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"Come away from there, my men," presently said the captain after a long silence, as if he were thinking to himself what should be done; "it's no use your stopping there any longer. But, stay, it is best not to alarm the crew too soon. You stop, Norwegee," calling that sailor by the name the men had dubbed him; "and you, carpenter, go and sound the well to see what water we have taken in.
Faix, an' if them divils had not battened it down and Boltrope and the Norwegee could a got at thim, it's too many for tbim we'd ha' been, I'm thinking!" "I didn't see what they were after," said Frank, "or I would have slipped the cover before they secured it; but I wonder where Mr Adams is all this time? Surely he must have heard the row! He ought to have come to our aid."
"That's snow and pumice-stone, as fur as I ken see," put in Mr Lathrope; "and I guess I must be durned peckish fore I tackle those!" "You forget the seals and the penguins," said Mr Meldrum. "Waal, mister," rejoined the American, "we've only seed one seal, as I reckon. That was that air `Sea Olly-fant, as the Norwegee called it, and the animile's meat warn't 'zackly what this child ken stomach!
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