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Updated: May 29, 2025
He charged me to say if he did not happen to run against you as he was returning the cockboat that he would be at the creek-head punctually at nine-thirty to await us." Two hours later Captain Branscome sent word for me to attend him in his cabin.
Sounding with our paddles, we found a good depth of water under the raft, lit a lantern, and pushed on, my father promising that we should discover a village or at least a hamlet at the creek-head. "And you will find the inhabitants your subjects, Prosper hospitable, too.
"Faugh!" exclaimed Miss Belcher, looking about her and sniffing suspiciously. "A pretty place enough, but full of malaria, or I'm a Dutchwoman! And what a horrible silence!" "Malaria?" said Mr. Rogers, quietly. "There's better scent than malaria in this valley, and we're hot on it. Here's the river, and What does the chart say, boy? Five trees, a mile and a half from the creek-head?
But these apprehensions proved to be groundless. As we rowed around the bend next morning into view of the creek-head the man stood there alone, awaiting us. He saw us at once, and lifted his hat in welcome. "Do you know him, Harry?" asked Miss Belcher. "No," said I, pretty confidently, and then "But, yes in the garden, that evening the day you went up to Plymouth for the sale!" "Eh?
The upper portion of the beach, if I mistook not, remained uncovered at the top of any ordinary tides, and it wanted yet a good two hours to high-water, so that I had not the smallest doubt of being able to reach the creek-head, no matter at what point of the foreshore I might descend.
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