This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...upon the English exploiter, calling him "naviee," and considering him only fit to dig after the manner of a negro and a slave. CHAPTER VIII. BF.CALMKD. WAS not without some feeling of relief that I hailed the approach of the day as to retrace my journey Chiloane. Not even the inary skill of Dr. Roberts, had succeeded ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...upon the English exploiter, calling him "naviee," and considering him only fit to dig after the manner of a negro and a slave. CHAPTER VIII. BF.CALMKD. WAS not without some feeling of relief that I hailed the approach of the day as to retrace my journey Chiloane. Not even the inary skill of Dr. Roberts, had succeeded in the g of what he was pleased to term a game-pie--with the aid of some carrion crows, the only birds that offered any resemblance to sport--made the prolongation of a stay attractive in my sight. The arrangeJ ment had been made before coming hither that Heavisides and myself were to return to Chiloane with the whale-boat on her retracing her course. A considerable amount of trouble was evinced in the securing of passports, without which we could not stir, nor could the captain or his crew be permitted to so much as make preliminary arrangements with the boat unless armed with these stamped and signed documents of Portuguese authority. At the "Africanda," or seat of customs, the authorities lacked the necessary stamps for the making good these precious warrants, and this involved such an amount of signing and countersigning by officials and witnesses, that had we been negotiating the purchase of the colony instead of permission to quit it, greater commotion could scarcely have taken place. Our arrangements were at last apparently brought to a conclusion when it was discovered by some shrewd limb of authority that the wife of our captain, who was to travel back with us, was the mother of an infant of some three months, and that for this precious freight a passport had not been procured. In vain was it to attempt to argue or expostulate that this precious freight was, as it were, part and parcel of the mother, a nameless none...
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