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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... round with a look of exultation, that plainly told he thought he had something clever to say, "for there's the sense to understand the proper use and value of them all. Mr, Sedley showing his young friends the books he prized most. As this piece of wit, for such it was intended to be, indicated an improvement in both the disposition and mind of the speaker, Miss Murray thought proper to applaud it; it was the first time that such a tribute had been paid him, in spite of all the many attempts he had made to gain fame in that way, so there was no one, amongst all the happy laughing group that now surrounded Mr. Sedley, better pleased than was the once very rude and excessively selfish--Cousin James. END OP THE PIVE SENSES. CONTAINING AUSTRALIA AND POLYNESIA. OMOKO, KING OF AFRICA. THE ELEPHANT, AND LITTLE DOG OF ASIA. THE AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE. EUROPE, --ENGLISH FREEDOM. USTRALIA and POLYNESIA are now usually considered the fifth division of the globe; they are situated in the Pacific Ocean, between the coasts of Africa and South America. Australia is a very large island, indeed, it is the largest in the world; and Polynesia consists of a number of small ones, so called from a compound Greek word bearing that signification, which being translated is, "Many Islands." Some few years since, the Lotus, an English vessel returning from Sydney, one of the principal towns in Australia, was driven out of her course by a violent gale of wind, which lasted through a whole night; and being much injured, the captain, at break of day, deemed it advisable to seek shelter in the natural harbour of au island near, that he afterwards found had remained unknown to the discoverers of Polynesia. Expecting to find it uninhabited, or else peopled...