Show orf gif the diaby ay coast sailing up the cois coast in a native craft you may almost fancy yourself one of the early explorers skirting the lovely shores of some come undiscovered red country As you yon sprawl on the bamboo decking under the shadow of the immense palm leaf which is so eo ingeniously rigged that if taken faken aback the boat must turn vurtle turtle unless by the blessing of the gods the mast parts asunder you yon look out through half closed eyelids at a very beautiful coast the waves dance and glimmer and shine in the sunlight the long stretch of sand is as aft yellow as a buttercup and the fringes of graceful casuarina cas narina trees quiver like aspens ashens in the breeze and shimmer in the heat haze the wash of the waves against the boats side and tho the ripple of the bow make music in your drowsy ears and as you glide through cluster after cluster of thickly wooded islands you lie in that delightful comatose state in which you have all the pleasure of existence with none of the labor of living in court and kampong by hugh cliffort clifford |