Gentlemen, these
black idjits are friends of mine. If you don't mind, I'd rather you'd
go. But you can stay, Tommy, if you want to."
So I stayed until he was gone. When I came away I left the spearmen
chanting over him.
That was Julius R. Craney. Why, I don't praise him, nor put blame on
him. Kamelillo said he was "old boy all right," but Kamelillo's
notions of what was virtuous weren't civilised notions. A man ought
to be honest. I've known thieves that were singular human. He was
mighty happy when he was a king, was Julius R.
CHAPTER X.
THE KIYI PROPOSITION--SADLER CONCLUDED.
It happened in the year '84 that I took in sailing orders at Hong-Kong
to go round to Rangoon for a cargo of teak wood. It's a hard
wood that's used in shipbuilding. That was a new port to me, and it
wasn't a port-of-call at all till the English took it. You go some
thirty miles up the Rangoon River, which is one of the mouths of the
Irrawaddy, which is the main river of Burmah; and the first you see
of the town is the Shway Dagohn Pagoda, the gilded cone above the
trees. Rangoon had already a good deal that was European about it,
hotels and shops, stone blocks of buildings, the custom house,
offices of the Indian Empire, and houses of English residents.
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