Excerpts from the Book 'Little Masterpieces Of Science Explorers':

... the excitement of hourly adventure it is another thing to stay there for a lifetime and convert it to a home. The race of American explorers is not ...
... fear which, the Historie tells us, the sailors experienced when they found their ships among these floating masses of weeds, raising apprehension ...
... the green cross, which bore the initials of the sovereign with a cross between, a crown surmounting every letter. Thus, with the emblems of their power, ...
... called Cat Island.. The weight of modern testimony seems to favour Watling's Island, and it so far answers Columbus's description that about one-third ...
... we met two canoes, the largest of which had at the bow the image of a bear, and that of a man on the stern: there were twenty-six Indians on ...
... except fleas. Here we met Shannon, who had been sent back to us by Captain Lewis. The day Shannon left us in the canoe, he and Willard proceeded on till ...
... for the country, departed and overtook my sleds just at dusk. Killed one porcupine. Distance sixteen miles. January 4. We made twenty-eight points ...
... Lake Sang Sue arrived from the woods. January 17. Employed in making sleds after the manner of the country. They are made of a single plank turned ...
... They are only two stories high, and in consequence cover a large space, being built around a patio or courtyard. The ground floors are occupied as ...
... paid to show how the compensation is in comparison with that in our country. In the vicinity of Manila, twelve and a half cents per day is the usual ...
... rate of increase appears probable, from a comparison of the present population with the estimate made at the beginning of the present century, which shows ...
... the rest of the day. After four hours of slow laborious work we made the base of the dbris slope which rose about a thousand feet to a saddle pass ...
... swift slope of ice carrying the eye down a thousand feet to the margin of a frozen mirror of ice ribs and needles of rocks piercing up through the ...
... and sharp was the upper slope, that we dared not walk, but got astride, and worked slowly along with our hands, pushing the knapsacks in advance, ...
... which we crossed were frozen solid. However, our march brought us to the base of the great mountain, which, rising high against the east, shut out the ...
... and crags and sharp, angular buttresses, bristling with wind and wave-polished spires, extend far out into the river. Ledges of rock jut into ...
... is ever a source of wonder to us why these ancient people sought such inaccessible places for their homes. They were, doubtless, an agricultural ...
... that the centre ran out but of this we can only conjecture. There are other places, where almost the whole of the lava is gone, patches of it only ...
... pass me a line, but I cannot let go of the rock long enough to take hold of it. Then they bring two or three of the largest oars. All this takes time ...
... of supplies, we find about ten pounds of flour, fifteen pounds of dried apples, but seventy or eighty pounds of coffee. FOOTNOTES:. [1] Geologists ...