Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago

· 1894

Blown to bits; bits so inconceivably, so ineffably, so "microscopically" small that--but let us not anticipate. About the darkest hour of a very dark night, in the year 1883, a large brig lay becalmed on the Indian Ocean, not far from that region of the Eastern world which is associated in some minds with spices, volcanoes, coffee, and piratical junks, namely, the Malay Archipelago.…

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