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Updated: June 7, 2025
At that identical moment, stooard, there came up from the fore-cabin a yell that beat well, I can't rightly say what it beat, but it minded me o' that unfortnit pig as got his tail jammed in the capstan off Cape Horn.
Some cages, full of canaries and parrots, just become our fellow-passengers, are all in a fluster at the screaming and bustle to which they are unused, and a large cargo of turkeys, with fettered legs, and fowls that can only flap their wings, do so in despair at the treatment threatened them by the dogs on deck second and third class passengers are fighting for prerogatives in misery, amidst the clatter of unclean plates, and the remains of the supper of the fore-cabin.
There were no bodies lying about the deck or near the ship; but on going below, in the saloon cabin there were found floating about eight women, a man, and two children. These were taken on board the boat, and further search in the fore-cabin led to the discovery of the dead body of a man, making twelve in all.
Having obtained permission to quit the South Sea whaler he walked straight to the office of a steam shipping company, and secured a fore-cabin passage to England. He went on board dressed as he had arrived, in the red shirt, ducks, and wide-awake minus the salt water.
The clerk made his appearance, with an abject bow. "Mr Powell, sit down, and write as I dictate," said Captain Bradshaw, who, walking up and down the fore-cabin, composed a memorandum, in which, after a long preamble, the first-lieutenant, master, and surgeon, were directed to dine with him every day, until further orders.
As to the evil spirits, I've heard them myself mutter, mutter, squeak, squeak, squeak! Ugh! it is awful, sir awful!" And the mate shuddered as he spoke. Now, Staysail was always a good laugher, but at this tale he fairly yelled with laughter until everything jingled in the cabin, and the tears ran down his cheeks. The mate never moved a muscle. "That awful fore-cabin, sir!" he said.
I found myself, not well knowing by what kind of locomotion I got there, in the fore-cabin, where was spread a very handsome collation, round which were assembled some fifteen officers, all in their full-dress uniforms, in the midst of which a feeble, delicate-looking, and excessively neatly dressed old gentleman stood, in plain clothes. His years must have been far beyond seventy.
The palace is made of iron hard, unyielding, unbeautiful, uncompromising iron, but her cushions are soft, her gilding is gorgeous, her fittings are elegant, her food is sumptuous, her society at least much of it is refined. Of course representatives of the unrefined are also there in the after-cabin too just as there are specimens of the refined in the fore-cabin.
The prisoner remained quiet in the fore-cabin, and as he had been a sailor it appeared that the motion of the vessel might produce on him a salutary reaction. Did some recollection of his former calling return to him? However that might be, he remained tranquil, astonished rather than depressed.
"I agree with you that it is impossible: but dinner is serving: go into the after-cabin and the steward will give you all you require." Our hero, whose face and hands were not a little grimed with the gunpowder, washed himself, combed out his curly black hair, and found all the party in the fore-cabin.
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