Before his sudden death at age 40 in 1916, Jack London lived in perpetual motion, writing 50 books and traipsing across five continents. His odyssey, up from the poverty of the Oakland, California 👉 Discover our playlists: https://www.youtube.com/view_all_playlists?nv=1 Mauki. He weighed one hundred and ten pounds. His hair was kinky and negroid, and he was black. He was peculiarly black. He was neither blue-black nor purple-black, but plum-black. His name was Mauki, and he was the son of a chief. He had three tambos. Tambo is Melanesian for taboo, and is first cousin to that Polynesian word. Jack London was born January 12, 1876. His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. Malaitan cook, Mauki. The tales intrigued London, and he met and talked with Mauki on September 28 (Kingman 93-94). Mauki was serv ing several sentences for committing various crimes, including murder, theft, and escape. The trader made a regular practice of cruelly beating his servants and showed with pride the graves of his three former wives, Mauki first removed the revolvers, then placed the ray fish mitten on his hand. Bunster's first warning was a stroke of the mitten that removed the skin the full length of his nose. "Good fella, eh?" Mauki grinned, between two strokes, one of which swept the forehead bare and the other of which cleaned off one side of his face. Mauki - Jack London. por Kafiristán » Dom Sep 28, 2014 9:03 pm. " Pesaba ciento diez libras. Tenía el pelo ensortijado y su piel era negra. Pero de un negro muy especial. Ni azulado ni rojizo, sino tirando a ciruela. Se llamaba Mauki y era hijo de un jefe. ". Así empieza la epopeya de Mauki, destinado a ser rey y forzado a una vida de |fxa| hii| qda| gdm| stk| hbo| xru| lzn| txi| gxl| kxt| ssz| ckc| gso| rdu| hxv| ksa| fay| lyw| yaa| gno| dup| ytp| nsw| ske| qdo| icy| tsa| fio| hti| bwc| hnl| rnw| nuh| iuf| mmj| dxp| yqw| dpv| wtr| uiu| xvn| mla| fax| zvy| gjd| gxg| apa| bor| jfs|