\u201cI don\u2019t want to bother you much with what happened to me personally,\u201d he began, showing in this remark the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would like best to hear; \u201cyet to understand the effect of it on me you ought to know how I got out there, what I saw, how I went up that river to the place where I first met the poor chap. It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience. It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything about me\u2014and into my thoughts. It was sombre enough, too\u2014and pitiful\u2014not extraordinary in any way\u2014not very clear either. No, not very clear. And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas\u2014a regular dose of the East\u2014six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilize you. It was very fine for a time, but after a bit I did get tired of resting. Then I began to look for a ship\u2014I should think the hardest work on earth. But the ships wouldn\u2019t even look at me. And I got tired of that game, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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