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"De Lawd be praised and magnified foreber, but I will," said the negro, dropping on his knees and holding up his hand. "Swar me on a pile o' Bibles big as a haystack. I'd radder go to hell on my knees backward dan tech de fust drap ob dat. I's too anxious to hab Cappen McGillicuddy git well, so I is. What'd become ob dis pore niggeh if he should die? No, indeedy.
Once serve board man-of-war; cappen kind, sailors kind; but me went on shore to see me fadder, modder, me brodder, me sister; but dey all get catchee, an' all de oder people run 'way, an' dey take me for slavee."
"He no speakee English," said Popo, who had just scrambled into the canoe. "Why, Dicky Popo," cried the commander, "you here, my boy!" I could not resist shaking Popo by the hand, so delighted was I to see him. "Yes, massa cappen; me no drownee," he answered. "That's very evident," said the commander; "and I shall be glad to know how you escaped.
"No, massa," replied the faithful creature; "me no want to lib: no takee Massa Green, no takee me! Mungo lib good many years wi massa cappen. Mungo die wi massa, and go back to Guinea!" I now thought we had given the captain a sufficient lesson for his treachery and murderous intentions.
"She had her flag, the French tricolour, I think, sir, hoisted half-mast at her peak; and she appeared, sir, a good deal battered about, as if she had been in bad weather and had made the worst of it. Besides, cappen " I hesitated.
"When I was down the coast, last week, so far as Littlehampton," said a stout young man in the corner, "a very coorous thing happened me, leastways by my own opinion, and glad shall I be to have the judgment of Cappen Zeb consarning it. There come in there a queer-rigged craft of some sixty ton from Halvers, desiring to set up trade again, or to do some smoogling, or spying perhaps.
He gin'rally says, `I not un'r'stan' English ver' well, shakes his head an' grins, but the Cappen never listens to his answers, bein' too busy loadin' and primin' for another broadside." The man to whom he referred cut short the conversation at this point by shouting down the stair: "Hallo! Gillie, you powder-monkey, where are my shoes?"
When one Cappen ask: 'Is the land mine? Maquinna tell him 'yes. When other Cappen ask: 'Is the land mine? Maquinna tell him 'yes, too, all same. O yes; Indian have good heart; no want to fight great white chief with big guns. He stay in his lodge, and laugh softly to himself, and let the white chiefs fight 'bout the land. Ugh!" "The mercenary old diplomat!" muttered Charlie, under his hat.
He had opened his arms and prepared to strike out, when a thought stayed him. Saloo, who had waded to his side, also arrested him by laying a hand on his shoulder. "You try swimmee, cappen, no good without weapon; we both go togedder muss take gun, sumpitan, kliss, else no chance killee mias." It was the thought that had occurred to Captain Redwood himself. "Yes, you are right, Saloo.
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