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Updated: September 3, 2025
I leaped to give them more painter, and "Draw away your jib draw away your jumbo," came from aloft. Sheets were barely fast when it was: "Steady at the wheel, George steady her ste-a-dy Great God! man, if you can't see can't you feel that fellow just ahead? And, skipper, tell them to close their jaws astern there water won't hurt 'em. Ready all now?" "Ready!" roared back the skipper. "All right.
"Some of us poor Protestants tinkers," said I, "though we live in dingles, are also acquainted with a thing or two." "I really believe you are," said the man in black, staring at me; "but, in connection with this Mumbo Jumbo, I could relate to you a comical story about a fellow, an English servant, I once met at Rome."
The doctor's eagerness however, would scarcely allow him to consent to this delay; but as he was not disposed to go alone, or accompanied only by Jumbo, he agreed to wait till Gerald and I had had some dinner after which, we had promised, we would set off with him, provided Kanimapo would act as our guide.
No man could behave more respectfully to the officers, or could more carefully see that those under him did their duty, while he himself worked away as hard as any one. He seemed to bear no ill-will against Tarbox or any of the other men, while he appeared to have positively a kindly feeling towards Potto Jumbo, and to be especially patronising to Macco.
Tanda and Dick Tarbox agreed to go first, and Potto Jumbo and Roger Trew were to take the second part of the night. "I think, however, you need not trouble yourselves, my friends," said Mr Sedgwick, "for they will scarcely attempt to approach this coast in the dark.
I had moved a few paces, when I heard a bark; and presently a dog came rushing towards me, barking furiously, and apparently with the intention of flying at my throat. I might easily have shot the animal; and I was lifting my weapon, in case it should be necessary to fire, when I recognised my old acquaintance Jumbo. "Jumbo! Jumbo!" I shouted out; "don't you remember your friends?"
At length, on passing over a lofty hill, Roger observed the blue ocean glittering brightly to the left, while in the far distance he made out the minarets, towers, and flat roofs of what appeared to him to be a large town. He pointed out the spot to Stephen. "That is a town, no doubt about it, and probably it is to be our future abode; we must get Jumbo to learn its name."
He seized legs, arms, and hair indiscriminately, and in another moment was on the top of the living mass. He had leaped very smartly to this point of vantage, nevertheless he found Jumbo there before him, chattering worse than ever!
Ware continued to run around Jumbo as a dog runs around a treed cat. But Jumbo always evaded his quick rushes till Ware, after many false moves, finally made a sudden and unforeseen dash, seized Jumbo's right hand with both of his, whirled in close, and, with his back against Jumbo's chest, carried the Lakerimmer's right arm straight and stiff across his shoulder.
"Yes, my dear," said his wife, "you will. And I shall have to make his tea for six days." "Otherwise," Ogden suggested, "it might be reported that you were enemies of religion." "That's about it," said the Judge. "I can get on with most people. But elephants depress me." So we named the Doctor "Jumbo," and I departed to my quarters.
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