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“We have the payne and traveyle, rayne and wynd in the feldes”
Farmers sowing and plowing their fields
“Backsheesh, O, Howadji!”
One of our favorite amusements at each landing-place was to make the natives scramble for money. They came down in large numbers, sometimes two or three hundred of them, and kept up a continual howl of “Backsheesh, O, Howadji!” that sounded very much like the murmurs of a mob. They gathered on the bank opposite the stern of the boat, and were ready to catch all the money we would throw to them. We had a supply of copper for just such cases, and by a judicious use of it, we made a franc go a great ways, and this was the way we would distribute it. One of us would take a copper, and after balancing and aiming it several times, would give it a toss. A mass of hands would be stretched to receive it, and the crowd would sway in the direction of the falling coin. If it struck in the dirt, a dozen Arabs would spring upon the place where it fell, and there would be a scramble for it. Sometimes the struggle would be so fierce, that the cloud of dust raised thereby would completely conceal the combatants, and they would emerge with torn garments
Ægean Civilization (Map)
Ægean Civilization
[he Queen
3 men raising their glasses to toast the Queen
Zulu Marimba
The Zulus, or more correctly the Amazulus, take the front `rank` amongst the native tribes of the African continent. Their code of laws, military arrangements, and orderly settlements resemble those of civilised nations at many points. Their dances are a national feature, and a great company of young warriors performing a solemn war dance is a most impressive sight. One of their chief instruments is the 'Marimba' or 'Tyanbilo,' a form of harmonium. The keys are bars of wood called Intyari, of graduated size. These are suspended by strings from a light wooden frame, either resting on the ground, or hung round the neck of the player. Between every two keys is a wooden bar crossing the centre bar to which the keys are attached. On each key two shells of the fruit known as the Strychnos McKenzie, or Kaffir Orange, are placed as resonators, one large and one small. The use of resonators is to increase and deepen the sound. The Marimba is played with drum-sticks of rubber, and the tone is good and powerful.
Zeus
Zenith Telescope
Zenith Telescope constructed for the International Stations at Mizusawa, Carloforte, Gaithersburg and Ukiah, by Hermann Wanschaff, Berlin.
Zebu
The oldest civilized peoples, including the Indians, had no other Domestic Cattle than the Zeboe, or moreover, a breed that differs relatively little from them, as well as the long-horned breed of ancient Egyptians. Since the Zeboe beef is nowhere near in the wild, and since no bones of this animal have been found in the ancient layers of the earth, it is obvious that the Zeboe has evolved from other forms of Cattle.
Zebra with young
Zebra with young
Zebra with young
Zebra with young
Yucatec Stone
Yucatec Stone
Yuan Chwang’s Route from China to India
Yuan Chwang’s Route from China to India
Your'e not crying, are you?
boy and girl talking
Your Hostess
Your Hostess
Young Woman's dress - 14th Century
Young Woman's dress - 14th Century
Young woman
Young woman
Young Specimen of an African River Crab
Young Persian Kitten
Young Persian Kitten
Young Nobles
Costumes of Young Nobles of the Court of Charles VIII., before and after the Expedition into Italy.--From Miniatures in two Manuscripts of the Period in the National Library of Paris.
Young Naturalist
Young girl and with a butterfly net
Young man kneeling in front of a woman
Young man kneeling in front of a woman
Young Lady writing
Young Lady writing
Young Lady Writing
Young Lady Writing
Young lady with wide-open eyes
Young lady with wide-open eyes
Young lady walking in the countryside
Young lady seated
Young lady seated
Young lady looking in mirror
Young lady looking in mirror
Young Lady in the storm
Young Lady in the storm
Young lady
Young lady
Young Lady
Young lady
Young lady
Young lady
Young Hoactzins
Young Half-breed (Buffalo-Domestic) Bull
Young Half-breed (Buffalo-Domestic) Bull
Young girl with a fan
Young girl taking a cookie
Young girl reading to old lady
Young girl lying in bed
Young girl lying in bed
Young girl looking in mirror by candelight
Young girl looking in a mirror
Young girl in winter coat
Young girl in bed
Young girl holding a jar
Young girl curtseying
Young girl crying
Young girl carrying a bag
Young girl
Young girl
Young girl
Young Gentleman of the 14th Century
Young Gentleman of the 14th Century
Young Gentleman Louis XIII period - 1625 - 1640
Young Gentleman Louis XIII period - 1625 - 1640
Young children playing outside
Young boy standing on the street corner
Young boy standing on the street corner
Young boy sitting on a gate
Young boy picking an apple
Young boy eyeing fruit on a tree
Young boy and girl looking in the bush
Young boy
You are it
Seven little children are all pointing at one little girl
York in the 15th Century
To-day mediæval buildings are to be found all over England. The majority of them are examples of an architecture that has not been surpassed for majesty, beauty, size, and constructional skill. Such buildings, without the help of the literary and other memorials, testify by themselves to the greatness of the Middle Ages.
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