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Updated: May 15, 2025
The captain of the POCAHONTAS was a little, withered-up old man with sharp, deep-set eyes of brightest blue, and had the reputation of possessing the most fiery and excitable temper of any of the captains of the sixty or seventy American whale-ships that in those days cruised the Pacific from the West Coast of South America to Gaum in the Ladrones.
At this season, and as long as the Baliyy are in the Shafah uplands, the almost deserted frontier districts, which we are about to enter, suffer from the Gaum, or razzia, of the neighbouring 'Anezah and the Juhaynah; the two tribes, however, not mixing.
She took occasional rests from practicing, and absorbed herself in calculating her chances. "Dey'll sell dese niggers today fo' stealin' de money, den dey'll buy some mo' dat don't now de chillen so dat's all right. When I takes de chillen out to git de air, de minute I's roun' de corner I's gwine to gaum dey mouths all roun' wid jam, den dey can't nobody notice dey's changed.
I am satisfied it was named by the Diggers those degraded savages who roast their dead relatives, then mix the human grease and ashes of bones with tar, and 'gaum' it thick all over their heads and foreheads and ears, and go caterwauling about the hills and call it mourning. These are the gentry that named the Lake. "People say that Tahoe means 'Silver Lake' 'Limpid Water' 'Falling Leaf. Bosh!
I am satisfied it was named by the Diggers those degraded savages who roast their dead relatives, then mix the human grease and ashes of bones with tar, and "gaum" it thick all over their heads and foreheads and ears, and go caterwauling about the hills and call it mourning. These are the gentry that named the Lake. People say that Tahoe means "Silver Lake" "Limpid Water" "Falling Leaf." Bosh.
I am satisfied it was named by the Diggers those degraded savages who roast their dead relatives, then mix the human grease and ashes of bones with tar, and "gaum" it thick all over their heads and foreheads and ears, and go caterwauling about the hills and call it mourning. These are the gentry that named the Lake. People say that Tahoe means "Silver Lake" "Limpid Water" "Falling Leaf." Bosh.
"You see, she's my own sister." "And my own sister's child," Webb deplored. "Of course, she ain't quite as close to me as she is to you, but she's nigh enough to make me feel plumb ashamed. I've always tuck pride in both you gals; but lawsy me, if Ann is goin' to gaum 'erself from head to foot like a pig learnin' to root, why, I reckon I'll jest hang my head in shame."
I am satisfied it was named by the Diggers those degraded savages who roast their dead relatives, then mix the human grease and ashes of bones with tar, and "gaum" it thick all over their heads and foreheads and ears, and go caterwauling about the hills and call it mourning. These are the gentry that named the Lake. People say that Tahoe means "Silver Lake" "Limpid Water" "Falling Leaf." Bosh.
"They say crazy folks jest natcherly drift back into the'r old ruts, an' the best way is to let 'em alone. Ef she kin feed 'erself we'll be in luck; some crazy folks jest gaum the'rselves from head to foot an' have to have constant attention." "But you ain't a-goin' to let 'er stay, are you?" cried his wife. Peter smiled grimly and went to the mantel-piece for his foul-smelling comforter.
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