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For he was of decent stock, with a certain sense of the fitness of things, and the beach-combers, adventurers, rough traders and general riff-raff of the China Coast, gathered in Shanghai, did not offer him the society he desired.
He gives credit to the bleedin' beach-combers. If I meet that dirty Hobson, I'll beat him to a pulp." From under the thatched roof of our bower came the sounds of: Faararirari to oe Tamarii Tahiti La Li. The himene was in its hundredth encore.
The moral atmosphere of Waimea has never been a wholesome one. The region was very early settled by a class of what may be truly termed "mean whites," the "beach-combers" and riff-raff of the Pacific.
This is a specimen of the life of half of the Americans and English who are adrift along the coasts of the Pacific and its islands, commonly called ``beach-combers. One of the same stamp was Russell, who was master of the hide-house at San Diego while I was there, but had been afterwards dismissed for his misconduct.
Then at last they made out that there was question of a whale. Next it appeared the whale was dead; and finally, after a prolonged pantomime of gesturing and pointing, Moran guessed that the beach-combers wanted the use of the "Bertha Millner" to trice up the dead leviathan while the oil and whalebone were extracted. "That must be it," she said to Wilbur.
The moment the beach-combers had been made aware of the meditated attack, it would have been an easy matter for them to have hidden the ambergris destroyed it even. In two strides Wilbur had reached the beach-combers' dory and was groping in the forward cuddy. Then he uttered a great shout of satisfaction.
Rounding eastward past the crescent reefs of Sable Island, the ship was caught by the beach-combers and totally wrecked on the drifts of sand. Instead of sailing for Hudson Bay in the spring of 1665, Radisson and Groseillers were summoned to Boston to defend themselves in a lawsuit for the value of the lost vessel.
The usual traveler spent most of his time in and about the hotel, and from it made his trips to the country districts or to other islands. Except for two small restaurants kept by Europeans, the Tiare was the only eating-place in the capital of Tahiti unless one counted a score of dismal coffee-shops kept by Chinese, and frequented by natives, sailors, and beach-combers.
An answer in Cantonese sing-song came back from the junk, and the speaker gestured toward the outside ocean. Then a long parleying began. For upward of half an hour Moran and Wilbur listened to a proposition in broken pigeon English made by the beach-combers again and again and yet again, and were in no way enlightened. It was impossible to understand.
"If you think," retorted the clerk, stiffly, "I don't know the proper course of be'aviour! Not likely!" The tall silhouette in the window made no reply, but stood grumbling privately: "A club! Yes, where we drink out of jam-pots dead cushions, dead balls no veranda fellow that soils the inside of his cuffs first! We're a pack of beach-combers."
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