. St. Nicholas [serial]. d Migi hur-ried below to warm upthe engine, while thecaptain and the serangset about heaving theanchor short. Migiunbanked the boilerfires. George openedthe steam drains, start-ed up his condenserpumps, and let livesteam come screechingthrough the by-passesinto the cylinders ofthe Mauie s hundred-horse-power compoundengine. Presently heturned her over, slowly,back and forth a fewtimes, and then, at theready bell, the anchorwas broken out and theMauie got under wayand stood out of thecoral-bottomed harborof Amboina. From there to Palem-bang, in Sumatra, is acool sevente
. St. Nicholas [serial]. d Migi hur-ried below to warm upthe engine, while thecaptain and the serangset about heaving theanchor short. Migiunbanked the boilerfires. George openedthe steam drains, start-ed up his condenserpumps, and let livesteam come screechingthrough the by-passesinto the cylinders ofthe Mauie s hundred-horse-power compoundengine. Presently heturned her over, slowly,back and forth a fewtimes, and then, at theready bell, the anchorwas broken out and theMauie got under wayand stood out of thecoral-bottomed harborof Amboina. From there to Palem-bang, in Sumatra, is acool seventeen hundredmiles, but the fast littleMauie did it in six days,through the BatongPassage and across theJava Sea, due west, ar-riving at Banka Straitson the evening of thefifth day. The midget villages in East Borneo. There the captain andDatu Bulieng had trapped her by felling a greattapang-tree square across the river, and Migi had been in the thick of thefight which followed. After it was all over, the. SA-AY, SON, WE VE LANDED A BANG-UP COMMISSION! HE YELLED steamer, as she was called all over the Archi-pelago, was only a little over a hundred feet long,a former steam-yacht that at some time in herhistory had been sold to merchant owners andconverted into a seaworthy little steamer by ad-ding a trunk-cabin forward and captains cuddyaft, under a sort of raised turtleback deck. Thenshe had been stolen by a gang of smugglers, whotried to run their cargo up-river to the Dyak Dutch authorities had jailed the survivors of thesmugglers, condemned the midget steamer, andthe captain had bought her and renamed her theMauie. Palembang is a hundred miles up the river fromthe coast. Imagine a wide bend of three miles ofriver, crowded along both banks with bamboohouses on piles and floats out in the stream,where one goes to market in a canoe (for the shops 920 A BLACK LEOPARD OF SUMATRA [Aug. are a long distance out from shore), and you havethe Malay town of Palembang. Th
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