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Updated: June 20, 2025
"My God! my God! am I to be murdered? eaten alive?" cried he, running forward, and attempting to climb the fore-rigging. Mynheer Kloots followed the motions of Mynheer Von Stroom with surprise, and when he found him attempting to mount the rigging, he turned aft and walked into the cabin, when he found to his surprise that Johannes was indeed doing mischief.
The sea had now risen mountains high, and more than once had struck the ship abaft. Kloots was at the binnacle, Hillebrant and Philip at the helm, when a wave curled high over the quarter, and poured itself in resistless force upon the deck.
"Yes, yes, Mynheer Kloots, but this is an affair for the most puissant Company the lives of their servants are not to be sacrificed to the folly of a sea-captain. I have nearly been torn to pieces." "The animal did not want you; all he wanted was the honey," replied Kloots. "He has got it, and I myself cannot take it from him. There is no altering the nature of an animal.
"My bear is not for sale, Mynheer Von Stroom." "It must immediately be sent out of the ship, Mynheer Kloots; I order you to send it away, on your peril to refuse." "Then we will drop the anchor again, Mynheer Von Stroom, and send on shore to head-quarters to decide the point.
"Mynheer Kloots, what is the meaning of this disrespect to the supercargo of the puissant Company?" "God in Heaven! no disrespect, Mynheer; the animal is a bear, as you see; he is very tame, even with strangers. He belongs to me. I have had him since he was three months old. It was all a mistake.
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.
Philip went up the poop ladder and saluted him. Mynheer Kloots was a person of no moderate dimensions, and the quantity of garments which he wore added no little to his apparent bulk.
"Yes, yes, Mynheer Kloots; but this is an affair for the most puissant Company the lives of their servants are not to be sacrificed to the folly of a sea-captain. I have nearly been torn to pieces." "The animal did not want you; all he wanted was the honey," replied Kloots. "He has got it, and I myself cannot take it from him. There is no altering the nature of an animal.
Philip went up the poop ladder and saluted him. Mynheer Kloots was a person of no moderate dimensions, and the quantity of garments which he wore added no little to his apparent bulk.
For about an hour Philip remained on deck, persuading the men not to intoxicate themselves, but in vain; the cans of grog offered to the men at the wheel were not refused, and, in a short time, the yawing of the vessel proved that the liquor had taken its effect. Philip then hastened down below to ascertain if Mynheer Kloots was sufficiently recovered to come on deck.
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