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INTRODUCTION
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THE UNLIGHTED COAST 57

me with the impression that had he been pernaitted to taste the full flavour, his official report would have re- mained, of his own choice, his first and last utterance. I fancy, somehow, that rather than talk of luck so immense that there could be no fit words for it in the world, he would have preferred to brood over it in adequate silence.

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