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Updated: May 22, 2025
The bungalows and stores were built of heavy bamboo and gum-wood; sprawly, one-storied affairs; for the typhoon was no stranger in these waters. Deep verandas ran around the bungalows, with bamboo drops which were always down in the daytime, fending off the treacherous sunshine. White men never went abroad without helmets.
Hamilton was conscious of a lump in his throat at the simple faithfulness of the mountain boy, and he said gently: "Very well, Bill, if you feel that way about it, of course I'll try. But you haven't told me his name as yet." "I was thinkin' o' that," the boy answered. Then he took from his pocket a home-made gum-wood case, and opening it, took out a small piece of paper and handed it to Hamilton.
These are all supposed to have been driven by the north-west monsoon to the coast of New Holland, and thence to these islands by the south-east trade-wind. Large masses of Java teak and Yellow wood have also been found, besides immense trees of red and white cedar, and the blue gum-wood of New Holland, in a perfectly sound condition.
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