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There is much rank grass, but it is not so high or rank as that of Angola. The maize, however, which is grown here is equal in size to that which the Americans sell for seed at the Cape. There is usually a holm adjacent to the river, studded with villages and gardens. The holms are but partially cultivated, and on the other parts grows rank and weedy grass.
The Chinese coast is dangerous, being full of reefs, holms, and shallows. Hong Kong and the adjoining seas are visited from the middle of July to the middle of September by the destructive whirlwinds called typhoons. The vortices, spinning round with tremendous rapidity, are usually formed far out in the Pacific Ocean, and gradually advance towards the mainland.
He cried aloud and whipped up his horse, so that it brought him at full gallop and dripping with sweat to the door of his cabin. The town with all its houses and buildings stood upon that side of Marstrand island which looked to landward and was protected by a wreath of holms and islets.
Out beyond the Holms the whaling ships lay at anchor, the Blue Peter flying at each forepeak, and between them and the town many boats were passing to and fro. I remember the day, not so much in connection with the whaling ships themselves as by the fact that their sailing fixes upon my memory the date of other more personal events which I am about to set forth in the following pages.
Under these directions the barque was guided through the easiest channels into the smooth water inside the Holms, where the anchor was dropped and the vessel secured. Captain Gordon, who had been very kind to me during all this time, procured me a can of hot coffee to send away my chill.
But when we came over Brent Knoll, on our way back to my place and Alswythe's at Cannington, there lay the black ships under the holms yet, and there, too, were the burnt walls of our houses, though these were rising up again as the king's men wrought at them.
One might be coming to an oasis in the boundless Sahara. Breakers dash against the outer side of the ring, but the lagoon within is smooth as a mirror in the lea of the corals and palms. Four thousand natives of Polynesian race live on the holms of the "Island Cloud," a couple of hundred on each atoll.
And then you and me wad gang and pouss our fortunes, like the folk i' the daft auld tales about Jock the Giant-killer and Valentine and Orson; and we wad come back to merry Scotland, as the sang says, and I wad tak to the stilts again, and turn sic furs on the bonny rigs o' Milnwood holms, that it wad be worth a pint but to look at them."
"Dear and great angel, wouldst thou only leave That child, when thou hast done with him, for me!" Poor lonely Elsie! She, too, desired to feel the soft, white wings close round her, shutting out all miseries of trouble and doubt, and enfolding her in their healing atmosphere of peace. "About the windings of the maze to hear The soft wind blowing. Over meadowy holms And alders, garden aisles."
Not much of this world's goods had they, but they were rich in love, and hope, and faith, compared with which all earthly riches are but dross. The old house at The Holms seemed very lone and desolate, now that its fair mistress had departed.
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