The White Man\'s Foot

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My brother Frank is a most practical boy. I may be prejudiced, but it seems to me somehow there\'s nothing like close personal contact with active volcanoes to teach a young fellow prudence, coolness, and adaptability to circumstances. \"Tom,\" said he to me, as we stood and watched the queer party on deck, devouring taro-paste as a Ne...

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Geoffrey Hamlyn

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Near the end of February 1857, I think about the 20th or so, though it don’t much matter; I only know it was near the latter end of summer, burning hot, with the bushfires raging like volcanoes on the ranges, and the river reduced to a slender stream of water, almost lost upon the broad white flats of quartz shingle.

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