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Updated: May 13, 2025
He was stripped to his shirt and under-breeches and had apparently received a few bruises in the tussle below. Jeremy's spirits were momentarily revived by seeing that some of the buccaneers had suffered like inconveniences, while the young ex-man-o'-war's-man was gingerly feeling of a shapeless blob that had been his nose.
It was not the island, therefore, that now puzzled the ex-man-o'-war's-man, but the number of people appearing upon it. Had there been only a score, or a score and a half, he could have explained the circumstance of its being inhabited; though the explanation would not have been productive of pleasure either to himself or his companions.
It only checked the rapidity of his descent; and in the end he would have gone down into the sea, and shortly after into the stomachs of, perhaps, half a score of sharks, but for the opportune interference of the ex-man-o'-war's-man; who, just in the nick of time, at the very moment when Snowball's toes were within six inches of the water's edge, caught hold of the cord and arrested his farther descent.
Mr Meldrum at once rushed to where Captain Dinks was standing close to the wheel-house, where two men had all they could do to control the helm, although they were the strongest hands on board, the one being Ben Boltrope, the ex-man-o'-war's-man, and the other Karl Ericksen, the Norwegian sailor who had been rescued from the boat, and who was a perfect giant now that he was restored to health and strength standing over six feet, and with long brawny arms that seemed as powerful as those of a windmill when he threw them about.
"Whoo! lilly Willy, dat all you know 'bout de birds in dis hya part ob do worl'? Sleep on de wing! Sartin dey go 'sleep on de wing, an' some time wif de wing fold close to dar body, an' de head tuck under 'im, don't dey, Mass' Brace?" "I ain't sartin as to that," doubtingly answered the ex-man-o'-war's-man. "I've heerd so: but it do seem sort o' unnat'ral."
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