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Identifier: cruiseofkawa00chap (find matches)
Title: The cruise of the Kawa;
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Chappell, George S. (George Shepard), 1877-1946
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Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
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e robin. Sure enough, sir, said Triplett. Itll beland. Somehow we felt sure of it. In calm elation and tired expectancy we strainedour eyes through the slow crescendo of the daysbirth. Suddenly, the sun leaped over the horizonand the long crimson rays flashed forward to where,dead ahead, we could see a faint swelling on theskyline. Land-ho! we cried in voices of strangled joy. Boys, said Captain Triplett, apologetically. . . we aint got no yard-arm, but the suns upand theres land dead ahead, and I reckon . . . He paused. Through the hatchway cameWilliam Henry Thomas bearing a tray with fourlily cups. Fair as a lily . . . said Whinney (I knew hewould). Two minutes later we had fallen into heavyslumber while the Kawa steered by the faithfulTriplett, moved steadily toward our unknownhaven. Chapter II A real discovery. Polynesia analyzed. The astound-ing nature of the Filberts. Their curious sound,and its reason. We make a landing. Our firstglimpse of the natives. The value of vaudeville.
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Captain Ezra Triplett Chapter II There is nothing better, after a hurricane, thansix hours sleep. It was high noon when we wereawakened by William Henry Thomas and the odorof coffee, which drew us to the quarter-deck.There, for the first time, we were able to make anaccurate survey of our surroundings and realizethe magnitude and importance of what had be-fallen us. While we slept Captain Triplett hadwarped the denuded Kawa through a labyrinthof coral and we now lay peacefully at anchor withthe island lying close in-board. Its appearance, to put it mildly, was astonishing.Let me remind the reader that for the previousfour months we had been prowling through theSouthern Pacific meeting everywhere with dis-appointment and disillusionment. We had in-spected every island in every group noted on everymap from Mercator to Rand-McNally without 17 18 THE CRUISE OF THE KAWA finding any variation in type from, A, the lowlying coral-atoll of the well-known broken dough-nut formation, to, B, the

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