They support no inhabitants—mainly because they have little water—and they are sufficiently distant from the ordinary trade routes (at least until the opening of the Panama Canal) to have remained comparatively unvisited. Their flora and fauna have followed their own lines of evolution without in...
She even sewed at dinner time—a deed which we had long ago agreed to condemn as the unforgivable sin. It irked me to see her lay aside knife and fork for thimble and scissors, and it was not very long before I demanded what it was she was doing. Constance was perfectly apologetic. “I know I ought...
They fought their way across it with renewed hope, for they could see the very definite spot where the lilies ceased to grow, and the beginning of a channel through the delta, and they felt that no obstacle to navigation could be as infuriating and exhausting as those lilies. &n...