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Forest and Stream, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Through Forest and Stream The Quest of the Quetzal
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23497]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Through Forest and Stream
or, The Quest of the Quetzal
CHAPTER ONE.
WHY WE WERE THERE.
The captain of the steamer stopped by where I was watching the flying fish fizz out of the blue-ink-like water, skim along for some distance, and drop in again, often, I believe, to be snapped up by some bigger fish; and he gave me a poke in the shoulder with one finger, so hard, that it hurt.
"Yes?" I said, for he stood looking hard in my face, while I looked back harder in his, for it seemed such a peculiar way of addressing one, and his manner was more curious still.
He was naturally a smooth-faced man with a very browny-yellow skin, and he kept on passing the finger with which he had poked me over first one cheek and then over the other, just as if he were shaving himself without soap.
Then his speech seemed more peculiar than his manner, for he