The Log of an Island Wanderer; Notes of Travel in the Eastern Pacific
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII THE ISLES OF THIRST--A RUN IN A NATIVE SCHOONER "Her flag? I had no glass, but fore and aft, Egad I She looked a wicked-looking craft." The Pacific! It is a sublime word to describe a sublime sea, and yet it doesn't seem to fit, somehow. It was during one of the Ovalaus fly-away visits to Papeete that Captain Macduff took me to his cabin and showed me the chart. It looked horribly complicated. Every inch of the paper was crammed with figures and arrows and crosses till you began to wonder whatever could induce any reasoning being to try navigation in such a devil of a sea. "Pooh! That's nothing!" laughed the captain. "Wait till you see the Paumotus." The Paumotus! I had seen them in my mind's eye already, scores of times. The name had branded itself on my imagination in a hundred tales of wreck and loneliness. Then, as rumour shaped itself to fact, I learned that the Paumotus are a crescent-shaped group of islands some two hundred miles to the east of Tahiti, an embryo French protectorate, dangerous enough to wreck the fleets of the earth and lonely enough to drive isolated settlers to suicide. The group is all the more striking owing to the contrast its scenery presents with that of the lovely Society Islands. Here there are no lofty mountains to frame a sylvan paradise of fruit and flowers. Here you find no shady, flirtationprovoking alleys, no streams, no milky cascades or cold pools--not even a pond or a solitary puddle. Everything is dry, waterless, forbidding, and lonely. The land is so low as to be quite invisible, even at a few miles' distance. The slender line of green formed by the serrated tops of the coco-palms is the first to appear, then the long line of white sand and the reef with its rolling breakers. One of the most exaspera...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150314247
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150314249
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 132 gr

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