Stevenson, Robert Louis / 2008-08-02 00:00:00
THE INTERNET WIRETAP ELECTRONIC EDITION OF
The Wrecker
By
Robert Louis Stevenson
written in collaboration with
Lloyd Osbourne
Edinburgh Edition
1896
Prepared by John Hamm
This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN,
released January 1994
Scanned with OmniPage Professional OCR software
donated by Caere Corporation.
PROLOGUE
IN THE MARQUESAS
IT was about three o'clock of a winter's afternoon in
Tai-o-hae, the French capital and port of entry of the
Marquesas Islands. The trades blew strong and squally;
the surf roared loud on the shingle beach; and the
fifty-ton schooner of war, that carries the flag and
influence of France about the islands of the cannibal
group, rolled at her moorings under Prison Hill.
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