[Adventure by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookAdventure CHAPTER V--SHE WOULD A PLANTER BE 39/40
Dad planned to go to the Solomons.
I shall look about for some land and start a small plantation.
Do you know any good land around here? Cheap ?" "By George, you Yankees are remarkable, really remarkable," said Sheldon. "I should never have dreamed of such a venture." "Adventure," Joan corrected him. "That's right--adventure it is.
And if you'd gone ashore on Malaita instead of Guadalcanar you'd have been _kai-kai'd_ long ago, along with your noble Tahitian sailors." Joan shuddered. "To tell the truth," she confessed, "we were very much afraid to land on Guadalcanar.
I read in the 'Sailing Directions' that the natives were treacherous and hostile.
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