This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE autumn monsoon change was approaching, and to please the faithful Toko I had agreed to go fishing with him. Just before sunrise I heard him hammering at the outer door. "There's a calm!" he shouted. "The sea is quite still by the reef and the canoe is ready! Hurry up, it is, good ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE autumn monsoon change was approaching, and to please the faithful Toko I had agreed to go fishing with him. Just before sunrise I heard him hammering at the outer door. "There's a calm!" he shouted. "The sea is quite still by the reef and the canoe is ready! Hurry up, it is, good weather for turtles!" One of Toko's convictions was that he could feel instinctively the best time to catch turtles. When he got such an idea in his head nothing could dampen his ardour. Ali tried to prevent my going. She always disapproved of fishing, because women were not allowed to join in. She flung her arms round me, exclaiming that she had had a bad dream in the night. But, feeling sorry for Toko, I succeeded in calming her, promising, however, to return early. We paddled slowly westwards towards the reef, which at low water formed a long, narrow, flat island. Toko kept insisting that it was turtlecatching weather, and was therefore not keen on fishing. Nevertheless, we put out our bamboo dredger when we were half-way across, drawing it gently after us at the end of a long rotang line. The weather was wonderful, the air more dazzlingly clear and the water more transparent than I had ever seen them before. We could plainly distinguish the gorgeous coral flowers deep at the bottom of the lagoon, covered with hundreds of weird parasitic molluscs swaying to and fro with the motion of the water. Toko sat at the bow, staring straight ahead, and after paddling for more than an hour without catching the slightest glimpse of anything resembling the head or back of a turtle, he decided to lie in under the reef and wait. We remained there for what seemed an interminable time, peering round in all directions without daring to move. At last I lost...
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