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  2. TETE-A-TETE WITH A SHARK.

    The adventure I am about to relate happened to me many years ago, when I was about as happy a youngster as could be found in Her Majesty's service. The West ...

    Article : 1,023 words
  3. THE RECOVERY OF FROM JUAN FERNANDEZ.

    It was when Dampier sailed as pilot to Woodes Rogers that Alexander Selkirk was recovered from the island of Juan Fernandes. The account of his recovery is chiefly given ...

    Article : 851 words
  4. EXTREMES OR HUMANITY.

    It has always been a matter for discussion whether there ever existed, or still exist, any nations who may absolutely come under the terms of giants and dwarfs. In many ancient ...

    Article : 2,697 words
  5. A PROPOSAL BY PHONOGRAPH.

    Tom Douglas was young, good-looking, and would some day be well-to-do; but above all things be was scientific. His passion for science first became noticeable ...

    Article : 2,049 words
  6. A LION HUNTER.

    Mr. F. C. Selous attended a recent meeting in Cape Town for the purpose of describing the journey he made last year to the country of the Mashukulumbwe, a tribe of savages ...

    Article : 1,121 words
  7. WORSE THAN THE STAKE.

    We had camped down on the plains of Texas one noon to boil a cup of coffee and get a bite to eat, and while Private Malony was getting the coffee ready three or four of ...

    Article : 920 words
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  9. COSSACK AND SEPOY.

    One of the most interesting features in the approach of Cossack and Sepoy towards each other is the extensive planting of trees that is being carried on by the engineering branches ...

    Article : 474 words
  10. SOLITUDE.

    When active life is left so far behind, Its very echo fades away and dies Into the common stillness which o'erlies Sweet Nature's haunts, where rippling waters ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. A CHILD'S MIND.

    In the last volume of the "Education Series" on "The Development of the Intellect," Mr. H. W. Brown has presented (says the Scientific American) a conspectus of the observations of ...

    Article : 344 words
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