Guinea Gold (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Guinea Gold

He had been talking with a certain slow volubility, for three or four minutes on end, when Dence broke in.

I beg your pardon, Mr. Clay, but I don't quite understand. What makes you think that he carries a paper actually under his clothes?

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Excerpt from Guinea Gold

Three men sat upon the coral shore of Samarai, and talked about a fourth.

Their six boots - four heavy and nailed, two light brown leather the worse for wear - projected over the glaring, flour-white sand, and tinkled among the broken branches and fans of coral and the derelict shells from the reef. Pink and pearl and cream, thick as carved white marble, and as thin as Eastern porcelain, were these shells: strangers admired them, and went a-hunting for them on steamer days. But, when they had their hands full, they generally threw the fruit of their toil back into the sea. The shells looked well, nevertheless, they were dead, and you could see it when you handled them. Dead shells are those that have had the life and value burned out of them by tropic suns on far-off savage shores. They are of no use to anyone; you can only leave them on the beach, to rot in the devouring sun, and end their lives where they were cast away. There are many kinds of dead shells to be found on the coral beaches, south of Cancer and north of Capricorn, and not all of them own the sea as their home.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.