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Jarwin and Cuffy, by R.M. Ballantyne
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Title: Jarwin and Cuffy
Author: R.M. Ballantyne
Release Date: June 7, 2007 [EBook #21742]
Language: English
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JARWIN AND CUFFY, BY R.M. BALLANTYNE.
CHAPTER ONE.
ADRIFT ON THE OCEAN.
On a certain morning, not very long ago, the sun, according to his ancient and admirable custom, rose at a very early hour, and casting his bright beams far and wide over the Pacific, lighted up the yellow sands and the verdant hills of one of the loveliest of the islands of that mighty sea.
It was early morning, as we have said, and there was plenty of life-- animal as well as vegetable--to be seen on land and sea, and in the warm, hazy atmosphere. But there were no indications of man's presence in that beautiful scene. The air was perfectly calm, yet the gentle swell of the ocean terminated in great waves, which came rolling in like walls of glass, and fell on the coral-reef like rushing snow-wreaths with a roar as loud as thunder.
Thousands of sea-birds screamed and circled in the sky. Fish leaped high out of their native element into the air, as if they wished to catch