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Excerpt: ... need of a smoke, but having no matches, decided to eat something instead. I had not far to seek for a breakfast. Picking up a couple of sprouting cocoa-nuts from the ground, I husked them by beating them against a tree-trunk, and made a much needed meal from the sweet kernels. Although I was still far from well, and the pain in my side had returned with tenfold vigour, I felt a new-born elasticity of spirit. The glow of the tropic sun lighted up the slumberous main spread out in azure vastness before me. Shouldering my bundle and rifle, my sole worldly possessions, except utterly valueless money and papers in the Captains care, I descended to the beach and walked along in the hard sand. At about six oclock I came abreast of two lovely verdure-clad islets, rising from the shallow waters which lay between the outer reefs and the mainland, and I knew I must be near Mo t. Then I saw a canoe shoot out from the land about a quar Pg 172 ter of a mile distant, with the native in it standing up poling it along. The next bend of the beach brought me in full view of the picturesque village. A loud cry of wonder greeted me. The next moment I was surrounded by smiling villagers. I felt a thrill of pride at the thought that of all those who had been cast away in the Leonora, none would have been welcomed so warmly as I was now by those simple, kind-hearted people. "Kusis friend, Kusis friend has come " the men called aloud. Crowding around, and taking my rifle and bundle from me, I was escorted to the farther end of the village, where out of a pretty little house embowered in a grove of palms, a man sprang out and fairly hugged me. This was Kusis, in whose frank and open countenance nothing but joyous welcome and boundless hospitality could be read. Taking me by the hand, he led me inside. My cares were over for the present, evidently. Words of mine can but faintly describe the generosity and kindness of these people to me during my lengthened sojourn...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154235470 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154235475 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 276 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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