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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Son Of The Sun, by Jack London This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Son Of The Sun Author: Jack London Release Date: June 29, 2007 [EBook #21971] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SON OF THE SUN *** Produced by David Widger A SON OF THE SUN BY JACK LONDON 1912 CONTENTS I. A Son of the Sun II. The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn III. The Devils of Fuatino IV. The Jokers of New Gibbon V. A Little Account With Swithin Hall VI. A Goboto Night VII. The Feathers of the Sun VIII. The Peabls of Parlay A SON OF THE SUN Chapter One--A SON OF THE SUN I The _Willi-Waw_ lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a lazy surf, but the sheltered stretch of water, not more than a hundred yards across to the white beach of pounded coral sand, was of glass-like smoothness. Narrow as was the passage, and anchored as she was in the shoalest place that gave room to swing, the _Willi-Waw's_ chain rode up-and-down a clean hundred feet. Its course could be traced over the bottom of living coral. Like some monstrous snake, the rusty chain's slack wandered over the ocean floor, crossing and recrossing itself several times and fetching up finally at the idle anchor. Big rock-cod, dun and mottled, played warily in and out of the coral. Other fish, grotesque of form and colour, were brazenly indifferent, even when a big fish-shark drifted sluggishly along and sent the rock-cod scuttling for their favourite crevices. On deck, for'ard, a dozen blacks pottered clumsily at scraping the teak rail. They were as inexpert at their work as so many monkeys. In fact they looked very much like monkeys of some enlarged and prehistoric type. Their eyes had in them the querulous plaintiveness of the monkey, their faces were even less symmetrical than the monkey's, and, hairless of body, they were far more ungarmented than any monkey, for clothes they had none. Decorated they were as no monkey ever was. In holes in their ears they carried short clay pipes, rings
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