kaymals

Updated: May 7, 2025

There be two captains to their crew: one's the smoke-dried old sinner as brought yer in; the other a big nayger, as black as the ace o' spades. You saw the swab? He's inside the tent here. He's my master. The two came nigh quarrelling about which should have me, and settled it by some sort o' a game they played wi' balls of kaymals' dung. The black won me; and that's why I'm kep by his tent.

Mayne Reid - The Boy Slaves