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Updated: April 30, 2025
The frantic man dashed back and forth along the crest, tossing his arms, waving his Madras handkerchief, cursing himself for leaving his gun so far behind, and again and again repeating his vain ahoys in wilder and wilder alternations of beseeching and rage.
There on the great Atlantic waste, I had lived to see one of those terrible pictures which he had conceived in his long dreaming; and through all the excitement, above all the noise, I thought that I heard his voice, and the grim "Ahoys!" of my own seamen on the night he died. This strange recognition was unknown to Roderick, who had never seen Captain Black, nor had any notion of his appearance.
Having glanced round without perceiving me, he put his hands to his mouth and bellowed out my name, with a string of 'Ahoys! which rang through the building. 'Here I am, Solomon, said I, touching him on the shoulder. 'God bless you, lad! God bless you! he cried, wringing my hand.
"Cock your pistol, Mas' Don," whispered Jem, "quiet-like; don't let 'em see. They've got their spears and choppers. Precious ready too with their ahoys." "Why, it's that tattooed Englishman, Jem, and that savage who called me his pakeha." "And like his impudence!" said Jem. "You're right though, so it is."
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