# Tropic death

Author: Walrond, Eric, 1898-1966

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71465

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Tropic+death+Walrond&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The whistle blew for eleven o'clock. Throats parched, grim, sun-crazed blacks cutting stone on the white burning hillside dropped with a clang the hot, dust-powdered drills and flew up over the rugged edges of the horizon to descent into a dry, waterless gut. Hunger--pricks at stomachs inured to brackish coffee and cassava pone--pressed on folk, joyful as rabbits in a grassy ravine, wrenching themselves free of the lure of the white earth. Helter-skelter dark, brilliant, black faces of West Indian peasants moved along, in pain--the stiff tails of blue denim coats, the hobble of chigger-cracked heels, the rhythm of a stride ... dissipating into the sun-stuffed void the radiant forces of th...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tropic-death-71465/chapters/11/index.md)