num_pages: 353
description: AS I set my ship down in the sheltered cove along the shore of desolate Guadalupe a trifle over four hours after I left Tarzana the little Mexican steamer I had chartered to transport my men materials and supplies from the mainland rode peacefully at anchor in the tiny harbor while on the shore waiting to welcome me were grouped the laborers mechanics and assistants who had worked with such whole-hearted loyalty for long months in preparation for this day. Towering head and shoulders above the others loomed Jimmy Welsh the only American among them.I taxied in close to shore and moored the ship to a buoy while the men launched a dory and rowed out to get me. I had been absent less than a week most of which had been spent in Guaymas awaiting the expected letter from Tarzana but so exuberantly did they greet me one might have thought me a long-lost brother returned from the dead so dreary and desolate and isolated is Guadalupe to those who must remain upon her lonely shores for even a brief interval between contacts with the mainland.
language: English
title: Pirates of Venus And The Return of the Mucker
publisher: None