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Chapter 4. Friendship and Treachery
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The Sari proved a most erratic1 craft. She might have done well enough upon a park lagoon2 if safely anchored, but upon the bosom3 of a mighty4 ocean she left much to be desired.
Sailing with the wind she did her best; but in quartering or when close-hauled she drifted terribly, as a nautical5 man might have guessed she would. We couldn’t keep within miles of our course, and our progress was pitifully slow.
Instead of making for the island of Anoroc, we bore far to the right, until it became evident that we should have to pass between the two right-hand islands and attempt to return toward Anoroc from the opposite side.
As we neared the islands Perry was quite overcome by their beauty. When we were directly between two of them he fairly went into raptures7; nor could I blame him.
The tropical luxuriance of the foliage8 that dripped almost to the water’s edge and the vivid colors of the blooms that shot the green made a most gorgeous spectacle.
Perry was right in the midst of a flowery panegyric9 on the wonders of the peaceful beauty of the scene when a canoe shot out from the nearest island. There were a dozen warriors11 in it; it was quickly followed by a second and third.
Of course we couldn’t know the intentions of the strangers, but we could pretty well guess them.
Perry wanted to man the sweeps and try to get away from them, but I soon convinced him that any speed of which the Sari was capable would be far too slow to outdistance the swift, though awkward, dugouts of the Mezops.
I waited until they were quite close enough to hear me, and then I hailed them. I told them that we were friends of the Mezops, and that we were upon a visit to Ja of Anoroc, to which they replied that they were at war with Ja, and that if we would wait a minute they’d board us and throw our
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rigidity
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savage
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prow
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intervals
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gulf
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apparently
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remarkable
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prospector
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maritime
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oversee
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prosecuting
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