Tin Cowrie Dass
by Henry Milner Rideout (9780217406727)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III No-man's-money "No common things are happening to me." So said the castaway next morning, when he woke in his bed of gunny-bags to find a breath of dawn blowing chill white fog through the Vulture's doors; and so he told himself when the red sun burnt the river clear and hung staring above a wilderness of sand-banks everywhere, low and hot and smoky, like the broken crust of a new world. "I am alone in the Sanderbans now," he thought. This region, though he had never seen it before, could only be some bald part hidden among that labyrinth of trees and water, the vast delta where Ganges and Brahmaputra join. Far off, jungle foliage darkly swam and mingled under the mist, forming a sullen horizon. "Yes, we have reached the Many Islands. It is a creek of the Sanderbans." He leaned in the eastern doorway. "No common things have befallen," he repeated. "Yesterday I had a brother, yesterday we were to dig our garden; to-day I have a great treasure on a wreck in a doleful place, blood on my head, no name for men to call me by, and no way of returning. I am shot forth like an arrow through the leaves. No common life, henceforward. I cannot act in any common way." The Vulture lay with her forebody pressing on the port side against a sand-bank, into which her bow had cloven; but she was not grounded permanently, for the bronze flood in the creek pried slowly at her counter, to force her off once more upon her solitary voyage. "She will go," said her passenger, "before many hours. Now this was a dakaity, and therefore Checker Babu will be coming with his pirate friends to look for her." Helaughed. "Ho, ho Let them come look They will not find everything they desire " With that he took off his jacket, flung it ashore, girded up his loins, and went merr...

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