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# Omoo/Chapter XV

Chapter XV. Chips and Bungs
Bound into port, Chips and Bungs increased their devotion to the bottle; and, to the unspeakable envy of the rest, these jolly companions--or "the Partners," as the men called them--rolled about deck, day after day, in the merriest mood imaginable.
But jolly as they were in the main, two more discreet tipplers it would be hard to find. No one ever saw them take anything, except when the regular allowance was served out by the steward; and to make them quite sober and sensible, you had only to ask them how they contrived to keep otherwise. Some time after, however, their secret leaked out.
The casks of Pisco were kept down the after-hatchway, which, for this reason, was secured with bar and padlock. The cooper, nevertheless, from time to time, effected a burglarious entry, by descending into the fore-hold; and then, at the risk of being jammed to death, crawling along over a thousand obstructions, to where the casks were stowed.
On the first expedition, the only one to be got at lay among others, upon its bilge with the bung-hole well over. With a bit of iron hoop, suitably bent, and a good deal of prying and punching, the bung was forced in; and then the cooper's neck-handkerchief, attached to the end of the hoop, was drawn in and out--the absorbed liquor being deliberately squeezed into a small bucket.
Bungs was a man after a barkeeper's own heart. Drinking steadily, until just manageably tipsy, he contrived to continue so; getting neither more nor less inebriated, but, to use his own phrase, remaining "just about right." When in this interesting state, he had a free lurch in his gait, a queer way of hitching up his waistbands, looked unnecessarily steady at you when speaking, and for the rest, was in very tolerable spirits. At these times, moreover, he was exceedingly patriotic; and in a most amusing way, frequently showed his patriotism whenever he happened to encounter Dunk, a good-natured, square-faced Dane, aboard.
It must be known here, by the bye, that the cooper had a true sailor admiration for Lord Nelson. But he entertained a very erroneous idea of the personal appearance of the hero. Not content with depriving him of an eye and an arm, he stoutly maintained that he had also lost a leg in one of his battles. Under this impression, he sometimes hopped up to Dunk with one leg curiously locked behind him into his right arm, at the same time closing an eye.
In this attitude he would call upon him to look up, and behold the man who gave his countrymen such a thrashing at Copenhagen. "Look you, Dunk," says he, staggering about, and winking hard with one eye to keep the other shut, "Look you; one man--hang me, half a man--with one leg, one arm, one eye--hang me, with only a piece of a carcase, flogged your whole shabby nation. Do you deny it you lubber?"
The Dane was a mule of a man, and understanding but little English, seldom made anything of a reply; so the cooper generally dropped his leg, and marched off, with the air of a man who despised saying anything further.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 22

No. XXII.
BETWEEN TAKA-CA-MUNDA AND SERINAGUR.
In these high situations the traveller encounters no villages; he must carry with him the means of subsistence, or perish. Taka-ca-munda is a solitary resting place; a plain stone building erected near the barren summit of one of the highest mountains, for the accommodation of benighted wanderers, or to afford an occasional shelter from the storms that frequently vex these cloud-enveloped hills.
The road is continued over the mountainous tract represented in this plate; it then descends to the Bunder Nullah, not far from which the traveller is gratified with a sight of the Alucnindra, or Ganges, and of the city of Serinagur.
Between Taka-ca-munda and Serinagur.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 24

No. XXIV.
VIEW TAKEN NEAR THE CITY OF SERINAGUR.
At this place, which is a little above the city, terminated the author's route through the mountainous district of Serinagur. War, which is the scourge of art and science, rendered the further gratification of his curiosity, however inoffensive its object, in these parts dangerous. The fighting men were preparing for resistance, and the rest of the people, seeking their safety by flight, were removing in a body to the opposite side of the river, by means of their temporary bridge.
The mountains are here embellished with scattered villages, and their sides with regular horizontal stripes of cultivation, producing an effect not so agreeable to the artistical as to the philanthropic observer, who is much less interested by the beauties of form than by such unpicturesque indications of useful industry. The Alucnindra, which flows through this fertile vale, might, indeed, be termed the Ganges, being its principal branch, although it does not actually receive that appellation till, after passing the mountains, it makes its solemn entrance into the plains of Hindoostan, at the Hurduwar; a place of vast consideration among the Hindoos, regarded by all the faithful as a bathing place of prodigious efficacy in preparing the way to future bliss, and thence denominated Hurduwar, or the Gates of Heaven.
It seems to be the property of this marvellous river to sanctify whatever it approaches, its islands are therefore devoted to the habitation of priests and pious hermits; its rocky banks display the embellishments of religious art; the cities upon its shores, by their innumerable ghauts, or flights of steps, for the convenience of ablution, seem erected chiefly for pious purposes; and the name of Serinagur, or Holy Place, would probably never have been given to that city, had it not been situated on the banks of the Ganges. But time makes no distinction between what is sacred and what profane; this ancient city has felt its effects, and shares in the common fate of Hindoo grandeur, which can now only be seen in its mutilated remains. Raja Purdoo maan saa, its present chief, is a man of high caste, and much beloved by his people; of whom, nevertheless, he is but a feeble protector: like many of the minor sovereigns of our own hemisphere, whose sceptres of straw, the gracious boon, perhaps, of some colossal power, command no respect, and impart no security.
Serinagur is in latitude 31 deg. N. longitude 78 deg. W. and is distant from Cape Comorin, the first View of this Series, about 2500 miles.
View taken near the City of Serinagur.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 2

No. II.
WATERFALL OF PUPPANASSUM, IN THE TINNYVELLY DISTRICT.
The Fail of Puppanassum is on the river Tumrabunni, a considerable stream in the district of Tinnyvelly. A few miles below the fall, that river passes the fort of Palamcotta, and thence proceeds in an easterly course towards the sea, into which it is received in the gulph of Manapar.
This magnificent cataract is held by the Hindoos in great veneration, and is accordingly visited by innumerable devotees. The only approach to it is by a single path on the right hand side of the valley, whence, though near to the fall, it cannot be seen, owing to the interposition of a large mass of rock that projects into the water. The path is continued up the face of this rock by means of a flight of steps; and at the summit a gate is so placed, that all visitors must of necessity pass through it, but which nevertheless readily opens to all who are provided with a small fee for the Bramins that guard the sacred portal.
Nothing can be more grand and impressive than when, on first throwing open the gate, this extraordinary scene bursts upon the sight. It would be difficult for those who have never seen a vast river precipitated down a rocky steep of considerable elevation, to form an adequate idea of such a spectacle, accompanied by a noise so tremendous, that, comparatively, all other sounds are but whispers. Upon the minds of Hindoos, who attach ideas of a religious nature to these objects, such scenes must operate with great effect, and powerfully stimulate their piety. Indeed their prostrations, and other antics of enthusiasm, on first beholding this tremendous object, are evident proofs of the intensity of their feelings.
Waterfall of Puppanassum, in the Tinnyvelly district.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 23

No. XXIII.
THE ROPE BRIDGE, AT SERINAGUR.
The city of Serinagur appears in the distance, extending along the right bank of the Alucnindra, and is partly concealed by the high rock in the front of the view. On the author's approach to this place, he was greeted by many young people, who presented him with flowers, and preceded his party on their way to the town, singing and shewing other signs of an hospitable welcome. On entering the city, he found the disposition of the Rajah himself no less friendly, but unfortunately he was then preparing to quit his capital, and leave it to the mercy of another Rajah, who, in his superior power, had discovered an unanswerable argument for invading the territories of his neighbour. The river is here too rapid to be passed even by boats, and therefore the bridge of ropes, represented in this plate, offered the only means for the Rajah and his people to effect their retreat, which circumstance presented an affecting scene, and a most melancholy example of the wretched state of society under these petty chieftains, whose views of government are little better than those of savages; and with whom all questions of justice and right are, as with duellists, referred to arms; considering, like them, no decisions so correct, and so honourable, as those which have been recorded in letters of blood.
This bridge, which is 240 feet in length, is an ingenious contrivance, and so simple that it may be soon erected and soon removed. On each side of the river two strong and lofty poles are fixed in the ground, and kept together with transverse pieces at their upper ends, over which large ropes, made fast to the rocks or ground, are stretched and extended from side to side. From the bottom of those upright poles are carried other ropes, which are drawn towards the upper ones by a lacing of cords, while flat pieces of bamboo are so fastened to the lower cords as to form a tolerably commodious footway.
On the top of the rock near the bridge, are the remains of a building formerly inhabited by a Faquier, who is a kind of Indian hermit.
The Rope Bridge, at Serinagur.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 4

No. IV.
SHEVAGURRY.
Shevagurry is a small village, the residence of a Poligar Rajah, tributary to the British government. It is situated at the foot of a range of hills that extend in a southern direction towards Cape Comorin, from which it is distant about one hundred miles. The village is concealed behind the rocky eminence, whereon is placed the temple and choultries that appear in this view. The inhabitants of this part of the country are chiefly rude mountaineers, but little civilized, and as usual much attached to their native hills, which afford them shelter both from their common enemies and those provoked by their insubordination. Should their chief choose at any time to resist the regular claims of government, (a circumstance not unfrequent), he immediately flies to his hilly fastnesses, whence he is not easily dislodged; and his submission in such cases can only be enforced with much trouble and expense.
Shevagurry.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 20

No. XX.
VIEW OF THE RAMGUNGA.
This view is taken in the vicinity, and between the villages of Buddell and Bilcate, from a most delightful spot insulated by the Ramgunga, whose clear and active streams communicated both freshness and beauty to the scene. The author would have had much pleasure in embodying the charms of the evening scenery of that enchanting, if not enchanted island, a task which unhappily is not within the reach of his art, being the result of various concurring circumstances, and of undefinable and evanescent effects that the pencil cannot trace. The mild temperature of the atmosphere, opposed to the heats of the preceding hours, inflamed by fatigue; the murmuring of the passing streams; the majestic grandeur of the mountains, increased by the visionary effect of the twilight; and to these must be added a circumstance, if possible, still further out of the reach of imitative art, and this was the myriad swarms of the fire-flies, that seemed to fill the lower region of the air, and which, uniting their numerous rays of phosphoric light, illuminated every object, and diffused a magical radiance equally beautiful and surprising; it seemed, in truth, to be a land of romance, and the proper residence of those fanciful beings, the fairies and genii, that appear so often in Asiatic tales. But the delicious sensations produced by causes of such a nature, can, by no effect of genius, be re-excited; they must be seen and felt to be conceived; purchased by toil and privations of every kind; and, after all, they must be met with, and not sought; for pleasures that delight by surprise, vanish before anticipation.
From the villages of Buddell and Bilcate the road to Serinagur continues up the ridge of the mountain that appears in the middle of this view, and leads, by a laborious ascent of eight or ten miles, to the village of Natan; a labour which few, perhaps, except those who have cultivated the pleasures of art, can undergo without complaint or relaxation: but the infinite variety with which the artist's eye is every where regaled in these vast assemblages of picturesque, grand, and magnificent forms, more than counterbalance the toils of his pursuit.
View of the Ramgunga.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 21

No. XXI.
VIEW BETWEEN NATAN AND TAKA-CA-MUNDA.
On proceeding from Natan towards Serinagur, the road still continues to ascend, and from a point of great elevation this view was taken. The eye is here on a level with the tops of most of the surrounding mountains; the forms of which are more pointed and irregular than those passed before, and resemble the tumultuous agitation of the ocean, roused by a tempest. The general aspect of the whole is dreary and vast; vegetation is scanty; the scattered trees that here and there occur, seem to be embellishments misplaced and inappropriate; although, if trees are admissible, it could certainly be no other than misshapen blights like these.
But the circumstance which, from this point of view, chiefly raises our astonishment is, the appearance of a prodigious range of still more distant mountains, proudly rising above all that we have hitherto considered as most grand and magnificent, and which, clothed in a robe of everlasting snow, seem by their etherial hue to belong to a region elevated into the clouds, and partaking of their nature; having nothing in common with terrestrial forms. It would be in vain to attempt, by any description, to convey an idea of these sublime effects, which perhaps even the finest art can but faintly imitate. These mountains are supposed to be a branch of the Emodus, or Imaus, of the ancients; and, so great is their height, they are sometimes seen in the province of Bahar, and even in Bengal.
View between Natan and Taka-ca-munda.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 3

No. III.
WATERFALL AT COURTALLUM, IN THE TINNEVELLY DISTRICT.
The Waterfall at Courtallum, called Tancanche, about twenty miles northward from the Cataract of Puppanassum, is also accounted by the Hindoos a place of peculiar sanctity. On certain festivals the number of people that resort to this spot from every part of India, is almost incredible; and to accommodate so great a concourse of religious persons, numerous choultries are provided. Some of the buildings of that description appear in this view; the others (sometimes connected with pagodas) are scattered about the valley in different situations; and the grandeur and religious solemnity of the scene is much heightened by a grove of large spreading trees, two or three miles in extent, beneath which is the general pathway leading to the great object of their devotion.
Besides those who frequent the falls of Tancanche and Puppanassum simply for the purposes of devotion, many also repair thither in order to procure the sacred water, which they carry about in small bottles carefully packed up in curious baskets; these, attached to each end of a bamboo, they bear on their shoulders, and travel many hundred miles through the country, occasionally distributing, at the principal Hindoo temples in their route, small portions of this holy fluid, whereby they insure to themselves whatever food and accommodation they may require.
The height of the cataract of Courtallum is two hundred and twenty feet.
Waterfall at Courtallum, in the Tinnevelly district.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 18

No. XVIII.
NEAR DUSA, IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SERINAGUR.
Dusa stands on the banks of the Koah Nullah, a few miles, it is said, below its source. The forms of the mountains are, from this point, extremely bold, and all around the general effect is majestic. They are richly clothed with wood, and, in many parts, even to their summits; where oak, fir, with many of the forest trees of India, are produced; and the cultivation of grain is carried up their sides to a great height.
In these secluded parts, scarcely affording a single foot of level ground, and where the whole surface, tossed into confusion, offers nothing but the perpetual labour of climbing and descending, there is a considerable degree of population; and pleasant villages are ​scattered about among the hills, often in situations where it might be supposed eagles alone would build their tenements; for they seem accessible only to the fowls of the air, and not to man. But security is a principal source of happiness, and these regions offer few temptations to the ambition and rapacity of those exalted spirits, whose insatiable thirst of glory fills the world with mischief and misery. The peaceful inhabitants of these hills not only enjoy a secure retreat from the perils of polished society, but a luxuriant vegetation supplies them with food, and also with gums and other articles of commerce, with which, by sale or barter, they procure from the distant plains such conveniences as their moderate system of life requires.
Near Dusa, in the mountains of Serinagur.
# Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 19

No. XIX.
BUDDELL, OPPOSITE BILCATE, IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SERINAGUR.
The village of Buddell is about fourteen miles from Dusa, and separated from it by a very lofty mountainous ridge. It is pleasantly situated on a delicious stream of liquid crystal, called the Ramgunga. On the opposite side of that river is the large village of Bilcate. It being the time of harvest when this view was taken, and the corn gathered in, the mode of treading out the grain by the feet of cattle, is represented in the foreground, and also the collecting and winnowing it; all which operations are performed in the open air.
Buddell, opposite Bilcate, in the mountains of Serinagur.
# Packet Company v. Catlettsburg

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United States Supreme Court
105 U.S. 559
Packet Company v. Catlettsburg
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Mr. David Stuart Hounshell for the appellant.
There was no opposing counsel.
Mr. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Outlines of the women's franchise movement in New Zealand

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OUTLINES OF THE WOMEN'S
FRANCHISE MOVEMENT IN
NEW ZEALAND.
BY
W. SIDNEY SMITH.
Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington, N.Z. Melbourne and London:
Whitcombe and Tombs, Limited.
MCMV.
Printed by Smith & Anthony, Limited.
* Introduction
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Conclusion
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# Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 6/Horace S. Lyman

HORACE S. LYMAN.
Horace Sumner Lyman was born on a farm near Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, on December 18, 1855. His father was Horace Lyman of an old Massachusetts family. His mother, Mary Denison Lyman, belonged to an equally old Vermont family of French Huguenot descent. Young Horace suffered from a malady in early childhood that left him so crippled that the use of crutches was necessary ​throughout his life. The family removed to Forest Grove in 1857, his father taking the chair of mathematics in what is now Pacific University. Mr. Lyman graduated from the classical course of this institution in the class of '78. Three years, '80 to '83, were given to theological study—one at Oakland, California, and two in Oberlin College. From the theological department of this institution he graduated in 1883. He returned West and was pastor for one year of the Congregational Church at White Salmon, Washington, having a missionary charge also at Hood River. He then began the improvement of a farm on Clatsop Plains, but was also active as teacher, preacher, and writer. In '87 he edited the Prohibition Star and lived in Portland. During this year and the next he was also preparing a history of that city. In 1889 he returned to his farm in Clatsop County and soon was appointed to fill out an unexpired term of the county superintendent of schools. At the expiration of this term he was elected to the office which he held, with the exception of four years, until his death.
During these years he was engaged unceasingly in writing on a large range of subjects—social, historical, philosophical, political, and of course educational. The reminiscences of many of the earlier pioneers were secured by him for the beginning volumes of the Quarterly. He easily won the fullest confidence of these pioneers and the data he drew from them are surcharged with spirit of those who advanced the frontier. All this was in line of preparation for writing the history of the Oregon he loved. This work was issued in four volumes in 1903.
In the latter part of 1903 he was appointed to take charge of the Oregon Educational Exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He returned from St. Louis in the summer of 1904 and planned and had well under way the ​Oregon School Exhibits for the Lewis and Clark Fair, when his health, usually good, failed. After a short illness he died on December 22, 1904. He left a considerable mass of unpublished writings. When these are arranged and published we shall have a complete basis for an estimate of his genius and industry. As it is we know that his was a nature transcendently gentle, brave, and noble. What he wrought exhibited richness and depth of thought and was pervaded with the spirit of the highest humanity. It lives and grows in the hearts of all who knew him.
# Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 6/Number 1

THE QUARTERLY
OF THE
OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
* The Higher Significance in the Lewis and Clark Exploration. by F. G. Young
* The Story of Lewis and Clark's Journals [reprinted from intro. to The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition]. by Reuben Gold Thwaites
* Dr. John Scouler's Journal of a Voyage to N. W. America
* Sketch of a Journey to the North-Western Parts of the Continent of North America during the Years 1824-25-26-27. by David Douglas
* "Reviews" by J.S. [Joseph Schafer?]
* "The Society's Activities"
* Horace S. Lyman