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Mynheer Kloots and Philip then left the cabin; the former, who was in no very good humour, muttering as he walked away "If the Company send their monkeys on board, I think I may well have my bear." And pleased with his joke, Mynheer Kloots recovered his good humour. We must allow the Indian fleet to pursue its way to the Cape with every variety of wind and weather.
"What has the name of Vanderdecken to do with it?" observed Kloots. "Have you not heard, then? The captain of that vessel we have just seen is a Mynheer Vanderdecken he is the Flying Dutchman!" "How know you that, pilot?" inquired Hillebrant.
"Two years," thought Philip, "two years from Amine!" and he sighed deeply, for he felt that their separation might be for ever. "Nay, my son, two years is not so long," said Mynheer Kloots, who observed the passing cloud on Philip's brow. "I was once five years away, and was unfortunate, for I brought home nothing, not even my ship.
The weather was fine and the water smooth, and the bustle and novelty of the scene were cheering to his spirits. The captain, Mynheer Kloots, was standing on the poop with a small telescope, made of pasteboard, to his eye, anxiously looking towards the town. Mynheer Kloots, as usual, had his pipe in his mouth, and the smoke which he puffed from it for a time obscured the lenses of his telescope.
He went up to the bear and spoke to him, then kicked him, but the bear would not leave the honey, and growled furiously at the interruption. "This is a bad job for you, Johannes," observed Mynheer Kloots; "now you will leave the ship, for the supercargo has just grounds of complaint. Oh, well! you must eat the honey, because you will."
They were now so near to the breakers that they felt the swell in which the vessel lay becalmed turned over here and there on its long line, but the breeze freshened, and the vessel was stationary! the men were all in the boats, with the exception of Mynheer Kloots, the mates, and Mynheer Von Stroom. "She goes through the water now," said Philip.
He was once more reading over the letter to the Company, relative to the bear, when Mynheer Kloots made his appearance, and informed him in a few words that they were in a situation of peculiar danger, and that in all probability the ship would be in pieces in less than half an hour.
It was late in the evening when he arrived on board of the Ter Schilling, which lay at single anchor, surrounded by the other vessels composing the Indian fleet. The captain, whose name was Kloots, received him with kindness, showed him his berth, and then went below in the hold to decide a question relative to the cargo, leaving Philip on deck to his own reflections.
The boats were down and the ship's head had been turned round from the land; but it was now quite dark, and nothing was to be seen but the white line of foam created by the breakers as they dashed with an awful noise against the shore. "Mynheer Kloots, if you please, I'll leave the ship directly.
Mynheer Kloots, why do you not answer? Mercy on me! he is gone and has left me." Mynheer Kloots had gone to fetch a light, and now returned with it. Mynheer Von Stroom put on his hat, and walked out of the cabin.
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