"The Wrecker" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stevenson Robert Louis)

THE INTERNET WIRETAP ELECTRONIC EDITION OF

The Wrecker

By
Robert Louis Stevenson

written in collaboration with
Lloyd Osbourne



Edinburgh Edition
1896


Prepared by John Hamm

This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN,
released January 1994

Scanned with OmniPage Professional OCR software
donated by Caere Corporation.

PROLOGUE


IN THE MARQUESAS


IT was about three o'clock of a winter's afternoon in
Tai-o-hae, the French capital and port of entry of the
Marquesas Islands. The trades blew strong and squally;
the surf roared loud on the shingle beach; and the
fifty-ton schooner of war, that carries the flag and
influence of France about the islands of the cannibal
group, rolled at her moorings under Prison Hill. The
clouds hung low and black on the surrounding
amphitheatre of mountains; rain had fallen earlier in
the day, real tropic rain, a waterspout for violence;
and the green and gloomy brow of the mountain was still
seamed with many silver threads of torrent.

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