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"No, sir, but the Chinese think a deal of 'em, and give no end of money for a hundredweight salted and dried. We shall have to take to collecting them when we've got all the pearl hysters." "Why, that will never be, Bob. There's all round the island to go, and even if we finished them we could sail to first one and then another reef." "Yes, that's so, sir.
In short, as Bostock put it: "Why, there's enough for us three to live like fighting cocks for a whole year, sir, and to have company too. Then there's water ashore, as we saw plainly enough, and there's sure to be something or another to eat there, besides cocoanuts, which aren't bad if you drink 'em. Bound to say there's hysters too, while, as for fish, I know what these waters are.
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