An old Spaniard finds in the popular meaning of Viracocha, "foam of the sea," an argument for deriving the Peruvian civilization from some voyager from the Old World.
Of this philoprogenitiveness a voyager relates what seems to me a truly pathetic example:-- [Illustration: THE WHITE BEAR AND HER CUBS.
To two of the more majestic of these the English voyager gave the names of his two ships--Mount Erebus and Mount Terror.
Their ideal East is very different from that actual East, in all its heat, and noisomeness, and glare, which the voyager finds around him, and which seems to have lost much of its beauty along with its grandeur and its power.
Such comprehensive views the spirit takes, That in a few short moments I retrace (As in a map the voyager his course) The windings of my way through many years.
This river and its impediments being surmounted, the Methye Portage, ten miles and three quarters long, was at no great distance, which is always held up to the inexperienced voyager as the most laborious part of the journey.
I once landed on its western side," says a sentimental voyager long ago, "where it faces the black buttress of Albemarle.
Meanwhile the unlucky voyager had scrambled to his feet, and was staring wildly about him.
Instinctively all three sprang forward at once, although the doomed voyager was manifestly beyond the reach of help.
The clouds, the winds, the ocean obeyed his behest, and fell upon the voyager in a furious tempest.
Such is indeed the very dialectic of life, the dualism of existence, which the heroic voyager is to overcome with suffering, with danger, with many penalties.
We had stronger hope of their arrival before the evening as we knew that every voyager uses his utmost endeavour to reach a post upon or previous to the jour de l'an that he may partake of the wonted festivities.
We welcomed him with the usual shake of the hand but were unable to give him the glass of rum which every voyager receives on his arrival at a trading post.
The crooked knife generally made of an old file, bent and tempered by heat, serves an Indian or Canadian voyager for plane, chisel, and auger.
Nay, more than once instance came under our observation of the master of a post having permitted a voyager to take to wife a poor child that had scarcely attained the age of ten years.
London has a long arm, and the voyager on the silent highway from its source on towards the sea finds, as he nears Hampton Court, unmistakable signs that he is reaching the fringe of a giant population.
Dorchester, which fell from its splendour and ceased to be a capital more than a thousand years ago, is a quaint little village, in which the antiquarian voyager can spend some hours of crowded interest.
The storm may be precisely the same; the tempest may rage as it will, but safe and secure in the cabin or stateroom, the voyager does not mind its fury.
On touching land he stepped out, making a sign to his fellow-voyager to imitate his example.
The trammel is another form of net of much value to the voyagerand explorer.
This savage coast is the first glimpse of Spain which the voyager from the north catches, or he who has ploughed his way across the wide Atlantic: and well does it seem to realize all his visions of this strange land.
It stands on the shore of the river, like a giant keeping watch, and is the first edifice which attracts the eye of the voyager as he moves up the stream to Seville.
So rapid a flight, nevertheless, thevoyager must be prepared to find, will induce a harassing sense that at every point much that it would be desirable to see has been passed over.
Of the two extremes, summer is perhaps to be preferred; because the voyager at that time knows precisely what he has got to prepare for and can meet it, whereas winter is a more variable emergency.
On the practical side, that voyager will achieve success who plans his route in Spain so as to evade the Fonda del Norte at Burgos, which is the stronghold of dirt, and the Hotel de Paris at Madrid, which takes the palm for extortion.
For a simple trip in search of novelty, the voyager being of good constitution, it makes little difference.
But the voyagerwho relies implicitly on this attractive theory will often suffer disappointment.
Our resolutevoyager gives an amusing account of her trials.
Leaving the sea again, a short canal conducts the voyager into Lake Malar, celebrated for its cluster of islands.
Her lone voyager had no means of knowing whither he was being driven.
I'm glad we were able to help a fellow voyager out.
It was planned seriously, long thought of, discussed and re-discussed, with and among the various members of the family to which the voyager belonged.
Salter saw her sweep the deck with her glance and then designate a sequestered corner, such as the experiencedvoyager would recognise as being desirably sheltered.
One adventurous mariner, indeed, named Lepe, penetrated several degrees south of this, to a point not reached by any other voyager for ten or twelve years after.
The islands in Loch Derg are very few, and the most picturesque of them are so near the shore that they seem part of it to the voyager on the lake.
The next greatvoyager to North America was Gaspar Corte Real, a Portuguese.
One voyager after another went out, hoping to return by China and the East.
Indeed, all through {25} this century no English voyager seems to have turned his mind to Canada and its river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voyager" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
