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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Indeed!" said Frewen, with an air of concern, instantly surmising that the injured man was either Almanza or the Chileno sailor whom Villari had shot. "Is he getting on all right?" "Not at all well and unfortunately I do not know anything about a fractured collar-bone." Frewen replied, with perfect truth, that he had seen several broken collar-bones. Perhaps he might be of assistance.
The Chileno turned his face slowly towards him. "You shall not die alone, Señor Danvers. You shall have company good company." One evening Captain Lester of the Maritana, then lying in Sydney harbour "awaiting orders," called on Mrs. Brabant at the Royal Hotel. "I have just received this from Captain Brabant, madam," he said with studied, but cold politeness, as he handed her a letter.
She descended the ladder into the boat, and took her seat, Diaz lifted his hat, and then gave the word to push off. "Good-bye, Pedro," said Lester. The Chileno looked up. "Good-bye, Jim, old comrade."
As night came on, and the green hills of Ovalau Island changed to purple, Brabant turned suddenly to his officer. "Come below, Pedro, I want to talk to you." The Chileno followed him in silence, and the two men remained conversing in almost whispered tones for some time. "Tell me," asked the Chileno, fixing his dark eyes on the captain's face; "when did you first begin to suspect?"
People who don't know a Chileno from a Kanaka can afford to hang out liberal ideas about Chinese immigration, but a fellow that has to fight for his bone with a lot of mongrel coolies hasn't any time for foolishness."
The Chileno countrymen assert that the condor will live, and retain its vigour, between five and six weeks without eating: I cannot answer for the truth of this, but it is a cruel experiment, which very likely has been tried. I noticed that several hours before any one of the condors died, all the lice, with which it was infested, crawled to the outside feathers.
The Chileno officers, both native and foreign, certainly believed in the sincerity of their leaders, but were subsequently doomed to be miserably disappointed as regarded the chief of them.
There are very few valleys which lead to the central ranges, and the mountains are quite impassable in other parts by beasts of burden. The custom-house officers were very civil, which was perhaps partly owing to the passport which the President of the Republic had given me; but I must express my admiration at the natural politeness of almost every Chileno.
The Chileno looked at him with blazing eyes, and half raised his hand as if to strike. Then, without a word, he turned away and went on deck. Brabant was seated on the skylight with an outspread chart before him. "Keep her S.S.W., Pedro. We are steering for Hunter's Island. Set the squaresail."
Not only did the Caucasian show himself in every extreme of costume, from the most exquisite top-hatted dandy to the red-shirted miner, but there were also to be found all the picturesque and unknown races of the earth, the Chinese, the Chileño, the Moor, the Turk, the Mexican, the Spanish, the Islander, not to speak of ordinary foreigners from Russia, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the out-of-the-way corners of Europe.
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