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Updated: May 6, 2025
The stopping-places are as close as beads on a thread. The doors of the carriages are guarded with gates that strike out sideways like cobras. Each sitter is allowed a space upon a divan of yellow canework. When the divans are full the surplus hang from the roof by leathers. Though our carriage was full, place was made for us.
"I shall not forget," said Corpang. Maskull gazed down at the boat. "Are we to get in?" "Gently, my friend. It's only canework and skin." "First of all, you might enlighten me as to how you have contrived to dispense with the laws of gravitation." Haunte smiled sarcastically. "A secret in your ear, Maskull. All laws are female. A true male is an outlaw outside the law." "I don't understand."
A couple of brightly burning ship's lanterns suspended from the beams overhead, revealed the figures of a score of armed natives, seated with their backs to the canework walls of the room; midway between them and the young king were two seamen's chests, beside which crouched the half-naked, tatooed form or old Kanka.
There is something comical in having to add that these clinging rattan stems, which cannot support their own weight, have a proverbial fame, and are in great request for the manufacture of walking-sticks. They are also largely imported into Great Britain for canework. Astrocaryum murumura is edible. The pulp of the fruit is said to be like that of a melon, and it has a musky odour.
Turtle were lifted from their walled-in prison holes on the reef, hogs were strangled, and the king's wives went hither and thither among his slave women, bidding them hasten to kindle the ovens, whilst children went out into the great canework cage, wherein were hundreds of the king's wild pigeons, and seizing the birds, began to pluck them alive. An hour passed.
'Wherein I am false, I am honest not true to be true. 'And would you believe it? there are soldiers in the house, at the very door of Julia's apartments. Senora Barenna, who made this remark, heaved a sigh and sat back in her canework chair with that jerkiness of action which in elderly ladies usually betokens impatience with the ways of young people.
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