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"How do yer do, Mister. You're a nice sort of a cove not to come and see me when you pass my place in your cutter" then with sudden fury as I put my hands in my pockets "you, you young cock-a-hoopy swine, do you mean to say you don't mean to shake hands with a white man?" "Not with you, anyway," I answered.
I don't care a damn if you load the schooner up to her maintop with sky-pilots and their dowdy women-kind. I've had enough of 'em, and I hereby tender you my resignation. I can get another and a better ship to-morrow, if " "Sit down, you cock-a-hoopy young ass," and "Mr. Harry" hit the supercargo a good-humoured but stiff blow in the chest.
I told him that the niggers would pay him out for a-playin' crooked with em'; but he was too cock-a-hoopy to listen to a feller like me. 'Any more white men buried in Kabaira? 'I asked after a while, as we walked back to the house to take stock of my host's trade goods. 'No, that's all that's planted here at least, all I know of, and I've been here, in New Britain, five years.
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