Amongst the Dead
“Brian, Glen, Rufus Farrell, and I came aboard and were confronted by several boxes of supplies — I knew this meant that we’d be carrying them some distance over land. I tested the weight of one and found it alarmingly heavy. There were already several men on board, including an Aboriginal fellow with the ludicrous name of Mordecai — further evidence, if any were needed, of the wretched and deadly touch of the missionary.
We sailed down the Roper River for more than eighty miles until it wid...ened into the estuary that spilled into Limmen Bight. Keeping as close as possible to the dense mangroves that grew along its edge, we chugged around the coast until we reached the Phelp River. Here we turned in and tied up at a jetty that earned the name only because it was a structure that jutted some way into the river. The trip took four hours, and although I tried to engage Rufus Farrell in conversation, he seemed unusually reticent. If he hadn’t assumed the position of prime suspect I would have said that Nicholas Ashe’s death had affected him badly.MoreLess
We sailed down the Roper River for more than eighty miles until it wid...ened into the estuary that spilled into Limmen Bight. Keeping as close as possible to the dense mangroves that grew along its edge, we chugged around the coast until we reached the Phelp River. Here we turned in and tied up at a jetty that earned the name only because it was a structure that jutted some way into the river. The trip took four hours, and although I tried to engage Rufus Farrell in conversation, he seemed unusually reticent. If he hadn’t assumed the position of prime suspect I would have said that Nicholas Ashe’s death had affected him badly.MoreLess
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