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Updated: June 22, 2025
We parted at the chief's house, Bill to secure provisions, and I to unmoor a boat, and bring her round to a lonely bay on the coast, where my companion was to join me. I accomplished my task without the slightest difficulty, selected a light craft, they did not use canoes, but rowed boats like coracles, and was lying at anchor, moored with a heavy stone, in the bay.
Huge clouds of fantastic shapes chased each other desperately along the horizon, and now and then the slender new moon glanced forth from the deep blue gulfs between. She chose a boat at random and was about to unmoor it, when she saw the figure of a man tread carefully over the stones and hesitatingly approach her. "Brita," came in a whisper from the strand. "Who's there?"
At length the order was given to unmoor ship, the dock gates swung open, the vessel was warped through the opening to where the tug awaited her, the towrope was passed, and presently the Concordia was heading down the river toward Gravesend, from whence, having first shipped her passengers, she was to take her final departure for the southern hemisphere.
Steamers and flat-boats continually passed his little domain; yet the traveller knew not that it was occupied by human beings. Dr. Vaudelier's pursuits were of the most simple nature. He read and wrote nearly the whole day, and in the evening, often at the dead of night, he would unmoor his yacht, and stem the tide of the mighty river. His chief happiness was in communion with nature.
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