The Log of the Fortuna a Cruise On Chinese Waters Containing Tales of Adventu
The Log of the Fortuna a Cruise On Chinese Waters Containing Tales of Adventu
Augustus F Lindley
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They also covertly grin to each other, and improvise an unusually melancholy dirge as they trot me away down the bund. On that broad promenade we meet many acquaintances, and more than one pale-faced lady, sauntering languidly along in search of cooling breezes from the river, but finding, I fear, only warm puffs of heavily-laden air, redolent of dead drowned Chinamen who daily float down with the tide. Arrived at the jetty, abreast of which the good schooner Fortuna lies moored, Esmond lifts m...e out of the chair into his sanpau (///. , three planks), or sculling-boat, which boat resembles nothing In the The Log of the Fortuna. World so much as half a walnut-shell, except, indeed, a whole one, when the mats that form the awning are drawn close over. By a series of sickly rolls or plunges we fetch alongside the schooner, and I am hoisted on deck. " Welcome aboard the Fortuna, " cries Esmond. His vessel is as dainty a little clipper as one could wish to set eyes on ; black, sharp, and rakish in hull and spars ; clean and spot- lessly white about her decks.
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