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James Theodore Bent

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
James Theodore Bent

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.
James Theodore Bent

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.
James Theodore Bent

The most terrible things end, at last.
James Theodore Bent

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
James Theodore Bent

 

William Beebe

The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
William Beebe

Richard Francis Burton

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.
Richard Francis Burton

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
Richard Francis Burton

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Richard Francis Burton

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
Richard Francis Burton

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
Richard Francis Burton

Richard E. Byrd

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
Richard E. Byrd

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd

Roald Amundsen

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
Roald Amundsen

Adventure is just bad planning.
Roald Amundsen

Jacques Cartier

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
Jacques Cartier

Will Adams

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.
Will Adams

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
Will Adams

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
Will Adams

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
Will Adams

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
Will Adams

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
Will Adams

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
Will Adams

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
Will Adams

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
Will Adams

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
Will Adams

Joy Adamson

Since we humans have the better brain, isn’t it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
Joy Adamson

William Adams

Faith is a continuation of reason.
William Adams

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams