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Updated: May 28, 2025
The Simoon sailed steadily upward till the day wore by, by which time she was a good many miles above the metropolis. It was no more than fairly dark when Sam managed to whisper in the ear of the boy, "You mus' leab de boat to-night!"
"This is the Simoon, last boat of the season from outside northern points. We had to put into Wrangel, which we rarely do. The Roanoke berthed right across the wharf from us. Got aboard us by mistake, did you?" Thompson nodded. "Well," the officer continued, "sometimes the longest way round is the shortest way home. We don't touch this side the Golden Gate.
And then then all is mystery and terror, and a tale which should not be told. Disease a fatal disease, fell like the simoon upon her frame; and, even while I gazed upon her, the spirit of change swept over her, pervading her mind, her habits, and her character, and, in a manner the most subtle and terrible, disturbing even the identity of her person!
The next morning the Simoon left the wharf and started up the Hudson. Mr. Hornblower had decided to effect a "change of venue." But for the dark fear which impended over him, James Travers would have looked upon his sail up the Hudson on that spring morning as one of the most delightful experiences of his life.
Like dust, when the simoon blows through the chinks of a wooden house, they crowd into the houses and temples, taint our manners and language; nay, on the throne of the successors of Ra sits a descendant "
I never took the veil from my face from sunrise to sunset, for had I done so, I should have had the hot sand immediately into them. We had ghiblee or simoon every day. But, thanks to Heaven, now ends the greatest of my sufferings from heat. We were escorted by sixty Arab troops on foot, like those who escorted us from Tripoli to The Mountains.
Like dust, when the simoon blows through the chinks of a wooden house, they crowd into the houses and temples, taint our manners and language; nay, on the throne of the successors of Ra sits a descendant "
The latter seemed to find everything all right on board the schooner, and departed, apparently without noticing the boy standing near, who watched their motions with great interest. The Simoon lay at the wharf all night, which was unusually mild for that season of the year. The cabin door was open and the negro was on duty, while one of the men was asleep in the hammock over Jim's head.
"Very un-sanitary," said Whinney, "a blackbird ... in the spring ... very un-sanitary." We laughed feebly. Suddenly, as they do in the tropics, an extraordinary thing happened. A simoon, a monsoon and a typhoon met, head on, at the exact corner of the equator and the 180th meridian. We hadn't noticed one of them, they had given us no warning or signal of any kind.
Love was her excuse when first she went astray, and she hugs the delusion to her heart that Cupid can sanctify a crime; but where honor spreads not its wings of snow love perishes in the fierce simoon of lust. The man with whom she enters the primrose path feels that he is as good as his fellows.
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