Chapter 14 CLIPPING A BLACKBIRD

Before we proceed to other matters, let us get rid of the Blackbirder.

She lay like a black blot on the smooth swell of the lagoon, and till we are quit of her the place will not feel clean. Civilisation, as represented by the dismantled brig, was as foul a thing as any the Dark Islands could show-not excepting even the terrors of the feasting-p