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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Where is he?" asked the Coroner. The Chinaman did not reply for a moment. Then he said: "He sacrifice before you take him. He gleat man come." He slip-slopped towards the door as though confident he would be followed. Two minutes afterwards the Coroner, Orlando, the Young Doctor, Nolan Doyle and the rest stood at the low doorway of what looked like a great grave.
"So they are," said Barkins. "But I say, Ching, are you a good sailor?" The Chinaman shook his head. "Ching velly good man, keep fancee shop. Ching not sailor." "He means, can you go to sea without being sick?" I said, laughing. He gave us a comical look. "Don'tee know. Velly nicee now. Big offlicer say jolly sailor take gleat care Ching, and give hammock go to sleep.
"Where is he?" asked the Coroner. The Chinaman did not reply for a moment. Then he said: "He sacrifice before you take him. He gleat man come." He slip-slopped towards the door as though confident he would be followed. Two minutes afterwards the Coroner, Orlando, the Young Doctor, Nolan Doyle and the rest stood at the low doorway of what looked like a great grave.
Like a flash the Chinaman slid to his knees and extending his hands above his head touched his forehead to the ground three times in front of Peggy. Then rising he exclaimed: "Melican girl, gleat joss, mighty joss. Ah Sing he come bymby. Goo'bye." He turned swiftly and silently in his silken slippers and glided off without a backward look. "Well, what do you make of that?" wondered Roy.
As the Coroner stopped reading, amid gasps of excitement, the Chinaman who had brought the notewith brown skin polished like a kettle, expressionless, save for the twinkling mystery of the brown eyesmade three motions of obeisance up and down with his hands clasped in the great sleeves, and then said: "He not come you; you come him. He gleat man. He speak all come. I show where."
"It lookee like countly of mias lombi. Cappen Ledwad, if dat wild debbel lib in dem wood below, bettel we go all lound. We tly closs it, may be we get eat up. Singapo tiga not so dang'lous as mias he not common kind, but gleat mias lombi what Poltugee people callee `led golilla." "The red gorilla!" ejaculated Captain Redwood. "Is it the ourang-outang you mean?" "Same ting, Sahib cappen.
The official pointed to our left, and Ching led the way behind a kind of barricade where there were seats erected, and, selecting a place, he smilingly made us sit down. "Ching know gleat mandalin," he said. "Askee let come see gland show." "But what's it going to be?" I asked, as I looked curiously round the square enclosure surrounded by a high wall, and with seats and pens on three sides.
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