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"The captain is too mucha selfish," he said one day to a fellow-sailor. "He should share his brandy with the men." Ben Brady, the sailor to whom he was speaking, shrugged his shoulders. "I think I will try some of the captain's brandy when he is away," said Francesco, slyly. "If you do, you will get into trouble. The captain will half murder you if he finds it out."
"A glittering wilderness of time That to the sunset reaches No keel as yet its waves has ploughed Or gritted on its beaches. "And we will sail that splendor wide, From day to day together, From isle to isle of happiness Through year's of God's own weather." "Yes," said his prospective fellow-sailor, "that's very pretty." She stopped short, full of things un-said. Pretty!
And away the man went, eager, as most British sailors are, to do a kindness to a fellow-sailor in distress. He speedily returned with a new short clay, and a cake of tobacco, which he handed to Leslie with the remark that he knew what it was to be without pipe or tobacco, and could therefore sympathise with him.
"This here's just what I like, mates," said Billy Widgeon, as he sat on the sand in the full light of the blazing fire with his fellow-sailor opposite to him, and a large piece of palm-leaf for a table-cloth. Jack was on his right munching fruit, and Bruff on his left, sitting up, patiently attentive, waiting for bones from the hissing, hot maleo bird that had been kept for the sailors' dinner.
That same night the perfidious Typees, who had thus inveigled her into their fatal bay, flocked aboard the doomed vessel by hundreds, and at a given signal murdered every soul on board. Thoughts previous to attempting an escape—Toby, a fellow-sailor, agrees to share the adventure—Last night aboard the ship.
I could see all through his talk that the sense of superiority which his scholarship in this little-known language gave him above the ordinary seaman, had influenced his whole personality and been the central interest of his life. On one voyage he had a fellow-sailor who often boasted that he had been at school and learned Greek, and this incident took place:
"Yes, I'm that same, Bowling, only grown a bit since then in stature and likewise in years; for none of us can manage to work a traverse on old Father Time and grow younger," said the other, laughing lightheartedly and showing his white teeth as he stretched out his hand to father in the most cordial way, like a real gentleman, as if he were a friend and fellow-sailor.
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