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The Mutineer
Louis Becke
The Mutineer
Louis Becke
IT was night at Tahiti, in the Society Islands. The trade-wind had died away, and a bright flood of shimmering moonlight poured down upon the slumbering waters of a little harbour a few miles distant from Matavai Bay, and the white curve or beach that fringed the darkened line of palms shone and glistened like a belt of ivory under the effulgence of its rays. For nearly half a mile the broad sweep of dazzling sand showed no interruption nor break upon its surface save at one spot; there it ran out into a long narrow point, on which, under a small cluster of graceful cocos, growing almost at the water's edge, a canoe was drawn up. Seated upon the platform of the outrigger, and conversing in low tones, were a man and woman. The man was an European, dressed in the uniform of a junior naval officer at the end of the last century. He was of medium height, with a dark, gipsy-like complexion and wavy brown hair, and as he drew the woman's face to him and kissed her, her skin showed not so dark as his.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 8, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781985274365 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 234 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 12 mm · 317 g |
Language | English |
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