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The Story of Paul Boyton

CHAPTER IV
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All went well on the plains below; but when they reached the steep path up the mountain side the captain could not hold his seat.

His fat body would continually slip down on the flanks of the donkey, who would begin to practice as though he wanted to kick a hole in the sky.

Three times the captain was unseated but finally he struck a plan of holding on to the donkey's tail and in this manner was towed up the mountain.

The magnificent sight from the camp amply repaid them for their arduous ascent.

They could distinctly see every part of Kingston as it lay stretched along the shore of its superb bay, while on the other side, a long tongue of land covered with cocoanut trees reached out and almost made the harbor a lake.


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