Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 / 2008-06-27 00:00:00
EBOOK, 'TWIXT LAND & SEA ***
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
'Twixt Land & Sea Tales
Contents
A Smile of Fortune
The Secret Sharer
Freya of the Seven Isles
A SMILE OF FORTUNE--HARBOUR STORY
Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided
gently in smooth water. After a sixty days' passage I was anxious
to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics.
The more enthusiastic of its inhabitants delight in describing it
as the "Pearl of the Ocean." Well, let us call it the "Pearl."
It's a good name. A pearl distilling much sweetness upon the
world.
This is only a way of telling you that first-rate sugar-cane is
grown there. All the population of the Pearl lives for it and by
it. Sugar is their daily bread, as it were. And I was coming to
them for a cargo of sugar in the hope of the crop having been good
and of the freights being high.
Mr. Burns, my chief mate, made out the land first; and very soon I
became entranced by this blue, pinnacled apparition, almost
transparent against the light of the sky, a mere emanation, the
astral body of an island risen to greet me from afar.
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