“Ye Olde Rover’s Return,” Manchester
The tottering, crazy-looking tavern called “Ye Olde Rover’s Return,” on Shude Hill, claiming to be the “oldest beer-house in the city,” and additionally said once to have been an old farmhouse “where the Cow was kept that supplied Milk to The Men who built the ‘Seven Stars"
“We have the payne and traveyle, rayne and wynd in the feldes”
Farmers sowing and plowing their fields
“Columba,” famous Clyde river steamer, 1875
Fifty years later witnessed the full development of Mr. Bell’s ideal in the Columba, then as now the largest river steamer ever seen on the Clyde, and the swiftest. The Columba is built of steel, is 316 feet long and 50 feet wide. She has two oscillating engines of 220 horse-power, and attains a speed of twenty-two miles an hour. Her route is from Glasgow to Ardrishaig and back, daily in summer, when she carries from 2,000 to 3,000 persons through some of the finest scenery in Scotland. She is provided with steam machinery for steering and warping her into the piers, and with other modern appliances that make her as handy as a steam yacht. She resembles a little floating town, with shops and post-office where you can procure money orders and despatch telegrams And what is the Columba after all but an enlarged and perfected reproduction of Bell’s Comet!
“Big-head,” a solar god
“Backsheesh, O, Howadji!”
One of our favorite amusements at each landing-place was to make the natives scramble for money. They came down in large numbers, sometimes two or three hundred of them, and kept up a continual howl of “Backsheesh, O, Howadji!” that sounded very much like the murmurs of a mob. They gathered on the bank opposite the stern of the boat, and were ready to catch all the money we would throw to them. We had a supply of copper for just such cases, and by a judicious use of it, we made a franc go a great ways, and this was the way we would distribute it. One of us would take a copper, and after balancing and aiming it several times, would give it a toss. A mass of hands would be stretched to receive it, and the crowd would sway in the direction of the falling coin. If it struck in the dirt, a dozen Arabs would spring upon the place where it fell, and there would be a scramble for it. Sometimes the struggle would be so fierce, that the cloud of dust raised thereby would completely conceal the combatants, and they would emerge with torn garments
‘When a lion looks at you it becomes a leopard’
‘The young Edward III.’
‘The tiger and the mirror’
‘The broken bough fell on the head of a man standing down below’
‘St. Piran’
‘latten “Agnus Dei”’
‘Henry’s badge’
‘He incontinently fled’
‘Hakeney’
‘Dymoke of Scrivelsby’
‘Diabolus ligatus’
‘An impromptu entertainment by three minstrels’
‘A wonderful sight’
‘... with drawn swords stood in the doorway’
‘... thrust him out of the church’
‘... showed him his injuries’
‘... playing innumerable pranks’
‘... led through the middle of the city’
‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’
‘... got his arms round a branch’
‘... fully armed with swords and bucklers’
‘... failed to identify the geese’
‘... ducking him in a horse-pond’
‘... constructed a pantomime dragon on the pattern of the real article’
‘... compellyd them for to devour the same writte’
‘... cast her into a cauldron’
‘... called secretly at the chamber dore’
Ægean Civilization (Map)
Ægean Civilization
[he Queen
3 men raising their glasses to toast the Queen
Zulu Marimba
The Zulus, or more correctly the Amazulus, take the front `rank` amongst the native tribes of the African continent. Their code of laws, military arrangements, and orderly settlements resemble those of civilised nations at many points. Their dances are a national feature, and a great company of young warriors performing a solemn war dance is a most impressive sight. One of their chief instruments is the 'Marimba' or 'Tyanbilo,' a form of harmonium. The keys are bars of wood called Intyari, of graduated size. These are suspended by strings from a light wooden frame, either resting on the ground, or hung round the neck of the player. Between every two keys is a wooden bar crossing the centre bar to which the keys are attached. On each key two shells of the fruit known as the Strychnos McKenzie, or Kaffir Orange, are placed as resonators, one large and one small. The use of resonators is to increase and deepen the sound. The Marimba is played with drum-sticks of rubber, and the tone is good and powerful.
Zulu
Zeus
Zerolene Ad
Zerolene Ad
Zerolene Ad
Zenith Telescope
Zenith Telescope constructed for the International Stations at Mizusawa, Carloforte, Gaithersburg and Ukiah, by Hermann Wanschaff, Berlin.
Zebus (var. γ) and Car
Zebu.—(Var. δ.)
Zebu
Zebu
The oldest civilized peoples, including the Indians, had no other Domestic Cattle than the Zeboe, or moreover, a breed that differs relatively little from them, as well as the long-horned breed of ancient Egyptians. Since the Zeboe beef is nowhere near in the wild, and since no bones of this animal have been found in the ancient layers of the earth, it is obvious that the Zeboe has evolved from other forms of Cattle.
Zebra with young
Zebra with young
Zebra with young
Zebra with young
Zamouse, or Bush Cow
Yukon
Yucatec Stone
Yucatec Stone
Yuan Chwang’s Route from China to India
Yuan Chwang’s Route from China to India
Your'e not crying, are you?
boy and girl talking
Your wires are crossed
Your Hostess
Your Hostess
Young Woman's dress - 14th Century
Young Woman's dress - 14th Century
Young woman
Young woman
Young woman
Young woman
Young woman
Young Specimen of an African River Crab