Adventure

Adventure, by Jack London
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Title: Adventure Author: Jack London Release Date: April 25, 2005 [eBook #1163] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ADVENTURE***
Transcribed from the 1911 Thomas Nelson and Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
ADVENTURE
“We are those fools who could not rest In the dull earth we left behind, But burned with passion for the West, And drank strange frenzy from its wind. The world where wise men live at ease Fades from our unregretful eyes, And blind across uncharted seas We stagger on our enterprise.” “THE SHIP OF FOOLS.”
CHAPTER I—SOMETHING TO BE DONE
He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe. The man-horse was greasy and dirty, and naked save for an exceedingly narrow and dirty loin-cloth; but the white man clung ...