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Death Larsen is in command of the only sealing steamer in the fleet, the Macedonia, which carries fourteen boats, whereas the rest of the schooners carry only six. There is wild talk of cannon aboard, and of strange raids and expeditions she may make, ranging from opium smuggling into the States and arms smuggling into China, to blackbirding and open piracy.
There was Cock-eye Corbett, an ex-sailor, who was immoral and a Lancashireman, and knew more about blackbirding and copra and Kanakas, and the rum-holes from Nagasaki to Mombasa, than it is healthy for a civil servant to know. Every Sunday a sad-faced man with ash-colored hair and bony fingers, who had been a lieutenant in the Peruvian navy, a teacher in St.
Going to be a naturalist." "A what?" "Scientific gentleman." "But serve the King!" "What, and be sent down here hunting after the blackbirding blackguards?" "Pshaw! That's not really what we are here for; only if we see a suspicious-looking craft we board her." "Then what are you here for?" "King's business. Mum. Mustn't say." "Now, Mr Lindon! Good-evening, Captain Chubb; and good-evening, doctor.
Follet dined with magnates; and, believe me, the magnates of Naapu were a multicolored lot. A man might have been made by copra or by pearls or by blackbirding. We were a plutocracy; which means that so long as a man had the house and the drinks, you asked no questions. The same rule holds allowing for their dizzier sense of figures in New York and Chicago.
So it was well that I had some one to look out for me. I know that if it had not been for Otoo, I should not be here to-day. Of numerous instances, let me give one. I had had some experience in blackbirding before I went pearling in the Paumotus. Otoo and I were in Samoa we really were on the beach and hard aground when my chance came to go as recruiter on a blackbird brig.
She looks too smart and clean, but it might mean that she's going to the West Coast, blackbirding." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Rodd. "Why, that's what you thought about us, Captain Chubb." "So I did; so I did, my lad," said the skipper good-humouredly. "You see, I am like other men think I am very wise, but I do stupid things sometimes.
When you recall what most civilized climates are like, "unexceptionable," that cold and formal word, may well take your breath away. Lest any one should suspect me of blackbirding or gin-selling, I will say at once that I had come to Naapu by accident and that I stayed because, for reasons that I will not go into here, I liked it.
I had had some experience in blackbirding before I went pearling in the Paumotus. Otoo and I were on the beach in Samoa we really were on the beach and hard aground when my chance came to go as a recruiter on a blackbird brig. Otoo signed on before the mast, and for the next half-dozen years, in as many ships, we knocked about the wildest portions of Melanesia.
I had had some experience in blackbirding before I went pearling in the Paumotus. Otoo and I were on the beach in Samoa we really were on the beach and hard aground when my chance came to go as recruiter on a blackbird brig. Otoo signed on before the mast; and for the next half-dozen years, in as many ships, we knocked about the wildest portions of Melanesia.
"Certainly; nine o'clock to-morrow morning," replied Uncle Paul. "Good. I will be off the landing-place at the Barbican with a boat. Night, sir. Night, youngster. Natural history expedition, eh? And I thought you was going blackbirding! Haw, haw, haw!" This last was intended for a derisive laugh at himself, but it sounded like three grunts, each louder than the last.
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