Chapter XX

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a record or narrative description of past events

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

matters of personal concern

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

fear resulting from the awareness of danger

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

plural of “alligator” — leather made from alligator's hide

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

changed in form or character without becoming something else

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence or deeply revered.

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a group of many islands in a large body of water

From this reading THE SULU ARCHIPELAGO.

(used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “attack” — (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

inflected form of “behold” — see with attention

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

assets available for use in the production of further assets

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a railcar where passengers ride

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a steep high face of rock

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

go upward with gradual or continuous progress

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a place off to the side of an area

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

(Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a statement that represents something in words

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

put on clothes

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

all through a period, or at some point within it

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “feud” — a bitter quarrel between two parties

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading FIRST VISIT.

plural of “flight” — a formation of aircraft in flight

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “force” — a powerful effect or influence

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

a fortified military post where troops are stationed

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “fugitive” — someone who flees from an uncongenial situation

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a contest with rules to determine a winner

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

death of a person

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

plural of “illusion” — an erroneous mental representation

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “inhabitant” — a person who inhabits a particular place

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

located inward

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

marked by casual disrespect

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

communication between individuals

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “island” — a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “islet” — a small island

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

lacking companions or companionship

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; Mali was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the force of workers available

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

properly deserved

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

plural of “monkey” — any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

plural of “mountaineer” — someone who climbs mountains

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a form of address for a man

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “native” — an indigenous person who was born in a particular place

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

not ever; at no time in the past or future

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

plural of “noble” — a titled peer of the realm

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

an announcement containing information about an event

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

amounting to a large indefinite number

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

of or relating to or involving light or optics

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

above and across; more than

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

a large and stately mansion

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the people who inhabit a territory or state

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

meat from a domestic hog or pig

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the particular portion of space occupied by something

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a course over which races are run

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “report” — a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the largest state in Malaysia; located on the northwest of the island of Borneo

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “sea” — a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

transport commercially

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

do one's shopping

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “shop” — a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

the act of firing a projectile

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

a person who is owned by someone

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

plural of “stockade” — fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

A noble monarch or supreme sovereign ruler of an Islamic country or empire.

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading THE SULU ARCHIPELAGO.

plural of “supply” — an amount of something available for use

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

having a natural fragrance

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE SULU ARCHIPELAGO.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

for that reason; as a result

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

an old word meaning “to that place”

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “trader” — someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “villager” — one who has lived in a village most of their life

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

go to see a place, as for entertainment

From this reading FIRST VISIT.

plural of “visit” — the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

plural of “voyage” — an act of traveling by water

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the act of traveling by foot

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “waltz” — an assured victory (especially in an election)

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

belonging to which person

From this reading During all the voyages I have made, I have never beheld islands so picturesque as those scattered over the surface of the Sulu Seas, or whose inhabitants more merited notice.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading I will therefore give a short account of the visits I made thither, before the attacks of the Spanish forces had altered the ancient state of affairs.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.

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From this reading Picturesque Islands--Balambañgan--An old English Settlement--Large Monkeys--Optical Illusions--Flights of Birds--The Curlew--The way we shot them in Sarawak--Game--Banguey--Mali Wali--Cleared Hills--Fine Water--Sweet-smelling Jasmine--Cagayan Sulu--Intercourse with the Inhabitants--Appearance of the Country--Lovely Scenery--Market--Inhabitants--Insolent Traders--The Crater Harbour--Wall of Evergreen--Inner Lake--Climb the Cliff--Scenery--Alligators numerous--Sulu--Appearance from the Ship--Sugh, the Capital--Mr. Wyndham--The Watering-place--Suspicious Natives--Fugitives from Balignini--Reports--A Market--The Mountaineers civil--Walk to the Palace--The Stockades--Armed Crowd--Audience Hall--Absurd Reports--The Sultan and his Nobles--Dress--Politeness of the Sultan--Return to the Ship--Datu Daniel--The Racecourse--Effect of Dutch Shot--Tulyan Bay--Alarm of Villagers--Sulu Government--Laws--Feuds--The Mahomedan and the Pork--Population--Fighting-men--Slave Market--Dignified carriage of the Nobles--Dress--The Balignini--Dutch Attack--Appearance of the Country--Good Position of Island--Tulyan--Basilan--Numerous Islets--Samboañgan--Spanish Convict Settlement--Description of Country--Fort--Town--Shops--The Church--The Men--The Women--The Corner Shop--A Ball--Dancing difficult--Waltzes--Supplies at Samboañgan--A lonely Grave.