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Updated: May 14, 2025
He pointed through the open door; it was a hot night. 'Can you blame me? The Keneu purred above his pipe like a large and very happy cat 'Don't blame you in the least. It's uncommonly good of you, and all the rest of it, but every man even you, Torp must consider his work. I know it sounds brutal, but Dick's out of the race, down, gastados expended, finished, done for.
Seventy-three were we, and no more when we sailed out of Plymouth Sound; and before we saw the Spanish Main, half were gastados, used up, as the Dons say, with the scurvy; and in Port Pheasant Captain Rawse of Cowes fell in with us, and that gave us some thirty hands more; and with that handful, my lads, only fifty-three in all, we picked the lock of the new world!
Dere was a fire-bar made fast to the leg of each for sinker, an' dem was my dead loss-a too. I don' get paid for fire-bars given to gastados " His English failed him. He shrugged his shoulders, and said "Sabbey?" "Sabbey plenty," said Nilssen. "Just get me a leadsman to work, Captain. If you're in a hurry, I'll skim the banks as close as I dare."
They were now within a few fathoms of the beach, and Roger, for the first time, dared to hope that they would reach the shore without any mishap, when he observed his two seamen redouble their exertions, with a look of terror on their countenances, although they were very nearly "gastados" as the Dons say, or used up, and the next moment, with a fearful shriek, the white squall burst in all its fury upon the unhappy trio.
His place was immediately taken by another; but within a quarter of an hour this man, too, was obliged to give up; and so, one after the other, they all succumbed, until only Dumaresq and myself were left; and we had not been tugging at the oars five minutes when the Frenchman cried: "It is no good, mon ami; I am `gastados', as the Spaniards say; I am expended, worn out!"
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