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THE COROMANDEL COAST. CHAPTER II. THE SPORTSMAN AFLOAT. " Now would
I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground;
long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done ! but I
would fain die a dry death." ? Tempest. The sea breeze which, daily
setting in about two hours after noon, and invariably continuing
till the time of sunset, sweeps along, and softly woos the burning
shores of the Coro- niandel coast, whilst it fans and revives with
its cooling zephyrs the last embers of exhausted nature in the
pale-faced European population of Madras, is there called the "
Doctor;" for by many a feverish patient is the visit of this
welcome physician anxiously anticipated, and his too speedy
departure regretted with as FORT ST. GEORGE. 13 heartfelt
sincerity. This sad period of separation had arrived, and the "
Doctor" was fast evaporating with the last declining rays of that
ball of molten fire, which in our more temperate regions goes by
the name of the Sun; to catch the latest flutter of his dying
breath we had ascended one of the lofty-terraced roofs crowning the
noble edifices of Fort St. George, and, reclining in our camp
chairs, were quietly inhaling the soothing aroma of sundry long
Tri- chinopoly cheroots, ever and anon moistening the same with a
mixture of two liquids, one contained in a black glass vessel
usually denominated a bottle, the other in a red porous,
classically-shaped earthen bowl, which rejoiced in the euphonious
appellation of a " goglet." The long and short of the matter was,
that, whilst admiring the beautiful panorama of boundless sea and
long sandy shore, here and there dotted with the tall waving
cocoa-tree, and that vast extent of sun-burnt plain, on some parts
covered with snow-white buildings, venerable old pag...
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