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Updated: May 2, 2025
He sustained her suspicious scrutiny with every appearance of feeling highly gratified by it. "H, U, X Hux," said the captain, playfully turning to the old joke: "T, A ta, Huxta; B, L, E ble; Huxtable." "What do you know about Mr. Huxtable?" she asked. "What do you mean by mentioning him to me?" The captain's curly lip took a new twist upward.
If they did not find any old comrades there, they would at least find provisions, water, and firearms, and so be able, as they thought, to despoil me of my diamonds. Also Kidd had hopes of falling in with Captain Hux, a worthy of the same kidney, who commanded the "free-trader" Culebra, and whose favorite cruising-ground was northward of San Ambrosio. "But in my opinion," observed Mr.
As I asked myself this question, Ramon touched me on the shoulder, and whispered in Quipai: "Just now Yawl said to Kidd that it was quite time we sighted San Ambrosio, and that if we missed it, after all, it would be cursed awkward. And Kidd answered that 'if we fell in with Hux it would be all right." This was more puzzling still.
Not on the coast, for they were clearly looking for it then, had probably been looking for it some time, and the mainland must be at least two hundred miles away. If not on the coast San Ambrosio was an island, yet how it could lie both to the west and to the north was not quite obvious. And who was Hux, and why should falling in with him make matters all right for my interesting shipmates?
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