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Updated: May 26, 2025
We get so much silver there that we leave them our iron anchors and come back with silver ones. 'How splendid! said Robert. 'Do go on. What's cloth once dipped? 'You MUST be barbarians from the outer darkness, said the Captain scornfully. 'All wealthy nations know that our finest stuffs are twice dyed dibaptha. They're only for the robes of kings and priests and princes.
'What do the rich merchants wear, asked Jane, with interest, 'in the pleasure-houses? 'They wear the dibaptha. OUR merchants ARE princes, scowled the skipper. 'Oh, don't be cross, we do so like hearing about things. We want to know ALL about the dyeing, said Anthea cordially. 'Oh, you do, do you? growled the man. 'So that's what you're here for?
It's a sort of murex and there's another kind that they catch at Sidon and then, of course, there's the kind that's used for the dibaptha. But that's quite different. It's 'Hold your tongue! shouted the skipper. And the man held it. The laden boat was rowed slowly round the end of the island, and was made fast in one of the two great harbours that lay inside a long breakwater.
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