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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Marooned on Mataora HE sun was low when the Faaite steamed out through the pass and headed for the Cook group, six hundred miles west and south. Dark clouds hung over Raiatea ?Rangi Atea of Maori tradition, the Land of the Bright Heavens?but the level sunlight still illuminated the hillsides of Tahaa, th..., Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Marooned on Mataora HE sun was low when the Faaite steamed out through the pass and headed for the Cook group, six hundred miles west and south. Dark clouds hung over Raiatea ?Rangi Atea of Maori tradition, the Land of the Bright Heavens?but the level sunlight still illuminated the hillsides of Tahaa, the lovely sister island, protected by the same great oval reef. Far off to the north, the peak of Bora Bora towered abruptly from the sea. It was not yet the season of the Trades, and the northeast breeze which followed us brought a sweltering heat, intolerable anywhere but on deck. Worth- ington was sitting beside me?a lean man, darkly tanned, with very bright blue eyes. His feet were bare; he wore a singlet, trousers of white drill, and a Manihiki hat?beautifully plaited of bleached pandanus leaf? a hat not to be bought with money. The dinner gong sounded. "I'm not going down," he remarked; "too hot below. I had something to eat at Uturoa. How about you?" I shook my head?it needed more than a normal appetite to drive one to the dining saloon. Banks ofsquall cloud, shading from gray to an unwholesome violet, were gathering along the horizon, and the air was so heavy that one inhaled it with an effort. "This is the worst month of the hurricane season," Worthington went on; "it was just such an evening as this, last year, that the waterspout nearly got us ?the night we sighted Mataora. I was five months up there, you know?marooned when Johnson lost the old Htiiulu. "I was pretty well done up last year, and when I heard that the Hatutu was at Avarua I decided to take a vacation and go for a six weeks' cruise with Johnson. Ordinarily he would have been laid up in Papeete until after the equinox, but the company had sent for him to make a special trip to P... Productinformatie: Taal: Engels; Afmetingen: 22x234x156 mm; Gewicht: 694,00 gram; ISBN10: 1341798054; ISBN13: 9781341798054; Product breedte: 156 mm; Product hoogte: 24 mm; Product lengte: 234 mm; , Engels | Hardcover, Studie & Management, Mens & Maatschappij, Geschiedenis, Geschiedenis en politiek, Meer geschiedenis en politiek, Meer, Palala Press<

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