Cursed

Not all its wizardry of gleaming lights in hut and shop, its firefly paper lanterns, its murmuring strange ness could weigh against the vexing fact that his ship had missed the tide, and that though her full cargo of tea, rattan, tapioca, cacao and opium was under hatches she still lay made fast to the bamboo moor ing-piles. What could offset the annoyance that Cap tain Alpheus Briggs, ashore on business of his own.

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