broken-notes

Updated: May 27, 2025

But proceed, Kumuhana. Do you remember anything also of what the priest Eoppo sang?" "At the very end," came the confirming nod, "though I was near dead myself, and nearer to die under the priest's knife, he sang what I have remembered every word of. Listen! It was thus." And in quavering falsetto, with the customary broken-notes, the old man sang.

Jack London - On the Makaloa Mat