1. Life and literary activity of Charles Kingsley. Historical fiction genre in Literature

Chapter 22. The Inquisition in the Indies (a short chapter)

Words to look up: recantation, compunction, chastisement
Copywork: He escaped into the fragrant open air, and the golden tropic moonlight, and a garden which might have served as a model for Eden; but man's hell followed into God's heaven, and still those wails seemed to ring through his ears.
"Oh, misery, misery, misery!" murmured he to himself through grinding teeth; "and I have brought her to this!"
Narration and Discussion: How does Eustace attempt to justify his betrayal of Rose?

Chapter 23. The Banks of the Meta

Words to look up: commonweal, gourmand, superlative, cataract, piragua (pirogue), virago
Copywork: Then, leaping into her tiny piragua, she darted into the wildest whirl of the eddies, shooting along with vigorous strokes, while the English trembled as they saw the frail bark spinning and leaping amid the muzzles of the alligators, and the huge dog-toothed trout: but with the swiftness of an arrow she reached the northern bank, drove her canoe among the bushes, and leaping from it, darted through some narrow opening in the bush, and vanished like a dream.
"What fair virago have you unearthed?" cried Cary, as they toiled up again to the landing-place.
"Beshrew me," quoth Jack, "but we are in the very land of the nymphs, and I shall expect to see Diana herself next, with the moon on her forehead."
Narration and Discussion: Describe the encounter on the river from the point of view of someone (or something) besides the sailors.

Chapter 24. How Amyas Was Tempted of the Devil

Words to look up: cassava, coca, anthropologic, cacophony, propitious, flagellation, curare (poison). "Vanity and vexation of spirit" is a reference to Ecclesiastes 1:14. A piache is a witch doctor or shaman (in a later chapter, Kingsley translates it "conjuror").
Copywork: On its farther side, the crag rose some twenty feet in height, bank upon bank of feathered ferns and cushioned moss, over the rich green beds of which drooped a thousand orchids, scarlet, white, and orange, and made the still pool gorgeous with the reflection of their gorgeousness. At its more quiet outfall, it was half-hidden in huge fantastic leaves and tall flowering stems; but near the waterfall the grassy bank sloped down toward the stream, and there, on palm-leaves strewed upon the turf, beneath the shadow of the crags, lay the two men whom Amyas sought, and whom, now he had found them, he had hardly heart to wake from their delicious dream . . . What was not there which eye or ear could need? And what which palate could need either? For on the rock above, some strange tree, leaning forward, dropped every now and then a luscious apple upon the grass below, and huge wild plantains bent beneath their load of fruit.
Narration and Discussion: Where did the maiden (who suddenly begins to be called Ayacanora) come from, according to the cacique?