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Excerpt from The Castaways: A Story of Adventure in the Wilds of BorneoBoat upon the Open sea-no land in sight! It is an open boat, the size and form showing it to be the pinnace of a mer chant-ship.It is a tropical sea, with a fiery sun overhead, slowly coursing through a sky of brilliant azure.The boat has neither sail nor mast. There are oars, but no one is using them. They lie athwart the tholes, their blades dipping in the water, with no hand upon the grasp.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A boat upon the open sea—no land in sight!It is an open boat, the size and form showing it to be the pinnace of amerchant-ship.It is a tropical sea, with a fiery sun overhead, slowly coursing through a skyof brilliant azure.The boat has neither sail nor mast. There are oars, but no one is usingthem. They lie athwart the tholes, their blades dipping in the water, with nohand upon the grasp.And yet the boat is not empty. Seven human forms are seen within it,—sixof them living, and one dead.Of the living, four are full-grown men; three of them white, the fourth of anumber-brown, or bistre colour. One of the white men is tall, dark andbearded, with features bespeaking him either a European or an American,though their somewhat elongated shape and classic regularity would lead toa belief that he is the latter, and in all probability a native of New York. Andso he is.The features of the white man sitting nearest to him are in strange contrastto his, as is also the colour of his hair and skin. The hair is of a carrotyshade, while his complexion, originally reddish, through long exposure to atropical sun exhibits a yellowish, freckled appearance. The countenance somarked is unmistakably of Milesian type. So it should be, as its owner is anIrishman.The third white man, of thin, lank frame, with face almost beardless, palecadaverous cheeks, and eyes sunken in their sockets, and there rollingwildly, is one of those nondescripts who may be English, Irish, Scotch, orAmerican. His dress betokens him to be a seaman, a common sailor.He of the brown complexion, with flat spreading nose, high cheek-bones,oblique eyes, and straight, raven black hair, is evidently a native of the East,a Malay.

The boat has neither sail nor mast. There are oars, but no one is using them. They lie athwart the tholes, their blades dipping in the water, with no hand upon the grasp. And yet the boat is not empty. Seven human forms are seen within it,—six of them living, and one dead. Of the living, four are full-grown men; three of them white, the fourth of an umber-brown, or bistre colour. One of the white men is tall, dark and bearded, with features bespeaking him either a European or an American, though their somewhat elongated shape and classic regularity would lead to a belief that he is the latter, and in all probability a native of New York. And so he is.

Go with me to the great river Mississippi. It is the longest river in the world. A line that would measure it would just reach to the centre of the earth,—in other words, it is four thousand miles in length. Go with me to this majestic river. I do not wish you to travel to its source; only as far up as Point Coupée, about three hundred miles from its mouth. There we shall stop for a while—a very short while—for we have a long journey to make. Our route lies to the far west—over the great prairies of Texas; and from Point Coupée we shall take our departure. There is a village at Point Coupée—a quaint, old, French-looking village built of wood. In point of fact it is a French village; for it was one of the earliest settlements of that people, who, with the Spaniards, were the first colonists of Western America. Hence we find, to this day, French and Spanish people, with French and Spanish names and customs, all through the Mississippi valley and the regions that lie west of it. We have not much to do with these things at present, and very little to say of Point Coupée, more than we have already said. Our subject is an oddlooking house that, many years ago, stood upon the western bank of the river, about a mile below the village. I say it stood there many years ago; but it is very likely that it is still standing, as it was a firm, well-built house, of hewn logs, carefully chinked, and plastered between the chinks with runlime. It was roofed with cedar shingles that projected at the eaves, so as to cast off the rain, and keep the walls dry. It was what in that country is called a “double house,”—that is, a large passage ran across the middle of it, through which you might have driven a wagon loaded with hay. This passage was roofed and ceiled, like the rest of the house, and floored with strong planks. The flooring, elevated a foot above the surface of the ground, projected several feet in front of the passage, where carved uprights of cedar-wood supported a light roof, forming a porch or verandah. Around these uprights, and upon the railing that shut in the verandah, clung vines, rose-bushes, and convolvulus plants, that at certain seasons of the year were clustered over with beautiful flowers.

HIGH QUALITY FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION: Reid, Mayne: The Castaways : A Story Of Adventure In The Wilds Of Borneo : Facsimile: Originally published by New York, Sheldon & Company in 1870. Book will be printed in black and white, with grayscale images. Book will be 6 inches wide by 9 inches tall and soft cover bound. Any foldouts will be scaled to page size. If the book is larger than 1000 pages, it will be printed and bound in two parts. Due to the age of the original titles, we cannot be held responsible for missing pages, faded, or cut off text.