item: #1 of 9 id: 15685 author: Dampier, William title: A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699 date: None words: 45680 flesch: 80 summary: We passed by many small islands and among many dangerous shoals without any remarkable occurrence till the 4th of February, when we got within 3 leagues of the north-west cape of New Guinea, called by the Dutch Cape Mabo. Small islands. keywords: bay; boat; cape; dutch; east; fathom; good; guinea; island; leagues; men; morning; night; north; point; sea; ship; shore; south; time; timor; trees; water; west; wind cache: 15685.txt plain text: 15685.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 19765 author: Laut, Agnes C. title: Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward date: None words: 91640 flesch: 74 summary: He had been a dreamer from the time he was born in Groton, opposite New London, Connecticut--the kind of a dreamer whose moonshine lights the path of other men to success; but his wildest dreams never dared the bigness of an empire many times greater than the original states of the Union. Friends thought he should be well satisfied when he was sent to live with his grandfather at Hartford and apprenticed to the law; but John Ledyard hated the pettifogging of the law, hated roofed-over, walled-in life, wanted the kind of life where men do things, not just dicker, and philosophize, and compromise over the fag-ends of things other men have done. keywords: america; asia; baranof; bay; benyowsky; bering; boat; cape; captain; coast; columbia; commander; company; cook; cossacks; crew; day; death; discovery; drake; east; england; english; expedition; feet; fort; fur; gold; gray; great; half; harbor; hunters; hunting; indians; island; kamchatka; ledyard; life; man; men; miles; new; night; nootka; north; oonalaska; otter; pacific; pacific coast; passage; peter; river; round; russian; sailors; savages; sea; seas; second; set; ship; shore; siberia; sitka; south; spain; spanish; straits; tide; time; traders; vancouver; vessel; voyage; water; way; west; white; wind; world; years cache: 19765.txt plain text: 19765.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 23271 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Sunk at Sea date: None words: 26699 flesch: 76 summary: That's the way these fellows set the natives against white men. There is a fallacy into which men and women of mature years are apt to fall--namely, that the cares and sorrows of the young are light. keywords: boat; captain; cupples; dall; good; hand; head; island; larry; left; little; man; men; muggins; natives; night; o'hale; osten; savages; sea; ship; time; village; water; way cache: 23271.txt plain text: 23271.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 23384 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader date: None words: 101846 flesch: 78 summary: Few men would have ventured to disobey the command given by such a man, but John Bumpus was one of those few. He is a giant, my boy; few men could hope to overcome him. keywords: alice; boat; boy; bumpus; captain; corrie; course; deep; dick; face; foam; gascoyne; good; hand; head; henry; island; john; know; left; life; like; long; look; man; mason; men; moment; montague; night; ole; pirate; place; point; poopy; poor; round; savage; schooner; sea; stuart; talisman; tell; thorwald; time; vessel; voice; water; way; widow cache: 23384.txt plain text: 23384.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 29667 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: Adrift on the Pacific: A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils date: None words: 63814 flesch: 76 summary: Captain Bergen attempted to rise, but Redvignez and Brazzier were upon him, and the knife of the latter was upraised with the purpose of ending the matter then and there forever, when the cry of the child was heard the second time, and little Inez sprang, like Pocahontas, between the uplifted arm and the intended victim. Abe Storms and Captain Bergen saw that among the possibilities of the future was a long stay on the lonely island, and they therefore prepared for such a contingency, having an eye mainly to securing that which little Inez would be likely to need. keywords: 12mo; abe; boy; boys; brazzier; captain; captain bergen; cloth; coral; course; day; eyes; fred; good; hand; hawthorne; inez; island; life; little; man; mate; mate storms; men; new; pearls; place; pomp; price; proa; sail; sanders; saw; schooner; sea; sight; steamer; storms; story; time; water; way; years cache: 29667.txt plain text: 29667.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 40305 author: Fox, Frank title: Problems of the Pacific date: None words: 72752 flesch: 60 summary: The Imperialist tendency of United States policy is shown with particular clarity in the history of the Pacific Ocean. The Dominions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (I include Canada because all the indications are that she will now fall into line with the other Pacific British nations), paying so much to the piper, will want to call the tune: and whereas British diplomacy with the United States is to-day a shade too deferential, Australasian and Canadian diplomacy possibly will fall into the other error. keywords: american; army; asiatic; australia; britain; british; british pacific; canada; canal; century; china; chinese; civilisation; country; day; defence; empire; european; fleet; force; future; government; great; imperial; india; japan; japanese; labour; latin; life; man; men; military; nation; national; naval; new; new zealand; ocean; pacific; people; policy; population; position; power; present; race; republic; russia; south; south pacific; strength; territory; time; trade; treaty; united states; war; white; world; years; zealand cache: 40305.txt plain text: 40305.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 41716 author: Greenbie, Sydney title: The Pacific Triangle date: None words: 132245 flesch: 72 summary: And so I did, as did other white men who arrived, without being stopped. Stevenson he dismissed with, Well, you know, after all he was just like other men. keywords: air; america; asia; australia; britain; british; children; china; chinese; city; civilization; consortium; country; course; day; days; earth; east; england; english; europe; european; eyes; face; fact; feet; fijian; foreign; good; government; group; half; hand; hawaii; hawaiian; head; heart; home; honolulu; human; illustration; island; japan; japanese; korea; labor; left; life; man; manner; matter; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; nation; native; nature; new; new zealand; night; open; oriental; pacific; people; place; point; primitive; problem; race; real; river; room; round; samoa; sea; seas; self; seq; set; ship; south; spirit; street; sun; sydney; things; thought; time; tropics; village; war; water; way; white; wife; women; work; world; years; young; zealand cache: 41716.txt plain text: 41716.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 4222 author: Scott, Ernest, Sir title: Laperouse date: None words: 22318 flesch: 68 summary: It is called Louis XVI giving instructions to Monsieur de Laperouse for his voyage around the world. King relates that they were received with the greatest politeness and attention by Monsieur de Laperouse and his officers. keywords: bay; botany; british; captain; cook; day; english; expedition; france; french; great; history; islands; king; laperouse; louis; love; man; men; natives; new; pacific; people; sea; ships; south; time; voyage; way; years cache: 4222.txt plain text: 4222.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 42901 author: Leinster, Murray title: Creatures of the Abyss date: None words: 50542 flesch: 88 summary: Terry swung the sound-beam. Terry flung the lightbeam in that direction. keywords: boat; course; crew; davis; deck; deep; deirdre; esperance; fish; foam; horta; island; lagoon; manila; men; miles; morton; nick; noise; object; people; place; recorder; right; rubia; sea; ship; sound; surface; terry; things; time; underwater; water; way; yacht cache: 42901.txt plain text: 42901.txt