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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Doan care a dam fo' neyder," responded the ex-cook. "I'se soon show ye, Mass' Brace, how we find vessel, big 'nuff to hold all de oil in de karkiss ob de ole cashlot, as you call him." "Explain, nigger, explain!" "Sartin I do. Gib me dat axe. I soon 'splain de whole sarkumstance." Ben passed the axe, which he had been holding, into the hands of the Coromantee.
There, notwithstanding his struggles and the desperate as well as dangerous fluking of his posterior fins, he was soon despatched by the axe, wielded with all the might and dexterity which the Coromantee could command.
When it pleased the Coromantee to dismount from his slippery saddle, the zygaena floated by his side, a carcass stained with its own blood, that for fathoms around encrimsoned the azure waters of the ocean! As we have said, little William, standing near the stern of the Catamaran, had watched the spectacle with suspended breath.
With a little "Canary" to wash it down, it was not to be despised, at least, under the circumstances in which they were who supped upon it; but the wine was sparingly distributed, and drunk with a large admixture of water. The bump of economy stood high upon the skull of the Coromantee.
It was of short continuance, however. In the next moment they were answered, and to his satisfaction. The Coromantee was seen astride of the cask, more conspicuous than ever: only, being now in a slightly different direction, he had not been seen at the first glance.
Ben Brace and the boy, convinced by this additional testimony that the Coromantee must have heard something more than the frizzling of the shark-flesh, without saying a word, imitated his example, and eagerly bent their ears to listen. They had not long to wait before becoming convinced that Snowball had heard something besides the spirting of the shark-steaks.
On the contrary, they experienced the apprehensions natural to such a situation; and for this reason did they take every precaution against the danger that threatened. The Coromantee might have given way to a feeling of fatalism, peculiar to his country and class, but there was no danger of Ben Brace doing so.
Snowball did hold on; though not in the sense that his former associates desired. On the contrary, their request only stimulated him to fresh exertions, to avoid the renewal of an acquaintance which he knew would certainly end in his ruin. The Coromantee was not to be cajoled.
Massa Brace!" he cried, once more taking the steel from between his teeth. "Swim roun' to de right. Keep a-gwine in de circle. For de Lord sake, keep ahind me, or you loss fo' sartin!" The sailor scarcely needed the counsel. He saw the danger before Snowball had spoken, and had already commenced the movement which the Coromantee was requesting him to make. Once more the tableau changed.
At this moment his rolling orbs became suddenly steadied; and all could see that his gaze was fixed upon the Coromantee with a sort of desperate identification. Snowball might have quailed under that glance, had there been time for him to take heed of it.
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