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Search - The Rescue - A Romance Of The Shallows

The Rescue - A Romance Of The Shallows
Author: Joseph Conrad

CONTENTS PAGE I . The Man and the Brig . . . . . . . . . 1 I1 . The Shore of Refuge . . . . . . . . . . 53 I I I11 . The Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 IV . The Gift of the Shallows . . . . . . . . 179 V . The Point of Honour and the Point of Passion . 227 V1 . The Claim of Life and the Toll of Death . . . 3 1 1 PART I THE MAN AND THE BRI... more »G THE RESCUE HE shallow sea that foams and murmurs on the shores T of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centuries the scene of adventurous undertakings. The vices and the qualities of four nations have been displayed in the conquest of that region that even to this day has not been robbed of all the mystery and romance of its past-and the race of men who had fought against the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Dutch and the English, has not been changed by the unavoidable defeat. hey have kept to this day their love of liberty, their fanatical devotion to . their chief S, their blind fidelity in friendship and hate-all their lawful and unlawful instincts. Their country of land and water-for the sea was as much their country as the earth of their islands-has fallen a prey to the western race-the reward of superior strength if not of superior virtue. To-morrow thk advancing civilization shall obliterate the marks of a long struggle. in the accomplishment of its inevitable victory. The adventurers who began that struggle have left no descendants. The ideas of the world changed too quick for that. But even far into the present century they have had successors. Almost in our own day we have seen one of them-a true adventurer in his devotion to his impulse a man of high mind and of pure heart, lay the foundation of a flourishing state on the ideas of pity and justice. He recognized chivalrously the claims of the conquered he was a disinterested adventurer, and the reward of his noble instincts is in the veneration with which a strange and faithful race cherish his memory. S . 4 THE RESCUE Misunderstood and traduced in life, the glory of his achievement has vindicated the purity of his motives. He belongs to history. But there were others-obscure adventurers who had not his advantages of birth, position and intelligence who had only his sympathy with the people of forests and sea he understood and loved so well. They can not be said to be forgotten since they have not been known at all. They were lost in the common crowd of seamen-traders of the Archipelago, and if they emerged from their obscurity it was only to be condemned as law-breakers. Their lives were thrown away for a cause that had no right to exist in the face of an irresistible and orderly progress-their thoughtless lives guided by a simple feeling. But the wasted lives, for the few who know, have tinged with romance the region of shallow waters and forest-clad islands, that lies far east, and still mysterious between the deep waters of two oceans. UT of the level blue of a shallow sea Carimata raises a lofty barrenness of gray and yellow tints, the drab eminence of its arid heights...

ISBN-13: 9781408640395
ISBN-10: 1408640392
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 410
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