Revolution in England--the Bolshevism of its day--as a plot against Christianity and Monarchy contrived by the _Quäcker, Frey-Geister und Heil- und Gottlosen Juden_.[26] In the early eighteenth century its specifically anti-Jewish aspects were emphasised by the misapplied learning of Eisenmenger, whose anti-Semitic classic, Entdecktes Judenthum, was published at the cost of King Frederick of Prussia.[27] keywords: anti; bolshevism; christian; conspiracy; freemasonry; german; goedsche; jews; lenin; marx; morning; morning post; new; nilus; order; post; protocols; revolution; russian; theory; time; world cache: 35711.txt plain text: 35711.txt item: #221 of 425 id: 35809 author: Hunter, William Wilson title: Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo date: None words: 50770 flesch: 63 summary: MARIE Antoinette, 71. MAYO, Countess of, 16, 41, 192. MAYO, Earl of, attitude towards the people and princes of India, 10-11: his foreign policy, 11-12: internal administration, 12-14: financial reforms, 14-15: ancestors and youth, 17-24: travels on the Continent, 25-6: Trinity College, Dublin, 26: entrance into society, 27: tour in Russia, 28-35: work during the potato disease and Irish famine, 35-6: Parliamentary contests and views regarding the Union and the Established Church, 36-7: becomes Lord Naas, 37: first speech in Parliament, 38: appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, 39-40: his Irish measures, again Chief Secretary, 42-47: third time Chief Secretary for Ireland, 48: Irish insurrection dealt with, 49-50: declines the Governor-Generalship of Canada, 54-5: offer of the Viceroyalty of India, 54-55: letters to his sons, 57-59: Master of Kildare Fox-hounds, 60-64: preparation work at the India office, &c., 65: his appointment attacked in the Press, 65-7: his Will, 68: his Indian voyage, 70-76: inspects Suez Canal, 72: arrival at Aden, 73: at Bombay, 75: at Madras, 75-6: at Calcutta, 77-9: his method of work as Viceroy, 80-97: a day's work, 91-4: his tact, 95-7: his dealings with the Feudatory States, 98-118: his policy towards the Rájput Princes, 100-102: dealings with Káthiáwár, 105-6: with the State of Alwár, 107-110: with Bhopál, 111-2: his views regarding the frontier and Lúshai tribes, 112-116: his Foreign Policy, 119-35: towards Afghánistán, 119-30: towards Balúchistán, 130-32: towards Eastern Turkestán, 132-35: his Financial Reforms, 136-57: results, table of, 140: reduction of Public Works Expenditure, 144: introduces his system of Local Finance, or 'Financial Decentralisation,' 149-54: the Income Tax, 154-55: Table of Revenue and Expenditure under his rule, 156: his Military Policy, 158-70: his plan for retrenchment of military expenditure, 159-69: his care for the well-being of the troops, 169-70: his Internal Administration, 171-86: his official tours and inspection of Public Works, 171-74: Railways, 176-7: Irrigation, 177-8: Education, 179-81: First Census of India taken, 181: Organisation of the Statistical Survey, 182: and of the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, 182-3: his hospitality, 185-6: the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, 185-6: his jail reforms, 186-93: penal settlement of the Andamans, and death-rate in, 188: state of discipline, 188-9: his reforms, 189-91: his visit to Burma, 191: his visit to the Andamans, 192-95: his assassination, 195-7: death, 196-201. MILITARY Policy, 158-70: Reductions of the Native and European armies by Lord Lawrence, 158: Lord Mayo's plan for retrenchment of military expenditure, 159-69: and his care for the welfare of the troops, 169-70. MOUNT HARRIET, 192-94. MUTINY, INDIAN, results of, 7-9, 13. NAAS, Lord, 37. To Lord Mayo, as we shall see, fell the more beneficent work of conciliation: the task of infusing into the old sense of self-interest new sentiments of loyalty, and of awakening new conceptions of solidarity between the Feudatory Chiefs and the Suzerain Power. keywords: administration; army; bengal; british; chief; council; country; day; department; earl; english; expenditure; financial; frontier; general; good; government; governor; india; ireland; left; life; lord mayo; lord naas; man; measures; member; military; millions; native; new; office; party; people; place; policy; pounds; power; public; secretary; sir; state; system; time; viceroy; work; years; | | cache: 35809.txt plain text: 35809.txt item: #222 of 425 id: 35899 author: Rizal, José title: The Philippines a Century Hence date: None words: 15887 flesch: 56 summary: Let us see what History says: uprisings and revolutions have always occurred in countries tyrannized over, in countries where human thought and the human heart have been forced to remain silent. Absence of any great preponderance of one race over the others will free their imagination from all mad ambitions of domination, and as the tendency of countries that have been tyrannized over, when they once shake off the yoke, is to adopt the freest government, like a boy leaving school, like the beat of the pendulum, by a law of reaction the Islands will probably declare themselves a federal republic. keywords: colonies; country; filipinos; future; government; inhabitants; islands; liberty; life; order; people; philippines; present; press; race; reforms; rizal; spain; spanish; spirit; time; world; years cache: 35899.txt plain text: 35899.txt item: #223 of 425 id: 36438 author: Coleman, Ambrose title: The Friars in the Philippines date: None words: 34993 flesch: 58 summary: We must, perforce, conclude that in the Philippines, as in other countries, it is simply lack of vocations that keeps the number of the native clergy at such a low ebb. These are my aims, and to their realization I have devoted myself with earnestness, taking for my programme--if I might so express it--the advancement and strengthening of the civil authority, the spreading of civilization and learning, so that the country may enjoy at no distant date the blessings that have come to other countries through the same means. keywords: america; archipelago; catholic; christian; church; country; day; education; father; freemasonry; friars; general; government; islands; lodges; manila; missionaries; missionary; natives; new; number; orders; people; philippines; population; present; priests; protestant; rebellion; religion; schools; society; spain; spanish; time; work; world; years cache: 36438.txt plain text: 36438.txt item: #224 of 425 id: 36542 author: Blount, James H. (James Henderson) title: The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 date: None words: 197390 flesch: 58 summary: These resolutions concluded thus: That the United States hereby disclaim any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said islands except for the pacification thereof, and assert their determination when an independent government shall have been duly erected therein entitled to recognition as such, to transfer to said government, upon terms which shall be reasonable and just, all rights secured under the cession by Spain, and to thereupon leave the government and control of the islands to their people. Being aware, says Mr. Pratt, of the great prestige of General Aguinaldo with the insurgents, and that no one, either at home or abroad, could exert over them the same influence and control that he could, I determined at once to see him. keywords: admiral; aguinaldo; aguinaldo government; american; archipelago; army; august; authority; batangas; case; cavite; chapter; city; civil; commission; congress; country; course; court; cuba; date; day; december; department; dewey; district; document; fact; filipinos; force; general; general aguinaldo; general anderson; general lawton; general macarthur; good; government; governor; governor taft; hemp; home; idea; independence; insurgent; insurrection; islands; judge; july; june; left; letter; life; little; long; luzon; manila; march; matter; mckinley; merritt; miles; military; new; north; november; october; order; otis; peace; people; philippine; philippine commission; philippine government; philippine islands; philippine people; policy; population; present; president; proclamation; province; public; purpose; question; report; right; roosevelt; samar; secretary; self; senate; senator; september; set; situation; spain; spanish; states; taft; taft commission; time; town; treaty; troops; united; united states; vol; war; war department; war taft; washington; way; work; years cache: 36542.txt plain text: 36542.txt item: #225 of 425 id: 36545 author: Kloss, C. Boden (Cecil Boden) title: In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" date: None words: 133891 flesch: 69 summary: The natives have no temples or any form of worship, but there have come into being _shamans_ or priest-doctors, known as _tamiluanas_ and _menluanas_, who have the power of communicating with the spirits, and by means of certain ceremonies, in conjunction with the use of rods, particular leaves, and ashes, periodically, by open warfare and by magic, drive the malignant demons from such places in man's neighbourhood as they may have intruded into, or defeat them when prevailing disease or misfortune can be traced to their agency. _N. E._ keywords: ------------+----------+----------+ |; a. n.; account; andaman; andamanese; appearance; area; bay; beach; birds; black; blair; boat; canoe; captain; case; chapter; chaura; children; chinese; coast; coconuts; coral; day; days; distance; east; elpanam; end; feet; fish; food; forest; form; fruit; general; good; grass; great; group; half; hand; harbour; head; houses; inhabitants; interior; islands; jungle; k.n; kar; kar nicobar; kind; leaves; left; life; little; low; man; means; men; miles; morning; names; nankauri; natives; new; nicobar; nicobar islands; nicobarese; night; north; number; open; palm; pe[.n; people; pigs; place; point; population; port; present; pulo; rattan; red; river; round; saw; sea; settlement; shom; shore; south; species; spirits; time; trees; vessel; village; visit; water; way; west; white; wind; women; wood; work; years; young; | +; | cynopterus; | elephantiasis; | female; | girth; | inches; | |; | |r|; | ||; || | cache: 36545.txt plain text: 36545.txt item: #226 of 425 id: 37186 author: Hara, Katsuro title: An Introduction to the History of Japan date: None words: 104092 flesch: 56 summary: While a _daimyo_ was absent in his territory, a _samurai_ of his, belonging to this metropolitan group, was entrusted with the care of his residences and their occupants in Yedo, and also with the duty of receiving orders from the Shogunate or of transacting inter-territorial business with representatives of other _daimyo_ at Yedo. Not only in the neighbourhood of the province of Yamato, in which the emperors of old time used to have their residence, but also in several distant provinces new _miyake_ were organised. keywords: account; age; ainu; art; ashikaga; beginning; buddhism; century; china; chinese; city; civilisation; class; country; course; court; culture; daimyo; emperor; empire; end; fact; family; fujiwara; general; government; great; hand; history; imperial; influence; japan; japanese; kamakura; kyoto; land; life; literature; long; means; military; nation; national; new; nobles; number; order; page; people; period; power; progress; provinces; régime; samurai; shogunate; state; system; territory; time; tokugawa; war; warriors; way; years cache: 37186.txt plain text: 37186.txt item: #227 of 425 id: 37411 author: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry) title: A Primer of Assyriology date: None words: 22232 flesch: 64 summary: The religions of Babylonia and Assyria--Differences between Babylonian and Assyrian religion--Sumerian religion Shamanistic-- Two centres of Babylonian religion--Semitic influence--The goddess Istar--Bel-Merodach--Other deities--Sacred books and ritual--The Priests--The Temples--Astro-theology--Sacrifices and offerings--The Sabbath--Monotheistic tendency--The future life--Cosmology 80 CHAPTER V BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE Aids to the reading of the texts--The libraries--Varieties of literature--The texts autotypes--Astronomy--Mathematics--Medicine and law--History and mythology--The Chaldaean epic and the Deluge--Epic of the Creation 95 CHAPTER VI SOCIAL LIFE The Contract-tablets--Married Life--Burial--Slavery--Lowness of Wages--Property--Taxes--Prices--Usury--The Army--Navy--The Bureaucracy 109 APPENDIX Assyrian Measures of Length--Measures of Capacity--Measures of Weight and Coinage--The Months of the Year 118 Babylonian Kings--Assyrian Kings--High Priests of Assur--Kings of Assyria 120 Synchronisms between Assyrian and Biblical History 125 The Principal Deities of Babylonia and Assyria 126 A PRIMER OF ASSYRIOLOGY CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE Geography.--The civilizations of Babylonia and Assyria grew up on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. Hincks also discovered the name of Nebuchadrezzar in the Babylonian inscriptions, and by the further discovery that an inscription brought from Babylon by Sir Robert Ker-Porter, which was written in the complicated characters of early Babylonia, was a duplicate of one in the 'Neo-Babylonian' characters of the Achaemenian era, he made it possible to read the oldest forms of Babylonian script. keywords: assur; assyrian; b.c; babylonia; bel; characters; country; cuneiform; decipherment; dynasty; empire; god; inscriptions; king; language; later; merodach; names; nineveh; pal; pileser; religion; sargon; semitic; sennacherib; son; texts; tiglath; time; years cache: 37411.txt plain text: 37411.txt item: #228 of 425 id: 37539 author: Anonymous title: The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem date: None words: 80986 flesch: 65 summary: Did you ever see Jewish people so victimized? Many have professed to see in this circumstance a conscious organization of Jewish power for Gentile control, while others have attributed the circumstance to Jewish racial sympathies, to the continuity of their family affairs down the line of descent, and to the increase of collateral branches. keywords: american; anti; article; bolshevism; business; capital; control; countries; country; course; fact; gentile; germany; good; government; group; hard; jewish; jews; know; land; life; man; matter; mind; money; nation; new; people; plan; point; power; present; press; protocols; public; purpose; question; race; russia; society; states; things; thought; time; today; united; united states; war; way; words; work; world; world program; world war cache: 37539.txt plain text: 37539.txt item: #229 of 425 id: 37587 author: St. Clair, Francis title: The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune date: None words: 63406 flesch: 60 summary: In Spanish times the native enemies of the Religious Orders were the enemies of Spain and in these days, the enemy of the friar is by no means a real friend, whatever he may claim to be, of the Government of of the U. S. Previous to his return to Manila Rizal lived some time in Hong-Kong. keywords: archipelago; arms; association; authorities; blanco; bonifacio; council; country; day; del; filipino; following; francisco; freemasonry; general; good; government; governor; hands; house; idea; independence; indian; islands; japan; japanese; josé; juan; katipunan; liga; lodge; manila; members; money; native; note; number; orders; people; persons; philippines; pilar; place; president; propaganda; revolt; rizal; society; spain; spaniards; spanish; supreme; tagalog; time; valenzuela; way; work; year cache: 37587.txt plain text: 37587.txt item: #230 of 425 id: 37722 author: Sivachandra Vasu title: The Hindoos as They Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal date: None words: 107933 flesch: 58 summary: The history of _Peeralee_ is thus given by Mr. Ward: A Nabob of the name of _Peeralee_ is charged with having destroyed the rank of many Hindus, Brahmins and others; and from these persons have descended a very considerable number of families scattered over the country, who have been branded with the name of their oppressor. These are arranged in large round wooden or brass plates, and a bit of flower or _bell_ leaf is cast upon them to guard against their being desecrated by the demon Ravana, who is supposed to take delight in insulting the gods and goddesses; the officiating priest then consecrates them all by repeating a short mantra and sprinkling flowers and _bell_ leaves on them, particular regard being had to the worship of the whole host of deities according to their respective position in the Hindoo pantheon. keywords: baboo; bengal; body; boy; brahmins; bridegroom; calcutta; cases; caste; ceremony; character; children; clothes; country; day; days; death; doorga; english; fact; families; family; father; female; festival; following; food; friends; fruits; general; girl; goddess; gold; good; government; great; hand; head; heart; hindoo; holy; home; house; husband; india; influence; kali; law; life; love; man; marriage; milk; mind; money; month; morning; mother; native; nature; night; occasion; offerings; order; ornaments; people; place; poojah; present; priest; public; religion; return; rice; rupees; sacred; set; silver; society; son; spirit; state; sweetmeats; system; time; water; way; wife; women; work; world; worship; years cache: 37722.txt plain text: 37722.txt item: #231 of 425 id: 37741 author: Moss, C. R. (Claude Russell) title: Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) date: None words: 16796 flesch: 79 summary: There are Kankanay ceremonies corresponding in purpose to nearly all the Nabaloi ceremonies, but as a rule the spoken ritual is quite different. (Nabaloi ceremonies also Chuntog, celebrated after a quarrel so that Diau Kasib sores will not result.) keywords: adi; agou; ampasit; benguet; benguet kankanay; cause; ceremonies; ceremony; chicken; children; cure; dead; din; following; hand; house; igorot; kabigat; kankanay; kano; lepanto; mambunong; man; maybungan; meat; nabaloi; palis; pay; people; person; prayer; purpose; rice; san; sickness; sin; souls; spirits; tan; tapuy; towns; usay; waday; yan cache: 37741.txt plain text: 37741.txt item: #232 of 425 id: 37782 author: Casserly, Gordon title: Life in an Indian Outpost date: None words: 97033 flesch: 76 summary: But a curious bit of _shikar_ fell to my lot one day. His letter said: RAJABHATKAWA, 14-1-09. MY DEAR CASSERLY,--Yours of 11-1-09 _re_ elephant. keywords: animal; bank; bed; bhutan; british; bungalow; buxa; close; country; day; days; death; detachment; elephant; english; face; feet; fire; foot; forest; fort; general; good; government; ground; guard; half; head; hills; indian; jungle; kill; left; life; line; maharajah; man; men; miles; military; months; morning; native; near; night; nullah; officer; open; party; rifle; river; road; rogue; room; sepoys; shooting; shot; spot; state; station; tea; tiger; time; trees; undergrowth; village; water; way; white; wild; work; yards cache: 37782.txt plain text: 37782.txt item: #233 of 425 id: 37839 author: Johnstone, James, Sir title: My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills date: None words: 81832 flesch: 66 summary: Every day many men were footsore, and reached camp, hours after me and my Manipuris. It was not considered etiquette for men too often to frequent the bazaars, and few Manipuris did so, but crowds of hill-men were constantly to be seen there, and it presented a very gay and animated scene, the contrast between the snow-white garments of Manipuri men, the parti-coloured petticoats of the women, and the many-coloured clothes of the hill-men being very picturesque. keywords: assam; british; burmese; cachar; capital; captain; case; chapter; chief; children; colonel; country; day; days; feet; force; forest; frontier; general; good; government; hills; house; india; johnstone; kohima; konoma; leave; left; life; maharajah; major; manipur; manipuris; march; men; miles; naga; naga hills; native; night; party; people; place; position; return; river; road; singh; state; subjects; thangal; time; tribes; valley; village; visit; water; way; wife; work; years cache: 37839.txt plain text: 37839.txt item: #234 of 425 id: 38081 author: Sawyer, Frederic H. title: The Inhabitants of the Philippines date: None words: 155677 flesch: 69 summary: Painting and decorating is executed by Manila men in excellent style. Many native men and women and numbers of Chinese coolies are employed in Manila, Ilo-ilo, and Cebú in preparing produce for shipment. keywords: administration; aguinaldo; american; archipelago; arms; army; attack; augustinians; bay; body; british; business; case; cavite; cebú; chapter; chief; children; chinese; christian; church; city; civil; coast; country; customs; cut; day; days; death; district; division; dollars; don; doubt; dress; east; eastern; end; extent; fact; family; father; feet; fighting; fire; fish; force; friars; general; gold; good; government; governor; grande; half; hand; head; heathen; hemp; house; igorrotes; ilo; infantry; inhabitants; iron; islands; labour; lake; left; life; line; lives; luzon; malay; manila; march; means; men; miles; military; mindanao; missionaries; money; month; moros; mountains; natives; new; north; number; officers; order; pay; people; philippines; place; population; present; priest; principal; produce; province; race; rebels; rice; right; rio; river; round; san; sea; shot; slaves; south; southern; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; sugar; tagals; taking; territory; time; tobacco; towns; trade; trees; tribes; troops; united; vessels; village; visayas; war; water; way; wear; west; white; women; wood; work; years; | | cache: 38081.txt plain text: 38081.txt item: #235 of 425 id: 38269 author: Barrows, David P. title: A History of the Philippines date: None words: 81110 flesch: 63 summary: South of them were great bleak islands, cold and desolate. Emperor Charles V.--Meanwhile great political power had been added to Spain in Europe. keywords: american; archipelago; borneo; century; china; chinese; church; city; coast; colonial; commerce; conquest; countries; country; day; de las; don; dutch; east; end; english; europe; expedition; filipinas; filipino; fleet; friars; general; general de; government; governor; great; history; india; inhabitants; islands; jesuits; king; las; legaspi; life; luzon; magellan; manila; mexico; mindanao; moro; natives; new; north; northern; number; order; people; philippines; population; portugal; portuguese; power; present; public; race; return; san; sea; ships; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; time; town; trade; tribes; united; war; way; work; world; years cache: 38269.txt plain text: 38269.txt item: #236 of 425 id: 38319 author: Wilkins, Louisa Jebb title: By Desert Ways to Baghdad date: None words: 77694 flesch: 80 summary: Are they wicked men, then? No, they are good men as a rule, but in our country we do not understand the people who do not do what others do. They were partners mostly of city men, who provided the seed and the stock and took two-thirds of the produce in payment. keywords: ali; arten; black; camp; city; cook; country; dark; day; days; desert; door; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; good; hassan; head; horses; hours; house; ladies; land; left; life; line; look; man; men; mud; night; pasha; people; place; plain; raft; ride; river; road; rock; room; round; sense; silence; sun; tent; time; town; turkish; village; walls; water; way; white; women; zaptiehs cache: 38319.txt plain text: 38319.txt item: #237 of 425 id: 38508 author: Vay, Péter title: Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod date: None words: 97055 flesch: 66 summary: I have been at many great receptions, but I can remember none more impressive than the reception at the Summer Palace. I hope, therefore, that these first impressions of countries which, in name at any rate, are far more familiar to the British public than they were four or five years ago, may prove of great interest to many readers in England and America. keywords: art; capital; children; china; chinese; city; country; court; day; east; eastern; emperor; empress; english; european; face; fact; family; fine; foreign; form; future; general; good; government; great; history; home; houses; idea; illustration; interest; japan; japanese; journey; kind; korea; land; life; light; line; manchuria; men; military; modern; national; new; number; open; page; palace; past; pekin; people; point; port; power; present; public; race; railway; red; russian; seoul; short; soldiers; state; station; system; time; town; trade; view; wall; war; western; white; work; world; years; yellow cache: 38508.txt plain text: 38508.txt item: #238 of 425 id: 38748 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55, 1638–40 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 86280 flesch: 64 summary: During that time the commandant, Don Pedro, was already getting ready a small fleet among the Lutaos, in order to attack the Joloans who had gone to Tabitabi and other islands. The Malays of Ternate and other outlying islands are in league with the Dutch, and the trade with them is going to ruin. keywords: account; artillery; camp; captain; chinese; church; city; commander; corcuera; council; country; damage; day; diaz; don; dutch; enemy; españa; father; filipinas; fleet; fort; fray; general; god; good; governor; holy; house; indians; islands; jolo; juan; king; letter; majesty; manila; mayor; men; mexico; mindanao; moros; natives; news; nueva; number; order; pedro; people; pesos; place; port; present; river; royal; sangleys; sea; sebastian; set; ships; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; time; vessels; village; way; year cache: 38748.txt plain text: 38748.txt item: #239 of 425 id: 38827 author: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) title: Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs date: None words: 122242 flesch: 69 summary: Most European men ride _chapar_, that is, post; but from what I see of the _chapar_ horses, I would not do it for the sake of doubling the distance travelled in the day, and therefore cannot describe either its pleasures or tortures from experience. From four to five hundred Europeans is a large foreign settlement, and it is a motley one, very various in its elements, and in their idiosyncrasies, combinations, rivalries, and projects is to be found an inexhaustible fund of local gossip, writes Mr. Curzon in one of his recent brilliant letters to the _Times_, as well as almost the sole source of non-political interest. keywords: animals; arab; bakhtiari; bazars; bed; black; blue; brown; caravan; caravanserai; carpets; city; cold; cotton; country; dark; day; days; deep; desert; distance; end; english; european; eyes; face; feet; fine; fire; floor; foot; gold; good; green; hadji; half; hands; head; height; hills; horses; hours; house; ilkhani; isfahan; journey; karun; khan; kuh; left; life; looking; making; man; march; men; miles; morning; mountains; mud; mule; night; number; open; outside; pass; people; persian; place; plain; rain; red; river; road; roof; room; round; servants; shah; snow; sun; tea; tent; things; tihran; time; town; trees; valley; view; village; visit; walls; water; way; white; wind; winter; women; work; years cache: 38827.txt plain text: 38827.txt item: #240 of 425 id: 38828 author: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) title: Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 2 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs date: None words: 130649 flesch: 68 summary: At the end of a passage is the house, a high, big, blackened room, with shelving floors of earth and rock, ovens in the floors, great _quaraghs_ holding grain, piles of wood, men sawing logs, huge pots, goat-skins of butter hanging from the rafters, spinning-wheels, a loom, great roughly-cut joints of meat, piles of potatoes, women ceaselessly making blankets of bread, to be used as tablecloths before being eaten, preparations for the ceaseless meals involved by the unbounded hospitality of the house, and numbers of daggered serving-men, old women, and hangers-on. They are rigid abstainers, and _arak_ is not to be procured in the Bakhtiari country. keywords: agha; ali; armenian; aziz; bakhtiari; blue; burujird; camp; caravan; children; christian; church; city; cotton; country; dark; day; days; end; english; face; feet; god; good; government; governor; green; guns; half; hamadan; head; heat; height; hills; horses; hours; house; journey; karun; khan; kuh; kurdish; kurds; ladies; lake; left; letter; life; look; man; march; men; miles; mirza; mission; money; morning; mountains; night; number; open; pass; patriarch; pay; people; persian; place; plain; population; present; range; red; river; road; rock; roof; room; round; route; shah; sheep; sides; snow; stone; stream; syrian; tent; things; time; town; trees; turkish; urmi; valley; village; walls; water; way; white; wild; winter; women; work; years cache: 38828.txt plain text: 38828.txt item: #241 of 425 id: 39010 author: Martínez de Zúñiga, Joaquín title: An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 1 (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. date: None words: 53594 flesch: 52 summary: In Mindanao the provinces of Misamis and Caraga are subject to the Spaniards: the rest of the island has not submitted, and is engaged with Jolo and other islands in constant hostility against them; and although there have been occasional intervals of peace, they have been of short duration. Among the natives of many adjacent islands which traded with Manila, those of Japan, in particular, brought the richest merchandize for the consumption of the colony, and for the commerce with Acapulco. keywords: acapulco; augustine; captain; china; chinese; colonel; conquest; country; day; don; dutch; expedition; fort; friars; general; government; governor; indians; inhabitants; islands; juan; king; language; legaspi; manila; means; men; mountains; new; order; people; philippines; possession; province; purpose; royal; salcedo; ships; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; squadron; time; town; year; zebu cache: 39010.txt plain text: 39010.txt item: #242 of 425 id: 39027 author: Martínez de Zúñiga, Joaquín title: An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 2 (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. date: None words: 45174 flesch: 51 summary: The boasting little Governor answered, that the Pasig was not Manila, and if the Spaniards had given that up to them in a treacherous manner, he would defend his post to the last; adding, that should the officer return with the white flag (a trick he might deceive children with), he would hang him on the first tree. Señor Don Gaspar de la Torre, born in Flanders, of Spanish parents, arrived at Manila, and found, among other cares that would devolve upon him, a suit which had been carrying on against Señor Arroyo, the royal fiscal, upon an accusation preferred by Señor Tamon. keywords: anda; archbishop; audience; chinese; city; conduct; day; dollars; don; enemy; english; fire; fort; friars; general; government; governor; having; indians; inhabitants; islands; jolo; king; majesty; manila; means; new; order; people; philippines; place; possession; province; public; royal; señor; ship; spain; spaniards; time; town; troops cache: 39027.txt plain text: 39027.txt item: #243 of 425 id: 39054 author: Aduarte, Diego title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 92694 flesch: 59 summary: Many other Indians of that same country have felt this same desire, wishing to enjoy the presence of the religious, because of the high regard that they feel for them and the great advantage which they receive from their presence. He bade farewell to the Franciscan fathers, thanking them for their great kindness and the hospitality which they had shown him; he encouraged his companions to proceed with that which they had begun assuring them that, however great the difficulty and labor, even to those in health, there was still greater consolation, and confirmation of the hope of reward, in the perils of sickness and death in which he was; and declaring to them that the confidence in which he departed was a most sufficient reward for having left, in his last years, his quiet and his cell for this and for other greater sufferings. keywords: account; came; chapter; china; chinese; church; city; come; commerce; convent; country; day; death; devil; don; españa; father fray; fathers; fray juan; god; good; holy; indians; islands; juan; juan de; language; life; lord; manila; mexico; nueva; order; pedro; people; permission; pesos; philipinas; place; province; religious; royal; ships; sick; spaniards; things; time; trade; village; way; year cache: 39054.txt plain text: 39054.txt item: #244 of 425 id: 39421 author: Wollaston, A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) title: Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921 date: None words: 130240 flesch: 72 summary: The climb from the river had been a steep one, and we pitched our camp at Sakeding in a downpour of rain, but towards the evening the weather cleared up, allowing us fine views of great snow peaks which showed above the mists on the opposite sides of the valley. We were told that in the rainy season the river here was unfordable, as it rose several feet and flooded over the plains, and it was then necessary to keep to the North or to the South of it. keywords: base; blue; bullock; camp; chu; climbing; clouds; col; coolies; country; day; days; dzong; east; everest; expedition; feet; flowers; following; foot; glacier; good; great; half; head; height; high; ice; july; kama valley; kharta; kharta valley; left; loads; mallory; man; march; men; miles; morning; mount everest; mountain; near; nepal; new; night; north; party; pass; peak; place; plain; rain; reach; ridge; river; rock; rongbuk; rongbuk valley; round; slopes; snow; south; stream; summit; sun; survey; tents; tibet; tibetan; time; tingri; transport; valley; view; village; water; way; weather; west; wheeler; white; wind; work; year; yellow cache: 39421.txt plain text: 39421.txt item: #245 of 425 id: 39448 author: Hodson, W. S. R. (William Stephen Raikes) title: Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson, B. A. date: None words: 133287 flesch: 72 summary: I could hardly get them to give a thought or attempt an inquiry as to the identity of a man whom I found dead, evidently by violence, by the roadside yesterday morning; and they were horrified at the thought of tying up or confining a sacred ox, who had gored his _thirteenth_ man the evening before last! I should like to see the fellow who'd presume to talk of 'leading' _that_ man! keywords: army; brigadier; brother; camp; captain; cavalry; chief; city; colonel; command; commander; country; course; day; days; dear; delhi; duty; end; enemy; field; fire; force; fort; general; getting; good; guides; guns; half; hands; head; hear; hodson; home; hope; horse; hours; india; king; lahore; lawrence; left; letter; lieutenant; life; like; loss; man; march; men; miles; months; morning; napier; native; night; officers; order; party; people; place; poor; position; punjaub; regiment; road; service; sir; soldier; time; troops; war; way; work; wounded; years; yesterday cache: 39448.txt plain text: 39448.txt item: #246 of 425 id: 39463 author: Hume-Griffith, A. title: Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East date: None words: 87895 flesch: 72 summary: The fast of Jonah--The bridge of boats--Traditions as to ancient history of Mosul--Elkos, birthplace of Nahum the prophet--Shurgât--Climate of Mosul--Cultivation and industries--Importance of Mosul 173 Chapter II The People of Mosul Population--Moslems--Christians--Chaldeans--Nestorians--Jacobites --Arabs--Kurds--Jews--Yezidees--Recreations--Warfare of the slingers--Hammam Ali--The recreation ground of Mosul men and women 186 Chapter III The River Tigris Ancient historical interest--Garden of Eden--Origin of name unknown--Swiftness--Sources--Navigation--Keleqs--Bathing, fishing, washing--Crossing rivers 198 Chapter IV The Children of Mosul Spoiling process--Despair of the parents--The god of the hareem--Death by burning--Festivities at birth of boy--Cradles and cradle songs--School life--Feast in honour of a boy having read the Koran through--Only a girl--Girl life--Girl victims of Naseeb--Marriage 208 Chapter V The Moslem Women of Mosul Beauty behind the veil--Types of beauty--My dear old friend of 110 years of age--Aids to beauty described--Pretty children--Beauty tainted with sin--Imprisonment of women--Peeps into some hareems--Warm receptions--A visit from the ladies of a select hareem--Love the magic key to open hearts 219 Chapter VI Moslem Family Life No home life--Women equal with the beasts--Evils of divorce--Naseeb--The will of God--Truth and falsehood--Honesty prevalent--A thief caught--Swearing and anti-swearing--Fighting--Hair-tearing and biting--Hammam, the ladies' club 231 Chapter VII Customs of Mosul Wedding ceremonies--Great expense to parents--Method of procedure--Funeral customs--Customs at birth--Some other customs 244 Chapter VIII Dreams and Visions Ezekiel's vision by the river Chebar--Our vision by the river Khabour--Rivers identical--A wheel within a wheel--Babylonish emblem of divinity--Origin of the cherubim--Dream of a woman suffering from cataract--Effect of dream on her character--Watch and chain recovered by means of a faked dream--Illustration of the doctrine of Kismet or Naseeb--Ghosts in our compound--Atmosphere of ghosts bad for fowls 257 Chapter IX Manners and Superstitions in Mosul Characteristics of inhabitants of Mosul--Social habits--Love of drink--An effectual cure--Gambling--Tel Kaif: a story of Uncle Goro--The Angel of Death, and other titles--Difficulties over name and age--Some superstitions--Effect of scent on women--Birds of good omen--Thieves--Sheep-killing--Sheikh Matti--An angel's visit--Medical superstitions--Cure for hydrophobia 269 Chapter X The Yezidees Gratitude to the English--Persecutions--Devil-worshippers--Sun and fire worship--Priesthood--A visit to Sheikh Âdi--Peacock wands--A sacred shrine 284 Chapter XI Travelling in the Desert Monotony of desert travelling--A puppy and a kitten tragedy--Accident by the river Euphrates--Riots in Mosul--Robberies and murder excited by love of gold 294 Chapter XII The Pleasures of Desert Travelling Desert blossoms as a rose--Flowers of the desert--Arabs, their occupation and women--Arab dancing--Robbers of the desert--An army of 10,000--Five hundred armed men--False alarms--Lost in the desert--Delights and disturbances of travelling 307 Chapter XIII Pioneer Medical Mission Work in Mosul (Nineveh) Winning the confidence of the people--Native surgery--Difficulties to be overcome--Backward patients--Encouraging work--Prevalent diseases--Lunatics--Possible future of Mesopotamia 317 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page The Author and her Husband in Bakhtian Costume Frontispiece Persian Conveyances 26 A Halt for Lunch 26 A Novel Drying Ground 46 Persian Mode of Irrigation 46 A Chimney of Yezd 54 A Korsi Or Heating Contrivance 54 House-building in Persia 72 Persian Shops 72 Scene from the Roof of our House at Kerman 76 A Street in Kerman 76 The Mosque Gate, City of Kerman 86 A Mountain Pass 132 A Caravanserai 132 A Very Ancient Bridge 142 A Typical Street in Baghdad 142 Using the X Rays in Julfa Hospital 148 A Ward in the Julfa Hospital 148 Opium Making 158 The Rich Beggar 158 Types of Persian Jews 166 The Water Square 166 Our Home in Nineveh 174 A Bridge of Boats 176 The Bridge of Boats Over the Frozen Tigris 180 A Picnic Party 188 Mutrar Paulus, Syrian Roman Catholic Bishop 192 Dr. Hume-Griffith's Study in Mosul 210 Our Drawing-room in Julfa 210 A Group of Persian Girls 216 The Camera in Mosul 222 Tired of Play at a Picnic 222 An Itinerant Cook preparing Kabobs 224 Bread-making 240 A Mosul Bride 246 A Wonderful Vision 259 Travelling in Winter 296 PART CHAPTER II THE PEOPLE OF MOSUL Population--Moslems--Christians--Chaldeans--Nestorians--Jacobites --Arabs--Kurds--Jews--Yezidees--Recreations--Warfare of the slingers--Hammam Ali--The recreation ground of Mosul men and women. keywords: boy; chapter; children; city; come; day; days; death; desert; doctor; english; face; fact; girl; god; good; hands; having; head; home; hospital; house; husband; isphahan; kerman; ladies; land; left; life; love; man; means; morning; moslem; mosul; mother; mullah; near; night; patient; people; persia; place; poor; river; room; round; servant; time; town; village; visit; water; way; wife; women; work; years; yezd cache: 39463.txt plain text: 39463.txt item: #247 of 425 id: 39486 author: Macgowan, J. (John) title: Sidelights on Chinese Life date: None words: 129018 flesch: 65 summary: In front marched a detachment of the Household Guards, great stalwart men, that had been selected from the bravest that the fighting province of Hunan could supply. This latter fact is a sufficient explanation of how it is possible for such men as now act as interpreters of the gods to be tolerated in the service of the temples at all. keywords: air; business; case; character; children; china; chinaman; chinese; city; country; day; days; dead; empire; eyes; face; fact; family; farmer; father; feet; good; hand; heart; heaven; home; house; human; kind; land; life; living; look; looking; man; mandarin; matter; men; mind; moment; money; mother; nation; nature; night; open; opium; order; people; place; position; power; question; rice; round; school; society; son; streets; sun; thing; thought; time; way; wife; women; work; world; years cache: 39486.txt plain text: 39486.txt item: #248 of 425 id: 39642 author: Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir title: Kashmir, described by Sir Francis Younghusband, painted by Major E. Molyneux date: None words: 60406 flesch: 69 summary: He used then to come out to Kashmir regularly every cold weather, and spend many happy months shooting small game in the Kashmir valley, markhor and ibex in Baltistan, the Gilgit district, and Astor, and stag in the Kashmir mountains. The Sind Valley--Gangabal Lake--The Lolab--The Lidar Valley--Martand--Achibal 108 CHAPTER VII SPORT Game Preservation--The year's bag--Duck-shooting--Fishing 118 CHAPTER VIII THE PEOPLE Kashmir beauties--The Pundits--Mohamedans--The Quadiani sect--Kashmiri villagers--Boatmen 125 CHAPTER IX THE HISTORY OF KASHMIR Possible effect of natural beauty--Ancient ruins--Martand--Greek influence--Buddhist influence--Kanishka--Lalitaditya--Avantivarman--Short reigns--Internal struggles--Perpetual intrigue--Advent of Mohamedans--Zain-ul-ab-ul-din--Akbar--The Moghals--Afghan oppressors--Sikhs--Rise of Gulab Singh--Break-up of Sikhs--Gulab Singh and the British--Treaty of 1846--Gulab Singh acquires Kashmir--Its deplorable state--Ranbir Singh--Country still depressed--Famine of 1877--Improvements during present reign 133 CHAPTER X ADMINISTRATION System of rule--Personal--Sources of revenue--Land revenue assessment 183 CHAPTER XI PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURES Wool--Silk--Fruit--Rice--Other grains--Experimental farm--Soil--Implements--Forests--Mineral products--Shawls--Carpets--Silk--Papier-mâché--Puttoo-- Boat-building--Trade 194 CHAPTER XII THE ELECTRICAL SCHEME Water-power turned to electric power--The Jhelum River harnessed--The flume--The power-house--Difficulties encountered--The dredging scheme 222 CHAPTER XIII THE PEAKS AND MOUNTAIN RANGES The Peak K2--Errors in observation--Nanga Parbat--Rocks of great peaks--The Himalayan range 234 CHAPTER XIV THE STORY OF THE MOUNTAINS Interest of study--Kashmir under the sea--100,000,000 years ago--Kashmir an archipelago--Finally upheaved--Cause of upheaval--History of life--At first no land life--Ferns--The Coal Measures--Great reptiles--Mammals--Kashmir valley a lake--Appearance of man--Reflections on the story--Need to look forward--Creating higher man 251 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAJOR E. MOLYNEUX, D.S.O. PAGE 1. keywords: autumn; bagh; beauty; british; chenar; clouds; country; dal; day; days; feet; fields; garden; good; government; great; green; ground; history; house; illustration; india; jhelum; kashmir; kashmir valley; lake; land; level; life; maharaja; miles; mountains; pass; peaks; people; period; power; present; punjab; range; river; road; sea; sind; singh; snowy; spring; srinagar; state; summer; sun; temple; time; trees; valley; villages; water; white; work; years cache: 39642.txt plain text: 39642.txt item: #249 of 425 id: 39735 author: Lindley, Augustus F. title: Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) date: None words: 149403 flesch: 59 summary: | | | | | | | |Defeat of Ti-pings, |11th |Imperialists | 8,000 |Loss of | Doubtful.--Latest Movements.--The Kan-wang.--Nien-fie Victories.--Future Prospects.--Finis 788 APPENDIX A. Decalogue 823 The Trimetrical Classic 827 Ode for Youth 832 APPENDIX B. Export of Tea and Silk from China 838 APPENDIX C. Memorandum of Ti-pings killed during the British Hostilities against them 840 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. keywords: admiral; army; artillery; attack; board; british; burgevine; captain; capture; cause; chief; china; chinese; chow; chung; city; command; country; course; day; death; dew; enemy; england; english; european; fact; fire; following; foo; force; foreigners; french; friend; futai; garrison; general; god; good; gordon; government; great; guns; hand; having; hope; imperialists; kong; left; loss; major; manchoo; mandarin; means; men; miles; nankin; ningpo; number; officers; order; people; pings; place; policy; position; power; present; rebels; right; river; san; shanghae; soldiers; soo; state; steamer; taepings; tien; time; trade; treaty; troops; vessels; walls; wang; war; way; | | cache: 39735.txt plain text: 39735.txt item: #250 of 425 id: 39848 author: Steel, Flora Annie Webster title: India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan date: None words: 143441 flesch: 68 summary: The very name of his kingdom, Than-êswar (_S'thaneswara_, or, The Place of God), is purely Hindu; nevertheless, this, the last great King of Hindu India, professed the religion of Gâutama. And so, while Aurungzebe, near his life's limit, was still, in his ninth decade of years, wearily pursuing the Mahratta, Earl Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, as referee, succeeded in reconciling the conflicting claims of commerce, and--to make his award binding on both parties--inserted a special clause in an Act of Parliament, by which the old London East India Company and the new English East India Company were for ever amalgamated under the title of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies. keywords: a.d; age; akbar; alexander; army; aurungzebe; b.c; babar; battle; bengal; british; brother; cause; chapter; city; clive; company; country; court; daula; day; days; dead; death; delhi; din; doubt; dynasty; east; east india; emperor; empire; end; enemy; england; english; ere; face; fact; faith; father; force; fort; french; general; god; gold; good; government; governor; great; half; hand; hastings; having; head; heart; held; hindu; history; honour; humâyon; india; india company; king; lay; life; lord; love; mahomed; mahomedan; mahrattas; man; men; moghul; mother; nawâb; new; order; oude; people; place; poor; power; prince; question; record; reign; right; river; râjah; râjput; sea; set; shâh; sir; son; state; things; throne; time; treaty; troops; truth; war; way; western; women; work; world; years cache: 39848.txt plain text: 39848.txt item: #251 of 425 id: 39874 author: Lajpat Rai, Lala title: An Open Letter to the Right Honorable David Lloyd George Prime Minister of Great Britain date: None words: 11094 flesch: 67 summary: Whenever it appears to the Local Government that any printing press in respect of which any security has been deposited as required by Section 3 is used for the purpose of printing or publishing any newspaper, book, or other document containing any words, signs or visible representations which are likely to have a tendency directly, or indirectly, whether by inference, suggestion, allusion, metaphor, implication or otherwise: (a) To incite to murder or to any offense under the Explosives Substances Act of 1908, or to any act of violence or (b) To seduce any officer, soldier, or sailor in the Army or Navy of His Majesty from his allegiance or his duty or (c) To bring into hatred or contempt His Majesty or the Government established by the law in British India, or the Administration of Justice in British India or any native Prince or Chief under the suzeranity of His Majesty or any class or section of His Majesty's subjects in British India or to excite disaffection towards His Majesty or the said Government or any such Prince or Chief or (d) To put any person in fear or to cause any annoyance to him and thereby induce him to deliver to any person any property or valuable security, or to do any act which he is not legally bound to do or to omit any act which he is legally entitled to do or (e) To encourage or incite any person to interfere with the administration of the law or with the maintenance of law and order or (f) To convey any threat of injury to a public servant, or to any person in whom the public servant is believed to be interested, with a view to inducing that person to do any act or to forbear to do any act connected with the exercise of his public functions the Local Government may, by notice in writing to the keeper of such printing press, stating or describing the words, signs or visible representations which in its opinion are of the nature described above, declare the security deposited in respect of such Press and all copies of such newspaper, book, or other document wherever found to be forfeited to His Majesty. Comments expressing the disapproval of the measures of the Government of any such native Prince or Chief as aforesaid with a view to obtain their alteration by lawful means or of the administration or other action of the Government or any such native Prince or Chief or of the administration of Justice in British India without exciting or attempting to excite hatred, contempt, or disaffection, do not come under the scope of clause c. keywords: act; british; country; day; george; government; india; indians; life; masses; millions; money; people; sir; war; world cache: 39874.txt plain text: 39874.txt item: #252 of 425 id: 39897 author: Layard, Austen Henry title: Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon date: None words: 169153 flesch: 69 summary: [125] In speaking of the Bedouins I mean the Aneyza, Shamma, Al Dhefyr, and other great tribes inhabiting Mesopotamia and the Desert to the north of the Gebel Shammar. The American mission has now establishments in Smyrna, Brousa, Trebizond, Erzeroom, Diarbekir, Mosul, Aintab, Aleppo, and many other cities in Asia Minor, together with native agents all over Turkey. keywords: ancient; arabs; armenian; assyrian; babylon; baghdad; banks; bas; bedouins; beneath; black; bricks; building; bulls; centre; chambers; character; chief; cities; city; country; day; days; desert; district; earth; eastern; edifice; entrance; euphrates; excavations; feet; figures; foot; form; fragments; general; great; half; having; head; hills; history; horses; hours; inhabitants; inscriptions; journey; king; kouyunjik; kurdish; left; length; man; men; miles; monuments; mosul; mound; mountains; night; nimroud; nineveh; north; objects; palace; parts; people; period; persian; plain; principal; reliefs; remains; rich; river; ruins; sculptures; second; sennacherib; sheikh; sides; south; stone; stream; sun; temple; tents; tigris; time; town; tribe; turkish; valley; village; visit; walls; wan; water; way; west; women; work; workmen cache: 39897.txt plain text: 39897.txt item: #253 of 425 id: 40001 author: Ellis, Beth title: An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah date: None words: 43244 flesch: 66 summary: I am not naturally a coward, except when I am afraid; at other times I am as brave as a lion. As we neared Mandalay we passed many groups of half-ruined shrines, images and pagodas, covered with moss and creeper, deserted by the human beings who erected them, and visited now only by the birds and other jungle folk, who build their nests and make their homes in the shade of the once gorgeous buildings. keywords: brother; burman; burmese; country; course; day; days; evening; good; half; head; home; hours; house; jungle; ladies; land; life; mandalay; manner; men; mind; morning; mrs; native; night; place; pony; rangoon; remyo; ride; road; room; round; station; table; tiger; time; tree; village; water; way; work; world cache: 40001.txt plain text: 40001.txt item: #254 of 425 id: 40162 author: Mayer, J. E. title: The Humour and Pathos of Anglo-Indian Life Extracts from his brother's note-book, made by Dr. Ticklemore date: None words: 92411 flesch: 72 summary: 'And I, in reply,' said the Colonel, 'beg of you to reserve your sorrow, as I do not think that I stand in need of it in the slightest degree while the Duke of Wellington and other great men are of my opinion. So much being admitted, the frequent repetition of these morning calls, and perhaps some invitations to tiffin, or dinner, or to spend the evening, from the husband, who, all unsuspicious of mischief and danger, instead of being displeased, is rather proud that other men admire his wife, lead up to a footing of great intimacy. keywords: brother; cantonment; captain; case; colonel; colonel b.; court; day; days; doctor; evening; eyes; fellow; friends; general; gentleman; good; half; hand; head; home; house; husband; judge; kind; knew; ladies; lady; leave; life; long; man; men; mind; miss; mitchel; morning; mrs; officers; old; order; party; place; poor; pray; present; regiment; right; set; sir; thought; time; trevanion; way; wife; word; young cache: 40162.txt plain text: 40162.txt item: #255 of 425 id: 40243 author: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry) title: The Hittites: The story of a Forgotten Empire date: None words: 38728 flesch: 70 summary: Ramses I., his treaty with Hittites, 23. Ramses II., his wars with Hittites, 24; the Pharaoh of the Exodus, 25; epic on his bravery at Kadesh, 25; makes a treaty with Hittites, 29; marries daughter of Hittite king, 37. Ramses III., victories of, 39. Religion of the Hittites, 104. Wherever Hittite inscriptions occur, we find in them the same combinations of hieroglyphs as well as the use of the same characters to denote grammatical suffixes. keywords: art; asia; assyrian; boghaz; carchemish; characters; cities; city; country; egypt; egyptian; empire; figure; goddess; greek; history; hittite; inscriptions; kadesh; kappadokia; karabel; keui; kheta; king; land; left; minor; monuments; palestine; people; prince; race; ramses; stone; time cache: 40243.txt plain text: 40243.txt item: #256 of 425 id: 40350 author: Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony title: Government in Republican China date: None words: 76495 flesch: 54 summary: [6] The conduct of _hsien_ government is influenced by three main groups--the illiterate masses, the conservative gentry, and the younger progressives. A number of reasons for examining Chinese government suggest themselves. keywords: armies; army; central; century; chiang; china; chinese; chinese republic; chinese soviet; communists; confucian; confucianism; control; council; country; development; dynasty; economic; emperor; empire; fact; far; forces; foreign; form; general; government; history; ideology; imperial; japanese; k'ai; kuomintang; leaders; life; manchu; military; modern; movement; nanking government; national; nationalist; new; order; organization; party; past; peking; people; period; position; power; president; regime; republic; revolution; sen; shih; society; state; sun; sun yat; system; thought; time; war; west; world; years; york; yüan cache: 40350.txt plain text: 40350.txt item: #257 of 425 id: 40461 author: Gandhi, Mahatma title: Indian Home Rule date: None words: 29741 flesch: 79 summary: You want the tiger's nature, but not the tiger; that is to say, you would make India English, and when it becomes English, it will be called not Hindustan but Englistan. 4.= How India can be Free India has no need to take the sword in order to be free: She has a much more powerful weapon ready to her hand. keywords: civilization; condition; country; day; editor; education; english; force; good; hindus; home; india; life; man; means; men; nation; people; question; reader; religion; rule; thing; time; use cache: 40461.txt plain text: 40461.txt item: #258 of 425 id: 40579 author: Zwaardecroon, Hendrick title: Memoir of Hendrick Zwaardecroon, commandeur of Jaffnapatam (afterwards Governor-General of Nederlands India) 1697. For the guidance of the council of Jaffnapatam, during his absence at the coast of Malabar. date: None words: 61654 flesch: 62 summary: It is to be hoped that the sale will increase; but I must seriously advise Your Honours to strictly adhere to the above-mentioned rule, although it was made without my advice or opinion being asked; unless their Excellencies at Batavia should not agree with the view of His Excellency the Governor and the Council of Colombo and send other orders. These and other orders with regard to the animals should be carried out. keywords: = =; account; animals; august; batavia; case; colombo; commandement; commandeur; company; council; december; dessave; don; duty; elephants; excellency; government; governor; honours; inhabitants; instructions; jaffnapatam; letter; manaar; matter; number; order; pay; people; present; rds; regard; time; trade; van; work; year cache: 40579.txt plain text: 40579.txt item: #259 of 425 id: 40807 author: Barton, Roy Franklin title: Ifugao Law (In American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 15, No. 1) date: None words: 55967 flesch: 73 summary: The spouses have a joint right in all property acquired after marriage as the result of their joint labors; that is to say, any property whatever obtained except (a) by the sale of the fields of the one and the repurchase of other fields with the proceeds; (b) as the result of a fine or indemnity assessed by the family of one against some person for injury done a member of that family; (c) ceremonial gifts such as the hakba and habalag; (d) inheritance. In other cases, the couple have separated prior to the formal divorce or have such ill feeling toward each other that concerted action is impossible. keywords: = =; bugan; case; ceremony; children; class; crime; death; debt; family; family property; father; feast; field; fine; following; girl; house; ifugao; kiangan; kin; law; life; man; marriage; natauwinan; parents; party; payment; peace; people; person; pesos; pig; property; punishment; rice; rice field; spouse; time; value; village; water; wife; woman cache: 40807.txt plain text: 40807.txt item: #260 of 425 id: 40900 author: Bartholomew, J. G. (John George) title: A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia date: None words: 65554 flesch: 92 summary: =Adas=, Bombay. =Aden=, Arabia. keywords: 17n; 18n; 19n; 20n; 21n; 23n; 24n; 26n; 27n; 28n; 29n; 31n; 32n; 33n; 34n; 35n; 36n; 37n; 39n; 40n; 73e; 74e; 75e; 77e; = bang; = beth; = chang; = chao; = chen; = chi; = chu; = dera; = el; = feng; = fu; = hai; = han; = heng; = ho; = hsin; = hu; = hun; = hwai; = hwei; = java; = kai; = kan; = kao; = khara; = ki=; = kia; = kien; = king; = kiu; = koh; = kota; = ku; = kuala; = kwang; = kwei; = kyeng; = lai; = lan; = lang; = lao; = lien; = liu; = lo; = lung; = nan; = ngan; = ning; = pao; = pei; = ping; = po; = port; = pulau; = san; = shan; = shi; = shu; = song; = south; = st; = sulu; = sze; = tai; = tao; = te; = tien; = tsing; = tung; = wei; = wen; = wu; = yang; = yen; = ying; = yuen; = yung; arabia; asia; b.c; bengal; bombay; british; burma; china; coins; east; indies; indo; island=; japan; madras; malay; minor; palestine; persia; philippine; plate; provs; punjab; rajputana; river=; siam; siberia; turkey cache: 40900.txt plain text: 40900.txt item: #261 of 425 id: 41424 author: Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) title: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 date: None words: 231287 flesch: 74 summary: u has the sound of oo in poor or boot The plural of caste names and a few common Hindustani words is formed by adding s in the English manner according to ordinary usage, though this is not, of course, the Hindustani plural. Others are the names of Rajput septs and of other castes, as Ahirwar (Ahir) and Bamhania (Brahman). keywords: account; ancestors; animals; article; bastar; bengal; berar; birth; black; blood; body; boy; brahmans; bride; bridegroom; brother; caste; cattle; central; ceremony; child; children; class; cloth; clothes; common; country; couple; cow; cultivators; customs; cut; dance; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deity; deo; districts; divorce; doubt; drink; earth; eat; fact; family; father; feast; feet; fire; flesh; following; food; forest; form; funeral; general; girl; goat; god; goddess; gonds; good; grain; grass; great; group; hair; hand; having; head; hindu; home; house; husband; india; kayasths; khonds; law; leaves; left; life; lingo; liquor; mahadeo; man; mandla; maratha; marriage; means; members; milk; months; moon; mother; muhammadan; nagpur; names; new; night; northern; number; occupation; order; origin; parents; party; people; period; persons; piece; place; position; present; priest; principal; provinces; raja; rajput; religion; report; return; rice; river; round; rule; sacred; sacrifice; second; sept; set; sir; sister; siva; social; son; spirit; states; story; sun; tiger; time; tree; tribe; turmeric; village; water; wear; wedding; white; widow; wife; women; word; work; worship; years cache: 41424.txt plain text: 41424.txt item: #262 of 425 id: 41569 author: Pierotti, Ermete title: Jerusalem Explored, Volume 1—Text Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations Consisting of Views, Ground Plans and Sections date: None words: 199520 flesch: 72 summary: Jerusalem_ has been formed by the union of _Jebus_ and _ The only thing that now remained to be done was to find the conduit leading out of the cistern towards the east: and after a long search I had begun to despair, when a labourer, who was working at the south side of the chamber, told me that there were signs of an opening there; in a few minutes it was uncovered, and through it I entered into another cistern, whose floor was 4 feet below the level of the former; and on the east side of this was a conduit, 3-1/2 feet wide and 3 high, running towards the _Haram_ wall, which must have communicated with that the ruins of which I had found outside the east wall. keywords: a.d; account; altar; ancient; building; century; chamber; chapel; christians; church; city; columns; conduit; convent; corner; cubits; david; day; description; door; east; eastern; end; entrance; feet; following; fountain; gate; god; great; greek; ground; hand; haram; herod; high; holy; house; iii; inside; interior; jerusalem; jews; john; josephus; kidron; king; land; left; little; long; lord; mary; masonry; middle; mohammedans; monument; mosque; mount; near; north; number; order; outside; palestine; people; pilgrims; place; plan; point; pool; position; present; remains; rock; ruins; sepulchre; sidenote; sion; site; solomon; south; spot; stone; street; temple; time; titus; tomb; tower; tradition; upper; valley; wall; war; water; way; west; work; years cache: 41569.txt plain text: 41569.txt item: #263 of 425 id: 41722 author: Anderson, Isabel title: The Spell of Japan date: None words: 85157 flesch: 72 summary: Apparently not a whit perturbed by this turn of events, the _judo-ka_ answered, 'Oh, this is just where _judo_ comes in! _Zen_ teaches: Commit no evil, do only good, and preserve the purity of your heart and will. keywords: american; art; bear; black; buddha; century; children; china; chinese; come; country; course; court; day; days; embassy; emperor; empress; english; european; feet; festival; flowers; foreigners; form; garden; gods; gold; good; government; great; half; head; house; husband; illustration; island; japanese; kyoto; land; left; life; love; man; men; morning; mountain; near; new; night; order; people; place; present; priests; prince; red; road; room; school; sea; set; shrine; snow; stone; sun; tea; temple; things; time; tokyo; trees; water; way; western; white; wife; women; wood; work; world; years cache: 41722.txt plain text: 41722.txt item: #264 of 425 id: 41751 author: Vámbéry, Ármin title: Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand date: None words: 139619 flesch: 75 summary: There are very few large warehouses or wholesale dealers; and in spite of cotton, calico, and fine muslin being sold, not only in the Restei Tchit Furushi (the place where cotton is exposed for sale), which has 284 shops, but also in many other places in the city, I might boldly affirm that my friends 'Hanhart and Company,' in Tabris, dispose alone of as much of the articles above named as the whole city of Bokhara, in spite of the latter being denominated the capital of Central Asia. He had a Tekkie (monastery), {232} where a limited number of students were instructed _à la_ Bokhara. keywords: 8vo; account; afghan; asia; author; bank; bilal; bokhara; bread; camels; capital; central; chapter; character; chief; chinese; city; companions; country; day; days; death; dervish; desert; direction; distance; east; edition; emir; english; evening; eyes; fcap; felt; following; footnote; form; friends; good; government; great; gömüshtepe; hadji; half; hands; having; head; herat; history; hours; illustrations; inhabitants; journey; karavan; kervanbashi; khan; khanat; khiva; khokand; kirghis; left; life; little; maymene; mehemmed; men; miles; mollah; morning; new; night; nomads; north; number; order; oxus; pass; people; persia; persians; place; point; political; post 8vo; present; prince; religion; return; rev; river; route; ruins; russian; samarcand; sea; second; sir; slaves; son; south; spite; state; sultan; teheran; tents; thought; time; timour; travellers; turkestan; turkish; turkomans; use; vols; war; water; way; wild; woodcuts; years; yomuts; young cache: 41751.txt plain text: 41751.txt item: #265 of 425 id: 41770 author: Saleeby, Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) title: Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion date: None words: 42915 flesch: 76 summary: Hajji Sayk Abdu-r-Rakman Banswil married Manjani, the daughter of Sultan Barahaman, and begot Datu Sakaludan, a Lingkung Tidulay, and Putri Kintay, Kaludan, the son of a concubine, Japar, Undung, Kapitan Lawut Mohammed, and Ibrahim, and the following daughters: Duni, Pindaw, and Dasumbay. Mana, the brother of Nanak, married the daughter of the sister of the sultan of Sulug and begot Datu Milbahar, Bantilan, and Datu Adana. keywords: arabic; article; begot; bore; brother; bwayan; case; children; claim; concubine; copy; cotabato; country; datu; daughter; death; din; father; fine; genealogy; god; history; jamalu; kabungsuwan; lady; land; luwaran; magindanao; malay; manuscript; married; master; mawlana; means; mohammed; moros; oath; people; person; pesos; property; putri; raja; river; sarip; sec; sharif; slave; statement; sultan; sultan mohammed; sulu; tabunaway; time; wife; woman; word cache: 41770.txt plain text: 41770.txt item: #266 of 425 id: 41771 author: Saleeby, Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) title: The History of Sulu date: None words: 121804 flesch: 61 summary: The following list compiled in the office of the Jolo Trading Company, for the Far Eastern Review, is a fair estimate of the prospective exports of the town for the coming two years: =================================================================== | Article | Amount | Price | Total | |---------------------------------+-----------+-------+-----------| | | Piculs. He caused to be translated into Sulu parts of the Quran and several Arabic texts on law and religion. keywords: = =; arabic; article; basilan; boats; borneo; captain; chief; chinese; coast; commerce; country; datus; day; din; don; east; end; enemy; english; excellency; expedition; fleet; following; force; fort; general; god; good; government; governor; island; jamalul; jolo; king; kiram; left; letter; majesty; manila; means; military; mindanao; mohammed; moros; nation; natives; north; number; office; order; people; philippine; piece |; place; point; policy; power; present; purpose; raja; regard; report; right; river; royal; said; sea; ships; south; sovereignty; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; sultan; sultan mohammed; sulu; sulu archipelago; sulu island; sulu sultan; time; town; trade; treaty; troops; vessels; war; year; zamboanga; | =; | | cache: 41771.txt plain text: 41771.txt item: #267 of 425 id: 41819 author: Lajpat Rai, Lala title: The Political Future of India date: None words: 76074 flesch: 55 summary: But in the villages India maintained a democratic form of government right up to the beginning of British rule; and though under British rule, it has been practically superseded by the rule of the officials, yet in some parts of the country the spirit is still alive, as will appear from the following testimony recorded by Mr. Sidney Webb in his Preface to Mr. John Matthai's volume, _Village Government in British India_: It is said that 226 of 244 millions of people in British India live a rural life: agriculture is the one great occupation of the people and the proportion of these who even give a thought to matters beyond the horizon of their villages is very small. keywords: administration; army; bengal; british india; committee; conditions; control; council; country; education; empire; european; executive; fact; general; good; government; governor; india; india act; india office; indians; industrial; interests; law; legislative; life; members; movement; new; number; opinion; order; people; policy; power; present; provinces; provincial; public; punjab; report; revolutionary; rule; scheme; secretary; self; services; state; subjects; system; time; war; world; years cache: 41819.txt plain text: 41819.txt item: #268 of 425 id: 41861 author: Gibbons, Helen Davenport title: The Red Rugs of Tarsus: A Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909 date: None words: 33787 flesch: 87 summary: Tell Herbert I have not cried once, that I am not afraid. He tells me that he knew, young as he was, that if there had been a doctor in his village, his parents might not have died; and that he had determined then to be a doctor, so that other little boys might not lose their parents. keywords: adana; american; armenian; baby; boys; christie; college; day; days; dear; door; going; good; herbert; home; house; life; mersina; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; room; socrates; tarsus; things; think; time; train; turkish; turks; water; way; women; work; world cache: 41861.txt plain text: 41861.txt item: #269 of 425 id: 41878 author: Gascoyne-Cecil, William title: Changing China date: None words: 86560 flesch: 62 summary: The rivers represent the old means of communication, the railways the new, and the comparison between the river and the railway enables the traveller to compare new with old China and to realise the great changes that are taking place there and the transitional character of the phase through which the country is now passing. China is now progressive; yes, young China believes intensely in progress, with an optimistic spirit which reminds the onlooker more of the French pre-Revolution spirit than of anything else. keywords: body; china; chinaman; chinese; christian; christianity; church; civilisation; country; education; english; foreign; french; good; government; japanese; knowledge; land; life; little; man; men; mission; missionaries; missionary; movement; mrs; new; opium; peking; people; place; position; power; present; race; religion; result; roman; russia; schools; seq; shanghai; system; teaching; things; thought; time; university; way; western; women; work; world; years cache: 41878.txt plain text: 41878.txt item: #270 of 425 id: 41897 author: Das, Sukumar Ranjan title: Chitta Ranjan date: None words: 22062 flesch: 68 summary: Again in 1916 when Mr. Montagu came to India Chitta Ranjan was for the first time invited to the Government House. Chitta Ranjan in his private life, 19 CHAPTER V. Chitta Ranjan as a symbol of Neo-Hinduism, 26 CHAPTER VI. keywords: bengal; calcutta; case; chitta ranjan; congress; country; countrymen; court; day; england; government; heart; house; india; life; mohan; mother; national; non; people; poor; ranjan das; self; swaraj; time; village; work cache: 41897.txt plain text: 41897.txt item: #271 of 425 id: 41918 author: Worcester, Dean C. (Dean Conant) title: The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) date: None words: 167884 flesch: 61 summary: + 7 1912 | 35,885,728 | +46 1913 | 31,210,177 | -13 -------------+--------------+----------------- Postal Savings Bank -------------+---------------------+----------------------------- | Depositors in the | Total Amount Due Depositors Fiscal Year | Postal Savings Bank | at Close of Year +--------+------------+--------------+-------------- | Number | | Per cent | | | 1900 | $1,526,310 | | $117,848 | | 1901 | 1,514,435 | - 1 | 122,833 | | 1902 | 1,854,927 | +22 | 126,375 | | 1903 | 2,842,587 | +53 | 132,445 | | 1904 | 3,102,606 | + 9 | 121,714 | | 1905 | 3,444,053 | +11 | 121,648 | | 1906 | 3,687,127 | + 7 | 198,583 |[163]$56,351 | 1907 | 3,229,446 | -12 | 198,546 | 118,360 | +110 1908 | 3,645,123 | +13 | 220,306 | 136,138 | + 15 1909 | 4,008,678 | +10 | 245,482 | 139,208 | + 2 1910 keywords: act; american; archipelago; assembly; bill; bontoc; bureau; business; case; chief; children; christian; civil; coast; commission; conditions; control; country; course; court; day; days; fact; feet; filipinos; following; forest; general; good; government; governor; half; hand; head; house; ifugaos; igorots; inhabitants; instance; islands; jurisdiction; law; lieutenant; making; manila; matter; means; military; moros; mountain; native; new; non; nueva; officers; opportunity; order; people; persons; philippine; philippine commission; philippine islands; philippine people; place; present; property; province; public; reason; report; result; rice; right; river; road; school; secretary; service; slavery; slaves; soldiers; spanish; states; system; territory; time; took; total |; town; trail; tribes; trip; united; use; vizcaya; water; way; wild; work; years; | +; | currency; | increase; | number; | pounds; | value; | | cache: 41918.txt plain text: 41918.txt item: #272 of 425 id: 41959 author: Craig, Austin title: Philippine Progress Prior to 1898 A Source Book of Philippine History to Supply a Fairer View of Filipino Participation and Supplement the Defective Spanish Accounts date: None words: 69598 flesch: 64 summary: The natives gather them and sell them by measure to the Siamese, Cambodians, Pantanes, and other peoples of the mainland. However, I have been convinced that by a closer and intelligent exploration of the archipelago, it would not only be possible to make many corrections, particularly in orthography, but that new names would also be added, especially from northern Luzon and from the interior of other islands. keywords: account; antonio; archipelago; century; chief; china; chinese; cloth; coast; coming; commerce; commercial; conquest; cotton; country; days; development; east; españa; fact; filipinos; food; general; gold; good; government; governor; half; head; heathen; history; houses; ibid; indians; islands; king; language; las; like; luzon; malay; manila; means; men; merchandise; mindanao; morga; natives; new; nueva; number; order; people; period; pesos; philippine islands; philippines; place; population; present; priest; products; progress; province; purposes; race; reason; rice; royal; san; sea; ships; silk; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; tagalog; time; trade; tribes; vessels; vol; way; work; world; years cache: 41959.txt plain text: 41959.txt item: #273 of 425 id: 41977 author: McManus, Blanche title: Our Little Hindu Cousin date: None words: 19785 flesch: 84 summary: IT was barely light when little Chola rolled out of his blanket and gave his cousin Mahala a shake as he lay stretched out beside him. It is well to have a charm; hast thou one? asked little Chola, as he felt for the charm which hung about his neck. keywords: boys; children; chola; colonel; cousin=; elephants; father; good; grandmother; harry; head; hindu; mahala; man; mother; nao; people; river; shriya; story; thou; time; way cache: 41977.txt plain text: 41977.txt item: #274 of 425 id: 42146 author: Thomson, Thomas title: Western Himalaya and Tibet A Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India During the Years 1847-8 date: None words: 152805 flesch: 69 summary: As it may fairly be inferred that the lake was quite fresh at the time when it was inhabited by _Lymnææ_ and _ Indeed, a super-abundance of water is in general indicated by the swampy banks of the irrigation canals, as the water, oozing through the loose gravel of the platforms, produces a dense jungle of _Hippophaë_ scrub, which makes the cultivated tracts conspicuous, even in winter, when the trees are bare of leaves and the fields of crops. keywords: appearance; ascent; august; bank; bare; bed; clay; close; country; course; cultivation; day; deep; descent; direction; distance; east; elevation; feet; fine; forest; general; glacier; good; height; hills; himalaya; indus; iskardo; journey; kashmir; lake; left; level; little; low; miles; mountains; narrow; north; nubra; open; parts; pass; place; plain; plants; range; ravine; ridge; right; river; road; rocky; rose; shayuk; sidenote; sides; slope; snow; south; species; steep; stream; surface; sutlej; tibet; time; trees; upper; valley; vegetation; view; village; water; west cache: 42146.txt plain text: 42146.txt item: #275 of 425 id: 42304 author: Peery, R. B. (Rufus Benton) title: The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions date: None words: 70416 flesch: 66 summary: As a prominent Japanese put it not long ago, What could be more inconsistent or improper than for great Japan, that has so recently humbled China and forced the admiration of the world for her skill in arms, as well as for her educational, commercial, and industrial development, to be instructed in religious matters by foreigners? Operating in these ways, Japanese patriotism ill adapts the people for a reception of Christianity. It was the most magnificent city of old Japan, and many highly cherished {18} national memories and traditions cluster around it. keywords: american; buddhism; children; christianity; christians; church; churches; civilization; country; customs; day; empire; faith; family; field; foreign; god; good; government; history; home; influence; japan; japanese; land; life; man; men; mission work; missionaries; missionary; missions; national; native; nature; new; people; place; power; present; religion; schools; self; shinto; state; things; time; way; west; work; years cache: 42304.txt plain text: 42304.txt item: #276 of 425 id: 42399 author: Aduarte, Diego title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 87436 flesch: 66 summary: When Father Juan Cobo went as ambassador to Japon, father Fray Juan was assigned to the mission to the Chinese, being thus required to learn a third language in addition to the two which he already knew. During the absence of the father provincial in Camboja, the province could find no one more suitable to govern it in his place, and accordingly father Fray Juan was nominated as vicar-general. keywords: account; bishop; chapter; chinese; church; city; convent; country; day; days; death; don; españa; father fray; fathers; fray juan; fray pedro; general; god; good; governor; heathen; holy; indians; islands; king; kingdom; life; lord; manila; men; nueva; order; pedro; people; place; poor; province; provincial; religious; rest; san; sea; ship; soldiers; spaniards; things; time; village; water; way; year cache: 42399.txt plain text: 42399.txt item: #277 of 425 id: 42458 author: Aduarte, Diego title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 32, 1640 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 84370 flesch: 65 summary: [Accordingly the prior asked father Fray Diego to persuade father Fray Francisco to remain; but both of them were induced to go to Filipinas by the arguments of father Fray Alonso. When the holy and prudent vicar-general, Fray Juan de Castro, assigned his companions to their various duties, he gave father Fray Diego the chief place by making him superior of the convent which was to be founded in the city of Manila. keywords: account; chapter; chinese; christians; church; city; come; convent; country; day; death; don fray; españa; faith; father fray; father provincial; father st; fathers; fray alonso; fray diego; fray domingo; fray francisco; fray jacintho; fray juan; fray luis; fray pedro; fray thomas; god; good; heathen; holy; indians; island; japanese; japon; kingdom; language; life; lord; manila; native; new; nueva; order; province; provincial; religious; san; segovia; time; village; way; year cache: 42458.txt plain text: 42458.txt item: #278 of 425 id: 42674 author: Irby, Augustus Henry title: The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains date: None words: 104032 flesch: 71 summary: As the light had increased, I carefully examined the tracks, and felt sure they were many days old. The shikarries, who had occupied other places to watch, soon joined me, excited by the same sight. keywords: abdoolah; animals; bear; breakfast; camp; close; cold; coolies; country; course; day; days; direction; distance; ere; fresh; game; good; grass; great; ground; half; hand; head; high; hill; horses; ibex; left; looking; man; miles; mooktoo; morning; morrow; mountain; night; party; path; phuttoo; place; ravine; river; road; rock; route; shikarries; shot; snow; spot; steep; stones; stream; subhan; sun; tent; thought; time; valley; view; village; water; way; work; yards; yarkand; yâk cache: 42674.txt plain text: 42674.txt item: #279 of 425 id: 42726 author: Lala, Ramon Reyes title: The Philippine Islands date: None words: 73312 flesch: 69 summary: For many years the taxes were paid to the treasury wholly in colonial produce, and for many more years, partly so. There forest and plain, sky and sea, unroll in unexpected beauty or marvelous grandeur at every turn; until, after visiting the interior or skirting the shores of many islands, one has a kind of kaleidoscopic memory, yet none the less brilliant, perfectly formed, and orderly--each in harmonious sequence--of long lines of shadowy hills, majestic mountain-ranges, with forest-clad slopes verging toward the sea; pretty rambling creeks and gurgling rivulets, cliff-bound coasts, cultivated plain and rugged hill; here and there shaded dells with mountain torrents roaring, unseen; a glorious sunset, or a splendid sunrise present in the memory-pictures of mountain, sea, and plain. keywords: aguinaldo; american; british; capital; captain; cavité; cebú; cent; chief; chinese; church; city; coffee; colony; commerce; country; course; cut; day; end; enemy; fact; feet; fibre; fine; friars; general; gold; good; government; governor; guns; half; hand; hemp; house; islands; leaf; life; long; luzon; manila; men; miles; natives; new; night; order; people; philippines; place; plant; priests; province; rice; sea; ships; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; sugar; sulu; time; tobacco; tons; town; trade; united; use; village; war; water; way; white; women; work; years cache: 42726.txt plain text: 42726.txt item: #280 of 425 id: 42732 author: Michie, Alexander title: The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan date: None words: 129658 flesch: 53 summary: Trade the sole motive in all British and American dealings with China -- Simplicity of this trade -- Chief staple imports and exports -- Data for any review of Chinese trade -- Mutual alarm caused by excess of imports -- Peculiar conditions of British trade -- Entailing a loss of over 30 per cent, yet steadily maintained -- System of barter -- Consequent impossibility of clear accounts -- And ignorance of position at any given moment -- Trade also hampered by traditions of the East India Company -- Such as that of keeping large stores on hand -- Gradual improvement on these methods -- Advantages of landed investment in China -- Perceived and acted on by the Jesuits -- And later by foreign merchants -- The American trade -- Similarity of currency -- Excess of Chinese exports met by shipments of specie -- And later by credits on London banks. Importance of appointment -- New position created by Treaty of Nanking -- Exceptional responsibility of the new consuls -- The evolution and scope of foreign intercourse -- Pioneer traders -- Mutual experiences of Chinese and foreigners -- Results -- English inheritors of the record -- An intolerable state of things -- Drastic remedy -- Where it failed -- Chasm between Eastern and Western ideas -- Commerce alone supplied a safe medium of intercourse -- Its healing qualities -- But social and political concomitants created friction -- Arbitrary interferences of Chinese Government -- Their traditional mode of treating barbarians -- Denial of human rights -- Absence of law in their intercourse -- Spasmodic resistance to Chinese tyranny aggravated the evils -- East India Company submitted for the sake of gain -- Close of the Company's charter -- Followed by endeavour of British Government to establish official intercourse -- Determined resistance of Chinese -- Lord Napier, first British envoy, not received -- Loaded with insults -- Contradictory instructions given by British Government -- To conciliate Chinese as in days of Company, and at same time to open diplomatic relations -- Lord Napier's appeal to experience -- His death at Macao -- Captain Ellis, a third envoy, reverts to the policy of submission -- Has no success. keywords: account; admiral; alcock; american; authorities; british; business; canton; capital; captain; case; character; china; china trade; chinese; city; coast; colony; commerce; commissioner; community; company; consul; country; course; days; duties; east; effect; elgin; elliot; emperor; empire; end; english; fact; foochow; force; foreign; foreigners; french; general; good; government; great; having; hongkong; india; intercourse; interests; john; lay; life; lord; macao; majesty; man; means; merchants; military; minister; mr alcock; native; new; officials; opium; peking; people; period; place; point; policy; ports; portuguese; position; power; present; question; relations; river; service; shanghai; ships; sir; state; subjects; tea; time; trade; treaty; vessels; war; way; work; world; years cache: 42732.txt plain text: 42732.txt item: #281 of 425 id: 42904 author: Blake, Henry Arthur, Sir title: China date: None words: 32659 flesch: 62 summary: Out in the harbour, towards Stonecutter's Island, the tall masts of trim American schooners may be seen, the master--probably part owner--with sometimes his wife on board, and with accommodation aft that the captains of our largest liners might envy, while the thousands of Chinese boats of all descriptions look like swarms of flies moving over the laughing waters of the bay. But while we have been gazing on a good deal of the darker side of the lives of the women and girls of China, we must not forget that shadows cannot exist without light, so there must be a bright side in life for many Chinese women, and some of the papers read have shown us that no small number of Chinese ladies, independently of European influences, extend noble-minded and practical charity to those amongst their humbler neighbours who may stand in need of such assistance. keywords: boats; bride; business; canton; children; china; chinese; city; custom; day; european; family; feet; fish; head; hong; house; illustration; kong; life; man; men; new; number; official; opium; people; place; population; position; rice; river; round; streets; temple; time; trade; viceroy; water; western; women; work; years; young cache: 42904.txt plain text: 42904.txt item: #282 of 425 id: 42970 author: Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir title: The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative date: None words: 141684 flesch: 57 summary: The defiles of the Kabul River are here impassable, but they can be turned by mountain routes, and Alexander's force, which included the Hyspaspists, who were comparatively lightly armed, with the archers, the companion cavalry and the lancers, was evidently picked for mountain warfare. An early Tibetan explorer (the celebrated Abbé Huc) told a tale of a certain Englishman named Moorcroft, who was reported to have lived in Lhasa for twelve years previous to the year 1838 and who was supposed to have been assassinated on his way back to India _via_ Ladak. keywords: account; afghanistan; alexander; ancient; arab; asia; badakshan; balkh; baluchistan; bamian; british; burnes; capital; central; centuries; century; chief; cited; city; coast; country; course; days; description; desert; direct; east; exploration; fact; feet; ferrier; force; frontier; general; ghazni; ghur; good; greek; helmund; herat; high; hills; hindu; history; idrisi; india; indus; information; journey; kabul; kandahar; khan; knowledge; known; kunduz; kush; land; left; line; little; long; makran; masson; mediæval; miles; military; modern; mountain; near; north; northern; open; oxus; pass; passes; people; persian; place; plains; point; position; present; records; river; road; route; rud; ruins; sea; seistan; south; time; town; trade; turkistan; valley; water; way; west; western; wood; world; years cache: 42970.txt plain text: 42970.txt item: #283 of 425 id: 42991 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 date: None words: 136249 flesch: 73 summary: | 162.5 | 175 | 149.6 | 81.9 | 95.7 | 68.1 ========================================================= By the dolichocephalic type of cranium which has persisted, and which the Chenchus possess in common with various other jungle tribes, they are still, as shown by the following table, at once differentiated from the mesaticephalic dwellers in the plains near the foot of the Nallamalais:-- ================================================ | | Number of | Cephalic| times the | Index. The following are the results of measurements of Kanikars in the jungle, and at a village some miles from Trivandrum, the capital of Travancore:-- =========================================================== | Stature cm. keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; account; ancestors; badagas; bants; barber; betel; body; boy; boyas; brahmans; bridegroom; burning; canara; car; caste; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; children; class; classes; close; cloth; community; connection; corpse; country; couple; day; days; dead; death; deceased; district; division; dravidian; exogamous; f =; fact; families; family; father; feet; female; festival; fire; flowers; following; food; form; girl; god; gods; good; hair; hand; head; headman; hindu; home; house; husband; india; language; law; leaves; left; life; long; madras; malabar; male; manual; mark; marriage; means; members; milk; money; morning; mother; mysore; names; neck; new; north; number; occasion; oriya; pair; pandal; people; person; place; pollution; pot; pots; present; priest; procession; relations; report; rice; right; round; section; sept; set; siva; small; son; south; southern; stone; sub; sun; taking; tamil |; telugu; temple; thou; thread; time; title; tree; tribes; tulu; turmeric; vessel; village; vishnu; water; white; widow; wife; women; work; worship; years; | =; | canarese; | | cache: 42991.txt plain text: 42991.txt item: #284 of 425 id: 42992 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 date: None words: 151270 flesch: 72 summary: The Chakkiliyans beat the tom-tom for Kammalans, Pallis and Kaikolans, and for other castes if desired to do so. During the seventh month of pregnancy, the ceremony of puli kuti, or tamarind juice drinking, is performed as among other castes. keywords: + =; = +; = =; account; betel; black; body; brahmans; brass; bride; bridegroom; brother; canara; cases; caste; cattle; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chenchus; chief; children; class; classes; cloth; cochin; cocoanut; community; connection; copper; country; couple; cow; custom; cut; dancing; dasaris; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deity; district; division; european; exogamous; families; family; father; feast; feet; female; festival; fire; flowers; following; follows; food; forest; form; girl; god; goddess; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; headman; hindu; holeyas; home; house; husband; hut; india; irulas; jews; king; law; leaf; leaves; left; life; little; madras; malabar; man; manual; marriage; meaning; means; members; milk; money; mother; mysore; names; native; near; neck; north; note; number; occupation; oil; oriya; paddy; parents; party; people; person; piece; place; pollution; pot; present; priest; puberty; pulayas; report; return; rice; right; round; rupees; second; section; sept; set; son; south; state; stone; sub; tali; tamil; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; toddy; travancore; tree; turmeric; village; vizagapatam; water; way; white; widow; wife; women; work; worship; years; | =; | | cache: 42992.txt plain text: 42992.txt item: #285 of 425 id: 42993 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 date: None words: 153426 flesch: 71 summary: They are tattooed, and tattooing members of other castes is one of their occupations, which include the following:-- Katukuttu, or boring the lobes of the ears. Though in the presence of other castes the Kakkalans speak Malayalam, they have a peculiar language which is used among themselves, and is not understood by others. keywords: = =; account; ashes; bamboo; barber; betel; body; brahmans; brass; bride; bridegroom; brother; caste; cattle; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; child; children; class; classes; cloth; community; connection; corpse; country; cow; custom; cut; dancing; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deity; descendants; district; division; exogamous; family; father; feast; feet; female; fire; flowers; following; food; form; ganjam; gazetteer; girl; god; goddess; gods; gold; good; government; hair; hand; head; headman; home; house; husband; hut; india; kallans; kammalans; kaniyans; kapus; khonds; king; komatis; koravas; land; law; leaf; leaves; left; life; little; live; madras; madura; malabar; man; manual; marriage; means; members; milk; money; mother; names; neck; new; north; number; parents; parts; people; person; place; pot; present; priest; relations; report; return; rice; right; round; rule; sacred; sacrifice; section; sept; set; siva; son; sons; south; spot; state; stone; story; sub; tali; tamil; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; travancore; tree; turmeric; village; vizagapatam; water; way; wife; women; work; worship; years cache: 42993.txt plain text: 42993.txt item: #286 of 425 id: 42994 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 date: None words: 154982 flesch: 72 summary: There are also local Mathangis in other villages, but they are all said to be subordinate to the Tudimilla woman, who is the high Pontiff of the institution. Apparently the idea is that, if they make a noise or display a blaze of lights, they will attract the evil spirits, who will swoop down on them and do them some injury, though in other villages it is supposed that a great deal of noise and flourishing of sticks will keep the evil spirits at bay. keywords: = =; account; animal; arcot; basava; bellary; betel; blood; body; brahmans; brass; bride; bridegroom; cases; caste; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; children; class; classes; cloth; cocoanut; community; connection; corpse; country; couple; cut; dance; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deity; district; division; drink; earth; end; exogamous; families; family; father; feast; feet; female; festival; fire; flesh; following; follows; food; form; girl; goddess; gods; good; grain; grave; hair; hand; head; headman; hill; hindu; home; house; husband; image; jungle; kotas; kurumbas; large; law; leaf; leaves; left; life; lingayats; little; madigas; madras; malabar; malaialis; malas; male; man; manual; mappillas; marriage; means; members; milk; mother; mysore; neck; new; north; note; number; occasion; outside; party; people; piece; place; pot; pots; present; priest; procession; pujari; red; report; return; rice; right; round; second; sept; set; sheep; siva; son; south; stone; sub; tali; tamil; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; travancore; tree; turmeric; village; water; way; widow; wife; women; wood; work; worship; years cache: 42994.txt plain text: 42994.txt item: #287 of 425 id: 42995 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 date: None words: 148304 flesch: 71 summary: Marans may be divided into two main divisions, viz., Marans who called themselves Marars in North Travancore, and who now hesitate to assist other castes in the performance of their funeral rites; and Marans who do not convert their caste designation into an honorific plural, and act as priests for other castes. The number of sub-divisions returned by the rest is no less than 305, of which the majority are the names of other castes. keywords: = =; account; bathe; betel; body; brahmans; bride; bridegroom; brother; caste; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; child; children; class; cloth; cocoanut; connection; corpse; country; couple; custom; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deceased; district; division; east; end; exogamous; families; family; father; female; festival; fire; fish; flowers; following; follows; food; form; girl; god; goddess; gold; good; grass; hair; hand; having; head; home; house; husband; india; kind; king; lamp; land; law; leaf; leaves; left; life; madras; madura; malabar; male; man; marriage; marry; meaning; means; members; milk; money; month; morning; mother; nambutiri; names; nayars; near; neck; north; note; number; occasion; offerings; oil; ordinary; pandal; people; person; piece; place; pollution; pot; present; priest; procession; pyre; relations; report; return; rice; right; round; rule; rupees; sept; set; silver; siva; son; south; stone; sub; tali; tamil; taravad; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; travancore; tree; tribe; turmeric; vessel; village; water; way; wear; wife; women; word; work; worship; years cache: 42995.txt plain text: 42995.txt item: #288 of 425 id: 42996 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 date: None words: 138113 flesch: 70 summary: But the termination 'Odi' is found in other caste titles such as Adiyodi and Vallodi, and the definition is obviously fanciful, while it does not explain the meaning of Pishar. But, by other castes, they are nicknamed Kumalam Brahmans. keywords: account; ancestors; arcot; bamboo; betel; bishop; body; brahmans; bride; bridegroom; brother; burning; cases; caste; census; century; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; children; christians; church; claim; class; classes; cloth; community; corpse; country; couple; custom; day; days; dead; death; deity; descendants; district; division; exogamous; family; father; feast; feet; female; fire; fish; flowers; following; food; form; gazetteer; girl; god; goddess; good; government; hand; head; headman; hill; house; husband; india; king; kshatriyas; land; leaf; leaves; left; liquor; madras; madura; malabar; man; manual; marriage; meaning; means; members; milk; mother; names; native; near; neck; north; note; number; offerings; origin; oriya; pallis; pandal; paraiyans; paravas; parts; people; person; place; position; pot; pots; present; priests; report; rice; right; round; sacred; sacrifice; savaras; section; sept; set; siva; small; son; south; stone; sub; synonym; syrians; tali; tamil; telugu; temple; thomas; thread; time; tinnevelly; title; toddy; travancore; tree; village; water; way; weavers; weaving; wife; women; word; work; worship; years cache: 42996.txt plain text: 42996.txt item: #289 of 425 id: 42997 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 date: None words: 133882 flesch: 73 summary: He is a man of importance, not only in many affairs within his own caste, but also in those of other castes. They are simply a criminal community, into which outsiders are admitted, who give their women in marriage outside the caste, and who adopt children of other castes. keywords: betel; body; boy; brahmans; bridegroom; buffaloes; caste; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; child; children; classes; cloth; cocoanut; connection; corpse; country; custom; cut; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deity; district; division; earth; exogamous; family; father; feet; female; fire; following; food; form; funeral; girl; god; goddess; gold; good; government; great; hair; hand; head; house; husband; hut; king; lamp; land; leaf; leaves; left; long; madras; madura; malabar; man; manual; marriage; members; middle; milk; money; mother; nayars; near; neck; north; number; oil; origin; paddy; pandal; party; people; perform; person; place; pollution; pot; pots; present; priests; relations; report; return; rice; right; round; salt; section; sept; set; sister; siva; son; south; stone; sub; synonym; tali; tamil; tandan; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; tiyan; todas; toddy; travancore; tree; uncle; vellalas; village; water; wear; white; wife; women; work; worship; yanadis; year cache: 42997.txt plain text: 42997.txt item: #290 of 425 id: 43451 author: Leonardo de Argensola, Bartolomé title: The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. date: None words: 160193 flesch: 66 summary: with their Families, not in good Order, as in Transmigrations, but raging, in Confusion, and loaded with their Children, and a few Necessaries, having before sent away their Effects to other Islands. it self, as also Mindanas; so those of Bisaya, abounding in Iron; Mascaga, and Masbate, which have much Gold, as well as Mindanas; that of Sologo, and others producing Provisions, Spice, Sanders, Eaglewood, [Other Islands.] keywords: account; admiral; amboyna; arms; arriv'd; away; cachil; call'd; cannon; captain; carry'd; chief; china; chineses; city; coming; commander; country; day; days; design; don; dutch; end; enemies; enemy; english; fire; fleet; fort; francis; furtado; gallinato; general; god; good; governour; great; hands; head; india; indians; islands; john; kill'd; king; kingdom; lay; leagues; left; majesty; manila; men; moluccos; natives; new; number; order; order'd; parts; pedro; people; philippine; pieces; place; portugal; portugueses; possession; power; prince; provisions; queen; reason; rest; return'd; river; sail'd; sangleyes; sarmiento; sea; set; ships; sight; soldiers; son; sort; spain; spaniards; spanish; subjects; ternate; things; tho; thought; time; town; trade; tydore; use; vessels; war; water; way; whereof; work; year cache: 43451.txt plain text: 43451.txt item: #291 of 425 id: 43495 author: Gillis, Charles J. title: Around the World in Seven Months date: None words: 28260 flesch: 74 summary: There we took a circuit around the hills, and saw many great buildings, barracks, schools, etc. The harbor appears to be about a mile wide and two miles long, surrounded by steep hills, on which the city is built, largely in terraces, with many great palaces, mosques, and public buildings, the Mosque of St. Sophia being very prominent. keywords: boat; chapter; city; country; day; days; english; feet; good; hotel; hours; left; looking; men; miles; morning; mountains; native; new; p.m.; people; place; road; saw; sea; ship; steamer; streets; time; trees; water; world; years cache: 43495.txt plain text: 43495.txt item: #292 of 425 id: 43497 author: Hedin, Sven Anders title: Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 168656 flesch: 77 summary: Good day, Abdullah, I said to him, for I immediately recognized the honest fellow who had helped me up over the snowfields of the Zoji-la on the former occasion. But we knew nothing, and spent the last day of January quietly in camp No. 119. keywords: air; ali; animals; bank; black; blue; boat; camp; caravan; chang; chapter; chinese; chu; cold; country; course; dark; day; days; distance; east; evening; eyes; feet; fire; foot; good; great; ground; half; head; holy; horses; hours; ice; illustration; india; isa; journey; ladak; lake; lama; land; lay; left; leh; lhasa; life; long; look; lunpo; man; march; men; monastery; monks; morning; mountains; muhamed; mules; new; night; north; open; pass; people; place; point; red; rest; river; road; robert; saw; set; sheep; shigatse; shore; snow; south; stone; storm; sun; tashi; tashi lama; tea; tent; tibet; tibetans; time; tsangpo; tsering; tso; valley; water; way; west; white; wind; work; yaks; years; yellow cache: 43497.txt plain text: 43497.txt item: #293 of 425 id: 43540 author: Paxton, J. D. (John D.) title: Letters from Palestine Written during a residence there in the years 1836, 7 and 8 date: None words: 88294 flesch: 78 summary: At the heads of hollows, and at the points of ridges, and often in other places, the limestone seems forced up, but retains its horizontal position: at other places, the sandstone is suddenly cut off, and begins again at a great distance above or below;--but When about to begin our descent, however, we met several muleteers with mules loaded with fruit, which they were carrying probably to Beyroot or Tripoli: in the fruit season, much fruit is brought from Damascus to Beyroot, Tripoli, and other places on the coast. keywords: appearance; beyroot; church; city; country; day; distance; district; east; feet; fine; good; great; ground; high; hills; houses; jerusalem; kind; land; lebanon; left; lies; man; miles; mount; mountains; north; number; people; place; plain; ridge; river; rock; sea; set; south; sun; time; town; trees; valley; village; walls; water; way; west cache: 43540.txt plain text: 43540.txt item: #294 of 425 id: 43541 author: Satow, Ernest Mason title: A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period date: None words: 170319 flesch: 66 summary: Two sorts of _saké_ were served, and the waiting maid smoked all the while to perfume the room. There was a good deal of picking at the various dishes of the banquet which was placed before us, and a great quantity of _saké_ was drunk. keywords: admiral; affairs; afternoon; aidzu; board; boat; british; capital; captain; castle; chapter; chief; chinese; chôshiû; city; clan; close; colonel; council; country; couple; course; court; daimiôs; day; days; end; english; escort; european; evening; fact; fire; foreign; foreigners; french; general; good; government; governor; guard; half; hand; harry; head; high; hiôgo; home; house; japanese; kami; keiki; kiôto; left; legation; letter; man; men; mikado; minister; mitford; morning; nagasaki; native; number; o'clock; occasion; officers; officials; order; ozaka; party; past; people; place; position; prince; representatives; retainers; return; right; river; road; room; round; saké; satsuma; set; settlement; shôgun; sir; sir harry; thought; time; tokugawa; tosa; town; treaties; troops; tycoon; visit; war; way; willis; years; yedo; yokohama cache: 43541.txt plain text: 43541.txt item: #295 of 425 id: 43549 author: Hedin, Sven Anders title: Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 173060 flesch: 79 summary: INDEX Abbot, a twelve-year-old, ii. 163 Abdul Kerim, my caravan leader, ii. 226; error of, as to forage, 241; assumes rôle of master of caravan, 291, 344; ideas as to the time of day, 302; despatched in charge of second division of caravan to the Tarok-tso, 371; anxiety as to whereabouts of, 396; arrives at our camp at Ratse, 399; bid farewell to, with other five of my followers, 416 Absi, peak of the Kubi-gangri, ii. 102 Abuk-la pass, ii. 396 Adam, Colonel, military secretary to the Viceroy, i. 16 Age, average, of caravan, i. 53 Aid, Mohammedan festival celebrated in camp, i. 191 Aksai-chin, lake, unannexed region of, i. 93, 95, 98; ii. 258 Alchi, dangerous bridge at, i. 44 Alexander the Great, i. 3; ii. 213 Amban Lien Yü, of Lhasa, i. 393, 400 Amchen-la pass, ii. 396 Amchi-lama (monk-doctor), tent-temple of, ii. 296 Amchok-tang, plain, ii. 36 Amchok-tso, lake, ii. 36; camp at, 37; shallowness of, 38; soundings on, 39 Amchok-yung, village of, ii. 36 Amchung country, interesting information acquired in, ii. 325 Amitabha, the Tashi Lama the incarnation of, i. 326 Amusements, Tibetan, i. 341 Anchar, lake, i. 32 Angden-la pass, cairn with prayer-streamers on, ii. 34; panoramic view from, 35; not situated on same range as the Samye-la, 330 Angsi-chu, river, ii. 104 Antelope Plain, name given by Captain Deasy, i. 142 Antelopes, i. 92, 114, 175, 186; ii. 36, 262, 282; method of snaring, i. 119; ii. 274 Aong-tsangpo, river, ii. 399 Archery and shooting competitions on horseback, i. 343 Argok-tso, lake, ii. 400 Arnold, _ The Light of Asia_, quotation from, ii. 206 Arport-tso, lake, crossing of ice of, ii. 263 Arung-kampa, deserted village of, i. 280 Asses, wild, upright position of frozen, ii. 95; great herds met with, 285 Atkinson, Mr. E. T., work by, cited, ii. 402 Bailey, Lieutenant, Acting Resident at Gyangtse, i. 255 Balls, State, in Simla, i. 17; ii. 420 Baltal, i. 38 Bando, camp at, ii. 83 Barley, roasted, a delicacy, ii. 14 Barong-la pass, ii. 30 Basang valley, camp in, ii. 46 Basgho-gompa, monastery, i. 44 Bed, method of making my, i. 150 Ben-la pass, storm on, ii. 34 Besant, Mrs. Annie, i. 30 Bibles, the Tibetan, in library of Tashi-lunpo, i. 333; in Tashi-gembe, 412 Biographical details of caravan, i. 151-153 Birch bark, dream suggested by, ii. 95 Boat, our portable, i. 28; successful trip of, 107; description of Tibetan, 288 Bogtsang-tsangpo, the, camp at, i. 205; interview with chief of district, 205; geographical information obtained, 206; erratic course of, 207 Bokar valley, ii. 212 _ keywords: abdul; animals; author; bank; black; boat; brahmaputra; camp; caravan; chang; chapter; chu; clouds; cold; country; course; dark; day; days; dzong; east; evening; feet; fire; foot; gangri; gompa; great; gulam; half; head; high; himalaya; holy; horses; ice; illustration; journey; kerim; la pass; lake; lama; lay; left; life; little; long; man; march; men; monastery; monks; morning; mountain; near; new; night; nomads; north; northern; old; pass; place; point; river; road; robert; round; route; saka; saw; set; sheep; shore; snow; source; south; spring; storm; sun; tashi; tea; temperature; tent; tibet; tibetan; time; trans; tsangpo; tsering; tso; valley; view; village; water; waves; way; west; white; wild; wind; yaks; year cache: 43549.txt plain text: 43549.txt item: #296 of 425 id: 43585 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Jewish Cousin date: None words: 16151 flesch: 91 summary: But how could poor little Esther have quiet? They gather in a close mass, with the mothers and little ones in the centre. keywords: beautiful; children; city; david; esther; father; king; levi; miriam; mother; people; rebecca; saul; solomon; story; time; way cache: 43585.txt plain text: 43585.txt item: #297 of 425 id: 43586 author: Acland, Charles title: A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India date: None words: 64923 flesch: 79 summary: God gave white men the Bible because he is very good, and he told them to go and teach it to every one, because he wishes every one to be good and happy, and to go to the happy country of heaven when they die; but the Shasters do not come from God. The inhabitants are a very savage race, and offer up human sacrifices; but they will hardly dare to attack white men. keywords: animal; bird; black; body; captain; country; cuttack; day; days; england; evening; feet; good; great; half; head; hills; house; india; jungle; man; men; midnapore; miles; morning; natives; night; number; o'clock; party; people; place; pooree; room; round; servants; sidenote; sort; tiger; time; water; way; white; wife cache: 43586.txt plain text: 43586.txt item: #298 of 425 id: 43669 author: Hall, W. H. (William Hutcheon), Sir title: Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843 And of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong-Kong and Remarks on the Character & Habits of the Chinese. Second Edition date: None words: 226301 flesch: 58 summary: It can, perhaps, be scarcely called a distinct river, but may be rather considered as in reality one of those almost innumerable channels which present themselves to view on every side, along the whole sea-board of China; dividing and then re-uniting, sometimes receiving large branches, sometimes throwing them off, here communicating with other rivers, and there even traversing across them. There was not room to turn her fairly round, and the only mode in which she could be managed was by sometimes driving her bows as far as possible into the river's bank, sometimes her stern; while at other times it was hard to say whether she was proceeding over a flooded paddy-field, or in the channel of a water-course. keywords: admiral; attack; authorities; battery; bay; board; boats; body; british; canton; captain; china; chinese; city; close; coast; country; course; day; days; distance; elliot; emperor; enemy; english; fact; fire; following; force; fort; general; good; government; governor; guns; half; harbour; hill; hong; iron; island; junks; kong; left; length; lieutenant; little; long; macao; man; means; men; miles; moment; morning; nemesis; new; number; object; occasion; officers; order; party; passage; people; place; point; position; possession; principal; purpose; river; round; sea; set; ships; shore; sir; soldiers; steamer; time; town; trade; troops; vessel; walls; war; water; way; works; wounded cache: 43669.txt plain text: 43669.txt item: #299 of 425 id: 43833 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Japanese Cousin date: None words: 13216 flesch: 86 summary: One morning not long after this, poor little Lotus Blossom woke up with a bad pain in her stomach. Lotus Blossom is very pretty. keywords: author; blossom; book; children; day; house; illustration; japanese; long; lotus; lotus blossom; mamma; man; new; paper; people; story; time; toyo cache: 43833.txt plain text: 43833.txt item: #300 of 425 id: 43885 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin date: None words: 16636 flesch: 88 summary: Yes, all these and many other good things would be done by the Americans to make Alila and Alila's children live more wisely and therefore more happily. It was not long till they had killed three of them with little trouble. keywords: 12mo; alila; boy; buffalo; cloth; cousin=; day; father; home; life; magellan; man; men; mother; new; people; place; time; water; way cache: 43885.txt plain text: 43885.txt item: #301 of 425 id: 43908 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Siamese Cousin date: None words: 20296 flesch: 88 summary: It took little time and money to furnish the room. She made believe they were eating, just as other little girls play, far away across the great ocean. keywords: 12mo; boy; chie; chie lo; children; chin; cloth; country; day; father; good; home; house; life; mother; people; river; sister; story; think; time; water; way cache: 43908.txt plain text: 43908.txt item: #302 of 425 id: 43997 author: Lang, John title: Wanderings in India, and Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan date: None words: 102901 flesch: 75 summary: Faith with such men as these! Invitations to dinner-parties and evening-parties are plentiful enough; but to men who go to Simlah without wives and families, and who don't intend to marry in the East, these reunions are a bore rather, after a brief while, and such men prefer dining under their own roofs. keywords: black; blue; boy; british; bungalow; case; chief; child; children; colonel; come; company; country; course; court; day; days; european; eyes; father; friend; general; gentleman; good; government; governor; half; hand; head; home; hour; house; husband; india; judge; lady; left; lieutenant; life; lord; magistrate; man; matter; men; military; morning; mrs; native; night; number; officers; order; people; place; pounds; rajah; regiment; road; room; rupees; sahib; servants; service; sir; station; table; time; way; wife; woman; years cache: 43997.txt plain text: 43997.txt item: #303 of 425 id: 44241 author: Pierotti, Ermete title: Jerusalem Explored, Volume 2—Plates Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations Consisting of Views, Ground Plans and Sections date: None words: 12244 flesch: 90 summary: S. Tomb of David and of the other Kings. Land formerly belonging to the Church of S. Mary the Great. keywords: ancient; bell; cambridge; church; co.--london; convent; daldy; day; deighton; fig; gate; greek; illustration; pierotti; plate; son; tomb cache: 44241.txt plain text: 44241.txt item: #304 of 425 id: 44261 author: Yüan, Yung-lun title: History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea From 1807 to 1810 date: None words: 36572 flesch: 75 summary: F[=u]ng_ signifies a hollow pyramid filled with combustibles; _y[=e]n_ signifies the smoke caused by combustion; _tse[=a]ng_ signifies the spar or yard in a boat or ship, to which the sail is attached, and _ying_ is shadow. [58] _Paou_, the first character of 8233, is in our own history always used in the signification of _cannon_. keywords: attack; canton; chang; china; chinese; chow; commander; country; day; fleet; general; government; governor; great; history; king; kwang; ladrones; leang; paou; people; pirates; place; river; sea; shore; sidenote; time; town; tung; vessels; wife; y[)i]h; year; ying; yuen cache: 44261.txt plain text: 44261.txt item: #305 of 425 id: 44408 author: Johnston, Arthur title: Narrative of the Operations of a Detachment in an Expedition to Candy, in the Island of Ceylon, in the Year 1804 With Some Observations on the Previous Campaign, and on the Nature of Candian Warfare, etc., etc., etc. date: None words: 24748 flesch: 57 summary: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Hav. keywords: army; candians; candy; ceylon; command; coolies; country; day; detachment; enemy; general; king; lieutenant; march; miles; natives; night; officers; river; time; troops; | +; | | cache: 44408.txt plain text: 44408.txt item: #306 of 425 id: 44409 author: Harris, Maurice H. (Maurice Henry) title: A Thousand Years of Jewish History From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain date: None words: 75455 flesch: 72 summary: Many Jews were invited to settle in the new capital--Antioch, on its Mediterranean border. Many Jews settled there, and it gradually became the most important Jewish community outside of Palestine, both intellectually and religiously. keywords: alexander; ben; bible; book; chapter; christianity; church; city; day; days; death; discussion; egypt; emperor; empire; faith; father; god; good; greek; herod; hillel; history; holy; hyrcanus; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; john; josephus; judah; judaism; judea; king; land; law; laws; life; man; men; messiah; mishna; new; note; palestine; people; place; power; prayer; priest; rabbi; religion; roman; rome; rule; second; simon; son; talmud; temple; throne; thy; time; war; way; work; world; year cache: 44409.txt plain text: 44409.txt item: #307 of 425 id: 44417 author: Wigram, Edgar Thomas Ainger title: The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan date: None words: 163952 flesch: 67 summary: The gravel beneath the slab would then be dug away in sections; and, bit by bit, there would be inserted under it a wicker-framed raft or _keleg_ supported on inflated skins. Christians of all nations and confessions, Mussulmans of both _Shiah_ and _Sunni_ type, Sabaeans, Jews, and even the furtive timid keywords: agha; armenian; army; assyrians; authority; barzan; beg; bishop; black; british; building; case; chief; christian; church; city; consul; country; course; cut; day; days; dead; death; district; doubt; east; empire; end; english; european; face; fact; feet; fighting; force; form; general; good; government; governor; half; head; home; house; journey; king; kurdish; kurds; land; left; level; life; man; mar; matter; means; men; miles; mosul; mountains; nation; near; nestorian; new; night; nineveh; open; order; ottoman; party; pass; patriarch; people; persian; place; plain; point; poor; position; power; present; river; road; rock; roman; room; round; rule; russian; second; set; sheep; sheikh; shimun; son; sort; stone; temple; thing; time; town; turkey; turkish; turks; tyari; urmi; vali; valley; van; village; walls; war; water; way; work; world; writer; years; yezidis; zab cache: 44417.txt plain text: 44417.txt item: #308 of 425 id: 44564 author: Turpin, F. H. (François Henri) title: History of the Kingdom of Siam and of the revolutions that have caused the overthrow of the empire, up to A. D. 1770 date: None words: 64888 flesch: 69 summary: His son was proclaimed King, and the joy of seeing his successor in power rendered him indifferent to the pangs of death. Mandara_, King of Burma took advantage of their internal dissensions to attempt the conquest of Pegu. keywords: arms; army; bishop; burmese; capital; cause; chief; children; chinese; christians; country; court; days; death; defence; enemy; father; faulcon; force; french; great; inhabitants; king; kingdom; life; man; master; means; men; missionaries; nation; officials; order; palace; people; pitracha; power; priests; prince; public; ship; siam; siamese; soldiers; son; state; thought; throne; time; town cache: 44564.txt plain text: 44564.txt item: #309 of 425 id: 44615 author: McDonald, N. A. (Noah A.) title: Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c. date: None words: 35860 flesch: 73 summary: He also imbibed from them more liberal views in regard to western nations, and consequently as soon as he ascended the throne he was prepared to treat with them; and that which in many other countries had to be done by gunpowder, was in this instance accomplished by missionary effort. Indeed the feeling in high quarters has hitherto been against it, but not near so strong as in India, and many other places, but that feeling is now happily passing away. keywords: bangkok; budhist; chapter; chief; country; day; days; death; feet; government; head; house; kind; king; kingdom; left; life; man; men; miles; missionaries; missionary; new; number; parents; people; place; present; priests; princes; religion; rice; river; siamese; state; time; water; way; wind; years; young cache: 44615.txt plain text: 44615.txt item: #310 of 425 id: 44679 author: Deignan, H. G. (Herbert Girton) title: Siam: Land of Free Men date: None words: 8605 flesch: 49 summary: The suppression of the Lao-Tai undertaken in southwestern China, culminating in the decisive victories of the Emperor Kublai Khan, drove many thousands of these people down into the mountainous regions of northern Siam, where the newcomers upset the balance of power among their predecessors and caused the disruption of several of their states. During succeeding centuries Lao armies advanced far south into the Mon-Khmer kingdoms, marital and political alliances between Lao and Khmer royalty became common, and Lao settlements were established in various parts of southern Siam. keywords: a.d; ayuthia; capital; century; city; country; french; illustration; khmer; king; kingdom; lao; new; siam; siamese; sukhothai; time cache: 44679.txt plain text: 44679.txt item: #311 of 425 id: 44681 author: Smyth, H. Warington (Herbert Warington) title: Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam date: None words: 40726 flesch: 68 summary: In a few years' time there will, no doubt, be more men at work, and larger areas of pits in work. One man showed me what he declared was the result of his year's work--three good stones of rich colour and good water, for which he expected to get 100, 60, and 50 Rs. keywords: bamboo; bank; boat; chieng; country; day; days; east; end; feet; good; hills; illustration; jungle; laos; luang; man; mekong; men; miles; nam; night; north; people; place; prabang; rapids; red; rice; river; round; siam; siamese; south; time; valley; villages; water; way; west; work cache: 44681.txt plain text: 44681.txt item: #312 of 425 id: 45085 author: Graetz, Heinrich title: History of the Jews, Vol. 5 (of 6) date: None words: 248582 flesch: 59 summary: Other Jews accompanied him in the hope that the admission of Jews would meet with no difficulty. He and other Jews could justly maintain that the publication of this book in German, unattractive though its style was, would lead to the massacre of the Jews. keywords: account; accusation; amsterdam; amsterdam jews; assembly; ben; berlin jews; blood; book; cause; character; chayon; chief; christian; christianity; church; communities; community; council; country; culture; damascus jews; david; day; days; death; eibeschütz; emancipation; england; europe; fact; faith; family; father; favor; form; france; frankfort; freedom; french; friends; general; german; god; good; great; hamburg; hand; hatred; heart; hebrew; heine; history; holy; honor; house; influence; isaac; israel; jacob; jerusalem; jewish; jews; joseph; judaism; kabbala; king; knowledge; language; law; laws; letter; life; light; literature; love; luzzatto; manasseh; matter; means; members; mendelssohn; messiah; mind; moses; nation; national; nature; new; opinion; order; party; people; persecution; place; poland; polish; portuguese; position; power; public; question; rabbinical; rabbis; race; reason; reform; religion; rights; sabbataï; sabbatian; school; science; self; society; soul; spinoza; spirit; state; synagogue; talmud; temple; thought; time; truth; war; way; work; world; writings; years; young; youth; zevi cache: 45085.txt plain text: 45085.txt item: #313 of 425 id: 45101 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 87233 flesch: 63 summary: Year 1631 VI Continuation of the matter of the last chapter, with some cases by way of example Valintos (the same one who had killed Captain Pedro Bautista) went to the river of Butuan with an order to kill father Fray Juan de San Augustin, prior of the convent of Ilaya in the village of Linao. The documents having been made ready, the father provincial sent father Fray Pedro de San Joseph, alias de Roxas. keywords: account; aid; captain; chinese; church; city; commander; convent; council; day; de la; de san; decree; diego; don; dutch; enemy; españa; father; father fray; filipinas; flagship; following; fort; francisco; galleons; general; god; good; governor; holy; house; indians; islands; juan de; king; kingdom; leguas; life; lives; majesty; manila; men; missions; natives; new; order; pedro; people; persons; philippines; place; port; province; religious; royal; san; santa; sea; ships; spaniards; spanish; time; tributes; vessels; village; year cache: 45101.txt plain text: 45101.txt item: #314 of 425 id: 45167 author: Michie, Alexander title: The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. date: None words: 134917 flesch: 68 summary: The dogs of Siberia are of the ubiquitous breed which is common all over China, Japan, and many other countries, and is nearly akin to our own collie dog. Chapter XIV. Having therefore satisfied ourselves that we should be in good time to catch the steamer on the Baikal, which makes two trips a week, we resigned ourselves with a good conscience to the kind solicitations of our host. keywords: camels; carts; chapter; china; chinese; city; cold; condition; country; course; day; days; desert; distance; doubt; emperor; end; feet; foreign; general; good; got; government; great; ground; half; head; horses; hour; house; ice; irkutsk; journey; kiachta; kind; lama; land; left; life; like; little; man; means; miles; money; mongolia; mongols; morning; night; north; number; order; pass; peking; people; place; point; population; post; present; rest; river; road; room; russian; sheep; short; siberia; snow; state; station; tea; tent; tientsin; time; town; trade; travellers; travelling; tribes; use; valley; view; water; way; wind; winter; work; world; years cache: 45167.txt plain text: 45167.txt item: #315 of 425 id: 45247 author: Das, Chitta Ranjan title: India for Indians Enlarged Edition date: None words: 48332 flesch: 72 summary: Many people at Calcutta have taken this objection. Many people, very genuine and intelligent people say that they would not have nationalism because it is antagonistic to humanity. keywords: bengal; british; bureaucracy; cheers; country; day; empire; england; gentlemen; government; hear; history; home; ideal; india; interest; national; people; question; resolution; responsible; right; rule; scheme; self; time; want; years cache: 45247.txt plain text: 45247.txt item: #316 of 425 id: 45531 author: Butler, Robert title: Narrative of the Life and Travels of Serjeant B—— date: None words: 54505 flesch: 58 summary: But we sent more men to the general hospital than all the rest of the fleet, which proves the bad consequences produced by scarcity of water; for all the rest of the ships had three times our quantity, exclusive of their having pease soup twice a week, which we were deprived of, from the want of water. One young lad only went with me to Edinburgh; and we were on the top of the coach on the 7th day of August, 1806; that dreadful day of thunder, lightning, and rain, by which so much mischief was done to men, beasts, and the fruits of the earth. keywords: account; army; colonel; company; country; day; days; death; duty; god; home; hope; india; kind; left; life; lord; man; manner; march; men; mind; night; people; person; place; poor; reader; regiment; saw; serjeant; ship; soul; state; think; thought; thy; time; water; way; wife; years cache: 45531.txt plain text: 45531.txt item: #317 of 425 id: 45747 author: Collie, Norman title: Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges date: None words: 71101 flesch: 69 summary: He loves to wander in mountainous lands; ascents of great mountains, clad in frozen snow, to him are not unprofitable. But splendid though the climbing on the Coolin may be, it is only one of the attractions, possibly a minor attraction, to these hills, and there are many other mountain ranges where rock-climbing can be found. keywords: alps; ascent; astor; camp; climbing; country; day; days; diamirai; east; easy; end; face; feet; glacier; half; hastings; head; height; hills; himalaya; ice; indus; islands; kashmir; land; left; man; miles; morning; mountaineer; mountaineering; mountains; mummery; nanga; night; north; nullah; parbat; pass; peak; places; point; range; ridge; river; rock; route; rupal; sea; slopes; snow; south; steep; summit; sun; till; time; valley; view; vol; water; way; west; work; world; years cache: 45747.txt plain text: 45747.txt item: #318 of 425 id: 45844 author: Shedd, E. Cutler (Ephraim Cutler) title: Our Little Persian Cousin date: None words: 26731 flesch: 89 summary: May you be the father of eight boys and no girls! Said Abdullah, Praise be to God! The next day the white beards (old men who manage village affairs) came to call. keywords: 12mo; abdullah; agha; book; boy; city; cloth; cousin=; dada; day; fox; god; good; governor; house; karim; man; men; mullah; nana; near; red; rustem; sheikh; story; time; village; water; way cache: 45844.txt plain text: 45844.txt item: #319 of 425 id: 45915 author: Crosthwaite, C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) title: The Pacification of Burma date: None words: 132602 flesch: 68 summary: A sign of the coming end--slowly coming, it may be, but still the coming end--of a very weary struggle with a system of resistance which was costing us many good men and a lavish expenditure of money. The present Sawbwa, who was at the Delhi Durbar in 1903, is reported to have said to one of the officers from Burma, We thought we were great men, but now we see that we are only monkeys from the jungle. keywords: administration; bhamo; british; burma; burmese; captain; chief; chinese; chins; civil; colonel; column; commissioner; country; dacoits; deputy; district; east; expedition; force; fort; frontier; general; good; government; hildebrand; hills; india; infantry; january; kachins; karenni; king; leaders; left; lieutenant; little; major; mandalay; march; maung; men; miles; military; mogaung; möng; möngnai; north; northern; officers; order; party; people; place; police; position; power; prince; province; rifles; river; road; salween; sawbwa; scott; shan; siamese; sir; south; states; superintendent; territory; time; town; tribe; troops; upper; village; way; west; white; work; years cache: 45915.txt plain text: 45915.txt item: #320 of 425 id: 46042 author: McManus, Blanche title: Our Little Arabian Cousin date: None words: 19092 flesch: 83 summary: CHAPTER II HAMID AND RASHID AT PLAY WHEN little Rashid woke up the next morning, he rubbed his eyes and for a moment wondered if he was dreaming. Hold on tight, he called out, as away went the big bird with a troop of little Bedouin children following a long way after. keywords: abukar; boys; camel; children; city; cloth; cousin=; day; desert; father; fatimah; friends; good; hamid; head; horses; mother; people; rashid; story; tents; thou; time cache: 46042.txt plain text: 46042.txt item: #321 of 425 id: 46151 author: Wheeler, James Talboys title: India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company date: None words: 95252 flesch: 67 summary: for municipal corporation, 16; settlement at Bombay, 24; at Hughly, 25; war against the Great Mogul, 26; submission, 27; war with France, 32; saved by Robert Clive, 34; Black Hole tragedy, 35; Plassy, 42; exasperated by their civil servants at Calcutta, 53; accepts the office of Dewan for Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, 54; orders Warren Hastings to assume the direct administration, 56; false position of the Company in Bengal, 69; first war against the Mahrattas, 71; Fox's hostile India bill, 75; Pitt's Board of Control, 76; trial of Warren Hastings, 77; wars of Lord Wellesley, 84; conquest of Mysore, 86; annexation of the Carnatic, 88; subsidiary alliances, 89; second Mahratta war, 94; recall of Lord Wellesley from Bengal, 98; recall of Lord William Bentinck from Madras, 101; war against Nipal, 108; Pindhari and Mahratta wars, 110; paramount power in India, 120; first Burmese war, _ib._; administration of Lord William Bentinck, 123; stages in the relations between the Company and the Crown, 135; old East India House, 136; patronage under Pitt's bill, 137; charters of 1813 and 1833 granted by Parliament, 138; abolition of licences, _ib._; constitutional changes, 139; appointment of Lord Macaulay, _ib._; charter of 1833, its evil results, _ib._; an Asiatic power, 141; first Sikh war, 154; second Sikh war, 161; acquisition of the Punjab, 165; second Burmese war, 168; splendid administration of Lord Dalhousie, 170; question of adoption, 175; annexation of Oudh, 177; end of charter of 1833, 178; competitive examinations for the Indian civil and new legislative council of India, 179; sepoy revolt, 185, 232; end of the East India Company, 275 Edinburgh, Duke of, visit to India, 295 Education in India, 277; state system, 278; Bible teaching, 279 Edwardes, Herbert, defeats rebels at Multan, 161, 162; opposes withdrawal from Peshawar, 229 Elgin, Lord, sends British regiments to Lord Canning, 233; Viceroy and Governor-General, 286 Ellenborough, Lord, Governor-General, 151; hears news of Khyber Pass disaster, _ib._; interferes in Gwalior, 152; recalled, 154; proposes removal of the Delhi family, 182 Elphinstone, Mountstuart, his mission to Cabul, 103; Resident at Poona, 112; negotiations with the Mahratta Peishwa, 113; destruction of his library, 116; Governor of Bombay, 134; conservatism in India, 299; its failure, 300 Empress of India, proclamation of, 295 F. Ferozshahar, battle of, 158, 159 Foreign Office, Indian, relations with Asiatic states, 289; misleading term, 290 _note_ Fort St. George, _see_ Madras Fort William, _see_ Calcutta Francis, Mr. Philip, member of Bengal Council, reputed author of the _Letters of Junius_, 66; jealous hatred of Warren Hastings, _ib._; bitter charges against Hastings and Impey, 67, 68; denounces appointment of Impey to the Sudder, 70; fights a duel and returns to England, 75 Frere, Sir Bartle, Governor of Bombay, 286; his career, 287 Frontier tribes on the north-west, 225 G. Gaekwar of Baroda, 112, 289 _note_ Ganges canal, 174 Ganges, river, 171, 175 George III., his hostility to Fox's India Bill, 137; accepts presents from Warren Hastings, 296 Ghorka, conquest of Nipal, 106; war against British government, 108-110 Gillespie, Colonel, commands garrison at Arcot, 100; suppresses mutiny at Vellore, 101 Goa, the capital of Portuguese India, 2 Goddard, Colonel, leads an expedition from Calcutta to Bombay against Mahratta country, 73 Godwin, General, commands expedition to Burma, 169 Golab Singh buys Cashmere from Lord Hardinge, 160 Goojerat, battle of, 164 Gough, Sir Hugh, commands army in Gwalior, 153; his victory at Maharajpore, 154; battles at Moodki and Ferozshahar, 158; at Sobraon, 159; Chillianwalla, 163; Goojerat, 164 Government, old merchant rule in Madras, 5, 8, 12; municipal experiments, 14, 16; Nawab rule in Bengal, 43; offer of the Dewani, 45; Great Mogul installed in British factory at Patna, 48; collision between the British and the Nawab in Bengal, 49; Clive's double government, 54; Warren Hastings a sovereign ruler, 56; British zemindar at Calcutta, 59; appointment of British collectors, 61; members of council at Calcutta appointed by Parliament, 65; quarrels, 66; Governor-General in Council empowered by parliament to make laws, 69; changes under the charter of 1833, 135; executive council remodelled by Lord Canning, 280; legislative councils of 1854 and 1861-6, 179, 284; relations of legislative and executive, 293; British India a school for Asiatics, 297 Govind, Guru, 155; founder of the Sikh Khalsa, 156 Graves, Brigadier, commands station at Delhi, 209, 210; preparations to resist rebel sepoys from Meerut, 211; escapes to Flagstaff Tower, 213 Gubbins, Mr. Frederic, his municipal reforms at Benares, 235, 236 Gwalior, fortress of, captured, 73; interference and war by Lord Ellenborough, 152 Gwalior contingent formed, 154; mutiny of, 228, 229; victory of, at Cawnpore, 272 H. Hands, Poona, head-quarters of the Sivaji family, 71; capital of the Mahratta Peishwas, _ib._; interference of Bombay, 72, 73; negotiations of Lord Wellesley, 86; flight of the Peishwa to Bassein, 92; subsidiary alliance, _ib._; intrigues, 112, 113; British residency burnt, 116; incorporated with the Bombay Presidency, 119 Portuguese in India, their fortresses, 3; thwart the British at Surat, 4; intermarriages with the British at Madras, 12; slave trade, 19; settlement at Hughly, 20; destroyed by the Great Mogul, 21 Pottinger, Eldred, Captain, 151 Provinces, regulation and non-regulation, 166, 289; distinction effaced, 297 Punjab, Sikh rule under Runjeet Singh, 102; relations with the British government, 103; attitude in the first Afghan war, 146; opened to British troops after the death of Runjeet Singh, 147; a Sikh army under French officers a menace to Hindustan, 153; review of Sikh history, 154; army of the Khalsa, 156; anarchy, 157; despotism of the army, _ib._; Sikh invasion of British India, 158; Aliwal and Sobraon, 159; end of first Sikh war, 160; mixed government, _ib._; revolt at Multan, 161; second Sikh war, 162; Chillianwalla, 163; Goojerat, 164; annexation, 165; patriarchal rule, 166; non-regulation system, _ib._; land settlement, 167; frontier province of India on the north-west, facing Afghanistan and Cashmere, 186; musketry school at Sealkote, 193; John Lawrence, chief commissioner, sends the Punjab Guides to Delhi, 222; disaffection of Bengal sepoy regiments, 224; valley of Peshawar, 225; Sikh volunteers, 226; John Nicholson, the sainted warrior, 227; difficulties of John Lawrence, 228; fall of Delhi, 231 R. Railways in India, 173, 174 Rajputana, princes and chiefs taken under British protection by Lord Wellesley, 95; annulment of treaties by Sir George Barlow, 99; plundered by the Mahrattas, _ib._; ravaged by Sindia and Amir Khan, 105; renewal of protective treaties by Lord Hastings, 120; relations with the British government, 289 Rajputs, in Bengal sepoy army, 191 Rama, the ancient hero of Oudh, 104 Rana, of Oodeypore, his descent, 104; war for his daughter, 105; her death, 106 Rangoon, expedition to, 121; second Burmese war, 168 Rawlinson, Major, at Candahar, 146, 152 Revenue, Board of, 128 Rewah in Central India, 289 _note_ Roe, Sir Thomas, Ambassador to India, 135 Rohilcund, mutiny in, 228 Runjeet Singh, Sikh ruler of the Punjab, 102; relations with the British government, 103; attitude in the first Afghan war, 146; death, _ib._; genius and depravity, 156; family pensioned, 165 Russia menaces Persia, 141, 143; driven back by Nadir Shah, 144; cat's-paw policy, 145; hold on Turkistan, 296 Ryotwari settlement, in Madras presidency, 133; introduced into Bombay presidency, 134 S. Sale, Sir Robert, sent to Jellalabad, 149; besieged by Afghans, 151 Sealkote, mutiny at, 229 Secretary of State, Council of, 301 Sepoy army of India, 188; old mutinies, 189; separate armies of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras, 190; high caste in old Bengal army, 191; mutinies against greased cartridges, 193-274 Seringapatam taken by storm, 86 Shere Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, 291; estranged from British government, 296; flight, _ib._; death, 297 Shore, Mr. John, presses for an inquiry into rights of ryots, 79; Governor-General, 81 Sikh, kingdom founded by Runjeet Singh, 102; review of Sikh history, 154-157; first Sikh war, 158; second Sikh war, 161; annexed to British India, 165; help the British against Delhi, 222, 226, 237 Sind, Amirs of, defeat of, 152; their territories incorporated with the Bombay presidency, _ib._ Sindia, Mahadaji, feudatory of the Peishwa, 71; established a dominion in Hindustan, 72; French battalions, 83; rule of Daulat Rao, 90; his vacillation, 93; flight at Assaye, 94; joins Holkar, 97; returns to the British alliance, 98; ravages Rajputana, 105; secret negotiation, 111; submission, 114 Sitabuldi Hill, battle on, 116, 117 Sivaji, hero of the Mahrattas, 71; his tomb repaired, _ib._ _ keywords: administration; army; asiatic; bengal; bombay; british; british india; calcutta; cawnpore; city; council; court; day; days; delhi; east india; european; force; fortress; french; general; government; governor; great; hastings; hindu; holkar; india; india company; john; lawrence; left; lord; lucknow; madras; mahratta; miles; mogul; mohammedan; mutiny; nawab; new; north; officers; oudh; peishwa; power; provinces; punjab; rebels; regiment; revenue; river; rule; sepoys; settlement; sidenote; sikh; sir; soldiers; territory; time; village; war; warren; west; william; years cache: 46151.txt plain text: 46151.txt item: #322 of 425 id: 46187 author: Butler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) title: Letters from the Holy Land date: None words: 18588 flesch: 77 summary: I shall post this in Jerusalem, for to-morrow we set out on a journey during which no post-offices will be found for many days. _Friday, 17th April. Fortunately W. had in the morning ordered that our horses should be sent round to meet us here in case the wind arose, and we gladly got on them at this point, having an enchanting ride back and being able at many places to canter our horses. keywords: april; camp; church; city; day; distance; hill; holy; house; illustration; jerusalem; land; left; lord; mount; place; plain; sea; sight; site; sketch; time; town; way; white cache: 46187.txt plain text: 46187.txt item: #323 of 425 id: 46260 author: Eden, Emily title: 'Up the Country': Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India date: None words: 116970 flesch: 79 summary: We had our fancy fair on Wednesday, which went off with great _éclat_, and was really a very amusing day, and moreover produced 6,500 rupees, which, for a very small society, is an immense sum. Nobody stirs out, and all night the tatties are kept wet, and thermantidotes (great _winnowing_ machines) are kept turning to make a little cool air. keywords: afternoon; calcutta; camp; captain; carriage; children; country; day; days; dinner; elephants; english; evening; general; gentlemen; going; gold; good; half; home; horses; house; india; ladies; letters; little; look; looking; lord; man; march; men; miles; monday; morning; mrs; native; night; people; place; poor; pretty; rajah; room; round; runjeet; saturday; servants; set; simla; singh; small; sort; sunday; tent; thought; time; way; wednesday; went; years; yesterday; young cache: 46260.txt plain text: 46260.txt item: #324 of 425 id: 4658 author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 date: None words: 178046 flesch: 70 summary: About three miles to the North-west of the town, close to the Wady al-Akik, lies the Mosque called Al-Kiblatayn��The Two Directions of Prayer. [FN#8] �Khabt� is a low plain; �Midan,� �Fayhah,� or �Sath,� a plain generally; and �Batha,� a low, sandy flat. keywords: abd al; abdullah �; abraham �; abu; account; ali �; allah �; appearance; arab �; arabia; arafat; bab al; badawin; bakia; bakr �; benu; bey �; bin; bir al; black; blood; boy; building; burckhardt �; burton �; cairo; caliph; camel; caravan; ceremonies; ceremony; chapter; city; coffee; come; common; country; darb al; day; days; death; description; desert; door; dress; east; eastern; egypt; egyptian; eve �; face; father; feet; finati �; fire; foot; gabriel �; gate; general; god �; good; great; green; ground; hajar al; half; hamid �; hamzah �; hand; harim; having; head; hijaz; hill; holy; hour; house; ibn; idrisi �; india; islam; jabal; jeddah; journey; jubayr �; ka �; kuba; kubbat al; labbayk �; left; life; ma �; madinah; mahomet �; man �; mas �; masjid al; maz �; means; meccah �; men; miles; modern; mohammed al; mohammed �; moslem; mosque; mosque al; mother; mount; mu �; muna; n. al; n. �; near; night; north; number; origin; osman �; pasha �; people; pilgrim �; pilgrimage; place; plain; prayer; present; prophet; race; red; respecting; return; road; sa �; sayyid; sea; second; sharif; shaykh; shi �; son; south; stone; sultan; tawaf al; temple; thee; thou; thy; time; tomb; town; tribe; ustuwanat al; visit; wa �; wady; walls; water; way; west; white; women; word �; yambu �; years; zayn al; zu �; � abah; � abidah; � ad; � adah; � adi; � al; � ala; � amun; � amur; � awiyah; � az; � bab; � bismillah; � clock; � ezzin; � hai; � i.; � id; � ii; � il; � jami; � l; � o; � s; � talbiyat; � tawaf; � ud; � un; � � cache: 4658.txt plain text: 4658.txt item: #325 of 425 id: 46695 author: Bowring, John title: A Visit to the Philippine Islands date: None words: 112675 flesch: 64 summary: | 4·96 per ct. per ct. Deaths | 1·68 ,, | 2·72 ,, | 2·48 ,, +--------------+--------------+------------- Excess of Births over | | | Deaths | 2·70 per ct. keywords: 0·0008 |; 0·0012 |; 0·90 |; b |; chinese; climate |; cloth |; decandria |; didinamia |; dipterocarpus |; ditto |; dollars; dust |; e |; f |; g |; general; good |; government; iloilo; indians; indigo |; manila |; mestizos |; n |; nests |; o |; p |; pearl |; philippines; place; poliandria |; population; pressure |; r |; s |; shell |; spaniards |; spanish; t |; tobacco |; trunk |; wood |; zebu |; | +; | 0·5; | 5·52; | 6·80; | =; | alupag; | angiospermia; | aninabla; | anonang; | antipolo; | archbishopric; | augustines; | bamboo; | banabà; | bancal; | bitoc; | british; | building; | c; | calamansanay; | calantás; | calumpit; | camagon; | camayuan; | canoes; | cent; | deaths; | dominicans; | dongon; | fibre; | floors; | guijo; | h; | islands; | kilo; | laneti; | lauan; | leaves; | lime; | luzon; | m.; | malabugat; | malacatbun; | malacintud; | malarujat; | malatalisay; | malavidondao; | mangachapuy; | molave; | monoginia; | narra; | natives; | palma; | palo; | palusapis; | panao; | planks; | pototan; | recoletos; | resistance; | sampaloc; | santol; | ship; | shipping; | souls; | south; | tangan; | tanguili; | tortion; | total; | u; | variety; | water; | wounds; | ypil; | |; |cordage |; |hides |; |paddy |; |sugar | cache: 46695.txt plain text: 46695.txt item: #326 of 425 id: 47212 author: Dubnow, Simon title: History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day date: None words: 113913 flesch: 41 summary: When, in 1898, the Council of the Jewish Colonization Association in Paris sent a delegation to St. Petersburg to apply to the Government for permission to settle Russian Jews as agricultural farmers in Russia itself, Pobyedonostzev replied: Nos cadres ne sont pas prêts pour vous recevoir,[5] and he went out of his way to explain to the delegates that the Jews were a very clever people, intellectually and culturally superior to the Russians, and, therefore, dangerous to them: The Jews are displacing us, and this does not suit us. Polish anti-Semites proclaimed the slogan Do not buy from Jews!, aiming the cry specifically against the Litvaks, that is, the hundreds of thousands of Russian Jews who, in the course of the last few decades, had been chiefly instrumental in the economic advancement of those two centers. keywords: admission; alexander ii; anti; author; authorities; black; book ii; case; catherine ii; center; chapter; christian; city; commission; committee; community; concerning; congress; council; court; cracow; crimea; cultural; defence; deputies; duma; emancipation; emigration; expulsion; f =; f jewish; f jews; f polish; ff =; general; government; governor; great; hasidism; hebrew; history; iii; interior; jewish; jewry; jews; judaism; kahal; khazars; kiev; king; kishinev; law; leader; league; life; lithuania; massacre; member; military; minister; moscow; movement; murder; national; new; nicholas ii; number; october; odessa; organization; pale; palestine; party; people; petersburg; place; pogrom; poland; poles; police; polish; population; press; public; question; rabbi; residence; restrictions; revolutionary; rights; ritual; russian; school; self; seq; sigismund ii; society; state; statute; time; tzar; victims; villages; vilna; vol; voskhod; warsaw; white; writer; yevr; yiddish; zionism cache: 47212.txt plain text: 47212.txt item: #327 of 425 id: 4732 author: Wellhausen, Julius title: Prolegomena to the History of Israel date: None words: 251225 flesch: 65 summary: While the concrete and material details of 1Kings vi., vii. are reproduced only in an imperfect and cursory manner, the act of consecration on the other hand, and the discourse delivered by Solomon on the occasion, is accurately and fully given (v. 2-vii. 10) in accordance with 1Kings viii.; such additions and omissions as occur are all deliberate. Pl. _ keywords: 1kings; account; altar; appears; ark; author; beginning; book; case; chapter; character; chronicles; code; connection; course; cultus; david; day; days; death; deuteronomy; end; exile; exodus; ezekiel; fact; feast; form; general; genesis; god; hand; having; high; historical; history; house; idea; importance; isaiah; israel; israelites; jehovah; jehovist; jeremiah; jerusalem; jews; judah; judges; king; kingdom; land; law; levites; leviticus; life; man; matter; means; men; moses; narrative; nation; nature; numbers; offering; order; original; people; period; place; point; position; present; priestly; priests; prophets; religion; rest; right; sacred; sacrifice; samuel; sanctuary; saul; second; seq; set; shall; sin; solomon; sons; state; tabernacle; temple; thing; thou; thy; time; torah; tradition; tribes; unto; view; viii; way; word; work; worship; xii; xvi; xxiii; years cache: 4732.txt plain text: 4732.txt item: #328 of 425 id: 47611 author: Younghusband, G. J. (George John) title: The Relief of Chitral date: None words: 45618 flesch: 63 summary: The Chitralis had then suddenly given up their opposition to Umra Khan and, joining Sher Afzul, who had now allied himself with Umra Khan, had advanced against the British officers established in Chitral fort. On the 3rd of March, at about 4.30 P.M., news was received by the British officers in Chitral fort that Sher Afzul, with a large force, was approaching. keywords: afzul; attack; british; captain; chitral; chitralis; colonel; country; day; edwardes; enemy; fire; force; fort; garrison; general; government; kashmir; kelly; khan; lieutenant; march; mastuj; men; night; officers; party; pass; position; river; time; troops; umra; water; way; yards cache: 47611.txt plain text: 47611.txt item: #329 of 425 id: 47814 author: Germon, Maria title: A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, Between the Months of May and December, 1857 date: None words: 37947 flesch: 83 summary: |...| |H.M. 84th Regt. of Foot, detachment |..|.. | t| | R | | | | |e|Wa| | a| | | |Wa| | a | | | | O|t|af| S| n| | O| S|af| S| n | | | DETAILS. keywords: attack; breakfast; captain; cawnpore; charlie; children; day; dinner; enemy; evening; firing; guns; half; house; ladies; morning; mrs; news; night; party; poor; room; round; shot; sir; tea; time; troops; | | cache: 47814.txt plain text: 47814.txt item: #330 of 425 id: 47815 author: Little, Burtis McGie title: Francisco the Filipino date: None words: 12800 flesch: 70 summary: Meantime, various expeditions were sent into the interior of Luzon and other islands to subdue the natives, make treaties with the chiefs, and claim all the lands for the king of Spain. The great Constabulary Band of Manila, conducted by an American negro, Captain W. H. Loving, ranks among the first musical organizations of the world and has several times made tours in the United States. keywords: american; bamboo; boys; filipinos; francisco; government; ground; home; house; islands; manila; people; philippine; rice; school; states; time; town; united; water; work cache: 47815.txt plain text: 47815.txt item: #331 of 425 id: 47953 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 87119 flesch: 62 summary: The bishop Don Fray Juan de Polanco (who was not yet bishop-elect) went to España with the usual powers conferred by the province, following Don Fray Juan Lopez, bishop of Zibu and afterward archbishop of Manila, who had gone the preceding year with the same powers. That was an excellent measure, as the result showed; for the bishop of Zibu was embarrassed by his new promotion and by his despatches, so that he could not get the mission ready, although he had made a good start at it upon the arrival of Don Fray Juan de Polanco. keywords: account; afterward; captain; catálogo; chapter; chinese; city; convent; day; de la; de lara; de los; de salcedo; de san; death; del; diego de; domingo; don; don diego; don fray; don juan; españa; father commissary; father fray; father provincial; francisco de; fray diego; fray francisco; fray juan; fray pedro; galleon; general; god; good; government; governor; governor don; having; holy; indians; islands; josé de; juan de; majesty; manila; manila convent; manrique de; manuel de; master; minister; mission; native; new; nueva; office; order; pedro de; people; philippines; place; province; provincial; pérez; religious; royal; santo; son; time; usurper; villages; year cache: 47953.txt plain text: 47953.txt item: #332 of 425 id: 48111 author: Young, Ernest title: The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese date: None words: 98748 flesch: 72 summary: Rice is cooked in many other ways; made into cakes, fermented to make an intoxicating drink, taken internally as medicine, and used externally as a poultice. Merit is made in many other ways besides alms-giving and feeding the priests. keywords: 8vo; bangkok; boats; body; book; buddha; buddhist; case; ceremonies; ceremony; character; chief; children; chinese; city; cloth; condition; country; crown; custom; cut; day; days; death; earth; elephant; end; european; far; father; feet; floor; form; friends; gold; good; government; hand; head; home; house; illustration; king; land; leaf; life; light; man; means; men; money; native; net; number; order; page; parents; people; person; place; present; priests; rice; river; round; royal; set; siamese; silver; state; story; sun; temple; time; walls; water; way; white; wife; women; work; world; years; yellow; young cache: 48111.txt plain text: 48111.txt item: #333 of 425 id: 48438 author: Rizal, José title: Rizal's own story of his life date: None words: 12948 flesch: 83 summary: ILLUSTRATIONS Page Rizal's pencil sketch of himself 1 Rizal at 14 4 Rizal's painting of his sister Saturnina 6 Rizal's portrait on Philippine postage and money 8 Rizal's home, Kalamba 12 Rizal's mother and two of his sisters 16 Clay model of dog and cayman combat 17 Where Rizal went to school in Biñan 18 Rizal monument, Biñan 24 Santa Rosa Gate, on Biñan-Kalamba road 26 Model of a Dapitan woman at work 28 Rizal's uncle 29 Rizal's uncle's home in Biñan 30 Guardia Civil soldier 31 Rizal's mother 33 Rizal's father 34 One of Rizal's teachers, Terracotta bust by Rizal 36 Padre Sanchez, Rizal's favorite teacher in the Ateneo 37 Carving of the Sacred Heart, made by Rizal in the Ateneo 44 Wooden bust of Rizal's father 45 Rizal at 18 48 Rizal's sacrifice of his life 57 Professor Burgos 58 The lake shore at Kalamba 60 A Manila school girl, drawn by Rizal 62 Rizal in Paris 64 Rizal at 30 66 Crayon portrait of Rizal's cousin Leonore 70 Dapitan plaza and townhall 80 Wooden medallion of Mrs. José Rizal 84 Chalk pipehead, Rizal's last modeling 86 Rizal at 27 90 Manila skyline, sketched by Rizal 92 Rizal at 22 104 Rizal at 24 106 Rizal at 26 108 Rizal at 28, from a group picture 110 Rizal at 28, profile 114 Rizal Mausoleum, Luneta, Manila 118 Noli Me The Memory of Rizal 8 Rizal Chronology 101 A Reading List 119 Philippine National Hymn (by José Palma) 126 Song: Hail, Philippines (by H. C. Theobald) 128 RIZAL'S OWN STORY MY BOYHOOD José Rizal wrote the first three chapters in 1878. keywords: age; biñan; brother; country; day; father; filipino; good; house; josé; june; kalamba; life; manila; mother; philippine; rizal; school; spanish; time; town; way; work; years cache: 48438.txt plain text: 48438.txt item: #334 of 425 id: 48706 author: Stack, Edward title: The Mikirs date: None words: 73416 flesch: 83 summary: Then H. K. said again Chi vo-rèk-alopo, kopi nàng-cheplàng-ma? Then H. K. said: Oh, phàk-lèng alopo, kopi nàng cheplàng-ma? keywords: arju; arnã; assamese; atum; beer; boro; brothers; che; child; chin; come; day; dun; dã¨t; family; father; form; god; granny; h. k.; harata; having; home; house; hã¨m; khasi; king; kuki; kunwar; languages; law; man; means; mikir; mother; naga; ng ne; ng nã; ngreso; night; nsi; nã²n; orphan; particle; people; person; phã; place; pã¨n; recho; rice; river; saying; set; sister; son; stack; thu; thã; thã¨k; time; uncles; verb; village; water; way; went; wife; word; ã²ng cache: 48706.txt plain text: 48706.txt item: #335 of 425 id: 49121 author: Loti, Pierre title: The Last Days of Pekin date: None words: 66078 flesch: 70 summary: Tong-Tchow, the City of Celestial Purity, is beginning to show itself; great black walls surmounted with miradors, and an astonishingly tall, slender tower, of a very Chinese outline with twenty superimposed roofs. On the whitewashed walls the vests of Chinese soldiers are fastened up and arranged like trophies with sabres and poniards, while the candlesticks that stand on the white altar-cloth are made of shell and bayonets,--thus naïvely and charmingly does the soldier know how to manage when he is in exile. keywords: air; away; black; bridge; china; chinese; city; cold; country; court; dark; day; days; dead; dust; empress; end; evening; eyes; flowers; french; gate; gold; gray; green; heads; hour; houses; lake; left; life; light; marble; men; monsters; morning; palace; pekin; people; red; roofs; room; silence; silk; sky; soldiers; sun; temple; things; time; trees; walls; water; way; white; wind; yellow cache: 49121.txt plain text: 49121.txt item: #336 of 425 id: 49544 author: Mackenzie, A. R. D. (Alfred Robert Davidson) title: Mutiny Memoirs: Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857 date: None words: 37902 flesch: 70 summary: He said something in low tones to an acquaintance, and passed on; but instinctively I felt that I had come into contact with one who stood apart from and overtopped other men. Often have I been urged to give the semi-permanence of printer's ink to some story told over the walnuts and the wine; and at last I am tempted to take advantage of the enforced leisure which has been imposed on me by the recent regulations limiting tenure of regimental command, and placing me, with many other better men, unwillingly _en retraite_, while still in the prime of life and energy. keywords: body; camp; captain; cavalry; city; colonel; day; delhi; enemy; fire; general; great; ground; guns; horses; left; lieutenant; man; march; meerut; men; miles; moment; native; night; officer; party; place; rebels; regiment; sanford; sir; sword; time; troops; village; way cache: 49544.txt plain text: 49544.txt item: #337 of 425 id: 49569 author: Gabrielean, M. Smbat title: Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam date: None words: 120216 flesch: 66 summary: Great men like John Bright, always the friend of Russia, Gladstone, Freeman and others publicly denounced England as the accomplice of the Turks in their deeds of horror by the moral and material support she had so freely given them in recent years. We do not condemn it in bitter speech recalling some terrible experiences during our late Civil War, when Christian men sometimes seemed possessed. keywords: american; armenians; arms; army; asia; battle; blood; british; chapter; children; christian; church; churches; cities; city; constantinople; country; day; days; death; east; emperor; empire; england; english; erzeroum; europe; european; faith; feet; fire; general; god; government; ground; hand; help; history; horrors; houses; islam; jerusalem; kurds; left; life; lord; man; massacre; miles; missionaries; mohammed; mountains; nation; new; number; order; ottoman; people; persia; place; porte; powers; provinces; reforms; religion; rule; russia; sassoun; soldiers; sultan; sword; thousands; time; treaty; troops; turkey; turkish; turks; van; villages; walls; war; way; women; work; world; years cache: 49569.txt plain text: 49569.txt item: #338 of 425 id: 49735 author: Politovskii, Evgenii Sigizmundovich title: From Libau to Tsushima A narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident date: None words: 66638 flesch: 88 summary: Orel_ are better armoured than the _Cesarevitch_. A week before the _Orel_ went to Saigon the captain of the _Borodino_ ordered 4,000 eggs, hams, etc., for the crew. keywords: admiral; bay; board; boat; borodino; cabin; captain; coal; course; crew; day; days; deck; english; fleet; french; japanese; leave; left; letters; men; morning; morrow; news; night; o'clock; officers; order; orel; place; port; russia; sea; send; ships; shore; steamer; suvaroff; time; torpedo; vladivostok; water; way; yesterday cache: 49735.txt plain text: 49735.txt item: #339 of 425 id: 49835 author: Miles, William Augustus title: The Letters of Gracchus on the East India Question date: None words: 22998 flesch: 44 summary: It may be well to call to the recollection of the East India Company, that they owe their present state to an assertion of those very rights to open trade which have now been brought forward; for, when the first, or London East India Company had experienced certain disappointments and failures, various adventurers came forward with claims similar to those which have been alleged by the merchants of the present day, and obtained an incorporation, to the prejudice of the old Company; and although the old, or London East India Company, afterwards effected an union with the new, or English East India Company, and with them gave origin to the present Company, yet the UNITED EAST INDIA COMPANY should not forget, how much the activity of the Indian trade was stimulated by the assertion of the rights of their predecessors, _to participate in the trade which had been granted exclusively to a former Company_. Such are the claims and the pretensions of the East India Company to a renewal of their Charter; and as such they have been promptly and cheerfully received, both by the Government and the country at large. keywords: british; charter; directors; east india; empire; government; india company; india trade; indian; london; merchants; parliament; ports; present; public; right; time; trade cache: 49835.txt plain text: 49835.txt item: #340 of 425 id: 50111 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 81587 flesch: 67 summary: The free Merchants are not suffered to Trade to the Spice-Islands, nor to many other places where the Dutch have Factories; but on the other Hand, they are suffered to Trade to some places where the Dutch Company themselves may not Trade, as to Achin particularly, for there are some Princes in the Indies, who will not Trade with the Company for fear of them. In this Island are also many sorts of Beasts, both wild and tame; as Horses, Bulls, and Cows, Buffaloes, Goats, Wild Hogs, Deer, Monkies, Guano's, Lizards, Snakes, &c. I never saw or heard of any Beasts of Prey here, as in many other places. keywords: account; aid; alcalde; bishop; captain; chief; church; commander; day; days; diaz; don; don fray; don juan; don pedro; east; end; enemy; father; father fray; fear; fine; francisco; francisco de; fray; fruit; general; god; good; governor; head; house; indians; insurgents; islands; juan; juan de; king; left; life; manila; mayor; men; mindanao; mountains; natives; order; pedro; people; place; province; rebels; royal; sabiniano; sea; ship; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; time; tree; village; water; way; wind; years; zambals cache: 50111.txt plain text: 50111.txt item: #341 of 425 id: 50145 author: Morris, Mowbray title: The First Afghan War date: None words: 23287 flesch: 61 summary: Macnaghten, the leader of the mission, was instructed therefore to suggest the first course to Runjeet Singh, and should he view that with disfavour, to hold out the possibility of some sort of demonstration being undertaken by British troops from some convenient point. the two illustrious prisoners set out for India, under the charge of Nicholson and a strong escort of British troops. keywords: afghan; afghanistan; ameer; army; auckland; british; burnes; cabul; candahar; chief; dost; english; force; herat; khan; lord; macnaghten; mahomed; march; men; officers; pass; sir; soojah; time; troops; way cache: 50145.txt plain text: 50145.txt item: #342 of 425 id: 50151 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. date: None words: 88024 flesch: 47 summary: Then his eldest son arriving--who had been going about the city arresting the priests, and busy with other orders of that sort--the mob killed him also, which occasioned the death of a poor Indian. There are Ternatans, and Mardicas (who took refuge here from Ternate); there are some Japanese; there are people from Borney and Timor, and from Bengal; there are Mindanaos, Joloans, and Malays; there are Javanese, Siaos, and Tidorans; there are people from Cambay and Mogol, and from other islands and kingdoms of Asia. keywords: acapulco; account; archbishop; audiencia; bustamante; china; chinese; christian; church; citizens; city; commerce; condition; council; country; decree; don; duties; españa; father; following; galleon; general; god; goods; government; governor; grace; having; holy; indians; islands; king; majesty; manila; matter; merchants; mexico; ministers; missions; money; natives; new; nueva; number; officials; order; people; persons; pesos; philipinas; place; regard; religious; result; royal; ships; silk; silver; society; spaniards; spanish; time; trade; viceroy; villages; way; year cache: 50151.txt plain text: 50151.txt item: #343 of 425 id: 50245 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 1736 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 89394 flesch: 55 summary: The exact tenor of that law is as follows: Since the universities, conciliar seminaries, and other colleges of teaching, erected with public authority in our Indias, are under our royal patronage and protection; and since their students and pupils merit the most careful attention, so that they may not disgrace themselves in their courses and studies with prejudice to the state and their own families: we order and command such pupils, students, and members of said universities, conciliar seminaries, and other colleges and houses, not to contract espousals without, in addition to the paternal consent, or the consent of the person who ought to give it. According to the first law of this título, they have the license, those of the conciliar seminaries, of the archbishops and bishops and vice-patrons, and those of the universities and other colleges, of our viceroys or presidents of the respective audiencias, to whom they shall send their petitions or requests by the hand of the rectors, with report of the latter, since for this matter we delegate our royal authority to the abovesaid. keywords: acapulco; archbishop; cadiz; cent; charge; chinese; church; city; college; collegiates; commerce; council; decree; don; education; españa; father; filipinas; following; foundation; general; girls; goods; government; governor; iii; institution; instruction; islands; josé; juan; king; law; majesty; manila; new; nueva; number; order; permission; pesos; philippines; present; public; pupils; rector; regard; religious; report; royal; royal college; said; san; santo; school; seminary; society; spanish; studies; time; tomás; trade; university; work; year cache: 50245.txt plain text: 50245.txt item: #344 of 425 id: 50408 author: Krauskopf, Joseph title: Jews and Moors in Spain date: None words: 63841 flesch: 68 summary: He knew that, despite rigorous measures and Dominican spies, converted and unconverted Jews met in subterranean caverns, and counseled and worshipped together, and comforted each other. Friday, the Mohammedan Sabbath, 35-38. Fusion, apparatus for, invented by Jews and Moors, 120. G. GABIROL, Solomon ben Jehudah, selections from his poetry, 134, 135, 137-140. Genoa, description of exiled Jews landing Granada, 172; approves of the inquisition, 179; at, 211. Geology, work on, by Avicenna, 120. Geometry, advance made in it by Moors, 116. Germany, during Dark Ages, 14. keywords: ages; arab; ben; blood; body; caliph; centuries; century; chapter; chasdai; children; christian; christianity; church; city; commerce; cordova; country; day; death; dem; den; der; die; earth; entrance; europe; european; expulsion; eyes; faith; god; gold; good; guide; hands; heart; history; home; ibn; ignorance; inquisition; isaac; isabella; israel; jews; king; knowledge; land; learning; lectures; life; literature; love; man; men; mind; mohammedan; moorish; moors; moses; night; peace; people; period; philosophy; power; prayer; prosperity; rabbi; religion; rest; sabbath; science; sie; skill; soul; spain; spanish; sufferings; sun; thee; thou; thought; thousands; thy; time; torquemada; und; way; work; world; years cache: 50408.txt plain text: 50408.txt item: #345 of 425 id: 50556 author: Belloc, Hilaire title: The Jews date: None words: 80433 flesch: 61 summary: This is not quite true; but it is true that considering the long list of great Jewish fortunes which have marked the whole progress of our civilization it is astonishing how few have taken root. The Jewish problem, present throughout history, has assumed a particular character to-day--it is the character of a sharp reaction against the old pretence that Jews were identical with the nations in which they happened to live--it first took the form of irritation only--it was suddenly exasperated in a very high degree by the Jewish revolution in Russia--but long before this the increasing power of Jews in public life, the anti-Semitic writing on the Continent, the Dreyfus agitation, the South African War, and the Jewish leadership of Socialism had prepared the way--The situation on the outbreak of the Great War--Bolshevism--a short description to be expanded in a later chapter--Bolshevism is a Jewish movement, _but not a movement of the Jewish race as a whole_--its particular effect was to release criticism of Jewish power which had hitherto been silent from fear of, or sympathy with, Capitalism. keywords: action; alien; anti; case; century; character; country; day; england; europe; form; friction; general; history; international; jewish; jews; man; matter; men; modern; nation; national; new; past; people; policy; position; power; present; problem; race; sense; society; solution; state; thing; time; true; way; world cache: 50556.txt plain text: 50556.txt item: #346 of 425 id: 50812 author: Vámbéry, Ármin title: The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 1 date: None words: 55823 flesch: 57 summary: Thus it came about that at a very early age Mother Nature had become so dear to me; and a fine morning not only put me in good trim for the whole day, but for many days after. I had no hope of help or protection from any side, the possibility of better times in the future depended entirely on my industry and activity, and that is why I worked so hard. keywords: account; asia; away; books; central; children; course; day; days; east; effendi; european; eyes; family; father; french; future; good; hand; head; home; hours; house; hungarian; hungary; journey; kind; knowledge; languages; life; man; means; mind; money; months; mother; night; oriental; pasha; people; persian; place; position; room; school; small; society; spite; studies; study; teacher; thought; time; town; trouble; turkish; tutor; way; world; years; youth cache: 50812.txt plain text: 50812.txt item: #347 of 425 id: 50837 author: Vámbéry, Ármin title: The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 2 date: None words: 61968 flesch: 52 summary: At other times they were glad enough to distinguish me as the only Magyar who had brought Hungarian knowledge on to the world's stage, and had been instrumental in making the name of the Hungarian Academy known to the Western world. He had lived for many years on the banks of the Bosphorus as Secretary to the Embassy, and was not only thoroughly acquainted with Osmanli, Persian, and Hindustani, but also with the Chagataic language, then absolutely unknown in Europe. keywords: abdul; account; asia; asiatic; book; career; central; course; court; culture; day; east; england; english; europe; european; eyes; fact; foreign; german; good; hamid; home; hungarian; hungary; india; intercourse; interest; knowledge; language; life; london; lord; man; national; oriental; people; persian; point; position; public; question; russia; society; spite; state; sultan; thought; time; travels; turkey; turkish; vambéry; views; way; west; work; world; years cache: 50837.txt plain text: 50837.txt item: #348 of 425 id: 51066 author: Tyler, Sydney title: The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East date: None words: 132973 flesch: 59 summary: Russian fleet dispersed and in part destroyed. Admiral Togo telegraphed, May 30, as follows: The ships sent northward to search for Russian ships returned yesterday. keywords: admiral; advance; armies; army; artillery; attack; battle; boats; chief; commander; course; cruisers; czar; days; division; east; enemy; field; fighting; fire; fleet; force; forts; general; government; guns; hand; harbor; heavy; hill; illustration; japanese; korea; kuroki; kuropatkin; left; liao; line; manchuria; march; men; miles; military; mukden; naval; north; officers; oku; operations; place; point; port arthur; position; railway; retreat; right; river; russian; sea; second; sha; ships; sidenote; south; squadron; struggle; time; togo; torpedo; troops; vessels; victory; war; west; work; world; wounded; yang cache: 51066.txt plain text: 51066.txt item: #349 of 425 id: 51080 author: Cochrane, Henry Park title: Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage date: None words: 63369 flesch: 73 summary: But sweeping charges that officials of whatever nation, in outlying colonies, are profligate and tyrannical do gross injustice to many noble men who are doing their utmost for the advancement of morality and justice. Many people I have seen in European and American cities must have been Chins. keywords: british; buddhism; burma; burmans; burmese; children; christian; country; custom; day; death; english; feet; gautama; god; government; head; heathen; home; house; judson; jungle; karens; king; land; language; law; life; little; man; men; missionaries; missionary; native; near; new; pagoda; people; place; power; priest; races; religion; school; shans; spirit; talaings; time; village; way; wife; women; work; world; worship; years cache: 51080.txt plain text: 51080.txt item: #350 of 425 id: 51383 author: Trevelyan, George Otto title: Cawnpore date: None words: 82961 flesch: 65 summary: Regiments which had refused to obey such men as Ewart and Delafosse were not likely to entertain any very profound reverence for an effete Hindoo rake. Young men fresh from home are so shocked at the apparent deficiency of the Hindoo character of manliness, honesty, and self-respect, the qualities which Englishmen most regard, that, so to speak, their better impulses are apt to render them careless of the rights and sentiments of the native population. keywords: allahabad; army; bengal; british; calcutta; captain; cavalry; cawnpore; charge; children; city; colonel; company; countrymen; course; cut; day; days; death; english; european; feet; fire; general; god; good; government; guard; guns; half; hand; head; hindoo; hour; house; indian; infantry; intrenchment; june; ladies; left; length; life; maharaja; major; man; men; military; morning; mutineers; nana; native; night; number; officers; open; order; party; people; place; present; quarter; rebel; regiment; river; road; round; rupees; sahibs; second; sepoys; set; shot; sir; soldiers; station; time; water; way; wife; women; work; years cache: 51383.txt plain text: 51383.txt item: #351 of 425 id: 51492 author: Lynch, H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) title: Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 1 of 2) The Russian Provinces date: None words: 204938 flesch: 68 summary: Astishat contains the first and great mother of Armenian churches, the first and greatest of all the churches of Armenia, the principal and most honoured seat of the Christian religion. [341] That element of grandeur which we miss in Armenian churches is here made manifest in a high degree. keywords: a.d; akhaltsykh; ani; appearance; apse; ararat; araxes; armenian; arpa; asia; bank; base; black; border; brosset; building; capital; caucasus; century; chapter; character; christian; church; city; country; course; date; day; direction; distance; dome; east; eastern; edgmiatsin; elevation; empire; erivan; features; feet; fig; figure; following; form; fortress; georgian; government; governor; greek; gregory; ground; half; hand; head; height; history; houses; iii; inhabitants; interior; journey; kars; katholikos; king; lake; landscape; left; level; life; line; man; miles; modern; mountain; nature; new; north; number; open; pass; people; period; persia; place; plain; point; present; range; region; remains; ridge; right; river; road; rock; roof; russian; sea; second; seq; shore; site; slopes; snow; soil; son; south; space; stone; stream; summit; surface; system; time; town; turkish; valley; view; village; vol; volcanic; wall; water; way; west; western; white; work; world; years cache: 51492.txt plain text: 51492.txt item: #352 of 425 id: 52189 author: Malcolm, John title: Sketches of Persia date: None words: 114325 flesch: 66 summary: The astonished Abdûlla stepped back--'Why you horse-dealers,' said he, 'whom I thought were such good men, are as bad as the silk-mercers!' The Prince and great men of Shiraz, on our approaching that city, so loaded the Elchee with presents of ice-creams, sweetmeats, preserves, and delicious fruits, that all in camp, down to the keepers of the dogs, were busied in devouring these luxuries. keywords: abdûlla; account; aga; ahmed; ali; appearance; chapter; character; chief; children; city; condition; country; court; day; days; death; doubt; elchee; english; family; father; fine; friend; general; god; good; ground; hajee; half; having; head; high; hoosein; horse; husband; khan; king; knowledge; left; life; mahomed; majesty; man; manner; master; means; meerzâ; men; mind; minister; mission; moment; party; persia; persians; person; place; poor; power; present; prince; rank; roostem; shiraz; shâh; son; state; story; subject; thought; time; tribe; visit; wife; world; years cache: 52189.txt plain text: 52189.txt item: #353 of 425 id: 522 author: Headland, Isaac Taylor title: The Chinese Boy and Girl date: None words: 30324 flesch: 78 summary: The children are dignified little people, but they enjoy all the attractions of child-life as much as other children do. This is a very pretty game for little children. keywords: away; balls; boys; children; china; chinese; cow; day; dog; end; feet; following; game; girl; good; hands; head; home; horse; life; man; mother; number; nurse; people; play; rhymes; stick; time; toys; way cache: 522.txt plain text: 522.txt item: #354 of 425 id: 523 author: Headland, Isaac Taylor title: Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People date: None words: 72814 flesch: 68 summary: It may be said with emphasis, says Colonel Denby, who was for thirteen years minister to China, that the Empress Dowager has been the first of her race to apprehend the problem of the relation of China to the outer world, and to make use of this relation to strengthen her dynasty and to promote material progress. A journey to Japan by the Emperor and Empress Dowager. keywords: child; china; chinese; city; country; court; day; days; death; edict; emperor; empire; empress dowager; eunuchs; family; feet; foreigners; girls; good; government; great; head; home; hsu; kuang; ladies; lady; life; little; majesty; mother; new; officials; palace; peking; people; power; present; prince; princess; reform; room; schools; servants; son; throne; time; way; wife; woman; world; years; young; yuan cache: 523.txt plain text: 523.txt item: #355 of 425 id: 52638 author: Schnapps, Charles H. title: Archag, the Little Armenian date: None words: 46331 flesch: 79 summary: At last Archag went up to Monsieur Bernier and said: He must have been hurt as he fell; I hear him groaning. Archag Effendi, are you ready? called an old Arab. keywords: aintab; aram; archag; armenians; bernier; boghos; boys; college; country; day; days; death; effendi; evening; eyes; father; friends; garabed; good; home; horses; house; journey; left; life; little; man; mills; monsieur; morning; mrs; nejib; new; night; people; place; president; professor; room; thought; time; way; years cache: 52638.txt plain text: 52638.txt item: #356 of 425 id: 52681 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 46, 1721-1739 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 97355 flesch: 58 summary: The object of the school is to train good moral and religious women teachers and to make this school a model for other schools. Regulations of superior normal school for men teachers. keywords: art; article; board; castilian; certificate; chapter; charge; children; civil; class; country; course; day; december; decree; directress; duties; education; end; examinations; exercise; filipinas; general; girls; good; government; governor; great; indians; institution; instruction; islands; language; manila; means; normal; number; order; parish; pay; practice school; present; priest; provincial; public; pupils; regard; regulations; religious; resident; royal; scholars; school; school art; school regulations; spanish; studies; superior; supervision; teachers; teaching; time; villages; women teachers; work; year cache: 52681.txt plain text: 52681.txt item: #357 of 425 id: 52739 author: Malcolm, John title: Observations on the Disturbances in the Madras Army in 1809 date: None words: 74807 flesch: 48 summary: The impression which Colonel Close's effort (though unsuccessful at the moment) had made upon both the minds of European officers and natives, the effect produced by the perusal of an order issued by Lord Minto on the 20th of July, and the knowledge that his lordship was hourly expected at Madras, deprived rebellion of its chief motive--personal hatred to Sir George Barlow. It will be considered, whether a measure, _not of concession_, but _of conciliation_[33], offered a prospect of greater evils than a plan of division, such as Machiavelian politicians have sometimes employed against the public enemy;--but which was now to be, for the first time, employed against the only safeguard of the state;--a plan to make the King's troops look down on the Company's with the proud contempt of conquerors, and the Company's army feel towards the King's all the mortified pride and secret indignation natural to the vanquished; a plan for suppressing a rebellion of European officers by clandestinely instigating a mutiny of native soldiers against them; a plan for securing the Government by dividing and dispiriting the army, and for founding general tranquillity upon a monstrous balance of officers against soldiers, and of one army against another. keywords: army; authority; barlow; character; chief; colonel; company; conduct; corps; duty; european; garrison; general; george; government; innes; july; letter; lieutenant; madras; masulipatam; measures; moment; officers; order; proceedings; regiment; sir; sir george; state cache: 52739.txt plain text: 52739.txt item: #358 of 425 id: 52896 author: Leonowens, Anna Harriette title: Life and Travel in India Being Recollections of a Journey Before the Days of Railroads date: None words: 101878 flesch: 64 summary: A very common habit even in India to-day is to name persons after heroic kings, great priests, or even after the gods, without any mark being added to distinguish them in after years; and when any period of time has elapsed it is almost impossible to separate the personality of the father from the son, or the disciple from the teacher, or the priest from the god. There were many other temples in the hillside, with doorways, arches, pillars, windows, galleries, and verandahs, supported by solid stone pillars filled with figures of gods and goddesses, heroes, giants, birds, beasts, and reptiles of every shape--quite enough to baffle the most careful student in anything like a thorough examination of their vast and intricate workmanship. keywords: arms; beauty; body; bombay; brahman; british; caste; character; chief; child; children; city; company; country; dark; day; days; dead; death; earth; east; english; european; eyes; face; father; feet; fine; fire; flowers; form; girls; god; gods; gold; good; great; half; hands; head; heart; high; hill; hindoo; hindostan; home; house; husband; india; island; left; length; life; light; looking; mahratta; man; mohammedan; moment; morning; mother; native; number; order; parsees; parts; people; place; portuguese; power; priests; pundit; river; round; sacred; sea; serpent; spot; stone; sun; temple; time; town; trees; village; visit; water; way; white; wife; women; world; worship; years cache: 52896.txt plain text: 52896.txt item: #359 of 425 id: 52903 author: Sankaran Nair, C. (Chettur), Sir title: Gandhi and Anarchy date: None words: 67428 flesch: 62 summary: Owing to | influence of political prisoners the youths, | who numbered about 190, were completely out of | hand. A number of | volunteers had collected here and as the Deputy | Magistrate received complaints of interference | several were arrested. keywords: act; action; activities; appendix; bengal; british; calcutta; committee; congress; council; country; courts; day; disobedience; district; education; english; force; gandhi; government; hindus; home; india; india congress; khilafat; law; life; man; means; members; movement; muslim; non; operation; operators; order; party; people; place; present; programme; public; punjab; question; rule; sir; speech; swaraj; time; violence; volunteers; year; | bombay; | fire; | police; | riot; | united; | | cache: 52903.txt plain text: 52903.txt item: #360 of 425 id: 53093 author: Wilson, T. F. (Thomas Fourness) title: The Defence of Lucknow A Diary Recording the Daily Events during the Siege of the European Residency, from 31st May to 25th September, 1857 date: None words: 44085 flesch: 66 summary: _ Mrs. Evans, dead; Mrs. Brett and child (child dead), Mrs. Ball and child; Mrs. Cane and three children; Mrs. Court and two children; Mrs. Connell and child; Mrs. Grant; Mrs. Abbott and child (child dead); Mrs. Hembro and three children; Mrs. Purcell and child; Mrs. Longton and child; Mrs. Morgan; Mrs. Sexton; Mrs. Ramsay; Mrs. Watson and child; Mrs. Ryder; Mrs. Wells and child; Mrs. Woods and three children (one child dead); Mrs. Morton and child (child dead); Mrs. Baxter and three children; Mrs. Fitzgerald and child; Mrs. Fitzgerald and three children (one child dead); Mrs. Martin; Mrs. Kinsley and four children; Mrs. Rae; Mrs. Gabriell and three children; Mrs. Pew, senior; Mrs. Pew, junior, and four children (two children dead); Mrs. Ireland and child; Mrs. Swarris and three children; Mrs. Gambooa; Mrs. Blyth and child (child dead); Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Luxted; Miss Luxted; Mrs. Catania; Mrs. Forbes; Mrs. Blaney; Mrs. Hyde and two children; Mrs. Sequera, senior; Mrs. Sequera, junior, killed; Mrs. Chrestien; Miss Sequera, Mrs. Vaughan and two children; Mrs. Beale; Mrs. Hardingham; Mrs. Sinclair; Miss Hampton; Mrs. Elliott; Mrs. Sangster and two children; Mrs. Barnett and child; Miss Sangster; Mrs. Browne; Mrs. Hamilton and three children (two children dead); Mrs. Velozo; Miss Velozo; Mrs. Horn and three children; Mrs. Parry and four children; Mrs. Ereth; Mrs. Bates; Mrs. Scott and child (child dead); Mrs. Need and three children; Mrs. Higgins, dead; Mrs. Williams and child (child dead); Mrs. Wilkinson, dead; Mrs. Allnutt and child (child dead); Mrs. Reilly and child (child dead); Mrs. Collins and child (both dead); Mrs. Macgrenan; Mrs. Garland and child; Miss Clarke; Mrs. J. J. Phillips; Mrs. W. Phillips and child; Mrs. Leslie; Mrs. Lincoln and child; Mrs. Chick and two children (one child dead); Mrs. Clancey and two children; Mrs. Joyce and child; Mrs. Best and child (child dead); Mrs. Pidgeon; Mrs. Todd and child; Mrs. Blunt; Mrs. Garrett and two children; Mrs. Pedron; Miss Marshall; Miss Savaille; Miss Campagnac; Mrs. Dudman and three children (two children dead); Mrs. Ward and child; Mrs. Dudman 2nd, Mrs. Rennick; Mrs. Derozario; Mrs. Dacosta; Mrs. Archer and two children; Mrs. Hilton and two children; Mrs. Dera Vara and two children; Mrs. Pender and four children; Mrs. McDonnough and two children; Mrs. Oliver and two children; Mrs. Brown; Mrs. Rontleff and child; Mrs. Curwan and child; Mrs. Lynch and child; Mrs. Moreton and two children (both children dead); Mrs. Smith and three children; Mrs. Brandoff; Mrs. Curtain and three children; Mrs. Kennedy; Mrs. Bally and two children; Mrs. Peter; Miss Kennedy; Mrs. Burnet and child; Mrs. Cook and four children (one child dead); Mrs. Bryson and four children (one child dead); Mrs. Marshall; Mrs. Rutledge and two children; Mrs. Lawrence and two children (one child dead); Mrs. Samson; Mrs. Horan and three children; Mrs. Kavanagh and four children (one child dead); Mrs. F. Marshall and two children; Mrs. Sago; Mrs. Virtue; Miss Virtue; Miss Brown; Mrs. F. Williams and two children; Mrs. Gordon and two children; Mrs. Hoff; Mrs. Wittenbaker and eight children; Mrs. Donnithorne and two children (one child dead); Mrs. Pearce and two children; Mrs. Mendes, dead; Miss Gardner; Miss Roberts; Mrs. Dubois, senior; Mrs. Dubois, junior; Mrs. Campagnac, senior; Mrs. Campagnac, junior, and four children; Miss Campagnac, 1st; Miss Campagnac, 2nd; Mrs. Mahar and two children; Mrs. Twitchem; Mrs. Marley and one child; Miss Hampton; Mrs. Longden; Miss Rodgers; Mrs. Duff and child; Mrs. Griffiths and three children; Mrs. Keogh and five children (three children dead); Mrs. Molloy and five children; Mrs. Hernon and four children; Mrs. Bickers and three children; Mrs. Barrett and three children (one child dead); Mrs. Casey and five children (one child dead); Mrs. Alone, Miss Alone; Miss Arno; Miss Robinson; Miss Bowhear; Mrs. Johannes and child; Mrs. Queiros and child; Mrs. Dias; Mrs. Pelling; Mrs. Nazareth and two children (Mrs. Nazareth, dead); Mrs. Nugent, junior, and three children; Mrs. Joseph and three children; Mrs. Hamilton; Mrs. Blenman; Mrs. Bates and child; Mrs. Barfoot. Sickness much increased, and for many days past only one engineer officer was available for duty: hard work, privation, and exposure day and night to wet and heat, few could long stand against. keywords: 13th; 32nd; a.m.; battery; brigade; captain; cavalry; cawnpore; children; day; enemy; evening; fire; firing; force; garrison; general; guns; house; infantry; lieutenant; men; morning; mrs; musketry; native; night; officers; p.m.; position; post; residency; round; shot; sir cache: 53093.txt plain text: 53093.txt item: #361 of 425 id: 53424 author: Malcolm, John title: The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 1 (of 3) Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by the Earl of Powis date: None words: 100077 flesch: 56 summary: Mr. Richard Clive formed high hopes of his son while yet a child. His father, Mr. Richard Clive, in a letter dated December 15. 1752, observes, I was at Sir Philip Chetwood's, our neighbour in the country, when I received your welcome letter, which gave me joy not to be expressed. keywords: admiral; affairs; ali; army; attack; bengal; calcutta; captain; character; clive; committee; company; conduct; country; court; day; dowlah; enemy; english; europeans; expedition; force; fort; french; gentlemen; government; great; having; india; jaffier; letter; madras; man; march; means; meer; men; money; nabob; observes; officers; omichund; party; period; power; prince; sepoys; service; state; success; suraj; time; troops; watts cache: 53424.txt plain text: 53424.txt item: #362 of 425 id: 53510 author: Malcolm, John title: Sketch of the Sikhs A Singular Nation Who Inhabit the Provinces of Penjab, Situated Between the Rivers Jumna and Indus date: None words: 33454 flesch: 61 summary: Gúrú Góvind Singh, in the Vichitra Nátac, a work written by himself, and inserted in the Dasama Pádsháh ká Grant'h, traces the descent of the Cshatríya tribe of Sóndí, to which he belongs, from a race of Hindú Rájás[38], who founded the cities of Casúr and Lahore. Gúrú Góvind Singh, agreeably to this Sikh author, after initiating the first five disciples in the mode above stated, ordered the principal persons among them[116] to initiate him exactly on similar occasions, which he did. keywords: account; appears; army; author; chiefs; country; death; dás; followers; general; god; grant'h; great; góvind; gúrú; gúrú góvind; hindús; khán; lahore; life; means; men; muhammedan; nánac; penjáb; period; power; race; religion; sacred; sect; sikhs; singh; son; state; thy; tribe; world cache: 53510.txt plain text: 53510.txt item: #363 of 425 id: 53568 author: Lynch, H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) title: Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces date: None words: 225319 flesch: 74 summary: | Pupils | Pupils | ===================+========+========+=================================== 1. Note sur quelques passages des inscriptions de Van, Jour. keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; akhlat; appearance; ararat; area; armenian; article; asia; assembly; bank; barrier; basin; berlin; bingöl; bitlis; black; case; century; chapter; character; church; city; constantinople; country; course; crater; dagh; day; der; des; die; direction; distance; district; doubt; east; eastern; elevation; erzerum; face; fact; features; feet; fig; foot; general; government; ground; half; hand; head; heights; high; hills; history; inhabitants; inscriptions; journey; kaimakam; kala; khinis; king; kurdish; kurds; l'arménie; lake; lake van; land; landscape; lava; left; level; life; line; little; lofty; lond; man; margin; mass; miles; mountains; murad; mush; national; nature; near; neighbourhood; new; nimrud; north; northern; number; opposite; outline; paris; pass; passage; patriarch; people; persia; pet; place; plain; plateau; point; population; portion; present; principal; quarter; question; range; region; rev; ridge; right; river; rock; russian; sea; second; seen; seq; shore; sipan; slopes; snow; soc; south; southern; stone; stream; summit; surface; sér; tableland; time; town; turkey; turkish; valley; van; view; village; visit; vol; volcanic; von; wall; water; way; west; western; white; years; | =; | | cache: 53568.txt plain text: 53568.txt item: #364 of 425 id: 53670 author: Butler, John, Major title: A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes date: None words: 47316 flesch: 55 summary: --------+-------------+--------+------------------------+---------------- No. of | Name of | No. of | Name of Chiefs | Amount of Dooars. +---------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ |Name of | Value of | Value of | Value of | Value of | |District.| Men. keywords: --------+------------------------+-------------------+ |; agent; assam; assamese; booteahs; bor; british; burmese; country; day; days; duffa; elephants; gaum |; gaumnee |; government; hills; house; jungle; khamtees; land; langee |; nagas; north; people; population; present; rajah; rice; river; rupees; singphoos; slaves; suddeah; takoolea |; taolea |; time; tribes; troops; village; years; | +; | 2|; | chiefs; | ditto; | dooar; | durrung; | hanoo; | jey; | keme; | names; | oopur; | pension; | remarks; | ruma; | total; | value; | | cache: 53670.txt plain text: 53670.txt item: #365 of 425 id: 53674 author: Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan title: The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2) date: None words: 170639 flesch: 79 summary: Several others of the State servants were also appointed to go with him, such as Kishwar Khan, Iftikhar Khan, Sayyid Adam Barha, Shaikh Achhay, [352] nephew of Muqarrab Khan, Mu`tamad Khan, the sons of Mu`azzam Khan Ihtimam Khan, and others. Girdhar, the son of Ray Sal, had the rank of 800 personal and horse bestowed on him, and Ilf Khan Qiyam Khan the same mansab, original and increase. keywords: abdu; account; adil khan; aforesaid; afzal khan; agra; akbar; ali; ali khan; amirs; army; asaf khan; beg khan; blochmann; brother; city; country; court; day; days; death; deccan; dilawar khan; din khan; dress; elephant; elliot; end; father; foot; fort; fortune; garden; god; good; gujarat; hand; head; honour; horse; husain; i.o; ibrahim khan; islam khan; jagir; jahangir; kabul; khan; khan a`zam; khan dauran; khan jahan; khan koka; khurram; khusrau; khwaja; king; kos; leave; left; llah khan; mahabat khan; mansab; means; men; mirza; month; mss; muhammad; muqarrab khan; murtaza khan; nama; neighbourhood; news; night; offering; order; people; personal; place; province; qasim khan; quli khan; raja; rana; rank; ray; road; royal; rupees; sardar khan; servants; service; shah; shaikh; shaja`at khan; shir khan; singh; son; state; subah; sultan; text; things; throne; thursday; time; title; village; water; way; word; year; zafar khan cache: 53674.txt plain text: 53674.txt item: #366 of 425 id: 53716 author: Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan title: The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) date: None words: 122477 flesch: 81 summary: On this day it was reported that Zafar K. s. Zain K., had died. Mir K., s. Mirza Abu-l-Qasim Namakin, who was one of the khanazads of this Court, was promoted to the mansab, original and increased, of 800 personal and 600 horse. keywords: abdu; account; agra; akbar; army; asaf k.; bank; beg; blochmann; brother; camp; chief; city; country; court; daulat; day; days; deccan; dress; elephant; elliot; father; feast; foot; fortune; friday; garden; god; good; hand; head; hill; honour; horse; i.o; iqbal; jahan; jahangir; jarrett; kashmir; khan; khwaja; king; koss; leave; left; life; llah; llah k.; mahabat k.; mansab; means; men; mirza; monday; month; mss; muhammad; nama; news; nur; offering; order; people; personal; place; qasim k.; raja; ray; river; road; round; royal; sayyid; servants; service; shah; singh; son; state; sunday; text; thursday; time; title; village; water; way; word; year cache: 53716.txt plain text: 53716.txt item: #367 of 425 id: 53887 author: Hacobian, A. P. (Avetoon Pesak) title: Armenia and the War date: None words: 39088 flesch: 57 summary: Such in general outline have been the services of the Turkish Armenians to the Allied cause. This force contained a number of Turkish Armenians, mostly refugees from previous massacres. keywords: allies; armenians; blood; book; britain; british; children; christian; country; day; death; doubt; empire; england; europe; european; fact; good; government; great; humanity; nation; number; ottoman; peace; people; population; powers; race; russia; time; treaty; turkey; turkish; turks; war; women; world; years cache: 53887.txt plain text: 53887.txt item: #368 of 425 id: 54041 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 92024 flesch: 55 summary: By this measure are furnished [the men for] the timber-cutting, shipbuilding, and other royal works. Inasmuch as there was no other in whom to place the care of this so great need, this brotherhood attended promptly to so fitting a relief, building it at the cost of many pesos in 1596, supplying what was possible in so little time, for the erection of said hospital. keywords: account; aid; alms; board; brotherhood; brothers; captain; chapter; charge; church; city; commerce; convent; decree; don; dutch; españa; expenses; father; fol; fort; fray; general; god; good; government; governor; holy; hospital; house; indians; islands; joseph; juan; majesty; manila; means; men; misericordia; native; new; nueva; number; oil; order; pay; people; persons; pesos; philipinas; place; poor; present; province; religious; rice; royal; santa; service; ships; sick; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; sum; time; tomins; treasury; village; wine; work; year cache: 54041.txt plain text: 54041.txt item: #369 of 425 id: 54160 author: Shakespear, John title: The Lushei Kuki Clans date: None words: 92696 flesch: 78 summary: Lushai houses are generally built in lines one above the other on the sides of a hill, and therefore it is more convenient to place the heavy earthen hearth on the upper side where the posts are shorter. Many villages are moving nearer to the plain in order that the people may take leases from the State of land in the valley and carry on plough cultivation, but they also do a certain amount of jhuming, and proprietary rights in jhum lands are recognised. keywords: = =; account; animals; bamboo; boi; bride; case; ceremony; chapter; chief; child; children; chin; chiru; clans; cloth; come; custom; cut; day; days; dead; death; dialects; drink; end; families; family; father; feast; flesh; following; girl; good; hair; head; hills; house; husband; jhum; kuki; kúngóri; little; lushai; man; manipuri; marriage; men; mithan; mother; names; near; night; number; parents; party; people; person; pig; place; platform; pot |; rice; round; sacrifice; sherh; son; spirit; thado; thi; tiger; time; tree; village; water; way; wife; wild; woman; work; young; | rs; | | cache: 54160.txt plain text: 54160.txt item: #370 of 425 id: 54740 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 48, 1751-1765 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 99298 flesch: 53 summary: One of the grounds for this belief is, that in all the islands (which are very many) these people maintain an identical language, and different from those of all the other peoples among whom they live; while the other natives of each island have a language different [from those spoken in other islands], and even in some places (as is evident throughout all this treatise) are encountered at every turn different dialects in the same island. [12] | | | | | | | Young children | | | | | | | | Spaniards, | | | | | | | | men and | | | | | | | | women -----------+-----------+------+-----+-----+-----+------+------+----------- Tondo |Tondo |1,810 | 500| 450| 868| keywords: acapulco; account; aforesaid; augustinian; case; chapter; china; christians; church; commerce; company; concepción; condition; cost; country; dominican; don; dutch; english; españa; expenses; father; following; foreigners; fray; good; government; governor; increase; indians; islands; joló; king; left; majesty; making; manila; means; military; missionaries; missions; money; moros; mountains; mozo; nations; natives; navigation; new; nueva; number; order; pay; people; persons; pesos; philipinas; place; power; present; province; reason; religious; royal; san; ships; silver; spaniards; spanish; things; time; trade; tribes; tributes; use; vassals; viana; villages; way; work; year; | | cache: 54740.txt plain text: 54740.txt item: #371 of 425 id: 54848 author: Malcolm, John title: The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 3 (of 3) Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by the Earl of Powis date: None words: 94658 flesch: 54 summary: When the question itself came on, and the direct charges brought against Lord Clive were before the House, Mr. Stanley moved that the words, And in so doing, the said Robert Lord Clive abused the powers with which he was intrusted, to the evil example of the servants of the public, and to the dishonour and detriment of the State, should be omitted; and was seconded by Mr. Richard Fuller, who carried his amendment farther back into the body of the motion, and proposed that the words, through the influence of the powers with which he was intrusted, as a Member of the Select Committee, and Commander-in-chief of the British forces, should also be omitted. Difficult as was the situation in which Lord Clive was placed when he adopted those active measures to remedy the abuses in the civil administration of Bengal, which have been already described, a much more arduous task awaited him; that of carrying into execution the positive orders he had received from the Directors, to reduce the allowances of the officers of the army of that presidency. keywords: affairs; bengal; calcutta; civil; clive; colonel; committee; company; conduct; council; country; court; directors; duty; east; england; footnote; general; government; governor; honour; house; india; india company; interest; letter; lord; lord clive; lordship; man; military; officers; opinion; parliament; pay; plan; power; present; public; robert; select; servants; service; sir; situation; state; subject; time; trade; year cache: 54848.txt plain text: 54848.txt item: #372 of 425 id: 55539 author: Allen, Horace Newton title: Korean Tales Being a collection of stories translated from the Korean folk lore, together with introductory chapters descriptive of Korea date: None words: 44073 flesch: 74 summary: Furthermore, he sold it as reasonably as other men sold a much inferior article. Meanwhile the dog wagged his ears and tail, and strode about with a swinging stride, in imitation of the great yang ban, or official, who occasionally walked past his master's door, and who seemed to denote by his haughty gait his superiority to other men. keywords: = =; bird; boy; country; day; dog; family; father; girl; good; great; heaven; home; house; kil; king; korea; life; man; men; mother; night; people; place; rice; said; saw; son; time; tong; way; wife; wine; work; years cache: 55539.txt plain text: 55539.txt item: #373 of 425 id: 56089 author: Reinsch, Paul S. (Paul Samuel) title: An American Diplomat in China date: None words: 124393 flesch: 58 summary: Mr. Donald's acquaintance with Chinese affairs had come through close contact with the leaders of new China, with whom he coöperated intimately in their military and political campaigns. At the same time they fully realize that under the existing conditions of domestic strife in China loans are liable to create misunderstandings and to interfere with peace in China. keywords: action; affairs; american; bank; british; business; central; chang; china; chinese; city; company; contract; control; conversation; country; day; demands; development; doctor; emperor; enterprise; fact; finance; financial; foreign; french; general; good; government; great; group; hsun; influence; interests; international; japanese; kai; legation; liang; life; loan; man; matter; military; minister; movement; national; nations; negotiations; new; officials; order; parliament; party; peking; people; policy; position; power; premier; present; president; public; railway; representatives; rights; secretary; shantung; shih; situation; states; support; time; troops; tuan; united; war; work; world; years; yuan; yuan shih cache: 56089.txt plain text: 56089.txt item: #374 of 425 id: 56778 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 49 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 97756 flesch: 62 summary: de Manila, Gov. y Cap. de Manila, Gov. y Cap. keywords: account; admiral; anda; archbishop; arms; audiencia; auditor; bastion; british; capitulation; captain; cavite; church; churches; city; company; cornish; council; day; defense; don; draper; enemy; english; fire; following; fort; general; good; government; governor; indians; inhabitants; islands; king; left; letter; london; majesty; manila; matter; mayor; men; military; natives; number; october; officers; order; people; pesos; place; possession; present; province; regard; religious; royal; san; ship; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; squadron; surrender; time; troops; war cache: 56778.txt plain text: 56778.txt item: #375 of 425 id: 57153 author: Karadordevic, Bozidar title: Enchanted India date: None words: 62864 flesch: 69 summary: In one hand he holds a bouquet of white flowers, in the other a coco-nut. Behind this mosque, by narrow alleys hung with airy green silk that had just been dyed and spread to dry in the sun, we made our way to the mausoleum of Badorgi Shah: a cloister, an arcade of octagonal columns carved with flowers, and in the court, the tombs of white stone, covered with inscriptions, that look like arabesques. keywords: air; arms; birds; black; blue; bright; children; close; colour; crowd; dark; day; dead; distance; end; evening; eyes; face; flowers; garden; gold; great; green; hands; hanging; head; houses; left; light; look; man; marble; men; native; palace; pale; past; pink; red; rice; road; rose; round; sacred; shade; silver; sky; soldiers; spread; steps; stone; street; sun; temple; time; town; trees; walls; water; way; white; women; wood; yellow cache: 57153.txt plain text: 57153.txt item: #376 of 425 id: 57189 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 93479 flesch: 53 summary: Legal proceedings are therefore brought against Raón and his associates in their residencias, but some of them die before the suits are ended; and Anda, who instituted these by royal order, is nevertheless impeded in every way, and afterward sentenced to heavy fines, through the machinations of his enemies. By royal orders of July 17 and 26, 1784, the post of quartermaster-general of the islands was created, in accordance with a request by Basco; and that of deputy-intendant of the exchequer was united with it, independent of the superior government of the islands. keywords: account; alcaldes; anda; archbishop; audiencia; book; charge; chinese; church; curas; decree; english; españa; expulsion; father; filipinas; general; good; government; governor; iii; indians; islands; jesuits; justice; king; law; laws; letter; majesty; manila; mayor; ministers; money; natives; number; office; officials; order; ordinances; pay; penalty; persons; pesos; present; provinces; reals; regard; religious; royal; san; service; shall; spaniards; spanish; statement; sum; time; trade; treasury; tributes; título; viana; villages; year cache: 57189.txt plain text: 57189.txt item: #377 of 425 id: 57253 author: Young, Ernest title: Peeps at Many Lands: Siam date: None words: 25619 flesch: 81 summary: They sometimes stand directly on the ground, but at other times the slender spires will be found over the doorways, or even on the tops of the buildings. Other elephants are noosed in the open, but in the evening, after a bathe in the river, the herd goes back to the _paneat_. keywords: big; boy; buddha; chapter; children; colour; country; day; elephant; fish; ground; head; houses; illustrations; king; life; man; men; number; page; page illustrations; people; priests; rice; river; siamese; story; temple; time; water; way; white; years cache: 57253.txt plain text: 57253.txt item: #378 of 425 id: 57304 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 51, 1801-1840 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 88608 flesch: 51 summary: [i.e., balate], wax, dried fish, &c. from Soolo, Borneo, and other islands of the Archipelago; toys, silks, nankeens, teas, and dollars from China; dollars from the United States; and from South America, silver, cochineal, and cacao. The Spaniards ought thus to follow the example of the Dutch in Java and other islands, where the Chinese have made excellent agriculturists and manufacturers of agricultural products, and have enriched both themselves and the Dutch; if they had been thus treated in Filipinas, that country would now be as prosperous and wealthy as are the Dutch colonies, and its trade would be as rich and extensive as that of the Dutch. keywords: account; administration; agriculture; archbishop; bernaldez; capital; causes; cent; character; china; chinese; city; class; colonies; colony; commerce; cortes; country; day; decree; dollars; duties; españa; european; filipinas; filipinas islands; following; foreigners; funds; general; good; government; governor; house; indians; islands; laws; long; madrid; manila; means; measures; merchants; military; money; montero; natives; new; nueva; number; october; officers; order; pay; people; persons; pesos; philippines; possession; present; produce; products; provinces; public; religious; royal; spain; spaniards; spanish; sugar; system; tax; time; trade; value; vessels; vidal; villages; work; years cache: 57304.txt plain text: 57304.txt item: #379 of 425 id: 57382 author: Franking, Mae M. title: My Chinese Marriage date: None words: 27471 flesch: 76 summary: I had seen enough of Chinese family life to understand the powerful bonds of affection and interest that bind the clan together, and I felt in my own heart the cruelty of breaking those between mother and son and brother and brother. As she talked, I realized by her face, by Chan-King's answers, by all that I knew of Chinese family life, that we were a part of that clan and should be so always. keywords: american; chan; children; china; chinese; day; days; eyes; face; family; father; feet; home; house; household; husband; king; liang; life; love; madame; marriage; mother; new; shanghai; time; way; wife; woman cache: 57382.txt plain text: 57382.txt item: #380 of 425 id: 57431 author: None title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century date: None words: 105166 flesch: 55 summary: [65] El Diario de Manila was established in 1848, a name which was changed to El Boletin oficial de Filipinas in 1852, and again to the former name in 1860; papers called El Comercio were founded in 1858 (probably), and in 1869; La Oceanía Española, in 1877 (which succeeded El Porvenir Filipino); La Voz Española was founded in 1888 under the name of La Voz de España, the issue of March 5, 1892, marking the change of name. Gregorio Sancianco y Goson's El progreso de Filipinas (Madrid, 1881), especially valuable on administrative matters just prior to the revision of the fiscal régime in connection with the abolition of the government tobacco monopoly, has also many data on land, commerce, and industry. keywords: account; administration; agriculture; american; archipelago; authorities; authority; case; chief; chinese; church; civil; class; clergy; colony; conditions; council; country; decree; del; development; documents; duties; education; end; españa; filipinas; filipino; force; friars; general; good; government; governor; history; insurrection; interests; islands; july; law; laws; life; line; madrid; manila; mas; matters; means; members; mestizos; military; natives; new; note; number; october; official; order; people; period; persons; pesos; philippines; place; population; power; present; prestige; priests; provinces; provincial; public; read; reforms; regard; religion; report; respect; retana; rizal; royal; rule; society; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; subject; time; trade; treasury; volume; work; years cache: 57431.txt plain text: 57431.txt item: #381 of 425 id: 57861 author: Street, Julian title: Mysterious Japan date: None words: 85722 flesch: 71 summary: The fact that the Japanese woman is in no small degree a man-made product does not fill me with admiration for Japanese men, as would some insentient product of their art. This fact is made apparent in the quick reversion to type of Japanese men and women who have lived for years in the United States, and who, when in the United States, seem to have become quite like Americans. keywords: american; art; average; building; business; case; chapter; children; chinese; city; class; country; course; day; days; emperor; english; european; fact; family; feeling; friend; garden; geisha; gentleman; good; government; hand; home; house; husband; illustration; imperial; japanese; kimono; kind; lady; land; life; look; making; man; matter; means; men; mind; new; night; page; people; place; point; president; prince; room; roosevelt; samurai; silk; states; street; style; system; tea; things; thought; time; tokyo; united; viscount; water; way; white; wife; women; work; world; years; york cache: 57861.txt plain text: 57861.txt item: #382 of 425 id: 58356 author: Fielding, H. (Harold) title: The Passing of Empire date: None words: 62954 flesch: 77 summary: He was, I think, twenty-three years of age, of good people, educated at a public school and Oxford, and was as nice a boy as could be found. But the young man now does not want to know what is, but what other people say. keywords: act; burma; burmese; case; council; course; courts; crime; criminal; district; education; england; english; fact; good; government; help; india; law; laws; life; man; officer; official; people; personality; place; police; power; self; system; things; time; truth; village; want; way; work; world; wrong; years cache: 58356.txt plain text: 58356.txt item: #383 of 425 id: 58361 author: Curzon, Robert title: Armenia: A year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia date: None words: 56868 flesch: 62 summary: From the above account it appears that much injustice may probably be carried on by the inferior officers of the government which never gets to the ears of the Pasha, small officials being notoriously more tyrannical than greater men. The translator of an almost forgotten tongue, the laborious compiler of unpublished history, requires that the musty chronicles, the splendid illuminated volumes bound in gold and velvet, the crabbed, ill-written works of antique lore, should be laid upon the table before him, so that, in the undisturbed silence of his study, surrounded with lexicons and modern books of reference, he may bit by bit extract the pith, and winnow off the chaff, from the venerable manuscripts of distant lands and other times. keywords: armenian; black; case; chapter; christian; church; city; common; constantinople; country; day; days; dead; death; door; emperor; erzeroom; feet; fire; general; good; government; ground; half; hands; having; head; history; horses; hossein; house; kind; king; left; life; man; mountains; number; party; pasha; people; persian; place; power; present; religion; russian; sea; set; small; snow; soldiers; state; stone; thing; thou; time; town; trebizond; turkey; turkish; turks; walls; way; year cache: 58361.txt plain text: 58361.txt item: #384 of 425 id: 58378 author: McDonald, Etta Blaisdell title: Umé San in Japan date: None words: 27096 flesch: 88 summary: It was so solemn and impressive to little Umé that she forgot her rice-cake and let it drop to the temple floor as she clasped her own hands in prayer. It is no hardship to receive honorable praise, said little Umé. keywords: baby; children; day; dolls; father; garden; grandmother; head; home; house; japanese; little; man; mother; paper; san; tara; tea; tei; temple; time; umé; year; yuki cache: 58378.txt plain text: 58378.txt item: #385 of 425 id: 59270 author: Filian, George H. title: Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an Armenian date: None words: 98461 flesch: 69 summary: It is a typical Armenian city; and has several great Armenian churches, with flourishing schools. Armenian men and Armenian women alike dread the approach of an old Turk far more than of a young one. keywords: american; armenian; army; atrocities; blood; brother; century; children; christian; church; city; constantinople; country; day; days; death; emperor; empire; england; europe; family; father; force; god; good; government; governor; great; greek; half; help; history; holy; houses; king; kingdom; kurds; letter; life; like; lord; man; massacre; means; missionaries; mohammedan; money; nation; new; number; order; people; persia; place; powers; present; property; question; reforms; religion; rev; roman; russia; soldiers; son; sultan; throne; time; treaty; turkey; turkish; turks; war; way; women; work; world; years cache: 59270.txt plain text: 59270.txt item: #386 of 425 id: 5979 author: Hearn, Lafcadio title: Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation date: None words: 117797 flesch: 55 summary: So far as we are able to judge from the remains of old Japanese law which have been studied, it would seem to have been the general rule that the family-head could not sell or alienate the estate. Not only were all foreigners, excepting the Dutch traders, expelled from the country; all half-breed children of Portuguese or Spanish blood were also expatriated, Japanese families being forbidden to adopt or conceal any of them, under penalties to be visited upon all the members of the household disobeying. keywords: ancestor; authority; buddhism; case; character; children; chinese; civilization; clan; class; classes; community; conditions; conduct; country; course; cult; custom; day; dead; death; domestic; duty; emperor; existence; experience; fact; family; foreign; forms; general; gods; government; great; greek; history; home; household; human; imperial; individual; iyeyasu; japanese; law; laws; life; living; man; matter; military; modern; moral; national; order; people; period; place; power; present; public; relation; religion; right; roman; rule; samurai; shinto; social; society; spirit; subject; supreme; system; temple; things; time; way; world; worship; years cache: 5979.txt plain text: 5979.txt item: #387 of 425 id: 59972 author: Nozhin, E. K. (Evgenii Konstantinovich) title: The Truth About Port Arthur date: None words: 124485 flesch: 71 summary: During the gradual development of the military situation in the district--when the most prominent features had been the extraordinary errors on the part of General Fock--General Stössel was acting the dictator in Arthur, where, in addition to his main task of interfering at every step with the useful work of General Smirnoff, he lost no opportunity of sowing dissension between the fleet and the army, especially after the squadron's unlucky sortie. General Stössel watched the progress of the fight from Fort No. 1, and General Smirnoff took up his position on Danger Hill, whence he commanded. keywords: army; arthur; artillery; assault; attack; batteries; battery; chief; chinese; colonel; commandant; council; day; defence; district; east; enemy; field; fire; firing; fleet; fock; following; fortress; garrison; general; general stössel; guns; hill; hold; inch; japanese; kinchou; kondratenko; land; left; lieutenant; line; long; men; metre; moment; morning; night; north; officers; order; place; port; port arthur; position; regiment; sea; shan; shells; ships; smirnoff; staff; state; stössel; surrender; time; town; troops; war; way; work; wounded; | | cache: 59972.txt plain text: 59972.txt item: #388 of 425 id: 60129 author: Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil title: A Visit to the Sarö and Shera Yögurs date: None words: 14149 flesch: 74 summary: Three large rude paintings, brought from _Sining_, representing _Shykshatva_ enthroned between _Tshulma_ and _Shtsha-ryzyk_, decorate the principal wall, and old dirty, smoky Buddha pictures, in the form of banners, cover part of the side walls. Our road led in a SE direction, past a temple with a high conical tower which except for the missing gilding still gave reason for the town's name, (_chin_ 'gold', _t'a_ 'tower'; _Chint'a_ 'the golden tower') and we over the ruins of a wall, which formerly enclosed this oasis -- one of the most northerly outposts of Chinese civilisation, in the sand and gravel ocean of the Gobi Desert. keywords: bride; cattle; chinese; day; gol; home; lamas; left; monastery; mountains; people; prayers; road; round; sarö; shera; south; t'umu; temple; way; women; yögurs cache: 60129.txt plain text: 60129.txt item: #389 of 425 id: 60335 author: Scott, John Lee title: Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite date: None words: 23134 flesch: 67 summary: We lay at Chusan for about a month; during which time Admiral Elliot and Commodore Bremer were several times on board of the Kite; and approving of her, all the stores were taken out, and four 32 pounders were put in the hold, as many Chinese guns as we could obtain, seven two-tun tanks, and between 30 and 40 water-casks, all for ballast. We were towed, by one man, so quickly down the canal, that I had little time to notice the country, even had I been in a state of mind to pay much attention. keywords: boat; cages; chinese; chusan; day; douglas; left; lieut; mandarins; mrs; noble; people; place; prisoners; rice; room; round; soldiers; time; water cache: 60335.txt plain text: 60335.txt item: #390 of 425 id: 60503 author: Hutton, James title: A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garotters and Gang-Robbers of India date: None words: 36185 flesch: 64 summary: Some one then uttered the _jhirnee_, or signal for strangulation, and the _goor_ was eaten in solemn silence. Then the helmsman gave the _jhirnee_, by exclaiming _ keywords: axe; bodies; captain; dacoits; day; days; death; expedition; families; followers; gang; good; ground; hand; head; home; leader; left; life; man; men; miles; money; murder; night; party; place; police; property; road; rupees; sing; sleeman; thugs; time; travellers; treasure; village; water; way; women; year cache: 60503.txt plain text: 60503.txt item: #391 of 425 id: 60842 author: Stevens, Joseph Earle title: Yesterdays in the Philippines date: None words: 57012 flesch: 66 summary: A word or two more about the floors in Manila houses. The troops were recalled, guards doubled, drawbridges into old Manila pulled up nightly, arrests and executions made. keywords: afternoon; american; bay; business; captain; chinese; church; city; club; coming; country; day; days; dinner; dollars; english; evening; feet; fire; friends; good; half; hemp; home; house; lake; left; life; long; look; low; manila; men; miles; morning; mountains; native; new; night; office; people; philippines; place; river; room; sea; spanish; steamer; street; sun; time; town; trees; village; water; way; week; white; work; year cache: 60842.txt plain text: 60842.txt item: #392 of 425 id: 61599 author: Burbidge, F. W. (Frederick William) title: The Gardens of the Sun A naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago date: None words: 113491 flesch: 70 summary: In rambling about the island one comes across fertile little gardens and groves of mangoes, mangosteen, and other fruit trees, the tenants being generally Chinamen. Cocoanut palms and other fruit trees, 550 acres; sugarcane and vegetable gardens, about 50 acres. keywords: air; balu; bamboo; birds; black; blue; board; boat; borneo; branches; breakfast; chinese; cloth; coast; colour; common; cool; course; cut; dark; day; days; dinner; dry; dusun; end; evening; everett; feet; ferns; fire; fish; flowers; food; foot; forest; form; fruit; gardens; good; green; ground; guides; half; head; height; high; hill; home; house; island; journey; jungle; kiau; kina; kinds; labuan; leaves; left; length; little; malays; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; native; new; night; north; nut; o'clock; open; palm; path; people; place; plants; produce; rain; red; return; rice; river; rocks; saw; sea; shot; singapore; species; specimens; stream; sultan; sulu; time; tobacco; trees; tropical; village; visit; water; way; wet; white; women; work; yellow cache: 61599.txt plain text: 61599.txt item: #393 of 425 id: 61774 author: Philippine Islands. Commission of Independence title: Beautiful Philippines: A Handbook of General Information date: None words: 66495 flesch: 67 summary: [12]1.52 -----+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+------------+---------------+------------ TOTAL RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURES, AND ACCUMULATED SURPLUS OF THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT, 1901-1922 IN PESOS -------------+-------------+------------+------------+------------+------------ | Surplus at | | | |Accumulated |the beginning| | | | surplus of Year ended-- | of the year | The following table shows the respective values of these exports: -------------------------+--------------------------- | Value Article +-------------+------------- | 1921 | 1922 -------------------------+-------------+------------- | keywords: american; archipelago; building; bureau; capital; cebu; central; china; city; co.; coast; commercial; company; consul; countries; country; east; english; executive; feet; filipinos; fire; following; general; gold; government; governor; hemp; hotel; iloilo; independence; insurance; interest; law; life; luzon; making; manila; marine; miles; mindanao; monthly; mountain; national; negros; new; north; number |; occidental; order; people; pesos |; philippine; philippine government; philippine islands; place; present; president; principal; products; province; public; quantity |; rice; river; san; school; sea; spain; spaniards; spanish; states; sugar; system; time; tobacco; total |; town; trade; united; united states; water; world; zamboanga; | ----------|; | cent; | circulation; | currency; | export; | islands; | kilos; | value; | year; | | cache: 61774.txt plain text: 61774.txt item: #394 of 425 id: 62121 author: Stoddard, John L. (John Lawson) title: John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 03 (of 10) Japan I, Japan II, China date: None words: 43149 flesch: 72 summary: [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO THE SHOGUNS TEMPLE, TOKIO.] One might suppose that such a sudden rise in power, combined with the amazing changes in his empire, would have been ruinous to this young sovereign, for at the time of the restoration he was but sixteen years old. One should not be surprised that illustrations of its streets are not clearer. keywords: boats; buddhist; canton; centuries; china; chinese; city; country; course; day; days; empire; fact; feet; flowers; foreigners; hong; hotel; house; illustration; island; japanese; kioto; kong; land; left; life; man; men; mikado; miles; mountain; people; place; river; sea; stone; streets; tea; temple; thought; thousands; time; tokio; trees; water; way; women; world; years; yokohama cache: 62121.txt plain text: 62121.txt item: #395 of 425 id: 63233 author: Dingle, Edwin John title: China's Revolution, 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War date: None words: 101036 flesch: 68 summary: First Provisional President of the Republic of China] {201} CHAPTER XIV THE COMING OF SUN YAT-SEN Sun Yat-sen for many years has been known the world over as the most effective Revolutionary China has ever produced. The next morning the world learned at its breakfast-table that out of the welter and uproar of revolution in old China a leader had arisen to gird an ancient land under new harness of government. keywords: army; article; assembly; away; british; china; chinese; city; country; day; days; dynasty; emperor; empire; empress; end; fighting; fire; foreigners; general; good; government; guns; hankow; hanyang; hung; imperial; imperialists; k'ai; li yuan; life; man; manchu; military; national; new; party; peace; peking; people; position; power; present; president; provinces; reform; republic; revolution; revolutionary; revolutionists; right; river; shih; soldiers; sun; things; time; trade; troops; war; way; work; world; wuchang; years; yuan; yuan shih cache: 63233.txt plain text: 63233.txt item: #396 of 425 id: 6476 author: Hooker, Joseph Dalton title: Himalayan Journals — Volume 1 Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. date: None words: 125485 flesch: 61 summary: Trichomanes,_ three _Hymenophyllae, Vittaria, Pleopeltis,_ and _Marattia,_ together with several _ The knots from which they are formed, are produced on the roots of oaks, maples, and other mountain forest trees, by a parasitical plant, known to botanists, as _Balanophora_. keywords: air; bamboo; banks; bed; beds; black; campbell; clay; climate; cold; common; country; course; cut; day; days; degrees; dorjiling; dry; east; elevation; feet; feet elevation; fig; fine; flank; flat; following; foot; forest; ganges; gneiss; good; granite; great; green; ground; head; high; hills; himalaya; house; inches; india; kinchinjunga; lake; lama; leaves; left; lepcha; like; little; low; miles; morning; mountains; natives; nepal; night; north; opposite; p.m.; pass; path; people; place; plains; plants; rajah; range; red; rice; ridge; river; road; rocks; rose; sand; season; sikkim; snow; soane; soil; south; species; spur; stone; stream; summit; sun; surface; teesta; temperature; temple; tibet; tibetan; time; trees; tropical; valley; vegetation; view; village; water; way; west; white; wild; wind; wood cache: 6476.txt plain text: 6476.txt item: #397 of 425 id: 6477 author: Hooker, Joseph Dalton title: Himalayan Journals — Volume 2 Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. date: None words: 166357 flesch: 69 summary: Abies, Brunoniana,_ i. 206, 209, 272, 274, 342; ii. 25, 32, 44, 108; _Smithiana,_ ii. 25, 32, 45; _Webbiana,_ i. 191, 272, 307, 342; ii. 44, 108. _ _Arisoema,_ i. 49. _Aristolochia saccata,_ ii. 6. Arrat, name of Lepchas, i. 127. keywords: ------------------------------------------------------------------locality; a.m.; air; approximate; atmosphere; banks; barometer; bed; bengal; black; calcutta; campbell; chapter; churra; climate; cold; country; d.p; date; day; days; dec; degrees; dewan; diff; difference; donkia; dorjiling; dry; east; eastern; elevation; etc; extreme; fall; feet; feet depth; feet elevation; feet feet; flat; following; frontier; gneiss; good; ground; half; heat; height; hills; himalaya; hot; hour; humidity; india; july; june; khasia; kinchinjhow; kinds; lachen; lachoong; lama; leaves; level; like; low; mean; men; miles; momay; month; mountains; near; nepal; night; noon; north; note; nov; number; observations; oct; october; p.m.; pass; people; place; plains; plants; point; radiation; rain; rajah; range; red; rise; river; road; rocks; sea; sikkim; snow; soil; south; species; sun; surface; teesta; temperature; tens; therm; thermometer; tibet; tibetan; time; trees; valley; vapour; vegetation; view; village; water; west; white; wild; wind; wood; zemu cache: 6477.txt plain text: 6477.txt item: #398 of 425 id: 6559 author: Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) title: Assyrian Historiography: A Source Study date: None words: 24043 flesch: 76 summary: Sargon_, II. 44; 1. 186 ff.; _ [Footnote: Scheil, _Annales de Tukulti Ninip_ II, 1909; cf. keywords: account; annals; ashur; assyrian; budge; date; document; edition; expedition; footnote; history; iii; inscriptions; king; reign; sargon; smith; source; tablet; winckler; year cache: 6559.txt plain text: 6559.txt item: #399 of 425 id: 6624 author: Parker, Edward Harper title: Ancient China Simplified date: None words: 111240 flesch: 47 summary: The two dots in a half-circle mark the spot whither Tsin summoned the Emperor to the durbar of 632 B.C. After this, Tsin obtained from the Emperor cession of the strip between the Yellow River and the Ts'in River (nothing to do with Ts'in state). In 513 B.C. two generals of the Tsin state carried their arms into the Luh-hun reservation (in modern Ho Nan province), whither, in 638 B.C., the Tartar tribe of that name had been brought to settle by agreement between the two Chinese powers whose territories (Ts'in and Tsin) ran with the Tartars; and then they drew upon Tsin state for four cwt. keywords: ancient; b.c; barbarian; book; brother; capital; century; chapter; china; chinese; chou; chou dynasty; chou emperor; clan; confucius; country; course; day; days; death; duke; dynasty; east; emperor; fact; family; founder; general; great; hia; history; imperial; king; lao; law; left; man; men; modern; muh; names; new; north; order; orthodox; orthodox china; people; period; place; power; prince; protector; province; river; ruler; ruling; second; shan; son; south; state; sung; system; tartar; time; ts'i; ts'u; tsin; tsz; tung; vassal; war; way; wei; west; yang; years; yellow; yen; yiieh cache: 6624.txt plain text: 6624.txt item: #400 of 425 id: 6687 author: Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) title: From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan date: None words: 96727 flesch: 71 summary: Sometimes it extinguishes the divine spark; at other times it only increases it, transforming it into a lighthouse which becomes man's lodestar for life. The mystical school of Yogis was established by Patanjali, the founder of one of the six philosophical systems of ancient India. keywords: animal; away; babu; body; bombay; brahmans; case; caves; centuries; chief; cobra; colonel; country; course; dark; day; dayanand; days; dead; death; earth; end; english; european; eyes; fact; family; feet; god; goddess; gods; great; gulab; hair; half; hand; head; help; hindu; human; india; kind; left; life; like; living; look; modern; moment; mountain; music; narayan; nature; new; people; place; present; rao; rest; right; river; rock; round; sea; second; secret; sham; shiva; sing; society; soul; stone; sun; takur; temple; thought; time; town; water; way; white; women; world; years cache: 6687.txt plain text: 6687.txt item: #401 of 425 id: 6708 author: Boulger, Demetrius Charles title: China date: None words: 191553 flesch: 56 summary: He retraced his steps to Pekin, fully resolved to become Chinese emperor in reality, but prepared to waive his rights as Mongol Khan. Before his time Chinese armies had been little better than a rude militia, and the military knowledge of the officers could only be described as contemptible. keywords: army; attack; authority; battle; campaign; canton; capital; capture; central; chief; china; chinese; chung; city; country; course; day; death; doubt; dynasty; emperor; empire; end; english; family; fleet; force; foreign; foreigners; french; frontier; garrison; gave; general; good; gordon; government; great; hands; history; hope; japanese; kanghi; keen; kublai; later; left; life; little; lord; loss; lung; major; manchu; military; minister; moment; mongols; nankin; northern; officers; officials; order; pekin; people; period; place; point; policy; position; power; prince; principal; province; question; rebels; relations; resistance; river; ruler; sir; son; state; struggle; success; taepings; terms; throne; time; town; trade; treaty; troops; wang; war; way; years cache: 6708.txt plain text: 6708.txt item: #402 of 425 id: 6867 author: Craig, Austin title: Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot date: None words: 63616 flesch: 57 summary: According to Spanish law Rizal was being illegally held on the Spanish mail steamer Colon, for the Constitution of Spain forbade detention except on a judge's order, but like most Spanish laws the Constitution was not much respected by Spanish officials. But profit, not pride, should be the object of the study of the past, and our historians of today very largely concern themselves with mistakes in policy and defects of system; fortunately for them such critical investigation under our changed conditions does not involve the discomfort and danger that attended it in the days of Doctor Rizal. keywords: american; biñan; book; british; brother; chinese; church; city; conditions; country; countrymen; dapitan; day; days; death; doctor rizal; education; england; english; exile; facsimile; family; father; filipinos; francisco; friends; general; good; government; governor; history; home; hongkong; house; influence; interest; islands; josé rizal; kalamba; land; later; law; life; los; manila; mercado; money; mother; mrs; new; order; original; people; philippines; photograph; place; present; priest; prisoner; public; rizal; school; sister; spain; spaniards; spanish; study; system; time; town; united; way; work; world; years; young cache: 6867.txt plain text: 6867.txt item: #403 of 425 id: 6885 author: Rizal, José title: The Indolence of the Filipino date: None words: 15910 flesch: 56 summary: Wherefore, Gaspar de San Agustin says: Although anciently there were in this town of Dumangas many people, in the course of time they have very greatly diminished because the natives are the best sailors and most skillful rowers on the whole coast, and so the governors in the port of Iloilo take most of the people from this town for the ships that they send abroad ............. Moreover, 'Why work?' asked many natives. keywords: chinese; climate; countries; country; evil; filipinos; gold; good; government; indolence; islands; labor; man; manila; morga; native; new; people; philippines; rizal; spaniards; spanish; time; trade; work; years cache: 6885.txt plain text: 6885.txt item: #404 of 425 id: 7001 author: Morga, Antonio de title: History of the Philippine Islands date: None words: 153292 flesch: 66 summary: Quite near this large island of Luzon, many other islands, large and small, are located; they are inhabited by the same natives as Luzon, who have gold placers, sowed fields, and their trading. From Sebu the conquest and settlement is extended to other islands, and the Spanish capital is finally moved to Manila. keywords: account; affairs; antonio de; artillery; audiencia; bay; belloso; camboja; camp; captain; chief; china; chinese; city; coast; country; dasmariñas; day; days; de morga; death; diego; don; dutch; enemy; españa; expedition; father; filipinas; filipinas islands; fleet; fort; francisco; fray; general; gold; good; government; governor; governor don; grace; houses; indians; inhabitants; islands; japanese; japon; joan; joan de; juan; king; kingdom; leave; left; leguas; luis; luzon; majesty; making; maluco; manila; matter; means; men; merchandise; mexico; mindanao; morga; natives; new; news; nueva; number; order; pay; pedro; pedro de; people; pesos; philippines; place; portuguese; present; province; provisions; religious; return; river; royal; sail; san; sangleys; sea; service; set; settlement; ships; soldiers; spaniards; spanish; things; time; trade; vessels; voyage; war; way; women; year cache: 7001.txt plain text: 7001.txt item: #405 of 425 id: 7111 author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title: The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1 date: None words: 83738 flesch: 70 summary: The Start--from El Muwaylah to the White Mountain and 'Aynunah Chapter III. Cruise from El'akabah to El Muwaylah--the Shipwreck Escaped--resume of the Northern Journey PART II The March Through Central and Eastern Midian. keywords: a.m.; ahmed; arabic; arabs; bank; bedawin; bey; blue; cairo; camels; camp; caravan; cent; chap; coast; copper; country; cut; dark; date; day; days; degrees; desert; east; eastern; egypt; egyptian; el-'akabah; expedition; fact; february; feet; find; fort; friend; gold; good; granite; green; ground; gulf; gypsum; half; hand; head; hill; hismá; hours; huwaytát; iron; jebel el; jibál el; land; left; lieutenant; line; long; ma'ázah; madyan; magháir; makná; man; march; metal; metres; midian; miles; modern; mohammed; mountain; muwaylah; new; north; north midian; northern; palm; place; present; quartz; red; return; right; rock; ruins; sand; sea; second; shaykh; shore; shows; shu'ayb; silver; sinai; south; southern; specimens; stone; suez; surface; time; tribe; ukbah; upper; valley; veins; wady el; wall; water; west; western; white; wind; work; yellow cache: 7111.txt plain text: 7111.txt item: #406 of 425 id: 7113 author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir title: The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 date: None words: 76382 flesch: 83 summary: Mean of nineteen aneroid observations at Jebel el-Abyaz = 29.13. And if thou seek the Jáddat Misr,[EN#80] then take from El-Marwah to El-Sukyá[EN#81] (?), and thence to Badá Ya'kúb,[EN#82] three marches; and thence to El-�Aúníd, one march. keywords: a.m.; air; aneroid; animals; april; arabs; badá; baliyy; bank; bedawin; black; blue; breeze; cabin; cairo; camels; caravan; chap; clear; clouds; coast; cold; cool; dark; day; days; dry; east; eastern; feb; feet; fine; fort; good; granite; great; green; ground; half; head; high; hills; hours; jan; jebel el; land; left; line; man; march; men; midian; miles; morning; mountains; muwaylah; near; night; noon; north; northern; p.m.; place; plain; quartz; rain; red; rock; ruins; sand; sea; set; shaykh; shore; shárr; sky; south; southern; specimens; stone; suez; sun; tent; time; umm el; valley; wady el; water; weather; west; west wind; white; wijh; wind; wind north; work cache: 7113.txt plain text: 7113.txt item: #407 of 425 id: 7320 author: Rodenbough, Theophilus F. (Theophilus Francis) title: Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute date: None words: 30204 flesch: 64 summary: [Native Contingents, Independent States of India, [2] about 349,831.] ================================================================== Army (E'r'p'n) (Native) ================================================================== Engineers Officers 436 Men [3] 232 3,109 Cavalry Officers 198 304 Men 4,086 18,071 Royal Horse Artillery Officers Men Royal Artillery Officers 453 19 Men 10,809 1,842 Infantry Officers 1,400 1,068 Men 44,106 102,648 ------- ------- Aggregate All Ranks 61,488 127,263 ================================================================= Grand Aggregate 188,751 ================================================================= [Footnote 2: Cashmere 27,000, Nepaul 100,000, Hyderabad 44,000.] All Ranks 122,345 44,503 108,462 11,441 209,365 ================================================================== Grand Aggregate 469,116 ================================================================== INDIA. keywords: = =; afghanistan; army; artillery; british; camels; cavalry; central; city; country; feet; field; footnote; force; general; great; guns; herat; horses; india; infantry; kabul; kandahar; khan; line; march; men; miles; military; mountain; native; officers; pass; river; road; route; russian; service; sir; time; town; transport; troops; valley; war cache: 7320.txt plain text: 7320.txt item: #408 of 425 id: 7474 author: Hogarth, D. G. (David George) title: The Ancient East date: None words: 45788 flesch: 54 summary: This contention will be considered hereafter, when we reach the date of the first known contact between Assyria and any people settled in western Asia Minor. These preliminaries at length completed, the Lydian gathered the levies of western Asia Minor and set out for the East. keywords: alexander; asia; asia minor; asiatic; assyrian; b.c; babylon; century; cilicia; cities; city; civilization; dynasty; east; eastern; egypt; empire; end; fact; greek; hatti; history; influence; king; lands; men; minor; north; persian; power; sea; section; semitic; south; southern; time; west; west asia; western; years cache: 7474.txt plain text: 7474.txt item: #409 of 425 id: 7489 author: Lumholtz, Carl title: Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 date: None words: 133462 flesch: 70 summary: If any one with the hope of possibly finding a new species of mammal should care to follow the matter up, Kelasin on the Upper Barito would not be an extremely difficult place to reach, with good men. During the night much fish was obtained even as far down the river as our kampong, and many men searched for it here, using as lamps petroleum in bamboo with a piece of cloth for a wick. keywords: account; afternoon; animal; antoh; bamboo; birds; blian; borneo; case; chapter; chief; children; country; customs; cut; day; dayaks; days; dead; dutch; eat; expedition; father; feast; fish; food; good; ground; half; head; home; hours; house; hunting; journey; jungle; kampong; kapala; katingan; kayan; kayan river; kenyahs; left; long; mahakam; making; malay; man; men; metres; morning; mother; natives; near; new; night; number; oma; order; penihings; penyahbongs; people; pig; place; prahus; rain; raja; rattan; return; rice; river; saputans; small; tent; time; tree; tribes; upper; utan; water; way; white; wife; women; work; years cache: 7489.txt plain text: 7489.txt item: #410 of 425 id: 7836 author: Dubnow, Simon title: Jewish History : An Essay in the Philosophy of History date: None words: 28416 flesch: 55 summary: I THE RANGE OF JEWISH HISTORY Historical and Unhistorical Peoples Three Groups of Nations The Most Historical People Extent of Jewish History II THE CONTENT OF JEWISH HISTORY Two Periods of Jewish History The Period of Independence The Election of the Jewish People Priests and Prophets The Babylonian Exile and the Scribes The Dispersion Jewish History and Universal History Jewish History Characterized III THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JEWISH HISTORY XII THE TEACHINGS OF JEWISH HISTORY Let us return now to the starting point of our discussion, and endeavor to establish the thoughts and lessons to be deduced from the course of Jewish history. keywords: activity; centuries; century; consciousness; culture; development; europe; feeling; german; god; history; israel; jewish; jewry; jews; judaism; law; life; literature; moral; national; nations; people; period; philosophy; point; principles; religion; spiritual; state; talmud; thought; time; universal; work; world cache: 7836.txt plain text: 7836.txt item: #411 of 425 id: 7936 author: Finnemore, John title: Peeps at Many Lands: Japan date: None words: 23194 flesch: 79 summary: Children are trained how to arrange blossoms and boughs so that the most beautiful effect may be gained, and in many Japanese houses may be found books which contain rules and diagrams intended to help them in gaining this power of skilful arrangement. A JAPANESE HOUSE OFFERING TEA TO A GUEST FIGHTING TOPS THE TOY SHOP A BUDDHIST SHRINE PEACH TREES IN BLOSSOM THE FEAST OF FLAGS THE TORII OF THE TEMPLE keywords: boy; boys; chapter; children; country; day; feast; feet; girl; home; house; japanese; kite; land; man; paper; people; rice; room; servants; set; taro; tea; temple; time; way; white cache: 7936.txt plain text: 7936.txt item: #412 of 425 id: 7951 author: Tagore, Rabindranath title: Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore date: None words: 24765 flesch: 78 summary: It had become quite dark, the thunder was continually pealing, the lightning gleaming flash after flash, and every now and then sudden gusts of wind would get hold of the big _lichi_ tree by the neck and give its shaggy top a thorough shaking. The flow of village life is not too rapid, neither is it stagnant. keywords: bank; boat; children; clouds; day; earth; evening; fields; footnote; head; joy; know; left; life; love; man; men; mind; morning; nature; night; river; shelidah; sky; sun; thing; time; village; water; way; work; world cache: 7951.txt plain text: 7951.txt item: #413 of 425 id: 8128 author: Hearn, Lafcadio title: In Ghostly Japan date: None words: 37619 flesch: 75 summary: But the commercial and industrial questions relating to Japanese incense represent the least interesting part of a remarkably curious subject. 4 In ancient Japanese time, the Hour of the Ox was the special hour of ghosts. keywords: buddha; buddhist; chinese; day; dead; death; fear; form; hour; house; incense; japanese; karma; kind; life; love; man; men; night; pain; people; person; place; power; priest; proverb; robe; sea; shinzaburo; story; strange; temple; things; thought; time; tomozo; tsuyu; voice; water; way; wife; wish; woman; world; years; yone cache: 8128.txt plain text: 8128.txt item: #414 of 425 id: 8130 author: Hearn, Lafcadio title: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series date: None words: 99023 flesch: 73 summary: [17] In the court you will find many ancient little foxes with noses, heads, or tails broken, two great Karashishi before which straw sandals (waraji) have been suspended as votive offerings by somebody with sore feet who has prayed to the Karashishi-Sama that they will heal his affliction, and a shrine of Kojin, occupied by the corpses of many children's dolls. There are little kittens of mother-of-pearl, and little foxes of mother-of-pearl, and little puppies of mother-of-pearl, and girls' hair-combs, and cigarette-holders, and pipes too beautiful to use. keywords: akira; away; bamboo; black; blue; buddha; buddhist; characters; children; chinese; city; court; day; dead; deity; end; eyes; face; family; feet; fire; foot; fox; foxes; gate; gods; good; great; green; hands; head; house; images; inari; izumo; japanese; jizo; kami; kitzuki; kwannon; land; lanterns; left; life; look; lotus; love; man; matsue; men; mother; night; open; paper; people; place; prayer; priest; rice; sacred; sama; san; sea; sec; shinto; shrine; souls; sound; steps; stone; street; sun; temple; things; time; torii; trees; water; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 8130.txt plain text: 8130.txt item: #415 of 425 id: 8133 author: Hearn, Lafcadio title: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series date: None words: 101487 flesch: 73 summary: Little Japanese girls who play with insects or small animals rarely hurt them, and generally set them free after they have afforded a reasonable amount of amusement. Of these, the enoki (Celtis Willdenowiana) and the yanagi (drooping willow) are deemed especially ghostly, and are rarely now to be found in old Japanese gardens. keywords: art; blue; body; boy; buddhist; character; children; chinese; city; class; country; day; days; dead; death; duty; emperor; english; eyes; face; family; feet; fire; form; garden; girl; gods; good; green; hair; hand; head; heart; home; house; household; izumo; japanese; kinjuro; land; life; look; love; man; master; matsue; men; miya; night; oki; order; paper; people; place; public; rice; room; sacred; sake; samurai; saw; school; sea; sec; shinto; shrine; smile; souls; sound; stone; story; students; teacher; temple; things; thought; time; tree; voice; water; way; western; white; wife; woman; words; years cache: 8133.txt plain text: 8133.txt item: #416 of 425 id: 8428 author: Forbes, Archibald title: The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 date: None words: 89647 flesch: 59 summary: The advance of British forces beyond Bamian to Syghan and Bajgah, induced that Sirdar to commit himself and the ladies to British protection. It could not seriously be maintained that he was secure in power, or that the independence and integrity of Afghanistan were established when British troops were holding Candahar, Ghuznee and Cabul, the only three positions where the Shah was nominally paramount, when the fugitive Dost was still within its borders, when intrigue and disaffection were seething in every valley and on every hill-side, and when the principality of Herat maintained a contemptuous independence. keywords: abdurrahman; advance; afghan; afghanistan; akbar; ali; ameer; army; artillery; attack; baker; balla; brigade; british; cabul; cabul force; camp; candahar; cantonments; captain; cavalry; chiefs; column; command; country; day; dost; enemy; envoy; fire; force; fort; garrison; general; government; guns; heights; hill; hissar; india; infantry; jellalabad; khan; left; little; lord; macnaghten; mahomed; march; men; morning; officers; pass; people; pollock; position; right; roberts; sale; shah; shah soojah; sherpur; sir; soldiers; soojah; time; troops; valley; village cache: 8428.txt plain text: 8428.txt item: #417 of 425 id: 8678 author: Leonowens, Anna Harriette title: The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok date: None words: 96658 flesch: 64 summary: And the fame of his wisdom and goodness flew through all the lands, so that many kings became willing vassals unto him; but there came from a far-off country, where the heavens drop no rain, but where one great river suddenly floods the plains and then shrinks back into itself like a living thing, a king of lofty stature and exceeding craft. The sad look left her face, her life had found an interest; and very often, on _fête_ days, she was my only pupil;--when suddenly an ominous cloud obscured the sky of her transient gladness. keywords: arms; bangkok; beauty; body; boy; brother; buddha; buddhist; children; chow; city; country; court; day; death; end; english; european; eyes; face; family; father; feet; flowers; footnote; foreign; form; god; gold; good; government; half; hands; harem; head; heart; home; house; king; land; late; left; life; like; love; maha; majesty; man; mind; minister; mongkut; morning; mother; native; new; night; p'hra; palace; people; phya; premier; presence; present; priests; prime; prince; princess; queen; river; royal; sacred; school; second; siam; siamese; silver; slaves; son; spirit; stone; supreme; temple; thou; throne; time; truth; water; watt; way; white; women; work; world; years; young cache: 8678.txt plain text: 8678.txt item: #418 of 425 id: 8860 author: Russell, Michael title: Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time date: None words: 122825 flesch: 59 summary: Thus, to use the words of the historian, after four days had been consumed by the miserable inhabitants, in weeping over and embracing the Holy Sepulchre and other sacred places, the Latins left the city and passed through the enemy's camp. At Jerusalem, Shechem, and other places to the northward of the capital, not more than two or three of them are ever seen together; and even these, as their fruit rarely comes to maturity, are of no farther service than, like the palm-tree of Deborah, to shade the council of the sheiks, or to supply the branches, which, as in ancient days, may still be required for religious processions.[206] The _olive_ keywords: arms; body; capital; character; children; christian; church; cities; city; clarke; country; cross; david; day; days; dead; death; description; desert; earth; east; egypt; europe; faith; feet; form; general; god; good; government; ground; half; hand; head; hebrew; hill; history; holy; house; inhabitants; israel; jerusalem; jews; jordan; judah; judea; king; lake; land; law; length; life; lord; man; men; moses; mount; mountains; nations; north; number; order; palestine; parts; people; period; place; plain; possession; power; present; prophet; regard; religion; remains; return; rock; ruins; sacred; sea; sepulchre; son; south; spirit; stone; syria; temple; thou; time; town; traveller; travels; tribes; valley; view; village; vol; walls; war; water; way; years cache: 8860.txt plain text: 8860.txt item: #419 of 425 id: 8882 author: Hearn, Lafcadio title: Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life date: None words: 75086 flesch: 69 summary: But while it remains impossible for the man of the West to discern the true color of Japanese life, either intellectual or emotional (since the one is woven into the other), it is equally impossible for him to escape the conviction that, compared with his own, it is very small. In mere dimension it is largely exceeded by other Japanese buildings of cheaper construction; but anybody familiar with the Buddhist temple architecture of Japan can readily perceive the difficulty of building a temple one hundred and, twenty-seven feet high, one hundred and ninety-two feet deep, and more than two hundred feet long. keywords: beauty; boy; buddhist; character; child; children; chinese; country; day; days; dead; death; doctrine; duty; east; english; evil; existence; face; fact; faith; father; feeling; forms; gods; good; great; hand; heart; house; human; husband; idea; japanese; kimiko; knowledge; law; left; letter; life; love; man; men; mother; new; night; past; people; place; power; race; reason; return; science; self; sense; shinto; shuntoku; soul; story; temple; things; thought; time; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 8882.txt plain text: 8882.txt item: #420 of 425 id: 8884 author: Burckhardt, John Lewis title: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land date: None words: 235494 flesch: 69 summary: Proceeding a little farther, we came to the high borders of a broad valley, called El Ghoeyr (Arabic), (diminutive of Arabic El Ghor) to the S. of Wady Dhana. [p.149]direction came in an hour and a half to the Christian village Kefrbehoun Arabic]; and in two hours, to a hillock in the plain called Tel Afyoun [Arabic], i.e. the opium-hill, with an ancient well. keywords: akaba; aleppo; arabic; arabs; arabs el; bedouins; breadth; bridge; building; cairo; camels; castle; chain; chief; christians; church; city; close; columns; convent; country; damascus; date; day; days; deir; deir el; desert; direction; distance; distant; district; djebel; djebel el; door; druses; eastern; egypt; el sheikh; emir; encampment; end; entrance; evening; families; family; farther; feet; fine; following; foot; gate; great; greek; ground; guide; hadj; half; haouran; having; high; hill; hours; house; inhabitants; inscriptions; journey; kerek; lake; ledja; left; length; man; men; miles; monks; morning; mountain; near; neighbourhood; north; northern; number; order; paces; parts; pasha; peninsula; people; piastres; place; plain; point; present; principal; quarter; red; remains; return; right; river; rivulet; road; rock; route; ruins; sea; sheikh; shore; sides; sinai; south; spot; spring; square; stands; stone; suez; summer; summit; syria; tel; temple; time; town; trees; tribe; turks; upper; valley; valley el; village; village el; visit; wady el; wall; water; way; wells; west; western; winter; years cache: 8884.txt plain text: 8884.txt item: #421 of 425 id: 889 author: Der Ling, Princess title: Two Years in the Forbidden City date: None words: 92920 flesch: 81 summary: Whenever Her Majesty gives an order it is considered an Imperial Edict or command and all servants are required to kneel when any command is transmitted to them the same as they would if in Her Majesty's presence, Then they told us to follow them and we went through another left gate to another courtyard laid out exactly the same as the former, except that the Ren Shou Dien (audience hall) is situated on the north side and the other buildings were a little larger. In a little while two servant girls came and waited on us and told us that Her Majesty was dressing and that we were to wait a little time. keywords: audience; carl; chair; china; chinese; course; court; court ladies; day; days; emperor; empress; eunuchs; father; foreign; good; hall; head; kind; ladies; lady; look; majesty; miss; moon; morning; mrs; order; palace; people; portrait; rest; right; room; things; thought; time; way; work cache: 889.txt plain text: 889.txt item: #422 of 425 id: 9404 author: Churchill, Winston title: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War date: None words: 87463 flesch: 73 summary: He therefore collected as many men as possible, and with Lieutenant Maclean, and Lord Fincastle, the Times correspondent, rode in the direction of these points. It was proved, however, that 200 corpses were buried on the following day in the neighbourhood, and large numbers of wounded men were reported to have been carried through the various villages. keywords: action; attack; battery; bengal; bindon; blood; brigade; brigadier; british; camp; captain; cavalry; chakdara; chapter; colonel; company; country; day; enemy; field; fighting; fire; firing; force; fort; frontier; garrison; general; government; ground; guides; guns; hills; india; infantry; lancers; left; lieutenant; line; major; malakand; man; men; miles; mountain; native; night; officers; pass; people; position; punjaub; regiment; rifles; road; sikhs; sir; soldiers; swat; time; tribesmen; troops; valley; village; war; way; wounded cache: 9404.txt plain text: 9404.txt item: #423 of 425 id: 9457 author: Burckhardt, John Lewis title: Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred date: None words: 182756 flesch: 63 summary: �What shall I do,� he replied, �to make you true believers?� �Let the sun retire,� said they, �and the moon and stars appear; let the moon descend upon earth, come to this mountain, enter into one of the sleeves of your gown, issue by the other, return to the firmament, and then let day-light shine again upon us. They are fully conscious of the scandal of these vices: every delyl exclaims against the corruption of manners, but none set an example of reformation; and while acting constantly on principles quite opposite to those which they profess, they unanimously declare that times are such, as to justify the saying, �In el Haram fi belád el Harameyn,� �that the cities forbidden to infidels abound with forbidden things. keywords: a.h; aly; arabia; arabs; arafat; bab; bedouins; beni; building; cairo; camels; caravan; chief; close; coffee; constantinople; country; date; day; days; desert; djebel; djidda; dollars; east; eastern; egypt; egyptian; feet; fine; general; ghaleb; good; government; great; ground; hadj; hadjys; half; hedjaz; holy; hours; houses; ibn; inhabitants; journey; kaaba; kadhy; left; man; market; medina; mekka; mekkawys; merchants; mohammed; money; mosque; mountains; near; nedjed; night; north; number; parts; pasha; people; persons; pilgrimage; pilgrims; place; plain; poor; prayers; present; principal; provisions; public; return; road; route; sea; sherif; shops; sides; soldiers; south; spot; stands; stone; street; sultan; syria; tayf; time; tomb; town; trade; trees; tribe; turkish; valley; visit; wady; wahabys; wall; water; way; wells; women; year; yembo; yemen cache: 9457.txt plain text: 9457.txt item: #424 of 425 id: 9793 author: Bentwich, Norman title: Josephus date: None words: 65830 flesch: 61 summary: He was not a loyal general, and he was not a faithful chronicler of the struggle with Rome; but he had the merit of writing a number of books on the Jews and Judaism, which not only met the desire for knowledge of his nation in his own day, but which have been preserved through the ages and still remain one of the chief authorities for Jewish history. The compiler brings together all that he could find, in Jewish and Gentile sources, about Jewish history from the time of the Babylonian captivity to the outbreak of the war against Rome. keywords: account; agrippa; ant; antiquities; authority; bible; book; century; city; comp; day; death; end; events; footnote; general; god; greek; hebrew; herod; historian; history; jerusalem; jewish; jews; josephus; judaism; king; law; laws; life; men; narrative; national; order; people; period; philo; place; power; priests; reign; roman; rome; second; struggle; temple; time; titus; vespasian; wars; way; work; years; zealots cache: 9793.txt plain text: 9793.txt item: #425 of 425 id: 9991 author: Van Loon, Hendrik Willem title: Ancient Man: The Beginning of Civilizations date: None words: 27064 flesch: 79 summary: In ancient Egypt, every village recognized the authority of the Village-Elders, who were old men and possessed greater experience than the young ones. Suddenly, however, other people in a different part of the world entered the race. keywords: asia; b.c; city; country; desert; egypt; egyptian; good; great; home; illustration; jews; king; land; life; man; men; mesopotamia; new; nile; people; race; stone; time; valley; way; world; years cache: 9991.txt plain text: 9991.txt