The Golden Chersonese And the Way Thither
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M. , but mat-sailed boats, with cargoes of Chinese, Malays, fowls, pine-apples, and sugar- cane, kept coming off and delaying us. The little steamer has long ago submerged her load-line, and is only about ten inches above the water, and still they load, and still the mat-sailed boats and eight- paddled boats, with two red-clothed men facing forward on each thwart, are disgorging men and goods into the overladen craft. A hundred and thirty men, mostly Chinese, with a sprinkling of Javanese and M...alays, are huddled on the little deck, with goats and buffaloes, and forty coops of fowls and ducks ; the fowls and ducks cackling and quack- ing, and the Chinese clattering at the top of their voices such a Babel !
An hour later, "Easy ahead, " shouts the Portu- guese-Malay captain, for the Rainbow is only li- censed for one hundred passengers, and the water runs in at the scuppers as she rolls, but five of the 270 SUNSET AT MALACCA.
mat-sailed boats have hooked on. " Run ahead ! full speed ! " the captain shouts in English ; he dances with excitement, and screams in Malay ; the Chinamen are climbing up the stern, over the bul- warks, everywhere, fairly boarding us; and with about a hundred and fifty souls on board, and not a white man or a Christian among them, we steam away over th, e gaudy water into the gaudy sunset, and beautiful, dreamy, tropical Malacca, with its palm-fringed shores, and its colored streets, and Mount Ophir with its golden history, and the stately Stadthaus, whose ancient rooms have come to seem almost like my property, are passing into memories.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
M. , but mat-sailed boats, with cargoes of Chinese, Malays, fowls, pine-apples, and sugar- cane, kept coming off and delaying us. The little steamer has long ago submerged her load-line, and is only about ten inches above the water, and still they load, and still the mat-sailed boats and eight- paddled boats, with two red-clothed men facing forward on each thwart, are disgorging men and goods into the overladen craft. A hundred and thirty men, mostly Chinese, with a sprinkling of Javanese and M...alays, are huddled on the little deck, with goats and buffaloes, and forty coops of fowls and ducks ; the fowls and ducks cackling and quack- ing, and the Chinese clattering at the top of their voices such a Babel !
An hour later, "Easy ahead, " shouts the Portu- guese-Malay captain, for the Rainbow is only li- censed for one hundred passengers, and the water runs in at the scuppers as she rolls, but five of the 270 SUNSET AT MALACCA.
mat-sailed boats have hooked on. " Run ahead ! full speed ! " the captain shouts in English ; he dances with excitement, and screams in Malay ; the Chinamen are climbing up the stern, over the bul- warks, everywhere, fairly boarding us; and with about a hundred and fifty souls on board, and not a white man or a Christian among them, we steam away over th, e gaudy water into the gaudy sunset, and beautiful, dreamy, tropical Malacca, with its palm-fringed shores, and its colored streets, and Mount Ophir with its golden history, and the stately Stadthaus, whose ancient rooms have come to seem almost like my property, are passing into memories.
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