item: #1 of 6 id: 21238 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Castaways date: None words: 49235 flesch: 73 summary: He took with him a stalk of bamboo, pointed at one end, to be used as a probe in the soft bottom in case any oysters might be lying _perdu_ beneath the sand. It is albumen, gluten, and other substances combined, all existing in the udder, in the egg-shell, in the seed, root, or fruit; from which springs the progeny, whether it be man or beast, flying bird or swimming fish, creeping reptile or fast-rooted forest tree. keywords: able; account; air; alarm; animal; ape; appearance; archipelago; arms; attack; attitude; bamboo; bank; beak; best; better; big; bird; blood; blow; boat; body; bornean; borneo; boy; branches; breast; breeze; cappen; captain; captain redwood; carpenter; case; castaways; celebes; certain; chance; chapter; child; children; clear; close; coast; cock; colour; coming; commenced; common; companions; course; creature; cries; crocodile; crushed; cry; danger; dangerous; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; depths; despair; determined; different; difficulty; direction; distance; doubt; dry; durion; ears; earth; eastern; edge; effect; effort; eggs; end; enemy; escape; eyes; fact; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fire; fish; flock; following; food; foot; forest; form; fowl; fresh; fruit; gavial; girl; glance; god; good; gorilla; grand; great; ground; gun; habits; hair; half; hand; head; heart; height; helen; henry; hideous; high; hold; hope; hornbill; horrid; hours; huge; human; inches; indian; instant; intended; irishman; islands; jaws; journey; keeping; kind; ladder; lagoon; lake; land; large; leaves; led; left; length; level; life; like; limbs; lips; little; living; long; longer; look; making; malay; malayan; man; meal; mias; miles; mind; moment; monster; morning; mountain; movement; murtagh; musket; native; natural; nature; near; need; nest; new; note; oars; object; ocean; old; open; outang; oyster; party; people; perils; piece; pinnace; place; plain; point; pointed; poison; position; possible; purpose; question; quick; reach; ready; redwood; reptile; rescue; return; rifle; rose; running; safe; sailor; saloo; sand; saurian; scarce; scene; sea; search; seats; second; seeing; set; shadow; shape; sharp; shell; ship; shore; shot; sight; singapore; single; singular; sister; size; skin; skull; sky; smooth; sound; species; spectacle; spectators; spot; stems; straight; strange; stream; strength; strong; sudden; suffering; sufficient; sun; supply; sure; surface; swimmer; tall; tarpaulin; teeth; tell; tender; terrible; thick; thing; thirst; thought; time; torn; travellers; tree; tropical; true; trunk; underneath; upas; upright; upward; victim; view; voice; water; way; white; wild; wind; words; yards; young cache: 21238.txt plain text: 21238.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 21915 author: Cook, James title: Directions for Navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland, with a Chart Thereof, Including the Islands of St. Peter's and Miquelon And a Particular Account of the Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place, the Setting of the Currents, and Flowing of the Tides, &c., from an Actual Survey, Taken by Order of Commodore Pallisser, Governor of Newfoundland, Labradore, &c. date: None words: 8905 flesch: 80 summary: by W. a quarter W. two Leagues and a half from St. _Jaques_ Island, NNE. This Harbour, wherein is 6 Fathom Water, lies near 2 Miles to the E. ward of _Long Island Harbour_, is also in _Long-Island_; it will only admit very small Vessels, by reason the Channel going in is very narrow. keywords: anchor; anchorage; bay; cape; cove; east; end; fathom; fortune; good; great; half; harbour; head; high; island; leagues; lies; little; long; low; miles; near; north; passage; place; point; quarter; rocks; s.w; shore; sidenote; small; south; sunken; vessels; water; west; westward; winds cache: 21915.txt plain text: 21915.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 27101 author: Rochelle, James Henry title: Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker date: None words: 25099 flesch: 63 summary: On her return to Norfolk harbor, the _Virginia_ was accompanied by the _Patrick Henry_ and the other vessels of the Confederate squadron. He was at first assigned by the Governor to the defense of James river, but in a short time was ordered to assume command of the steamer _Patrick Henry_. keywords: action; admiral; amazon; amazon river; army; atlantic; attack; bank; battalion; batteries; battle; best; bluff; board; boca; borja; brazilian; cada; canoes; captain; channel; charleston; chart; chicora; city; clads; coast; command; commander; commanding; commission; confederate; confederate squadron; confluence; country; course; crew; current; day; del; depth; desde; dibujado; difficulty; distance; distant; dos; drewry; duty; east; elevation; enemy; escala; evacuation; expedition; federal; feet; fire; flag; following; force; frigate; general; good; government; great; greenwich; gunboats; guns; hampton; harbor; hasta; head; henry; high; home; hour; huallaga; huallaga river; hydrographical; inch; iquitos; iron; island; james river; jamestown; john; latitude; left; level; lieutenant; life; lima; longitude; los; magnetic; miles; millas; monitor; months; mouth; naval; navigation; navy; near; new; newport; news; night; norfolk; north; officer; old; order; pachitea; pachitea river; patrick; patrick henry; peruvian; pichis; pichis river; place; plano; point; por; port; position; present; president; pulgada; que; randolph; rear; republic; richmond; rio; river; river squadron; roads; rochelle; route; san; scale; sea; service; sheet; ship; shot; small; sobre; source; squadron; states; steamer; tambo; thermometer; time; tributaries; tucker; ucayali; ucayali river; una; united; upper; upper amazon; urubamba; variation; vessels; virginia; war; washington; water; way; west; width; wooden; yards; yavari; yavari river; years; york; yurimaguas cache: 27101.txt plain text: 27101.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 27642 author: Draper, Ernest Gallaudet title: Lectures in Navigation date: None words: 45033 flesch: 81 summary: | | | 189. | 149.1 | =========================================================== Lat. left. Dep. | D. Lo. ----------------------------------------------- N40° E | 138.5 | 106.1 | 89 | 105 =============================================== Lat. keywords: 18s; 1st; = =; = g.m.t; a.m.; accurate; almanac; altitude; angle; angular; apparent; apparent time; arc; assign; astronomical; azimuth; bearing; body; book; bowditch; card; case; celestial; center; change; chart; chronometer; circle; column; compass; compass course; correct; correction; corresponding; course; current; d.r; day; dead; declination; degrees; departure; deviation; diagram; difference; distance; earth; east; equator; error; examples; fast; fix; following; formula; glass; good; greater; greenwich; hilaire; horizon; hour; illustration; information; instance; interval; jan; june; knots; known; l.a.t; l.s.t; latitude; lecture; left; length; like; limb; line; local; log; longitude; magnetism; marc; marked; mean; mean time; mercator; meridian; meridian altitude; method; miles; minutes; morning; nautical; navigation; necessary; needle; new; noon; north; note; number; object; observation; observed; old; opposite; p.m.; p.s.c; page; parallel; pelorus; place; point; polaris; pole; position; possible; probable; proper; r.a; reading; reckoning; registered; remember; required; result; run; sailing; sea; seconds; secured; set; sextant; ship; sidereal; sight; slow; south; speed; sphere; star; subtract; sun; sun time; surface; table; time; true; true course; use; variation; watch; watch time; way; week; west; words; work; zenith; | |; ° e; ° w; ° | cache: 27642.txt plain text: 27642.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 4506 author: De Mille, James title: Lost in the Fog date: None words: 73454 flesch: 87 summary: Hal-lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o! To which there came up in answer a cry that sounded like-- Hi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i! Solomo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-on! He-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ey! Is that yo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ou? It's me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e! Where are y-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ou? He-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-re! Come u-u-u-u-u-u-u-up! Ca-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-n't! Why no-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ot? Too hi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-gh! Go round the pi-i-i-i-i-i-nt! Too high ti-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-de! Wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-it! All ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght! Captain Corbet now sprang up as nimbly as a young lad, and looked at Phil and Pat with an expression of such exceeding triumph, that his face seemed fairly to shine. At last Captain Corbet shouted out,-- The boat's lost. keywords: able; agin; air; anchor; answer; antelope; anxious; appearance; arthur; attention; away; bad; bank; bart; bay; beach; beat; bed; bein; ben; beneath; best; better; biscuit; bit; black; blue; board; boat; bows; box; boys; breakfast; bright; broad; bruce; burst; calm; camp; canvas; cape; captain; captain corbet; care; carry; case; certain; chance; circumstances; clams; clear; cliff; close; coast; corbet; course; cry; current; dark; darkness; dat; day; days; deck; deep; despair; determined; different; difficulty; direction; distance; doctor; drift; drifted; drifting; dry; ears; east; edge; effect; efforts; end; entrance; escape; evening; excitement; eyes; face; fact; far; farther; feel; feeling; feet; fire; fish; flag; float; fog; following; foot; fresh; friends; fundy; fur; fust; git; gloom; goin; gone; good; grand; great; ground; gulls; gum; half; hand; hard; hat; haute; head; heart; heavy; height; help; hev; high; hold; home; hope; horn; hours; house; hurried; idea; island; jack; jest; john; joy; kind; kine; know; large; late; leetle; left; length; let; life; likely; line; little; lobsters; lofty; long; long time; longer; look; lost; low; lower; man; matter; means; midnight; midst; mighty; miles; minas; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mrs; mud; near; nearer; necessary; new; night; nova; number; o'clock; officer; old; ole; ony; opposite; outline; outside; passing; past; pat; petitcodiac; petticoat; phil; piece; place; plan; point; pole; poor; pooty; position; possible; presence; present; progress; purpose; quaco; quarter; question; rate; ready; repast; rest; result; river; rocks; rope; rough; run; sail; satisfaction; saw; scarce; scene; schooner; scotia; scott; sea; search; secure; set; ship; shore; sides; signal; signs; silence; sir; situation; sky; sleep; solomon; sort; sound; spite; spot; staff; stay; steamer; stern; storm; straight; strong; sufficient; sun; supply; sure; surf; surface; tell; thar; thick; thing; thought; tide; time; tom; tone; trees; true; try; turn; use; vessel; view; visible; voice; voyage; wait; wal; walk; want; water; watson; waves; way; weather; whar; wind; wood; words; work; yards; yell; young cache: 4506.txt plain text: 4506.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 56347 author: Smith, John title: The General Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (Vol. I) Together with the True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar date: None words: 141076 flesch: 76 summary: Towards the charge, because it is for the generall good, and what by the massacre and other accidents, Virginia is disparaged, and many men and their purses much discouraged, how ever a great many doe hasten to goe, thinking to bee next heires to all the former losses, I feare they will not finde all things as they doe imagine; therefore leaving those gilded conceits, and dive into the true estate of the Colony; I thinke if his Majestie were truly informed of their necessitie, and the benefit of this project, he would be pleased to give the custome of Virginia, and the Planters also according to their abilities would adde thereto such a contribution, as would be fit to maintaine this garison till they be able to subsist, or cause some such other collections to be made, as may put it with all expedition in practice; otherwise it is much to be doubted, there will neither come custome, nor any thing from thence to England within these few yeares. He swore also certaine of the chiefe men of every tribe to bee Bailiffes thereof; and appointed as many men as hee was able for all supplied shares. keywords: a.d; able; aboord; abundance; accidents; acquaintance; acquainted; actions; admirall; adoe; advantage; adventurers; advice; againe; agoe; alwaies; amazed; amber; ambuscadoes; america; anas; anchor; ancient; answer; anthony; apparell; aprill; argall; armes; arrivall; arrowes; ashes; assault; assises; august; authoritie; away; ayre; backe; bad; barbarous; barkes; baskets; bay; beads; beasts; bed; bee; beginning; behinde; beleeve; bermudas; best; better; betweene; betwixt; bin; birds; blew; bloud; boat; bodies; body; bold; booke; bowes; boy; braines; brave; bread; breadth; breake; bring; brother; building; burne; bushels; businesse; butler; canowes; captaine; captaine john; captaine newport; captaine smith; care; castle; cattell; cause; cedar; certaine; charge; charles; chawonock; chickahamania; chiefe; childe; children; chosen; christian; 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