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Updated: June 22, 2025
It was about three o'clock of a winter's afternoon in Tai-o-hae, the French capital and port of entry of the Marquesas Islands. The Trades blew strong and squally; the surf roared loud on the shingle beach; and the fifty-ton schooner of war, that carries the flag and influence of France about the islands of the cannibal group, rolled at her moorings under Prison Hill.
One day I carried her through an intricate strait called the Boqueron, in which nothing beyond a fifty-ton schooner was ever seen.
"Two days afterward he came on board to see me. I was mate, then, on the Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder. And let me tell you that blackbirders were blackbirders in those days. There weren't any government protection for US, either.
To carry the weight of the ship it's smaller! fifty tons maximum!" "I see...," said Sally, frowning. He looked at her suspiciously, but there was no mockery in her face. "It'd take a six-hundred-ton rocket to get a full-sized man to the moon," he said with sudden flippancy, "but a guy my size could do the same job of stranglin' in a fifty-ton job.
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