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Updated: May 7, 2025
Sandflies do not venture into the dark huts, and a "smudge" keeps them aloof, but the disease is more tolerable than the remedy of inflaming the eyes with acrid smoke and of sitting in a close box, by courtesy termed a room, when the fine pure air makes one pine to be beyond walls.
Nearly half the Indians had thrown themselves into the sea; the remaining dozen had either been knocked in the head like beeves, or were stuck, like so many porkers. The dead bodies followed the living into the sea. Old Smudge alone remained, at the moment of which I have spoken.
In the short struggle which he had passed, he had actually dropped his pike, to knock an Indian down with his fist; bundling the fellow through a port without ceremony, ere he had time to help himself. But he disdained striking Smudge, with such odds against him; and he went to the helm, himself, bidding Neb secure the prisoner.
"Good memory in a good cause," said Captain Clark, rubbing her smarting areas. "But any sort of smoke will drive them away. A brisk breeze is the best disperser of flying squadrons, though, whether they be of mosquitoes or black flies. That beats even a smudge, and is much more pleasant." "Yes, I don't care to look like a ham or a flitch of bacon," murmured Grace. "Oh, how they sting!"
There must be plenty of them down at that creek." "Down there!" exclaimed Euphemia. "Why there are thousands of them here! I never saw anything like it. They're getting worse every minute." "I'll tell you what we must do," I exclaimed, jumping up. "We must make a smudge." "What's that? do you rub it on yourself?" asked Euphemia, anxiously. "No, it's only a great smoke.
During the long evenings the two sat close to the smudge of the camp-fire and talked of many things, while the women listened. But of the three it was the girl who most interested him. She was his almost constant companion, silent and subtle at times, and with the inborn subtlety of women she defied his most skilful attempts to share her thoughts.
He shrugged his shoulders with the gesture he had acquired abroad. "I did take it down, but it left a smudge on the wall, so I had to put it back again." "Then you sometimes think of me?" she enquired, with curiosity. "Not when I can help it," he retorted, laughing.
The skill of Watkins alone kept us afloat, and even his iron muscles must be strained to the limit. Forward the boat was a mere smudge, the men curled up asleep and no longer visible. All that stood out with any distinctness of outline was the lug sail, stiff as a board. I endeavored to turn my head, without disturbing the slumbering girl, to gain view of the steersman.
"The boy cleared it away with the rest of the things, sir," was the answer. "Let the boy be sent for," said Mr Du Pre. Bobby Smudge soon came rolling along, hitching up his trousers as he approached the capstern. There was a wicked look in the young rascal's eye, which made me suspect he knew all about the matter.
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