“Go and argue with the flies of summer that there is a power divine yet greater than the sun in the heavens, but never dare hope to convince the people of the South that there is any other God than Gold.”— KINGLAKE.
No “saint-seducing gold” has been permitted to ruffle1 this placidity2. Gold! Our ears were tickled3 by the tale that good folks had actually thrilled when we slunk away to our Island. Rumour4 wagged her tongue, abusing God’s great gift of speech, until scared Truth fled. She said — how cheap is notoriety! — that secret knowledge of hidden wealth which good luck had revealed during our holiday camp had induced us to surreptitiously secure the land, that in our own good time we might selfishly gloat over untold5 gold! Some came frankly6 to prospect7 our hills and gullies, others shamefacedly, when our backs were turned; for had it not been foretold8 that gold was certain to be found on the Island, and were not the invincible9 truths of geology verified by our covert10 ways? Had not one of the natives told of a lump so weighty that no man might lift it and on which hungry generation after hungry generation had pounded nuts? Had not another used a nugget as a plummet11 for his fishing-line? It mattered not that the sordidly12 battered13 lump proved to be an ingot of crude copper14 — probably portion of the ballast from some ancient wrecks15 — and that Truth was sulking down some very remote well when the fable16 of the golden sinker was invented. Ordinary men — men of the type whom Kinglake designated “Poor Mr. Reasonable Man”— men with common sense, in fact, the very commonest of sense — were not to be beguiled17 by the plain statement that apparently18 sane19 individuals wilfully20 ventured into solitude22 for the mere23 privilege of living. Gold must be the real attraction — all else fictitious24, said they. “They have” [Rumour is speaking] “the option of an unwitnessed reef, sensationally25, romantically rich, or know of a piratically and solemnly secreted26 hoard27.” Indeed, we did think to enjoy our option, but over something more precious than gold.
But one visitor was so confidentially28 certain about the gold that he boldly made a proposition to share it. A fair exchange it was to be. He would, then and there, lead to a shaft30 60 feet deep, and deep in the jungle, too, at a spot so artfully concealed31 that no mortal man could ever unguided hope to find it, where was to be revealed a reef — a rich reef blasted by the mere refractoriness32 of the ore, a disadvantage which would vanish like smoke before a man of means. To this sure and certain source of fortune he would provide safe and speedy conduct if on our part we would with like frankness confide29 in him our secret.
Our lack of secret, was it not boldly writ33 on our faces? But it was fair to assume an air of mystery. “Our secret,” said we, “is more desirable than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Yours, at the best, is but dross34!”
The very worst that could happen would be the discovery on this spot of anything more precious than an orchid35. Gold, which would transform the Isle36 into a desert, is therefore selfishly concealed, and the reason for the concealment37 remains38 an incomprehensible enigma39. Was it not the pinnacle40 of folly41 to retire to an Island where gold was not to be gotten either by the grace of God or by barter42 or strife43 with man? So bold a foolishness was incredible. Yet we get more out of the life of incredible folly than the wise who think of gold and little else but gold.
The singular perfection of our undertaking44 —“the rarity to run mad without a cause, without the least constraint45 or necessity,” the exercise of that “refined and exquisite46 passion”— stamped me a disciple47 of Don Quixote, and such I remain.
Some ancient said that the more folly a man puts into life the more he lives — a precept48 in which I steadfastly49 believe, provided the folly is of the wholesome50 kind and on a sufficient and calculated scale.
For several years prior to our descent no blacks had been resident on the Island. After the blotting51 out of the great multitude, the visits of its descendants had been irregular and brief. Therefore — and the assurance is almost superfluous52 — most of the evidences of the characteristics of the race had, in the course of nature, been obliterated53. A few frescoes54 adorning55 remote rock shelters, a few pearl shell fish-hooks, stone axes and, hammers, a rude mortar56 or two (merely granite57 rocks in which shallow depressions had been worn by the pounding of nuts), shells on the sites of camps, scars of stone axes on a few trees — these were the only relics58 of the departed race.
Has a decade of occupation by wilful21 white folks wrought59 any permanent change in the stamp of Nature? None, save the exotic plants, that time, fire, and “white ants” might not consume. My kitchen midden is less conspicuous60 than those of the blacks, and, decently interred61, glass and china shards62 the only lasting63 evidence thereof, for the few fragments of iron speedily corrode64 to nothingness in this damp and saline air. Unwittingly the blacks handed down specimens65 of their handicraft — the pearl shell fish-hooks, a thousand times more durable66 in this climate than hooks of steel. Geologists67 tell us that shells with iridescent68 colours are found in clays of such ancient date that if stated in centuries an indefinite number of millions would have to be assigned to them. It is not strange, then, that some of my pearl shell hooks are as lustrous69 and sharp to-day as when the careless maker70 mislaid them in the sand for me to find half a century later. We leave no records on the land itself which would betray us after the lapse71 of half a dozen years. Is it not humiliating to find that the white man as the black records his most durable domestic history in rubbish, easily expungible by clean-fingered time?
Is humanity ever free from worries? What it has not it invents. Remote though we are from the disturbance72 of other folk’s troublous cries, the ocean does not afford complete exemption73 from the sight of the shocking insecurity of the street.
One memorable74 day, casually75 glancing at the mainland, I saw on the beach something moving at astonishing speed. Whereupon the telescope was brought to bear, and to my dismay revealed, actually and without fiction, a practical spring cart, drawn76 by a real horse at a trot77, which horse was driven (as far as the telescope was credible) by a man! Over four years have elapsed since I saw any wheeled vehicle other than my own barrow — the speed of which is sedate78 (for I am a sedate and determined79 man, and refuse to be flurried by my own barrow). Nervousness and excitement began to play. Thank the propitious80 stars, two miles and more of mighty81 ocean separated me from the furious car. Otherwise, who may say? I might in my confusion have been unable to avoid disaster. This place is becoming thrilling. Let me move farther from the rush and bewilderment of traffic. Let me flee to some more secluded82 scene, where my sight, unsoiled hitherto by motor-car, may for ever preserve most excellent virginity. I have since made inquiries83, and have been assured that the nerve-shocking juggernaut of the opposite beach is palsied — liable, indeed, to dissolution at any moment. When the collapse84 occurs I propose to venture across to inspect the remains and renew youthful memories of the species of conveyance85 to which it belonged.
How do we spend our day? How fill up the blank spaces? Goats are to be milked’, fowls86 to be fed, dough87 to be kneaded, breakfast to be prepared, firewood to be cut, house to be looked after. Most of the substantial improvements have long since been finished, but there is no place but has to be kept in repair. One day, a week practically, is bestowed88 on the steamer. All odd moments and every evening are devoted89 to books.
During the cool season, when day tides range low, hours are passed on the coral reef, as often as conscience permits, in contemplation of the life of that crowded area. Seldom do we leave the Island, and rarely does any but a casual visitor break in on our privacy. Satisfied of the unpotentiality of wealth, here we materialise those dreams of happiness which are the enchantment90 of youth, the resolve of maturity91, the solace92 of old age. Let other questants abandon hope, for I have found the philosopher’s stone.
My concerns are far too engrossing93 to permit my mind to wander on the trivial, unreal, incomprehensible affairs of the Commonwealth94, for the command of which practical politicians continuously grapple, though, I am one of those who mourn for democracy, since democracy has chosen to indulge in such hazardous95 experiments. The Government of a country which gives equal voice in the election of its representatives to university professor and unrepentant Magdalene is not altogether in a wholesome way, even though over a dozen Houses of Parliament clamour to manufacture its laws.
It is enough for me to possess the Isle of Desire — the evergreen96 isle that “sluttish time” has never besmeared with ruin — where one may wander whithersoever the mood of the moment wills, or loll in the shade of scented97 trees, or thread the sunless mazes98 of the jungle — that region of shadow where all the leaves are dumb — listening for faint, ineffective sounds, or bask99 on the sand — on clean, unviolated, mica-bespangled sand — dreamily gazing over a sea of flashing reflections where fitful zephyrs100, soft as the shadows of clouds, alone make blueness visible.
The individual whose wants are few — who is content, who has no treasure to guard, whose rights there is none to dispute; who is his own magistrate101, postman, architect, carpenter, painter, boat-builder, boatman, tinker, goatherd, gardener, woodcutter, water-carrier, and general labourer; who has been compelled to chip the superfine edges of his sentiments with the repugnant craft of the butcher; who, heedless of rule and method, adjusts the balance between wholesome toil102 and whole-hearted ease; who has a foolish love for the study of Nature; who has a sense of fellowship with animate103 and inanimate things; who endeavours to learn the character and the purpose of varied104 forms of life; whose jurisdiction105 extends over fifteen sacrosanct106 isles107; who is never happier than when reading — need never bewail the absence of human schemes and sounds or fret108 under the galling109 burden of idleness. Here is no bell to affright; nor are we subject to the bidding or liable to the assault of any passer by. Smooth-flowing time knows not mud or any foulness110, while its impassive surface, burnished111 by August sunshine, reflects fair scenes and silent doings.
The freedom from care, the vague sense of selfish property in the whole scheme of Nature, the delicious discovery of the virtues112 of solitude, the loveliness of this most gay and youthful earth, and the tones of the pleasant-voiced and often surly sea fill me with joy and embellish113 hope — vague and unsubstantial — for is not this Isle the “place where one may have many thoughts and not decide anything”?
For all my occupations, I am often driven to “dialogue with my shadow” for lack of less subservient114 auditor115, and though, as the years pass, I find that I become more loose of soul and in broad daylight indulge the liberty of muttering my affairs and addressing animals and plants and of confiding116 secrets to the chaste117 moon — poets and dramatists term such incontinence of speech soliloquy and employ it for the utterance118 of edifying119 inspiration — it is because it is impossible to be ever quite alone. Not so very long ago in Merrie England if a person muttered to himself it was enough on which to establish a charge of wizardry; but it is also said that real witches and wizards, though subject to the most ticklish120 tests, never perspired121 — a default which hastened conviction. Therein is my hope of salvation122. If it be my fate some day to be found
“With age grown double,
Picking dry sticks and mumbling123 to myself.”
I shall claim a profuse124 prerogative125, and continue to saunter down into the gloom at the foot of the hill of life unblinking in the sun.
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untold
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frankly
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plummet
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sordidly
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battered
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copper
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fable
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beguiled
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apparently
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sane
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wilful
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solitude
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fictitious
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confide
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shaft
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concealed
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refractoriness
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dross
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orchid
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concealment
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enigma
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pinnacle
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folly
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barter
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strife
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undertaking
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constraint
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exquisite
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disciple
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precept
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wholesome
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blotting
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superfluous
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obliterated
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adorning
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granite
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geologists
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