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Last week my younge master sed before my fase, My harte's blood boils over, Capten Singleton, for revenge upon this and he called your Honner by a name it is not for such a won as me to say what. Capten Singleton whispred my younge master, being I was by.
A cheer rose from the men, who had watched with interest his efforts to escape, and who now welcomed him as if he had been one of themselves. "Two months' pay for your horse, Major!" cried Clayley. "Och, the bewtiful baste! He's worth the full of his skin in goold! By my sowl! the capten ought to have 'im," ejaculated Chane; and various other encomiums were uttered in honour of Hercules.
"I called de odders, an' de capten come up an' looked at dem a minute sorrowful-like, an' den said, 'Poor fellows! dey've been carried off'n de ice, an' starved till dey froze to death; an' he tould us to bury dem daycently, an' we closed dem up in a pinnacle.
"Lookye here," growled Tom Tully, "I'm 'bout as hard as iron; they won't hurt me. Let me go fust, capten." As he spoke the great fellow spat in his hand before taking a tighter grip of his weapon, and making a step forward. "Just you keep aft, will yer, Tom Tully, and obey orders?" said the gunner, seizing the great fellow by the tail and dragging him back.
And y^e next day they gott into y^e Cape-harbor wher they ridd in saftie. A word or too by y^e way of this cape; it was thus first named by Capten Gosnole & his company, An^o: 1602, and after by Capten Smith was caled Cape James; but it retains y^e former name amongst sea-men.
Shouts of victory in strident Scottish voices, the crash of picks on shattered doors and ruined mason-work, and that arrogant, insolent, oft-repeated blast from the trumpet of him whom Scrope described in his report to the Privy Council as "the capten of this proud attempt," were not reassuring sounds to the Warden of the English Marches, his deputy, and his garrison.
So de brakes was rigged, but he an' de capten had to man dem at first, for all de rest were afeard, an' I was in de fore-riggin' watchin' de says. "Well, dey pumped a while, an' de oil an' water went overboard, an' as we went driftin' away to leeward, I saw de slick of de ile spreadin' over de waves. We kept a couple of men at de pumps till night, an' dere wasn't another say broke over us."
I say to one man, I wanchee plentee fat piecee hen, no wanchee olo piecee, wanchee young plenty big piecee hen for capten...." "I really cannot waste my time listening to this senseless conversation!" interrupted the Captain, with some petulance. "Mr.
"Yes; on de way down we had an awful gale, an' de Li'n put into de pack an' got 'nipped, so dat she went down; but her crew was all saved in de boats. We put off to say, an' for two days an' nights I tought we should never say land. Why, we lay to as long as we dared, an' until our deck was full of water, an' de capten said we mus' do somethin' else, or we should founder.
Am it a ship at all? Or am it some o' de wreck Pandoray?" "Castaways," responded Ben. "Castaways of the bark Pandora, Who calls? Snowball! Be it you?" "Dat same chile, who am you? Am it you, massa Capten, in de gig?" "No." "Massa Grow, den, on de big raff?" "Neither," responded the sailor. "It's Ben, Ben Brace." "Golly! you say so, Massa Brace! How you be dar, unless you on de big raff?"
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