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Whereupon, he sat down amid a universal pounding of chest-lids, and cymbaling of tin pans; the few invalids, who, as yet, had not been actively engaged with the rest, now taking part in the applause, creaking their bunk-boards and swinging their hammocks. Cries also were heard, of "Handspikes and a shindy!" "Out stun-sails!" "Hurrah!"
A short, spare man of some thirty years, wearing an old red flannel shirt, was stretched out upon the bare bunk-boards. Lynch and I contemplated him in silence for a moment. He was no beachcomber or sailor, one could tell that at a glance. His skin had no tan upon it. It was white and soft. Obviously, he was no inhabitant of the underworld of forecastles and waterside groggeries.
With the handles of their pistols they knocked bunk-boards to pieces and saved the nails; then Boston climbed the foremast, as a painter climbs a steeple by nailing successive billets of wood above his head for steps.
They looked at each other with varying expressions on their faces; then one asked: "What about the bunks in the forecastle? There's no bedding." "If you failed to bring your own, you will sleep on the bunk-boards without it." "And that swill the Chinaman cooked at dinner-time what about that?" "You will get the allowance of provisions provided by law no more. And you will eat it in the forecastle.
Aora, who might be described as his prime minister and treasurer, had received the tithes as fast as they were paid over, and filled them into large, fine-netted bags of coconut sennit. At Bashti's back, squatting on the bunk-boards, a slim and smooth-skinned maid of thirteen had flapped the flies away from his royal head with the royal fly-flapper.
They sleep on the bunk-boards, do as they're told, and eat salt mule and dunderfunk same as we did goin' out." "Did they navigate for you? Did no one have charge of things?" "Poop-deck picked up navigation, and we let him off steerin' and standin' lookout. Then Seldom, here, he wanted to be captain just once, and we let him well, look at our spars." "Poop-deck? Which is Poop-deck?
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