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The ship was now in a state of confusion and uproar; there were Jews trying to sell clothes, or to obtain money for clothes which they had sold; bumboat-men and bumboat-women showing their long bills, and demanding or coaxing for payment; other people from the shore, with hundreds of small debts; and the sailors' wives, sticking close to them, and disputing every bill presented, as an extortion or a robbery.
I did not awaken until I was roused by the quarter-master, at past seven o'clock, when we took a wherry, and went off to the ship. O'Brien takes me under his protection The ship's company are paid, so are the bumboat-women, the Jews, and the emancipationist after a fashion We go to sea Doctor O'Brien's cure for sea-sickness One pill of the doctor's more than a dose.
Jack Pringle hitched up his trousers and swore, then took off his hat and began to shout to the admiral, as he said, "D e, they are too late to spoil the sport. Hilloa! hurrah!" "What's all that about, Jack?" inquired the admiral, as he came puffing along. "What's the squall about?" "Only a few horse-marines and bumboat-women, that have been startled like a company of penguins."
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