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Chapter 12d (The Fireflower cont.) As they held their breath and waited For a flame to catch the fire flowers Finally a smoky ribbon Drifted upwards from the petals Gradually the flowers smouldered And a filmy smoke ascended With an aromatic odour As it played around Ipiki So the bat inhaled the fire-fumes As the healer watched in earnest For some minutes nothing altered In the breathing of Ipiki Matto also, with his family Looked intently at Ipiki As the boat cast off its mooring Sailing with the river's current Downstream carrying them homeward Navigated by the crewmen Suddenly the rasping breathing Of Ipiki stilled to silence As the medicinal vapour Worked to ease the lung infection And the healer laid her hand on Matto's arm for reassurance So they left the bat in quietness As they glided down the river And the tiredness from their hill climb Now descended on the children Very soon they all were sleeping Soundly in the evening coolness And before the bright moon's zenith They had done their homeward journey Chapter 13 The whale Over several weeks that followed Han set sail with Tor the shipwright Every day around the island To gain practice in the boat-craft Of the shipwright's latest vessels And to do some offshore fishing Learn the habits of the fish shoals Of their pathways and their patterns Han and Tor one day were sailing Far offshore on deep blue ocean When a pod of humpback whales Began to surface to their starboard Han had seen such whales already Several times off his home village Still it was a sight of wonder To behold at such close quarters These majestic ocean travelers As they surfaced lifting high their Barnacle encrusted flippers So he asked of Tor the shipwright If they could return the next time Bringing with him both his children Tor agreed to this suggestion So they sailed a few days later In two nimble ocean vessels One with Han, Matto and Lisa While the other bore the shipwright With his eldest sons beside him Once again they sailed out further Than the shallow coastal waters Past the narrow coastal shelf Into to blue of deepest ocean Han employed a sextant as they Re-acquired their prior location All the children with excitement Scanned the seascape for cetaceans Suddenly a crowd of seabirds Gathered near them, to the port side Guillemots that started diving Down to chase a shoal of fishes
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