Slow Boats Home by Gavin Young

Author:Gavin Young [Gavin Young]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571310180
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

It remained to say goodbye to Fritz Falkner of Carpenters Shipping, who had arranged my onward passage so switfly. He would be sending his man, John Wong, to the dockside when the Tasi sailed.

I exchanged addresses with Michael Scott, the obliging Sheriff of Fiji, and then there was little left to do but leave. I took one last look at the neat white capital, Suva. Beery Fijian voices and laughter came from the bar of the Central Hotel. On a bank wall a tourist poster said: ‘Fiji … The way the world should be’. A good slogan. Had Charlie Savage and the blackbirders, guffawing horribly, said the very same thing?

The Tasi lay alongside the wharf. A Soviet vessel – a trawler, a survey ship? – sprouting sinister antennae, nuzzled her from behind. On the Tasi’s deck, John Wong waved to me. A Tongan deckhand as big as a native hut lifted my metal suitcase onto his shoulder. I went aboard.

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