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... bunch, as if in confiden- 4 End of the Tether tial criticism of the dark mangroves. The Sofala would be headed towards the somber strip of the coast... ...f abandoned by every living soul; only the coast, the low coast of mud and mangroves with the three palms in a bunch at the back, grew slowly more dis... ...e pieces snipped clean and sharp out of the body of the land bordered with mangroves. On the forepart of the bridge the giant and the pigmy muttered t... ...n of sunshine. On each side of her, low down, the growth of somber twisted mangroves covered the semi-liquid banks; and Massy contin- ued in his old t... ..., gliding with an even motion, had passed beyond the coast-belt of mud and mangroves. The shores rose higher, in firm sloping banks, and the forest of... ... coast forest, between the buttressed shafts of the big trees, through the mangrove strip, and over the bar. The ship crossed it easily in broad dayli...

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...flat, wind-swept promontory, planted with palms, backed against a swamp of mangroves, and occupied by a rather miserable village. The reader is inform... ...e. T o the east is the bay of Apia. To the west, there is, first of all, a mangrove swamp, the mangroves excellently green, the mud ink-black, and its...

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.... All the way along the coast, the pate (small wooden drum) was beating in the villages and the people crowding to the churches in their fine clothes.... ...assage; it is surrounded by a fence of corrugated iron, and shows, over the top of that, only a gable end with the inscription O Le Fale Puipui. It is...

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...otting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent desp...

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...The beaten ground between the houses was slippery with blood, and the dark mangroves of the muddy creeks were full of sighs of the dying men who were ... ...le conduct. He sought refuge within his ideas of propriety from the dismal mangroves, from the darkness of the forests and of the heathen souls of the...

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...e eastward the coast was low; a coast of green for- ests fringed with dark mangroves. There was in its sombre dullness a clearly defined opening, as i... ...d half-way to its rest the brig was anchored within a gunshot of the slimy mangroves, in a place where for a hun- dred years or more no white man’s ve...

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... colouring of green and yellow, and on the main coast the som- bre line of mangrove bushes ended to the southward in the reddish cliffs of Tanjong Mir...

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...sea was from thirty to forty fathoms deep. Under the verdant shade of some mangroves I per- ceived some savages, who appeared greatly surprised at our...

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...one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water. Hiding his canoe, still afl...

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... some days with some kind of native fever, and I suppose he fainted. These mangrove swamps are very unwholesome. Every drop of blood, they say, was ta...

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...one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water. Hiding his canoe, still aflo...

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...ugh by day they lived in the ordinary open bamboo huts. After landing in a mangrove swamp, and wading through deep mud, he found that the Mahaga peopl...

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... bamboo that grows through the gangrened flesh; I had hove him down by the mangroves brown, where the mud-reef sucks and draws, Moored by the heel to ...

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... that a large schooner could not swing at anchor in it. It was sur rounded by mangroves that overhung the deep water. It was a trap, and into the tra...

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...by which we went to and returned from Olinda, was bordered on each side by mangroves, which sprang like a minia- ture forest out of the greasy mud-ban...