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On the 18th day of February 1850, Her Majesty's steamship _Rattler_ was lying at anchor about twenty miles to the northward of Ambriz, a slave depôt situated on the western coast of Africa. Week after week had passed away in dull uniformity; while the oppressive heat, the gent...
Many of our readers, on entering the City, through Temple Bar, have seen a small open gateway on the right hand. It is a quiet, retired-looking place, grave, and somewhat gloomy...
3. Chapter 3As I moved, however, the horrible booty I had in my pockets moved likewise, appearing to me to shriek, like a score of fiends, 'Police! police!' and the next instant I heard a q...
5. Chapter 5The best entrance to the desert is from Cobija, where the ascent at once begins, and continues for a distance of about three leagues, including the dried-up bed of a torrent, fo...
1. Chapter 1On the 18th day of February 1850, Her Majesty's steamship _Rattler_ was lying at anchor about twenty miles to the northward of Ambriz, a slave depôt situated on the western coas...
4. Chapter 4In these professedly enlightened days, commercial progress cannot well be considered apart from moral progress; we want to know not only how work is done, but who and what they...
6. Chapter 6The forthcoming publishing season promises to be a brisk one: we are to have good books of history, travel, and science, besides something from Carlyle and the Laureate; and in...