Chapter 19 No.19

Fires-The greatest peril-A curious way of saving one's house-The anchor of safety-How it worked-Making an opposition wind-Saved by chance-A good trait in the native character-Useful friends.

I was one evening at a dinner-party, at one of the Consulates, when, in the course of the frugal repast, one of the servants came in with the news that a la