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Certainly not with the buckshot. If any of them lost the number of their mess it would be just now in the river." "Drowned?" "Oh, no. They swim like seals. It would be through some of the natives below: old friends of theirs." Brace felt a shudder run through him as he glanced down over the side, where the water glided deep and dark now from where they were sailing to the tree-clothed shore.
The crushers of pulp and the sawyers of logs had done their dirty work thoroughly; their acids and their sawdust poisoned and choked; their devastation turned the tree-clothed hill flanks to arid lumps of sand and rock. He said aloud, "to think of these trees being turned into newspapers!" He looked up at her whimsically. "The least I can do is to help grow them again.
Looking seaward, amidst the dancing, sparkling wavelets, rose numerous tree-clothed islets, making a perfectly beautiful seascape. On either side of the stretch of beach fantastic masses of rock lay about, as if scattered by some tremendous explosion. Where the sea reached them, they were covered with untold myriads of oysters, ready to be eaten and of delicious flavour. What need to say more?
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