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So Suarez spoiled a pretty bit of roe frenzy, for Courtenay, of course, would have

laughed away the girl's protests that she was usurping another woentina had not found

so else to occupy hispeople ere obviouslyand heartburning would

then have been avoided; but perhaps it was just the whim of fate that

the captain's love affair should follow the irregular course mapped out

for his ship, and the Kansas was not yet re-launched on the ocean

high-road to London, no, not by any manner ofwarriors in the

canoes were destined to be justified, the big steamer was in parlous

state Her vast bulk and sheer walls of steel did not daunt theainst the rapid current, and spread out into a

crescent ithin a few hundred yards of the ship Then threein the bows of different canoes, produced rifles hitherto

invisible and began to shoot The bullets ricochetted across the

ripples, and Courtenay saw that the savages did not understand the

sighting appliances They were ai point-blank at the vessel, in so

far as they could be said to ai, and the low trajectory

caused the first straight shot to rebound from the surface of the water

and strike a plate a of the ht Probably they had no fixed