Cursed

CursedSlashed across the copper bowl of sunset, the jagged silhouette of tawny-shouldered mountains, fringed with areca-palms in...
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Author: England, George Allan,1877-1936
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Language: English
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Cursed

Cursed

€6,21

Cursed

€6,21
Author: England, George Allan,1877-1936
Format: eBook
Language: English

Cursed

Slashed across the copper bowl of sunset, the jagged silhouette of tawny-shouldered mountains, fringed with areca-palms in black fretwork against the swift-fading glow, divided the tropic sky. Above, day yet lingered. Below, nights dim shroud, here and there spangled with glow-lights still or moving, had already folded earth in its obscurity. Down from that mountain crest the descending slopes fell through grove and plantation to the drowned paddy-fields and to the miasmatic swamps, brooded by settling mists like thin, white breath of ghosts that in this Malay land all men gave faith to. Nearer still, it reached the squalid campong of Batu Kawan. Batu Kawan, huddled in filth, disorder and disease between the steaming arsenical green of the lowlands and the muddy idleness of the boat-jammed Timbago River. Batu Kawan, whence the New Bedford clipper-ship, Silver Fleece, should have sailed two hours ago on the high tide, this 18th day of February, 1868. Batu Kawan, pestilent, malodorous, sinister, swarming with easy life, hemmed round with easier death. William Scurlock, mate, was looking townward, leaning with crossed arms on rail. The umber smudge[2] of half-light in the sky, fading over the torn edge of the mountains, revealed something of his blond bigness, freckled, weather-bitten, with close-cropped hair, a scarred jaw and hard teeth that gripped his cutty-pipe in bulldog fashion. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 48068
Author: England, George Allan
Release Date: Jan 25, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Stein, Modest, 1871-1958

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