Voyage East by Richard Woodman

Author:Richard Woodman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788636216
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

The Isle of Fragrant Waters

We steamed south-east out of the Gulf of Thailand, slipping into the familiar, comforting round of the ship’s routine, passing ‘bits of strange coasts under stars, shadows of hills in the sunshine, men’s passions in the dark, gossip half-forgotten, faces grown dim.’ Thus reminisced Conrad in the introduction to Nostromo, and I recalled ‘The Secret Sharer’, a story of his set in the Gulf. He had cause to know those waters, having taken three weeks to work the barque Otago down to Singapore with a sickly crew and a jinx to hinder him. Delay was to dog us, too, though not on such a scale, for round Cape Cambodia we began to lift to a low swell, rolling down from the north-east as we followed the curve of the coast of Indo-China across the mouth of the Mekong Delta.

As we edged away from the Vietnamese coast the swell steepened and the wind slowly increased to a strong breeze, bringing to mind the old weather couplet:

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