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"We will be punctual." This said, Glenarvan, the Major, Robert, Paganel, and John Mangles left the ship, Halley not so much as touching the oilskin that adorned his red locks. "What a brute," exclaimed John. "He will do," answered Paganel. "He is a regular sea-wolf." "A downright bear!" added the Major. "I fancy," said John Mangles, "that the said bear has dealt in human flesh in his time."
Phileas Fogg hailed a boat, got into it, and soon found himself on board the Henrietta, iron-hulled, wood-built above. He ascended to the deck, and asked for the captain, who presented himself. He was a man of fifty, a sort of sea-wolf, with big eyes, a complexion of oxidized copper, red hair and thick neck, and a growling voice. "The captain?" asked Mr. Fogg. "I am the captain."
So was old Cadmus with his Phoenician miter and curled beard, a great old sea-wolf, scattering by means of his various adventures the art of writing and the first notions of commerce.
"He's as good as caught," she muttered; "once let them get sight of meat, and Steady now!" The shark moved forward. Suddenly, with a long, easy roll, he turned completely upon his back. His white belly flashed like silver in the water the bait disappeared. "You've got him!" shouted Moran. The rope slid through Wilbur's palms, burning the skin as the huge sea-wolf sounded. Moran laid hold.
"Come, old 'sea-wolf," such was the sobriquet Paul went by among his comrades, "thou art dull to-night," said an old sailor with a head as white as snow. "I haven't seen thee so low of heart this many a day." "What wonder, Comrade, if I am so?" retorted Paul, gruffly.
The sea-lion is pretty well described by Pernety, though those we saw here have not such fore-feet or fins as that he has given a plate of, but such fins as that which he calls the sea-wolf. Nor did we see any of the size he speaks of; the largest not being more than twelve or fourteen feet in length, and perhaps eight or ten in circumference.
For the sake of Islam, for the prestige of the Moslem arms at sea, it was time that Barbarossa should take matters in hand once more. The autumn of this year 1537 proved that the old Sea-wolf had lost none of his cunning, that his followers were as terrible as ever.
But Adan Centurion's heart failed him; to cut out the old Sea-wolf from under one of his own batteries was more than he had the stomach for, and he accordingly sailed away.
She was embracing him, rubbing her mouth against his neck with a feline purr. Before the captain could respond she continued with a childish voice: "My shark! My sea-wolf! who has made me wait all these hours!... Swear to me that you have not been unfaithful!... I can perceive at once the trace of another woman." Sniffing his beard and face, her mouth approached the sailor's.
A certain species of bitterns are said to make war upon the sea-wolf or seal; for when this bird finds them on land, it tries to pick out their eyes, that they may not see their way back to the water, and then kills them; and the fight between the bitterns and the seals is said to be a pleasant sight.
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