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Updated: June 7, 2025
They were greatly helped by the tide flowing towards Burra Isle. Indeed, Yaspard would not have started on such a dangerous voyage if he had not calculated that he must receive great assistance from the sea itself. All he had to do was to keep himself afloat and drift with the current; but, as all swimmers know, it is often as trying to do that as to breast an opposing force.
After two or three preliminary feints for the perfect adjustment of his faculties and pose, he bounded into the air with distended talons well over his screeching playmate. The scene would be rehearsed several times before Sultan, tired of mummery and eager for actualities, slunk yawling into the bush, while Baal Burra, whimpering in the dusk, waddled home to be caged.
"Not unlike bad brick-kiln burning, with a dash of turpentine." "Carrion, you mean," said Tom Long. "No, not carrion," said Bob, picking out a good-sized fragment of the fruit upon his knife; "it's what the captain calls sui generis." "All burra sahib like durian," said the Kling, showing his white teeth.
Caballero, I am proud of yonder hills; and were I independent, and without wife or children, I would purchase a burra like that of your own which I see is an excellent one, and far superior to mine and travel amongst them till I knew all their mysteries, and had seen all the wondrous things which they contain.
Meanwhile the Osprey had gone to Gloy's geo, and deposited on a safe ledge of rock all which our Viking-boys had carried away from Trullyabister; and when that was done the marauders returned to their homes. At the breakfast-table Yaspard said to his uncle, "The Yarl of Broch asked me to come to Burra Isle to-day, if you have no objections. The Lunda boys are to be there.
Throughout the day I pressed the burra forward, only stopping once in order to feed the animal; but, notwithstanding that she played her part very well, night came on, and I was still about two leagues from Talavera.
Tom started off to try and shoot a burra sahib, as he hears and hopes they've not yet shed all their horns." "He really looked very nice in his new Pushtoo suit, with putty on his legs and chaplains on his feet.... His chickory walked in front, carrying his bandobast." After breakfast, tried on my new kilta, which I have had made quite short for walking.
When does the Lord Sahib come to open the bridge?" "In three months, when the weather is cooler." "Ho! ho! He is like the Burra Malum. He sleeps below while the work is being done. Then he comes upon the quarter-deck and touches with his finger, and says: 'This is not clean! Dam jibboonwallah!" "But the Lord Sahib does not call me a dam jibboonwallah, Peroo."
Yes; you have been a 'burra Shikarree' as well as a 'burra Sahib. You have played the great game in your work, and killed the great game in your play. How many tons of mighty monsters have you done to death, since we two were schoolboys together, five-and-twenty years ago? How many starving villages have you fed with the flesh of elephant or buffalo?
At present I can only tell you a small part of what happened during the week which the Osprey spent in cruising among the lonely skerries and holmes of Hialtland. More than once our lads had spoken a haaf-boat, and sent messages to Lunda, from whence Fred had taken care to despatch the news, "Osprey spoken. All well," to Boden and Burra Isle.
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