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Although Captain Boltrope's manner toward me was still severe, and even harsh, I understood that my name had been favorably mentioned in the dispatches. Reader, were you ever at Jamaica? If so, you remember the negresses, the oranges, Port Royal Tom the yellow fever. After being two weeks at the station, I was taken sick of the fever. In a month I was delirious.
Although Captain Boltrope's manner toward me was still severe, and even harsh, I understood that my name had been favorably mentioned in the despatches. Reader, were you ever at Jamaica? If so, you remember the negresses, the oranges, Port Royal Tom the yellow fever. After being two weeks at the station, I was taken sick of the fever. In a month I was delirious.
It all arises from the unpardonable stupidity of that donkey of a steward, Llewellyn, who forgot the memorandum concerning the circumstance and left it down below in the cabin and that, too, in spite of Ben Boltrope's telling him to be certain to bear it mind, besides his wife, Mary, having continually jogged his memory on the subject!
Under these circumstances, therefore, Mr Meldrum still retained the position of chief of the party not only the first mate and Mr Adams acquiescing in the arrangement, which the poor captain desired; but the general bulk of the men themselves, who were prejudiced in his favour from Ben Boltrope's frequent yarns of his ability when an officer in the navy, requested his continuing to be their leader by acclamation, when he expressed a wish of surrendering the command as soon as they had landed safely from the wreck and things had been made comfortable for them on the island.
The majority of the crew gave a cheer at this, Ben Boltrope's lusty voice being conspicuously to the fore; but some, amongst whom was a lazy lout named Bill Moody, who was the chief grumbler in the forecastle, expressed their discontent audibly; saying that they "hadn't signed articles to be worked like dogs!"
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