He would not risk the ship in the narrow inland watersand the convoluted channels of the delta. The longboat was still on the beach and as he rode up theboatswain called to him, We was just about to give you up, Colonel. They could see its eye, small for such girth and length of body. In the middle of the afternoon the door opened again and Slow John cameout into the courtyard.
It wasstrange to see tears squeezing out of his empty eye socket. It was decorated with crowns and dolphins and sea sprites gatheredaround the heroic figure of Neptune enthroned. Suddenly he was startled by the crash of gunfire from the deck below, Along dense plume of smoke billowed out and the ship heeled slightly atthe discharge. They passed many small villages of thatched bee-hive huts, similar tothe one in which Tweti lived.
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