The yarn of a bucko mate; his adventures in two oceans - Softcover

Hamblen, Herbert Elliott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1458984583 ISBN 13: 9781458984586

Publisher: General Books LLC, 2012

Synopsis

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.1899 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII We Meet A Samaritan--Donkeys--Castaway In The Mountain--AVE Subsist ox The Flesh Of Our ComRade--The Blue Pacific--The Old " Tornalero "--Piracy WE decided to strike back into the interior for at least two days, giving Lima a wide berth. After that--well, time enough to bid a certain gentleman good-morning when you meet him is a good old adage. Our guide led us by devious ways out of town, and having started us on the road, bade us "Buenas dias " and took the back track. We plodded along in silence and dust for awhile, each, no doubt, ruminating on the unsatisfactory result of our night's adventure. We stopped at a small stream and bathed our wounds, which were becoming swollen and painful. As I sopped the lukewarm water on my sore hand, I said to Phil, who was doing the same to his shoulder and head alternately,--"Do you remember what it was that induced us to come to this part of the world?" "Why, yes, certainly." "Well, we've hit it first-rate, have n't we? Don't we look a good deal like Oriental Nabobs now? To say nothing of how Naboby we feel. It's easy to see that the natives of this sunny land regard us as kings, if not as gods. You ought to have seen the unselfish devotion with which a dark-eyed belle felt for my wad last night. I hardly know how the natives could have shown more appreciation of us than they did. Between us we have been robbed, shot, stabbed, and kicked, and are now fugitives from justice." "Oh, well, I know we 've had a little hard luck for a starter, but you mustn't mind that. That's a good sign; shows that all our good luck is in prospect. Anyway we 're not so badly off as it is. Here we are, in a comparatively new country, where there are no poor laws to prevent us travelling on the queen's highway as long as it sui...

About this edition

• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1458984583
• ISBN 13: 9781458984586
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72