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in with a
coast to which he was a stranger, and on a night that would have
appalled any other man; while at every dazzling flash, Hassim's
native land seemed to leap nearer at the brig--and disappear
instantly as though it had crouched low for the next spring out
of an impenetrable darkness. During the long day of the calm, he
had obtained from the deck and from aloft, such good views of the
coast, and had noted the lay of the land and the position of the
dangers so carefully that, though at the precise moment when he
gave the order to let go the anchor, he had been for some time
able to see no further than if his head had been wrapped in a
woollen blanket, yet the next flickering bluish flash showed him
the brig, anchored almost exactly where he had judged her to be,
off a narrow white beach near the mouth of a river.
He could see on the shore a high cluster of bamboo huts perched
upon piles, a small grove of tall palms all bowed together before
the blast like stalks of grass, something that might have been a
palisade of pointed stakes near the water, and far off, a sombre
background resembling an immense wall--the forest-clad hills.
Next moment, all this vanished utterly from his sight, as if
annihilated and, beyilai：
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