When them long arm
catch them place, and them short arm catch them place, you call me
in the morning time." Exit - silence - then:
"You sabe half-past
five o'clock? When them long arm - " Oh, if I were a watchman!
Anyhow, that five o'clocker will have the whole ship's company
roused in the morning time.
June 7th. - Every one called in the morning time by the reflex row
from the rousing of the five o'clocker. Glorious morning. The
scene the reversal of that of last night. The forest to the east
shows a deep blue-purple, mounted on a background that changes as
you watch it from daffodil and amethyst to rose-pink, as the sun
comes up through the night mists. The moon sinks down among them,
her pale face flushing crimson as she goes; and the yellow-gold
sunshine comes, glorifying the forest and gilding the great sweep of
tufted papyrus growing alongside the bank; and the mist vanishes,
little white flecks of it lingering among the water reeds and lying
in the dark shadows of the forest stems. The air is full of the
long, soft, rich notes of the plantain warblers, and the uproar
consequent upon the Move taking on fuel wood, which comes alongside
in canoe loads from the Fallaba.
Pere Steinitz and Mr. Woods are busy preparing their respective
canoes for their run to Fernan Vaz through the creek. Their canoes
are very fine ones, with a remarkably clean run aft.
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