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I tried to place a speech into a monk's mouth a speech that ought to swell with pride and intolerance, but it was of no use; so I skipped over the monk and tried to work out an oration the Deemster's oration to the violator of the Temple, and I wrote half-a-page of this oration, upon which I stopped.
They were the ship's scavengers, and had much uncleanly business to see to. Linschoten, describing a Portuguese ship's company, dismisses them with three contemptuous words, "the swabers pump"; but alas, that was but the first duty of your true swabber. Boteler, writing in the reign of James I., gives him more than half-a-page, as follows:
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