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Updated: May 13, 2025
What we want is quick profits, and while it ain't set down in black and white, one of the principal objects of this syndicate is to lead a life of wild adventure. In tradin', there ain't no adventure to speak of. We ought to do a little blackbirdin', or raid some of those Jap pearl fisheries off the northern coast of Formosa."
"We do a nice business in shell an' copra, an' such, an' in Papeete we sell our cargo to a Jew trader an' clean up fifteen hundred each additional on the voyage, after which Bull declares he's tired of hucksterin' around like any bloomin' peddler, an' we make up our minds to do a little blackbirdin'. "Was you ever a blackbirder, McGuffey? No? Well, you didn't miss nothin'. It's dirty business.
What labour you can't get by dealin' with the chief, you shanghai 'em, and once in a while you can make a bully good deal, particularly in the New Hebrides and New Guinea, after a fight when they have a lot of prisoners on hand which they're goin' to eat until you come along an' buy 'em for a stick o' tobacco. "It ain't no fun, blackbirdin', McGuffey.
"In '88 I was blackbirdin' and in '89 I was why, what d'ye expect a king does, anyhow? You don't suppose I worked, do you? Because I didn't.
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