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But nowhere was there any sign of human habitation; no palm-roofed huts, no canoes, no figures crossing the open spaces between the trees. And not only man, but even animals seemed wanting here.
"It seems to me the sunny day is dark." I said, "In the main all things work together, and in the end is honey." Out they came from palm-roofed house, the Admiral of the Ocean-Sea and Viceroy of what Indies he could find for Spain and Spain could take, and the Indian king or grandee or princeling. Perceiving that what he did was appreciated for what it was, Guacanagari had recovered his lameness.
Until we came actually in sight of this great ranch-house we had been passing through a hot, fertile, pleasant wilderness, where the few small palm-roofed houses, each in its little patch of sugar-cane, corn, and mandioc, stood very many miles apart.
He halted, faced the double line of women, mostly elderly, seated on the palm-roofed dais extending the length of that end of the ballroom. "Hel-LO!" called he. "Just the person I was looking for. How is Margaret this evening?" "As you see," replied the girl, unfurling the long fan of eagle plumes with which she had tapped him.
They turned and looked dubiously at the town a row of perhaps seventy iron-walled and palm-roofed houses set on high palm-trunk poles, each with its ladder dropping from the doorway to the one muddy street. Then spoke the tall man. "Before you see it again, Tim, you'll think it's quite a town. Above here is nothing but a few rubber estates, seven hundred miles of unknown river, and empty jungle."
Almost in a whisper she began to repeat the verse of Fiona Macleod, for which, she remembered, Hannaford had begged twice over, as they two sat on the palm-roofed terrace built over the sea: "'Play me a lulling chant, O Anthem-Maker, Out of the fall of lonely seas and the wind's sorrow.
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