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The black, a herculean Krooboy, picked up when we first arrived on the Coast, and promptly christened "Cupid" by the master's mate, who, possibly because of sundry disappointments, had developed a somewhat sardonic turn of humour, grinned appreciatively at Nugent's sorry jest respecting "our best china breakfast-set," and proceeded to rout out the heterogeneous assortment of delf and tin cups, basins, and plates that constituted the table-equipage of the midshipmen's berth, poured out a generous allowance of cocoa for each of us, and then departed, with the empty bread-barge, in quest of a supply of ship's biscuit.
You don't mean to say you cannot call him up before you, sitting, with his attendant woman, at his potter's wheel a disc about the size of a dinner-plate, revolving on two drums slowly or quickly as he wills who made you a complete breakfast-set for a bachelor, as a good-humoured little off-hand joke?
Here, avast there," as the black was about to retire "produce our best china breakfast-set before you go, you swab, and pour out the cocoa."
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