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The Castaways
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CHAPTER ONE.
A CASTAWAY CREW.
A boat upon the open sea--no land in sight!
It is an open boat, the size and form showing it to be the pinnace of a
merchant-ship.
It is a tropical sea, with a fiery sun overhead, slowly coursing through
a sky of brilliant azure.
The boat has neither sail nor mast. There are oars, but no one is using
them. They lie athwart the tholes, their blades dipping in the water,
with no hand upon the grasp.
And yet the boat is not empty. Seven human forms are seen within it,--
six of them living, and one dead.
Of the living, four are full-grown men; three of them white, the fourth
of an umber-brown, or _bistre_ colour. One of the white men is tall,
dark and bearded, with features bespeaking him either a European or an
American, though their somewhat elongated shape and classic regularity
would lead to a belief that he is the latter, and in all probability a
native of New York. And so he is.
The features of the white man sitting nearest to him are in strange
contrast to his, as is also the colour of his hair and skin. The hair
is of a carroty shade, while his complexion, originally reddish, through
long exposure to a tropical sun exhibits a yellowish, freckled
appearance. The countenance so marked is unmistakably of Milesian type.
So it should be, as its owner is an Irishman.
The third white man, of thin, lank frame, with face almost beardless,
pale cadaverous cheeks, and eyes sunken in their sockets, and there
rolling wildly, is one of those nondescripts who may be English, Irish,
Scotch, or American. His dress betokens him to be a seaman, a common
sailor.
He of the brown complexion, with flat spreading nose, high cheek-bones,
oblique eyes, and straight, raven black hair, is evidently a native of
the East, a Malay.
The two other living figures in the boat are those of a boy and girl.
They are white. They differ but little in size, and but a year or two
in age, the girl being fourteen and the boy about sixteen. There is
also a resemblance in their features. They are brother and sister.
A CASTAWAY CREW.
A boat upon the open sea--no land in sight!
It is an open boat, the size and form showing it to be the pinnace of a
merchant-ship.
It is a tropical sea, with a fiery sun overhead, slowly coursing through
a sky of brilliant azure.
The boat has neither sail nor mast. There are oars, but no one is using
them. They lie athwart the tholes, their blades dipping in the water,
with no hand upon the grasp.
And yet the boat is not empty. Seven human forms are seen within it,--
six of them living, and one dead.
Of the living, four are full-grown men; three of them white, the fourth
of an umber-brown, or _bistre_ colour. One of the white men is tall,
dark and bearded, with features bespeaking him either a European or an
American, though their somewhat elongated shape and classic regularity
would lead to a belief that he is the latter, and in all probability a
native of New York. And so he is.
The features of the white man sitting nearest to him are in strange
contrast to his, as is also the colour of his hair and skin. The hair
is of a carroty shade, while his complexion, originally reddish, through
long exposure to a tropical sun exhibits a yellowish, freckled
appearance. The countenance so marked is unmistakably of Milesian type.
So it should be, as its owner is an Irishman.
The third white man, of thin, lank frame, with face almost beardless,
pale cadaverous cheeks, and eyes sunken in their sockets, and there
rolling wildly, is one of those nondescripts who may be English, Irish,
Scotch, or American. His dress betokens him to be a seaman, a common
sailor.
He of the brown complexion, with flat spreading nose, high cheek-bones,
oblique eyes, and straight, raven black hair, is evidently a native of
the East, a Malay.
The two other living figures in the boat are those of a boy and girl.
They are white. They differ but little in size, and but a year or two
in age, the girl being fourteen and the boy about sixteen. There is
also a resemblance in their features. They are brother and sister.
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